Dietrich Hermann Hegewisch

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Dietrich (Diederich) Hermann Hegewisch (born December 15, 1740 in Quakenbrück , † April 4, 1812 in Kiel ) was a German historian .

Life

Dietrich Hermann Hegewisch studied theology in Göttingen , but soon turned to history and its auxiliary sciences, especially diplomacy .

He found his first job in Hamburg as court master of the young Count Ernst Heinrich von Schimmelmann . He then worked as a newspaper editor in Hamburg and Altona . He toured the Netherlands, Switzerland, Denmark and Sweden.

Due to his work on history in the time of the Merovingians and the Carolingians , he was appointed to the extraordinary and in 1782 to the full professorship of history at the University of Kiel. a works as a historian have been translated into French, English, Danish and Swedish. In 1798 the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences elected Dietrich Hermann Hegewisch as a member. In 1805 he was appointed to the Danish budget council. Since 1808 he was a foreign member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences .

His son Franz Hermann Hegewisch was a well-known publicist and politician.

Fonts

  • Attempt of a story from Kayser Charlemagne . Weygand, Leipzig 1777.
  • History of the Frankish monarchy from the death of Charlemagne to the departure of the Carolingians . Carl Ernst Bohn, Hamburg and Kiel 1779.
  • History of the Germans from Konrad the First to the death of Heinrich the Two . Carl Ernst Bohn, Hamburg and Kiel 1781.
  • History of the reign of Emperor Maximilian the First . Carl Ernst Bohn, Hamburg and Kiel 1782.
  • Small writings, Flensburg, Leipzig, 1786.
  • General overview of German cultural history, up to Maximilian the First , An appendix to the history of this emperor , Hamburg, 1788.
  • Historical, Philosophical and Literary Writings , 2 volumes. Carl Ernst Bohn, Hamburg 1793.
  • Schleswig and Holstein's history under the kings Christian IV and the dukes Friedrich II, Philipp, Johann Adolf and Friedrich III or from 1588 to 1648 . Carl Ernst Bohn, Kiel 1801 (as Volume 3 of which is the continuation of: Wilhelm Ernst Christiani : History of the Duchies of Schleswig and Hollstein under the Oldenburg House and in the closer relationship against the Crown of Denmark ).
  • The history of Schleswig and Holstein under the kings Friedrich III and Christian V and under the dukes Friedrich III and Christian Albrecht or from 1645 to 1694 . Carl Ernst Bohn, Kiel 1801 (Volume 4 is the continuation of: Wilhelm Ernst Christiani: History of the Duchies of Schleswig and Hollstein ... ).
  • Geographical and historical news concerning the colonies of the Greeks , 2 volumes. Johann Friedrich Hammerich, Altona 1808 and 1811.

literature

  • Carsten Erich Carstens :  Hegewisch, Dietrich Hermann . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 11, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1880, p. 278 f.
  • Martin Espenhorst : Dietrich Hermann Hegewisch from Quakenbrück (1740-1812) . In: Ders .: Thinking about Peace: Premodern Perspectives on Europe. Selected articles 1995–2014. Nomos, Baden-Baden 2015, ISBN 978-3-8487-1691-3 , pp. 50–53.
  • Martin Espenhorst: Concepts of Europe and Peace in the work of the Kiel cultural historian Dietrich Hermann Hegewisch (1740–1812). In: Irene Dingel, Johannes Paulmann, Matthias Schnettger and Martin Wrede (eds.): Theatrum Belli - Theatrum Pacis. Conflicts and conflict settlement in early modern Europe. Festschrift for Heinz Duchhardt on his 75th birthday. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2018, ISBN 978-3-525-37083-4 , pp. 239-258.
  • Martin Espenhorst: From Quakenbrück via Göttingen, Hanover and Copenhagen to Hamburg and Kiel. The cultural historian Dietrich Hermann Hegewisch (1740–1812) . In: Journal of the Society for Schleswig-Holstein History, Vol. 143/144, 2018/2019, pp. 15–48.

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Footnotes

  1. ↑ Martin Espenhorst: Dietrich Hermann Hegewisch from Quakenbrück (1740-1812) . In: Ders .: Thinking about Peace: Premodern Perspectives on Europe . Baden-Baden 2015, pp. 50–53, here p. 50. Espenhorst points out that in some older depictions the year of birth 1746 is mistakenly mentioned.
  2. ↑ Martin Espenhorst: Dietrich Hermann Hegewisch from Quakenbrück (1740-1812) . In: Ders .: Thinking about Peace: Premodern Perspectives on Europe . Baden-Baden 2015, pp. 50–53, here pp. 50–51.
personal data
SURNAME Hegewisch, Dietrich Hermann
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hegewisch, Diederich Hermann
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian
DATE OF BIRTH December 15, 1740
PLACE OF BIRTH Quakenbrück
DATE OF DEATH April 4, 1812
Place of death Kiel