Alfred von Gutschmid
Hermann Alfred Freiherr von Gutschmid (born July 1, 1831 in Loschwitz , † March 2, 1887 in Tübingen ) was a German historian and orientalist.
Life
He studied philology and history at the Universities of Leipzig and Bonn and received his doctorate in 1854 at the Leipzig University with a dissertation: De rerum aegyptiacarum scriptoribus graecis ante Alexandrum Magnum . In 1863 he was appointed associate professor of history at the University of Kiel and in 1866 he was appointed full professor. In 1873 he followed a call to Königsberg , 1876 to Jena and 1877 to Tübingen . He was a member of the Saxon Academy of Sciences . In 1878 he was accepted as a corresponding member of the Russian Academy of Sciences . Gutschmid turned to the history of the pre-Greek and Hellenistic Orient as well as the ancient chronology and annals ; The critical direction predominates in his numerous works.
Fonts
- About the fragments of Pompejus Trogus and the credibility of their sources. In: New Yearbooks for Philology and Education. Department 1: Yearbooks for Classical Philology. Supplement volume 2, 1856/1857, ZDB -ID 220564-6 , pp. 180-282.
- Critique of Polish prehistory by Vincentius Kadłubek. In: Archive for customers of Austrian historical sources . Vol. 17, 1857, pp. 295-326 .
- Contributions to the history of the ancient Orient. In appreciation of Bunsen's "Egypt" Volume IV and V. Leipzig, Teubner 1858, digitized .
- The Apocalypse of Ezra and its later adaptations. In: Journal of Scientific Theology. Vol. 3, ISSN 1863-1592 , 1860, pp. 1-81 .
- The Nabataean Agriculture and Its Siblings. In: Journal of the German Oriental Society . Vol. 15, 1861, pp. 1-110 .
- The Macedonian anagraphe. In: Symbola philologorum Bonnensium in honorem Friderici Ritschelii collecta. Volume 1. Teubner, Leipzig 1864, pp. 101-134 .
- New contributions to the history of the ancient Orient. Assyriology in Germany. Teubner, Leipzig 1876, digitized .
literature
- Franz Rühl : Alfred von Gutschmid . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 49, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1904, pp. 646-652.
- Hermann Bengtson : Alfred von Gutschmid. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 7, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1966, ISBN 3-428-00188-5 , p. 348 f. ( Digitized version ).
Individual evidence
- ^ Foreign members of the Russian Academy of Sciences since 1724. Hermann Alfred Gutschmid. Russian Academy of Sciences, accessed August 22, 2015 .
Web links
- Literature by and about Alfred von Gutschmid in the catalog of the German National Library
- Works by and about Alfred von Gutschmid in the German Digital Library
- OpenLibrary.org: Gutschmid, Alfred Freiherr von
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Gutschmid, Alfred von |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Gutschmid, Hermann Alfred Freiherr von; Gutschmid, Baron Alfred von; Gutschmid, Baron Alfred von |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German historian |
DATE OF BIRTH | July 1, 1831 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Loschwitz |
DATE OF DEATH | March 2, 1887 |
Place of death | Tübingen |