Andreas Ludwig Jacob Michelsen

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Andreas Ludwig Jacob Michelsen, 1864. Graphic by Adolf Neumann.

Andreas Ludwig Jacob Michelsen (born May 31, 1801 in Satrup ; † February 11, 1881 in Schleswig ) was a German historian , lawyer , journalist , politician and member of the Frankfurt National Assembly .

Life

Andreas Ludwig Jacob was the son of the deacon Franz Michelsen (April 1766 in Flensburg; † January 15, 1806 in Oeddis) and his wife Johanna Henriette von Born (March 27, 1782 in Copenhagen; † 1861). He experienced his childhood in Altona and from Easter 1816 attended the Christianeum high school . In 1819 he began studying law, history and philosophy at the University of Kiel and became a member of the old Kiel fraternity . He continued his studies in 1821 at the University of Göttingen . In 1823 he had passed his state examination in law and, with the help of a state scholarship, went on a study trip in 1824/25 that took him to Berlin , Heidelberg , Paris and Copenhagen and on which he traveled to Germany, Switzerland, France, Holland and Denmark. On 20 November 1824 he was with the work De exceptione rei et venditae traditae in Berlin a doctorate in law doctorate . He then settled in Copenhagen, where he dealt with the history of Schleswig-Holstein. He became a member of the Icelandic Literary Society, the Royal Society for Patriotic History and Language, and the Royal Norwegian Society of Sciences . After he had published a number of historical works, he received on August 11, 1829, as successor to Friedrich Christoph Dahlmann, an extraordinary professorship in history at the University of Kiel. Here, too, he wrote some historical works, received an honorary doctorate in philosophy in 1833, became a corresponding member of the Society for Pomeranian History in 1834 and of the Society for Mecklenburg History in 1835. In 1837 he became a full professor in Kiel, in the same year he became a member of the Kurland Society for Literature and Art, in 1838 the Nassau Society for History and in 1839 the Society for Frisian History in Leeuwarden.

From 1842 to 1861 he worked as a professor of constitutional and international law in Jena , as well as court and judicial councilor in 1843 and as a secret councilor in 1845. From 1844 to 1848 he was also an editor at the Neue Allgemeine Jenaer Literaturzeitung . From 1844 he was legal advisor to Duke Christian August of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Augustenburg . In 1851 he became co-director of the political science seminar in Jena, in 1855 chief appeals councilor and in the same year a member of the Royal Academy of Sciences in Munich . He also took part in the organizational tasks of the university and was rector of the alma mater in the summer semesters of 1850 and 1855 . In 1856 he became a member of the Royal Saxon Society of Sciences in Leipzig , in 1857 the Society for Dutch Literature in Leiden and the Judical Society in London . In 1858 Michelsen became an honorary member of the Voigtland Antiquities Research Association, and in 1861 an honorary citizen of the city of Jena . In 1864 he received the Commander's Cross of the Grand Ducal Oldenburg House and Merit Order and in 1865 the Commander's Cross of the Duke of Saxony-Ernestine House Order . In 1845 he became chairman of the Association for Thuringian History and from 1863 to 1864 he was the first director of the Germanic National Museum in Nuremberg . From 1863 to 1866 he was again active as a consultant for Duke Christian August von Augustenburg in Frankfurt am Main and Kiel. After 1867 he worked as a private scholar and academic writer in Schleswig.

In the revolutionary years of 1848/49 he was a member of the constituency 1, Schleswig ( Fehmarn ) in the Paulskirchenparliament. He joined the Casino faction and was a member of the legislative committee . In 1848 he worked as a special commissioner for the provisional Schleswig-Holstein government in Berlin. In 1849 he was a member of the Gotha post-parliament .

On October 2, 1840 Michelsen married the Countess Ernestine Sophie Friedericke von Brockdorf . The marriage remained childless.

Works (selection)

  • Dissertatio inauguralis de exceptione rei venditae et traditae. Berlin 1824 ( online )
  • North Friesland in the Middle Ages. A historical sketch. Schleswig 1828 ( online )
  • Archive for state and church history of the duchies of Schleswig, Holstein and Lauenburg . Several volumes since 1833 ( volume 1 online , volume 2 online and volume 4 online )
  • Document book on the history of the country of Dithmarschen. Altona 1834 ( online )
  • The former Oberhof zu Lübeck and its judgments. Altona 1839 ( online )
  • About the former Landestheilungen in Schleswig-Holstein under the Oldenburg house. Kiel 1839 ( online )
  • Document collection of the Schleswig-Holstein-Lauenburg Society for Patriotic History. Kiel 1839 ( online )
  • Origin and justification of the election of preachers in Schleswig-Holstein as a Protestant norm. Kiel 1841 ( online )
  • Collection of Altdithmarsch legal sources. Altona 1842 ( online )
  • Polemical discussions about the Schleswig-Holstein state sucession with previously unprinted documents. Leipzig 1844 ( online )
  • Acta iudicialia in causa quae inter comites Holsatiae et consules Hamburgenses, medio saeculo XIV Agitata est de Libertate civitatis Hamburgensis Publica. Jena 1844 ( online )
  • Second polemical discussion about the Schleswig-Holstein state succession. Leipzig 1846 ( online )
  • About the genesis of the jury , Leipzig, 1847 ( online )
  • The four most important pieces of files from the Schleswig State Assembly of 1846. Jena 1847 ( online )
  • Progr. Specimen codicis diplomatici Jenensis. Jena 1852 ( online )
  • About the pieces of honor and the diamond wreath as historical problems of heraldry , Jena 1854
  • Codex Thuringiae diplomaticus. Collection of unprinted documents on the history of Thuringia. Jena 1854 (Vol. 1 Online )
  • The house brand: a Germanistic treatise. Jena 1855 ( online )
  • About the festuca notata and the Germanic traditional symbolism. Jena 1856 ( online )
  • Documented exit of the county of Orlamünde. Mainly based on documents from Hofmann-Heydenreich's manuscript. Jena 1856 ( online )
  • The oldest coats of arms of the Landgraves of Thuringia. Jena 1857 ( online )
  • Johann Friedrich the Magnanimous City Order for Jena. Jena 1858 ( online )
  • Frisiae septemtrionalis vetus jus aggerale. Jena 1859 ( online )
  • Documentary contribution to the history of the peace in Germany. Nuremberg 1863 ( online )
  • About Schleswig-Holstein State Succession , Gotha 1864
  • Schleswig-Holstein Church History. Kiel 1873, 2nd volume ( online )

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SURNAME Michelsen, Andreas Ludwig Jacob
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian, lawyer, journalist, politician and member of the Frankfurt National Assembly
DATE OF BIRTH May 31, 1801
PLACE OF BIRTH Satrup
DATE OF DEATH February 11, 1881
Place of death Schleswig