Ludwig Häusser

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Ludwig Häusser on a portrait photograph from the Albert Mays collection , published in Ruperto Carola. Illustrated festival chronicle of the V. Säcular celebration of the University of Heidelberg

Ludwig Häusser (born October 26, 1818 in Kleeburg , Alsace , † March 17, 1867 in Heidelberg ) was a German historian and liberal politician .

Life

His father was a Reformed pastor in Kleeburg, Alsace, and died at the age of 33 in 1821. Ludwig's mother Anna Maria Dorothea geb. Paniel then took the two-year-old boy to her family in Mannheim . Häusser was married to Eleonore Wilhelmine born in 1846 . Rettig , with whom he had four children. His mother lived in her son's household until her death in 1857.

From 1826 Ludwig attended the Karl-Friedrich-Gymnasium in Mannheim. After graduating from high school, he studied classical philology at the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg from 1835 to 1839 . With a doctoral thesis with Friedrich Christoph Schlosser , he was awarded a Dr. phil. PhD. He spent the summer semester of 1838 at the University of Jena , where in 1838 he joined the Arminia fraternity on the Burgkeller . In 1839 he taught briefly as a high school teacher in Wertheim . In 1840 he was in Paris for three months. After completing his habilitation in 1840, he initially worked as a private lecturer at the University of Heidelberg. Also in Heidelberg, from the autumn of 1840, he was a brief teacher at the Lyceum, today's Kurfürst-Friedrich-Gymnasium . In addition, he had worked for the Allgemeine Zeitung from 1841 , which was published in Augsburg at the time . After Georg Gottfried Gervinus left as editor of the Deutsche Zeitung , which was founded in 1847, he took over its editing.

In 1848 he was a member of the preliminary parliament . In the course of the March Revolution he became a member of the Second Baden Chamber in November 1848 (until 1850 and from 1860 to 1865). He took a strictly legalistic position and fought the revolutionary democrats. Through determined work, he was able to contribute to the implementation of essential reforms in the school system, local self-administration, the railway network and the emancipation of Jews. On March 18, 1850 he was elected to the Erfurt parliament for the 4th electoral district of Baden and in 1863 took part in the Frankfurt assembly of representatives.

In 1845 he was appointed associate professor, then at the end of 1849 full professor in Heidelberg for historical studies. He subsequently turned down calls from the University of Zurich and the Friedrich-Alexander University of Erlangen . In the discussion about German unity, he advocated the small German solution of a constitutional monarchy under Prussian leadership.

When Häusser died of a heart condition in 1867, the entire country took part, including Grand Duke Friedrich , who referred to Häusser as his actual teacher.

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Ludwig Häusser's tomb in the Heidelberg Bergfriedhof in the professors' row (Dept.) D

The tomb for Ludwig Häusser in the Heidelberg mountain cemetery was created by Franz Sommer . The bust of Häusser is the work of the sculptor Konrad Knoll . Ludwig Häusser's grave was originally next to Kuno Fischer's grave on Professorenweg . After closing down the burial site Häussers bust was in addition to his tomb at the beginning of Professor series in memoriam built on the scholar '.

Works

His main historical work is German history from the death of Frederick the Great to the founding of the German Confederation , which was published in Heidelberg from 1854 to 1857. His history of the Rhenish Palatinate according to its political, ecclesiastical and literary conditions in two volumes should also be emphasized (unchanged reprint of the 2nd edition 1856, Klein, Speyer 1978).

Honors

literature

  • Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume I: Politicians. Sub-Volume 2: F-H. Winter, Heidelberg 1999, ISBN 3-8253-0809-X , pp. 218-219.
  • Anneliese Kaltenbach: Ludwig Haeusser, historien et patriote, 1818-1867. Contribution à l'étude de l'histoire politique et culturelle franco-allemande au XIXe siècle . (Travaux et mémoires des instituts français en Allemagne 9). Presses universitaires de France, Paris 1965
  • Peter Fuchs:  Häusser, Ludwig. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 7, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1966, ISBN 3-428-00188-5 , pp. 456-459 ( digitized version ).
  • August von Kluckhohn:  Häusser, Ludwig . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 11, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1880, pp. 100-112.

Web links

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Kurt Baumann: Pfälzer Lebensbilder , second volume, 1970, p. 215 ff.
  2. ↑ Federal Archives: Members of the Pre-Parliament and the Fifties Committee (PDF file; 79 kB)
  3. ↑ L. Ruuskanen: The Heidelberg Bergfriedhof through the ages , Verlag Regionalkultur, 2008, p. 118
personal data
SURNAME Häusser, Ludwig
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian and liberal politician
DATE OF BIRTH October 26, 1818
PLACE OF BIRTH Kleeburg , Alsace
DATE OF DEATH March 17, 1867
Place of death Heidelberg