Carl von Noorden (historian)

Carl of Noorden

Carl Friedrich Johannes von Noorden , also Karl von Noorden (born September 11, 1833 in Bonn , † December 25, 1883 in Leipzig ) was a German historian .

Life

Carl von Noorden came from a Frisian family that derives its origin from the city of Norden . The widely ramified family, which included the nobility and the upper classes, produced numerous scholars of high standing. The last generations of the family lived in Holland , including his grandfather, the physician Johannes von Noorden, who worked in Rotterdam . His father Johannes von Norden served as an officer in the Prussian army and later settled in Bonn. Outstanding relatives were also Carl von Noorden's maternal grandfather Christian Friedrich Nasse , director of the medical clinic at the newly founded University of Bonn, and his sons Karl Friedrich Werner Nasse and Otto Nasse , who also became physicians.

Noorden studied in Bonn , among others with Ernst Moritz Arndt , Friedrich Christoph Dahlmann , Johann Wilhelm Löbell , further in Marburg and Berlin , especially with Leopold von Ranke, linguistics and literature , then history. He completed his habilitation in 1863 in Bonn for history with a thesis on Hinkmar, Archbishop of Reims . In 1868 he became a full professor of history in Greifswald , 1870 in Marburg, 1873 in Tübingen , 1876 in Bonn and 1877 in Leipzig . There he became the successor of Heinrich Wuttke , which also resulted in the renaming of the chair for historical auxiliary sciences to the one for Middle and Modern History. After his untimely death in 1883, Noorden's body was transferred to Bonn; his grave is in the old cemetery there . Successor to his chair in Leipzig was Wilhelm Maurenbrecher .

Noorden also gave lectures at the Leipzig Commercial Association. Maurenbrecher emphasized the lively, powerful style of North's lectures. Noordens most important student was Karl Lamprecht , who did his doctorate with him and the economist Wilhelm Roscher with contributions on the history of French economic life in the 11th century .

He was a member of the Royal Saxon Society for Sciences in Leipzig , since 1874 a corresponding member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and since 1883 of the Prussian Academy of Sciences . Before being appointed professor, Noorden was also active in literary studies and published musicological articles and reviews.

Carl von Noorden was married to Elizabeth Fanny Lavino, who was born in England and whose mother Roseta Levyson was born in Rotterdam. The couple had three children, including the physicians Carl (1858-1944) and Werner von Noorden (1866-1945). The daughter Hilde married the painter Erich Kubierschky (1854–1944) in 1891 .

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Carl von Noorden, who like his friend Wilhelm Maurenbrecher was a student of Heinrich von Sybel , wrote a decidedly political European history as a universal history . His fields of work were mainly the history of the 17th and 18th centuries and the age of Emperor Charles V. His unfinished main work was to be devoted to European history in the 18th century . The three volumes published deal with the War of the Spanish Succession . His historical lectures show that his historical research related to the entire history of Europe. He published articles or lectures and the like. a. to Madame de Maintenon , Wilhelm III. of Orange or Lord Bolingbroke , that is, on the political history of England , France and the Netherlands . The lectures mentioned have been published in an anthology by Maurenbrecher. An essay on Ranke and Macaulay in the Historical Journal , Vol. 17 (1867), pp. 87-138, describes trends in the history of England and at the same time gives an impression of his critical judgment and his sense of justice.

meaning

Although the scientific value of Noorden's historical works was beyond doubt, in contrast to the works of his contemporaries Wilhelm Maurenbrecher, Moriz Ritter , Heinrich von Treitschke and Georg Voigt, they did not develop any lasting significance. Even his extensive major work on the War of the Spanish Succession was relatively little cited. This may also be due to his early death, which made it impossible for him to complete the other volumes he planned on his European history . It is more likely that after him Spanish history was discussed more intensely than was the case in his time. Another important representative of German history of the 19th century, who dealt with the modern history of Spain, is Hermann Baumgarten .

Noorden was significantly involved in the institutionalization of the historical seminar in Tübingen. History classes at this university were previously only given by private historical societies that were state sanctioned. In 1877 he founded the Royal Saxon Historical Seminar at the University of Leipzig . This gave the history education there an institutional framework, combined with regular financial resources and an institute library. Today it is almost unknown except in specialist circles.

Fonts (selection)

• The legend of Helgi. Song circle based on the Edda. Henry and Cohen, Bonn 1857 ( digitized version ).
• Hinkmar, Archbishop of Reims. A contribution to the state and church history of the West Franconian Empire in the second half of the ninth century. Cohen, Bonn 1863.
• European history in the 18th century. 1st Division: The War of the Spanish Succession. 3 volumes. Buddeus, Düsseldorf 1870/1874/1882 (3rd volume from Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig).
• Historical lectures. Introduced and edited by Wilhelm Maurenbrecher . Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1884 (contains a biography of North by Maurenbrecher as well as a complete list of writings and semesters).

literature

• Max Braubach : Carl von Noorden. In: Bonn scholars. Contributions to the history of science in Bonn. History (= 150 years of the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität zu Bonn 1818–1968. Vol. 8). Bouvier, Bonn 1968, pp. 162-169.
• Gustav Buchholz :  Noorden, Karl von . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 23, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1886, pp. 768-772.
• Werner Fläschendräger: "I owe the best part of the effectiveness ... to the establishment of a seminar institute". On the pre- and founding history of the historical seminar at the University of Leipzig in the mirror of the sources. In: Leipzig contributions to university history. Vol. 3, 1989, pp. 78-89.
• Markus Huttner : History at the University of Leipzig in the 19th century (1809–1909 / 15). A habilitation project at the historical seminar of the University of Leipzig. In: Yearbook of historical research in the Federal Republic of Germany. Reporting year 1997. Munich 1998, pp. 29–35 ( online ( Memento from June 28, 2006 in the Internet Archive )).
• Markus Huttner : Discipline development and appointment as professor. History at the University of Leipzig in the 19th century. In: New archive for Saxon history. Vol. 71, 2000, pp. 171-238.
• Markus Huttner: Historical societies and the emergence of historical seminars - on the beginnings of institutionalized history studies at German universities in the 19th century. In: Matthias Middell, Gabriele Lingelbach , Frank Hadler (eds.): Historical institutes in an international comparison (= history science and history culture in the 20th century. Vol. 3). Leipzig 2001, pp. 39-83.
• Willi Kahl: Carl von Noorden as a music writer. In: German Yearbook of Musicology. Vol. 2 (1958), pp. 85-96.
• Sylvia Paletschek : Duplicity of the events. The foundation of the history seminar in 1875 at the University of Tübingen and its development until 1914. In: Werner Freitag (Hrsg.): Halle and German history around 1900. Contributions to the colloquium "125 years of history seminar at the University of Halle" on 4th / 5. November 2000 Mitteldeutscher Verlag, Halle (Saale) 2002, pp. 37–64 ( PDF file; 2.73 MB ).
• Leo Philippsborn: Carl von Noorden. It German historians of the 19th century. Göttingen 1965 (dissertation, University of Göttingen, 1963; script gives a biography based on copies of the correspondence between Maurenbrecher and Noorden by the son Werner von Noorden ).

Web links

• Literature by and about Carl von Noorden in the catalog of the German National Library
• Carl von Noorden in the professorial catalog of the University of Leipzig
• The Historical Seminar , website of the University of Leipzig
• Overview of Carl von Noorden's courses at the University of Leipzig (summer semester 1877 to winter semester 1883)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Werner von Noorden: Memoirs of our sister Hilde Kubierschky geb. from Noorden. ( Memento from November 26, 2014 in the web archive archive.today ) Franz, Munich 1922.