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Eobald Toze (* 1715 in Konitz (West Prussia); † March 27, 1789 in Bützow ) was a historian and professor of history at the University of Bützow .

Life

Eobald Toze was the son of an officer in the Polish service. From the beginning of the 1740s he was tutor to the district administrator of Stackelberg on Kaltenbrunn in Estonia and accompanied his sons to the University of Göttingen . There he stayed and obtained his master's degree. In 1747 he was hired as university secretary and worked as a translator. Through these translations and his own historical research, he gained a good reputation and became a member of the royal historical institute. From 1751 he was a regular listener in the Göttingen Academy of Sciences .

At the end of 1761 he was appointed full professor of history and philosophy at the newly founded University of Bützow, where he remained until his death. His main work was the elaboration The Present State of Europe . It was published in Bützow in 1767 and was translated into English, Dutch and Danish as an introduction to general and specific European political studies .

In 1772 he was appointed court counselor and moved to the law faculty. In 1774 he was given the title of Real Councilor of Justice .

Shortly before his transfer to the University of Rostock at Easter 1789 and the dissolution of the university in Bützow, he died on March 27, 1789.

literature

Adolf Hofmeister: Toze, Eobald . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 38, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1894, p. 487 f.

Web links

Individual evidence

↑ Holger Krahnke: The members of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen 1751-2001 (= Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Philological-Historical Class. Volume 3, Volume 246 = Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Mathematical-Physical Class. Series 3, volume 50). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2001, ISBN 3-525-82516-1 , p. 242.

personal data
SURNAME	Toze, Eobald
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Historian and professor of history at the University of Bützow
DATE OF BIRTH	1715
PLACE OF BIRTH	Konitz (West Prussia)
DATE OF DEATH	March 27, 1789
Place of death	Bützow

[1] Holger Krahnke: The members of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen 1751-2001 (= Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Philological-Historical Class. Volume 3, Volume 246 = Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Mathematical-Physical Class. Series 3, volume 50). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2001, ISBN 3-525-82516-1 , p. 242.