Friedrich Max Kircheisen

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Friedrich Max Kircheisen

Friedrich Max Kircheisen (born June 23, 1877 in Chemnitz ; † February 12, 1933 there ) was a German historian .

Life

Friedrich Max Kircheisen studied history and international law at the universities of Leipzig and Paris . As a private scholar, he devoted himself mainly to researching the history of Napoleon and his time. At the beginning of his research he planned to create a bibliography of the Napoleonic era, for which he had collected around 30,000 works and essays. The first volume in his collection was published in 1908. Kircheisen estimated the number of publications to be bibliographed at 200,000 titles. In his foreword to Volume 1 he wrote:

Attempts at Napoleon's bibliographies have often been made, but in some cases they have been incompletely carried out, and in some cases have been dropped because of the considerable difficulties which arose .

In the second volume, which appeared in 1912, Kircheisen only published the first half. Then he dropped the attempt.

His main work is his biography of Napoleon ("Napoleon I. His life and time"), which was published from 1911 to 1934 in nine volumes.

Kircheisen was married to Gertrude Aretz , b. Kuntze-Dolton. The widow sold part of the library to the University of Vienna from the estate . This part is in the Tanzenberg collection. Another part of the library (approx. 1500 to 2000 volumes) ended up in the central library of the so-called high school of the NSDAP .

He found his final resting place in the Berlin-Hermsdorf cemetery in Section 10, R. 1.

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Publications

  • Bibliography of the Napoleonic Age including the United States of North America . Vol. I, 1908, Vol. II 1 1912. Mittler, Berlin 1908-1912 (reprinted in a volume Olms, Hildesheim New York 1977 ISBN 3-487-06298-4 )
  • Did Napoleon Live? And other curious stories ( Rara. A library of the absurd ; Vol. 1) Lutz, Stuttgart 1910.
  • Napoleonic calendar and memorial book of the Wars of Liberation for the year 1812 . Together with Gertrude Kircheisen. Müller, Munich Leipzig 1911-1912.
  • Napoleon's campaign in Italy and Austria 1796-1797 . Müller, Munich Leipzig 1913.
  • Napoleon I and the era of the Wars of Liberation in pictures. Müller, Munich Leipzig 1914.
  • The Völkerringen 1914. With files . Sauerländer, Aarau (Switzerland) undated
  • The battles near Ypres and Dixmunde . (October and November 1914.) Sauerländer, Aarau (Switzerland) 1916.
  • Napoleon in the land of the pyramids and his successors 1798-1801. Müller, Munich 1918.
  • Napoleon the thinker . Reissner, Dresden 1922.
  • Nelson . The establishment of England's world power position . Hoffmann, Stuttgart 1926.
  • The Bastille . The book circle , Berlin 1927.
  • The French Revolution 1789-1799 . People's Association of Book Friends , Berlin 1928.
  • King Funny. Napoleon's youngest brother. Scherl, Berlin 1928.
  • Napoleon I. A ruler's life . Schaffstein, Cologne 1930.
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  • Memoirs from the Spanish freedom struggle 1808-1811 . Published by Ernst Schultze. Gutenberg, Hamburg 1908.
  • Major Masson's Secret Memoir . Langen, Munich 1917.
  • Jules Michelet : History of the French Revolution . After the translation by Richard Kühn edited a. published. Gutenberg, Vienna Hamburg Zurich 1929/30.

Web links

Wikisource: Friedrich Max Kircheisen  - Sources and full texts

Individual evidence

  1. Eckart Kleßmann : Napoleon and no end. In: Die Zeit of December 3, 1971, No. 49.