Alexander Brückner

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Alexander Brückner (* July 24 . Jul / 5. August  1834 greg. In Saint Petersburg , † November 3 jul. / 15. November  1896 greg. In Jena ) was a German-Russian historians .

Life

Brückner was a son of the businessman Gustav Brückner and his wife Juliane, born. Amburger. Alexander Brückner attended the German-speaking Petri School in his hometown from 1846 to 1851 . In Germany, in Heidelberg , Jena and Berlin , he studied history and economics as a pupil with Johann Gustav Droysen , Ludwig Häusser , Leopold von Ranke and Friedrich von Raumer, among others .

After completing his doctorate with a dissertation on the history of the Reichstag in Worms 1521 in 1860, he returned to Saint Petersburg and worked at the Imperial Law School there from 1861 to 1867 as a professor of history. For some time Brückner was also a private lecturer at the University of Petersburg .

In 1867 he followed a call to the newly founded University of Odessa , five years later he moved to the Imperial University of Dorpat (until 1891). His academic interests were particularly in economic history and cultural history .

In 1879/1880 Alexander Brückner was a member of Nikolai Michailowitsch Prschewalski's expedition to Tibet and the headwaters of the Yellow River .

In 1891 Brückner was transferred to Kazan in the course of the Russification of the University of Dorpat in order to be able to improve his future pension there. But he did not take this position. Instead he took with his wife Lucie, nee Schiele, residence in Jena.

Sons were the geographer Eduard Brückner and the ophthalmologist Arthur Brückner , his great-great-grandson is the violinist Gidon Kremer .

Fonts

  • Financial history studies: copper money crises . Dissertation, Dorpat 1867, Archives
  • On the history of the Reichstag zu Worms 1521 , Heidelberg 1860, Inaugural dissertation, archive .
  • Ivan Pososhkov. Ideas and conditions in the age of Peter the Great . Leipzig 1878, archive .
  • The Russo-Swedish War 1788–1790 . Saint Petersburg 1869.
  • Cultural-historical studies
    • The Russians Abroad in the 17th Century . Deubner, Riga 1878, Archives .
    • Foreigners in Russia in the 17th century . Deubner, Riga 1878.
  • Peter the Great . Grote, Berlin 1879 (= general history in individual representations , 3rd main section, 6th part, edited by Wilhelm Oncken ), archive .
  • The Tsarevich Alexei . Heidelberg 1880, archive .
  • Catherine the Second . Grote, Berlin 1883 (= general history in individual representations , 3rd main section, 10th part, edited by Wilhelm Oncken), archive .
  • The Europeanization of Russia. Country and people . Perthes, Gotha 1888, Archives .
  • Doctors in Russia up to 1800 , Saint Petersburg 1887, Archives .
  • History of Russia up to the end of the 18th century , Volume 1: Overview of the development up to the death of Peter the Great , Perthes, Gotha 1896, archive .

literature

Web links

Wikisource: Alexander Brückner  - Sources and full texts

Remarks

  1. ^ Erik Amburger: Germans in the state, economy and society of Russia. The Amburger family in St. Petersburg, 1770–1920 (= publications by the Eastern European Institute in Munich. Series: History . Vol. 54). Otto Harrassowitz Verlag, Wiesbaden 1986, p. 122 ff., ISBN = 3-447-02571-9.
  2. ^ Erik Amburger: Germans in the state, economy and society of Russia. The Amburger family in St. Petersburg, 1770–1920 (= publications by the Eastern European Institute in Munich. Series: History . Vol. 54). Otto Harrassowitz Verlag, Wiesbaden 1986, p. 128 f.
  3. ^ Gerd Voigt: Russia in German historiography 1843-1945. Berlin 1994, p. 71.
  4. ↑ Erich Donnert : The University of Dorpat-Juŕev 1802-1918. A contribution to the history of higher education in the Baltic provinces of the Russian Empire. Frankfurt am Main 2007, p. 123.
  5. ^ Richard Hausmann: Brückner, Alexander. In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie . Vol. 55, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1910, p. 688.
personal data
SURNAME Brückner, Alexander
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian-German historian
DATE OF BIRTH August 5, 1834
PLACE OF BIRTH St. Petersburg
DATE OF DEATH November 15, 1896
Place of death Jena