Georg Friedrich Preuss
Georg Friedrich Preuss (born April 12, 1867 in Breslau ; † November 3, 1914 at Lyck ) was a German historian specializing in the history of the 17th and 18th centuries.
Life
Preuss studied at the Silesian Friedrich Wilhelms University and in 1890 became a member of the Corps Marcomannia Breslau . With a doctoral thesis on the Peace of Füssen he was awarded a Dr. phil. PhD . He completed his habilitation at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich . He became associate professor and returned in 1907 as a professor back to Wroclaw. Since 1904 he was an associate member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences as a private lecturer in Munich, and since 1907 as a Breslau professor . During the First World War he suffered an injury on October 27, 1914 , of which he died on November 3.
Works
- The Peace of Füssen 1745 . Historical treatises from the Munich seminar, Volume 6, Munich 1894.
- William III. of England and the House of Wittelsbach in the age of the Spanish question of succession . Trewendt & Granier Publishing House, Breslau 1904.
- Helmar Gerkens. A contribution to German customs history , Herder Verlag, Freiburg im Breisgau 1910.
- Frederick the Great , speech in the auditorium of the Kgl. Friedrich Wilhelm University in Breslau, Trewendt & Granier Publishing House, Breslau 1912.
- The sources of the national spirit of the Wars of Liberation . Correspondence sheet of the general association of German history and antiquity associations 1914, Verlag Mittler, Berlin 1914.
literature
- Yearbook of the Royal Bavarian Academy of Sciences 1915 , self-published, Buchdruckerei F. Straub, Munich 1915, p. 142 u. 208.
- From the life of the University of Breslau , 1936, p. 316. GoogleBooks
Web links
- Literature by and about Georg Friedrich Preuss in the catalog of the German National Library
Individual evidence
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SURNAME | Preuss, Georg Friedrich |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German historian and university professor in Munich and Breslau |
DATE OF BIRTH | April 12, 1867 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Wroclaw |
DATE OF DEATH | November 3, 1914 |
Place of death | Lyck , East Prussia |