Georg Busolt

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Georg Busolt

Georg Busolt (born November 13, 1850 at Gut Kepurren near Insterburg , † September 2, 1920 in Göttingen ) was a German ancient historian .

Georg Busolt, the son of the East Prussian landowner Julius Adolf Busolt (1818–1900), attended high school in Insterburg and studied history and philosophy at the University of Königsberg . In 1874 he was awarded for his dissertation Broad Erkenntnißtheorie and metaphysics Spinoza , with whom he received his doctorate in the following year, the Kant Prize. After a study trip through Italy and Greece, Busolt completed his habilitation in 1878 in Königsberg with a thesis on Sparta.

Busolt received his first professorship in 1879: he succeeded Christian August Volquardsen as professor of ancient history at the University of Kiel . Since this was Busolt's first appointment, he was initially associate professor and from 1881 full professor.

After 18 years in Kiel, Busolt moved to the University of Göttingen in the winter semester of 1897/98 , where he succeeded Volquardsen again. In Göttingen Busolt worked in teaching and research until his death. In 1911 the Prussian government appointed him a secret councilor .

Busolt dealt mainly with Greek history. To this end, he wrote a handbook on civics and a multi-volume Greek history . The latter should extend to the Battle of Chaironeia , but ended with the end of the Peloponnesian War . Despite the partly outdated state of research, Busolt's handbook still occupies an important place in specialist literature today, especially for the period of the Peloponnesian War, also due to the extremely extensive annotation apparatus in which all sources available up to that point and the secondary literature of the time were processed.

Fonts (selection)

  • The Second Athenian League and the Hellenic policy based on autonomy from the battle of Knidos to the peace of Eubulus . Teubner, Leipzig 1874.
  • The basics of Spinoza's epistemology and metaphysics . Berlin 1875.
  • The Lacedaemonians and their federal borders . Teubner, Leipzig 1878.
  • Research on Greek History . Wroclaw 1880.
  • Greek history up to the battle of Chaeroneia . 3 volumes in 4th Perthes, Gotha 1885–1904 (partly in 2nd edition; only lasts until the end of the Peloponnesian War).
  • The Greek national, wartime and private antiquities . Beck, Nördlingen 1887.
    3rd edition under the title: Greek political science . 1. Main part: General presentation of the Greek state . Beck, Munich 1920; Reprinted 1979, ISBN 3-406-01360-0 . (Handbook of Classical Classical Studies, Vol. 4, Section 1.) [1] .
  • Greek political science . 2. Main part: Presentation of individual states and interstate relations . Beck, Munich 1926; Reprinted 1979, ISBN 3-406-01360-0 . (Handbook of Classical Classical Studies, Vol. 4, Section 1.)

literature

  • Friedrich Volbehr , Richard Weyl: Professors and lecturers at the Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel 1665–1915 . Schmidt & Klaunig, Kiel 1916, p. 114.
  • Jochen Bleicken : The Formation of Ancient History in Göttingen. From Heyne to Busolt . In: Carl Joachim Classen (Hrsg.): The classical antiquity at the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen. A lecture series on their history . Vandenhoeck u. Ruprecht, Göttingen 1989, pp. 98–127, ISBN 3-525-35845-8 .
  • Mortimer H. Chambers : Georg Busolt. His career in his letters . Brill, Leiden 1990, ISBN 90-04-09225-0 .

Web links

Wikisource: Georg Busolt  - Sources and full texts