Friedrich Kortüm (historian)

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Johann Friedrich Christoph Kortüm (born February 24, 1788 in Eichhorst (Mecklenburg) , † June 4, 1858 in Heidelberg ) was a German historian.

Life

Friedrich Kortüm came from a widespread family of Protestant theologians in Mecklenburg and Pomerania. Only three of his uncles worked as pastors in southeast Mecklenburg or as pastors in Pomerania.

Kortüm was born as the younger son of Pastor Carl Siegfried Kortüm (1757–1800) from Eichhorst in Mecklenburg-Strelitz and his wife Anna, née. Kruger.

Kortüm attended the scholars' school in Friedland and studied first theology, then philology and history in Halle , Göttingen and Heidelberg . At all three university locations he joined local compatriots, in Halle the Guestphalia , in Göttingen the Vandalia, in Heidelberg the Guestphalia.

In 1810 he was arrested as a spy during a stay in Rostock , but was able to escape thanks to his excellent connections and went into exile in Switzerland , where in 1812 he was employed as a teacher at the Fellenberg Institute in Hofwyl (Hofwil) through the mediation of Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi. found. In 1813/14 he took part in the Wars of Liberation as a volunteer Prussian hunter and was in the occupation of Paris . In 1817 he switched to the canton school in Aarau . In 1818 he stayed in Vienna for private studies . In 1819 he got a position as a history teacher at the newly founded grammar school in Neuwied . A year later he returned to Switzerland and followed a call as a private lecturer in Basel , where he worked until 1838 with a brief interruption (1822–1826 in Hofwyl ). In 1838, Kortüm was appointed full professor at the University of Bern , where a chair for the subject of history had been removed from the previous jurisdiction of law and newly established. On June 16, 1840, he was offered a call to Heidelberg University, where he taught until his death in 1858.

Works

Friedrich Kortüm wrote numerous works on ancient, medieval and early modern history, including:

  • Emperor Friedrich I with his friends and enemies , Aarau 1818
  • On the history of the Hellenistic constitutions, mainly during the Peloponnesian War , 1821
  • The history of the free urban leagues in the Middle Ages and modern times , 3 volumes, Zurich 1827–1829
  • History of the Middle Ages , 2 volumes, Bern 1836–1837
  • Roman history from the prehistoric times of Italy to the fall of the Western Empire , Zurich 1843
  • On the history of the origins of the Order of the Jesuits and a final word about the new Jesuits , Mannheim 1843
  • Irrelevant vote in the Swiss Jesuit case , Mannheim 1845
  • History of Greece from prehistoric times to the fall of the Achaean League , 3 volumes, Heidelberg 1854
  • History of Europe in transition from the Middle Ages to the modern age , 2 volumes, Leipzig 1861

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SURNAME Kortüm, Friedrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kortüm, Johann Friedrich Christoph (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian
DATE OF BIRTH February 24, 1788
PLACE OF BIRTH Eichhorst (Mecklenburg)
DATE OF DEATH June 4, 1858
Place of death Heidelberg