Albrecht Stauffer

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Albrecht Stauffer (born June 8, 1860 in Regensburg , † December 5, 1909 in Munich ) was a German historian . Stauffer was professor of history at the Bavarian War Academy from 1885 to 1909 .

Life

Stauffer attended high school and began studying history . In 1884 he received his doctorate with the dissertation Hermann Christoph Graf von Rusworm. Imperial field marshal in the Turkish battles under Rudolf II as Dr. phil. Just one year later he became professor of history at the Bavarian War Academy in Munich, with the rank and salary of a full university professor . He worked there for almost 25 years, until his death. Stauffer worked as a history teacher in the scientific courses for women and girls initiated by the Münchner Volksbildungsverein.

In his publications, the cultural-historical interest was in the foreground. Of his larger works, the monograph Twelve Figures of the Great Times of Athens appeared in 1896 in connection with the cultural development with character studies of the most famous personalities of ancient Athens, and in 1904 Karoline von Humboldt in her letters to Alexander von Rennenkampff . Stauffer dedicated the latter to Cäcilie Amalie von Parseval, the youngest daughter of Rennkampff. A series of lectures from the years 1900 to 1901 on the subject of the rebirth of the German people appeared in 1901. He was a co-author for the Allgemeine Zeitung , and for the Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie he wrote an article on the Augsburg bishop Otto von Waldburg .

Albrecht Stauffer died unmarried on December 5, 1909, at the age of 49 in Munich.

Publications (selection)

  • Hermann Christoph Graf von Rusworm. Imperial field marshal in the Turkish battles under Rudolf II. ( Dissertation ) Munich 1884. ( digitized )
  • The siege of Kanizsa by the Christian troops in 1601. Innsbruck 1886.
  • Twelve characters from the heyday of Athens in connection with the development of culture. Munich 1896. ( digitized )
  • The rebirth of the German people. An introduction to German history up to the elevation of the Prussian monarchy and the German liberation period in lectures. Munich 1901.
  • A natural structure of world history and the horizon of human culture. Munich 1902. ( digitized )
  • Karoline von Humboldt in her letters to Alexander von Rennenkampff. In addition to a characteristic of both as an introduction and an appendix. Berlin 1904. ( digitized )
  • Why does Germany have to be land and sea power at the same time? Munich 1906.

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SURNAME Stauffer, Albrecht
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH June 8, 1860
PLACE OF BIRTH regensburg
DATE OF DEATH December 5, 1909
Place of death Munich