Friedrich Wilhelm Barthold

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Friedrich Wilhelm Barthold (born September 4, 1799 in Berlin , † January 12, 1858 in Greifswald ) was a German historian .

Life

Barthold attended the Friedrichswerder Gymnasium in Berlin and later began studying at the Friedrich Wilhelms University . At first he turned to theology , but under the influence of Friedrich Wilken he soon switched to history. Barthold soon continued his studies at the Silesian Friedrich Wilhelms University , where his teachers included the historians Friedrich von Raumer and Ludwig Wachler . During his time in Berlin, Barthold was a member of the Corps Neo-Marchia (1817) and Marchia (1819).

In 1826 Barthold finished his studies and published his first historical work on the general Johann von Werth, who died in 1652 , as a private tutor in Striesa near Breslau . In the same year he was in Königsberg i. Pr. Hired as senior teacher at the Collegium Fridericianum .

In 1831 he accepted the call to an associate professor at the University of Greifswald . In 1834 it was converted into an ordinariate , which Barthold held until the end of his life.

His History of Pomerania and Rügen was the authoritative work in the second half of the 19th century for the presentation of the history of Pomerania up to the Thirty Years War and was only replaced by Martin Wehrmann's History of Pomerania at the beginning of the 20th century . Although it was heavily criticized by some historians such as Theodor Pyl (Pyl also praised Barthold's contributions to research into the history of Pomerania), it formed the basis of various shorter descriptions of the history of Pomerania. In the Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie, Franz Xaver von Wegele referred to both merits in his work and contemporary criticism of Barthold's most important writings. In addition to content-related criticism, the breadth of the presentation was repeatedly discussed. Roderich Schmidt , on the other hand, has called for a reassessment of the work, since Barthold's characterization “as the last significant representative of a so-called pre-critical history science in Pomerania ... his work m. E. not fully fair ”.

His marriage to Laura Adolphine Hay (she came from Königsberg) had seven children, and Barthold had two older unmarried sisters to look after. These family circumstances meant that Barthold lived in tight financial circumstances all his life. In the course of the revolution of 1848/49 , accusations were repeatedly brought against Barthold, according to which he adhered to the radical demands of the democrats and also wanted to encourage students to revolutionary behavior. This worsened Barthold's social isolation in Greifswald in the 1850s.

Fonts

  • Johann v. In the closest connection with his time. Berlin 1826.
  • The Roman procession of King Heinrich von Lützelburg. Königsberg 1830–31.
  • Georg von Frundsberg and the German military craft at the time of the Reformation. 1833.
  • History of Pomerania and Ruegen . 4 parts in 5 volumes. Friedrich Perthes, Hamburg 1839–1845.
    • First part: From the earliest times to the fall of paganism. Hamburg 1839 (full text)
    • Second part: From the conversion of Pomerania to Christianity to the death of Barnim I i. J. 1278. With a map of heights and rivers of Pomerania. Hamburg 1840 (full text)
    • Third part: From the death of Barnim I (1278) to the appearance of the Hohenzollerns in the Mark Brandenburg (1411). Hamburg 1842 (full text)
    • Fourth part, first volume: From the appearance of the Hohenzollern in the Mark Brandenburg (1411) to the return of Bogislav X. from the h. Grave (1498). Hamburg 1843 (full text)
    • Fourth part, second volume: From the return of Bogislav X. from h. Grave (1498) until the death of the last Duke of Pomerania. J. 1637. Hamburg 1845 (full text)
  • History of the great German war starting from Gustav Adolf's death. 2 volumes, Stuttgart 1841–43.
  • History of the Fruitful Society . Berlin 1844.
  • Historical personalities in Jakob Casanova's memoirs. Berlin 1848.
  • History of the German cities and the German bourgeoisie. 4 volumes, Leipzig 1850–1854.
    • Volume 3: History of the German Urban System . Leipzig 1851 (full text)
  • History of the German Hansa. 3 volumes, Leipzig 1851.
  • History of Soest, the city of Engern. 1855.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1960, 4, 114
  2. ↑ See also Theodor Pyl: The care of the local history and antiquity in Pomerania since the beginning of the 19th century. In: Pomeranian Yearbooks. Volume 7 (1906), pp. 111-168, here pp. 151-153.
  3. ↑ Martin Wehrmann : History of Pomerania. Volume 1, Perthes, Gotha 1904, pp. 12-13.
  4. ^ Foreword to the new edition 1981 by Martin Wehrmann: Geschichte von Pommern. Weidlich Frankfurt am Main 1981, without page counting.
  5. ↑ Michael Czolkoß: Studies on the history of historical science. The University of Greifswald in the Prussian university landscape (1830–1865) . Tectum, Marburg 2015, ISBN 978-3-8288-3515-3 , pp. 153-158.

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personal data
SURNAME Barthold, Friedrich Wilhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian
DATE OF BIRTH September 4, 1799
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH January 12, 1858
Place of death Greifswald