Wilhelm Wachsmuth

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Wilhelm Wachsmuth

Wilhelm Wachsmuth (born December 28, 1784 in Hildesheim , † January 23, 1866 in Leipzig ) was a German historian.

Life

Wachsmuth studied philology and Protestant theology at the Friedrichs University in Halle . In 1803 he became a member of the Corps Saxonia Halle . He then became a teacher at the Magdeburg monastery school and in 1811 sub-rector at the Francisceum Zerbst . In 1815 he returned to Halle (Saale) as a teacher for the Francke Foundations . At the same time he was a lecturer for Italian and English at Friedrichs University.

In 1820 he followed the call of the Christian-Albrechts-Universität Kiel to her chair . For the year 1825/26 he was elected rector . But at the end of 1825 he moved to the University of Leipzig , where he also took over the editorial support of the Leipzig literary newspaper. He was also elected rector of the university in 1834/35. His successor at the Leipzig chair was Georg Voigt , who he proposed .

Heinrich Wuttke is an important student of Wachsmuth . He did his doctorate with Gustav Adolf Harald Stenzel in Breslau and completed his habilitation with Wachsmuth in Leipzig. Wuttke also got a small commemorative publication for Wachsmuth .

Wachsmuth was a member of the Freemasons Association in several lodges. In its founding year 1846, he was accepted as a full member of the Royal Saxon Society of Sciences .

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Wachsmuth is important as an ancient historian and cultural historian , but also as a history theorist. With Johann Gustav Droysen , he was one of the pioneers for a history .

The theory of the history of Wachsmuth, published in 1820, stands out from the series of contemporary texts introducing history through the complex approach to all sides of its history, the foundations of its subject, as it was only later taken up again by Droysen. With its theoretical and methodological content, Wachsmuth's draft is one of the most interesting documents from the transition period of historical thought from the late Enlightenment to historicism . Some of the views expressed in it from 1820 still seem very modern.

Another focus of his research was the history of Lower Saxony and the Hildesheim monastery .

Publications

  • Older history of the Romans . Hall 1819
  • Draft a theory of history. Hall 1820; (Reprinted by Hans Schleier and Dirk Fleischer, 1992.)
  • Outline of the general history of peoples and states . Leipzig 1826, 4th edition 1875
  • Hellenic Antiquities , 4 vols. Halle 1826–1830; 2nd ed. 1843–46, 2 volumes (his most important work)
  • Historical representations from the history of modern times , 3 vols. Leipzig 1831–35
  • European moral history , 5 vols. Leipzig 1831–39
  • History of France in the Revolutionary Age, 4 vols. Hamburg 1840–44
  • Weimar's Musenhof from 1772–1807 . Berlin 1844
  • The Age of Revolution , 4 vols. Leipzig 1846–48
  • General cultural history , 3 vols. Leipzig 1850–1852
  • History of political parties , 3 vols. Braunschweig 1853–57
  • History of German Nationality , 3 vols. Braunschweig 1860–62
  • Lower Saxony stories . Brunswick 1863

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kösener Corpslist 1930, 64/2
  2. ^ Sickel: History of the ducal high school Francisceum Zerbst 1803-1903 , p. 57
  3. ↑ Kiel Rectorate (HKM)
  4. ↑ Rectorate Leipzig (HKM)
  5. ↑ On the certainty of history
  6. ↑ E. Lennhoff / O. Posner / Dieter A. Binder: Internationales Freemaurer-Lexikon, Munich: Herbig 2006, p. 884
  7. ^ Members of the SAW: Wilhelm Wachsmuth. Saxon Academy of Sciences, accessed December 10, 2016 .
  8. ^ History of the city and monastery of Hildesheim (1863) online
personal data
SURNAME Wachsmuth, Wilhelm
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wachsmuth, Ernst Wilhelm Gottlieb (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH December 28, 1784
PLACE OF BIRTH Hildesheim
DATE OF DEATH January 23, 1866
Place of death Leipzig