Alfred Dove
Alfred Wilhelm Dove (born April 4, 1844 in Berlin , † January 19, 1916 in Freiburg im Breisgau ) was a German historian and publicist .
Life
Alfred Dove was a son of the physicist Heinrich Wilhelm Dove ; his brother was the canon lawyer Richard Wilhelm Dove . After attending the Joachimsthal High School , he began studying medicine and natural sciences at the University of Heidelberg in 1861 . The following year he moved to the University of Berlin and began studying history. After receiving his doctorate in 1866, he became a teacher at a Berlin high school. In 1870 he went to Leipzig and became editor of the magazine Die Grenzboten , later he also worked for Im neue Reich . His habilitation took place in Leipzig in 1873.
The following year Dove received an associate professorship in history at the University of Wroclaw , and in 1879 he was promoted to full professor. In 1884 he moved to the University of Bonn . He became editor of the Allgemeine Zeitung in 1891. He was accepted into the Bavarian Academy of Sciences three years later. In 1897 Dove accepted a call to the University of Freiburg im Breisgau , where he taught until 1905. From 1901 to 1906 and from 1907 to 1912 he was chairman of the Baden Historical Commission . From 1909 he was an extraordinary member of the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences .
Dove had been married since 1872 and the marriage remained childless.
In a contribution entitled Ein Neujahrswort to the editor of the weekly "Im neue Reich" , which was printed in the Musikalisches Wochenblatt on January 17, 1873 , Friedrich Nietzsche addressed Alfred Dove and mentioned Paul Lindau , the doctor Puschmann and the Physicist Zöllner .
Works
- The Reggio Chronicle and the Salimbenes springs. Leipzig 1873.
- The age of Frederick the Great and Joseph II Gotha 1883.
- The re-entry of the national principle in world history: Academic speech at the foundation ceremony and award ceremony at the University of Bonn; held on August 3, 1890. Bonn 1890.
- Selected scripts, primarily of historical content. Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1898 ( digitized in the Internet Archive ).
- Grand Duke Friedrich von Baden: as sovereign and German prince. Heidelberg 1902.
Individual evidence
- ^ ANNO, Historical Austrian Newspapers and Magazines: Musikalisches Wochenblatt of January 17, 1873, p. 38.
literature
- Oswald Dammann: Dove, Alfred. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 4, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1959, ISBN 3-428-00185-0 , p. 91 f. ( Digitized version ).
- Peter Stadler , Verena Stadler-Labhart: The world of Alfred Dove: 1844-1916. Profile of a turn of the century historian. Stadler, Zurich 2008, ISBN 978-3-9523241-3-4 .
- Carl Arnold Willemsen : Alfred Dove . In: Bonn scholars. Contributions to the history of science in Bonn. Volume 5: History. (= 150 years of the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität zu Bonn 1818–1968. Volumes 2, 5). Bouvier, Bonn 1968, pp. 254-259.
Web links
- Literature by and about Alfred Dove in the catalog of the German National Library
- Overview of Alfred Dove's courses at the University of Leipzig (summer semester 1874 to winter semester 1874)
- Member entry of Alfred Dove (with a link to an obituary) at the Bavarian Academy of Sciences , accessed on January 27, 2017.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Dove, Alfred |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Dove, Alfred Wilhelm |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German historian and publicist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 4, 1844 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Berlin |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 19, 1916 |
| Place of death | Freiburg in Breisgau |