Georg Martin Thomas

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Georg Martin Thomas (born February 12, 1817 in Ansbach ; † March 24, 1887 Munich ) was a philologist , historian and member of the Reichstag .

Thomas was the son of a Protestant tailor from Silesia. He attended high school in Ansbach. From 1835 he attended the University of Munich , in 1837 he went to Leipzig , where he received his doctorate . He returned to Munich in the same year, passed the philological state examination with the grade 1 and the predicate “excellent” and completed his habilitation in 1841 with a thesis “Commentatio de Aristophanis avibus”.

In 1842 he received an apprenticeship at the royal cadet corps, and in 1845 he was appointed professor. He held this teaching post until 1856 and then worked at the royal court and state library in Munich , of which he was a member until his retirement in 1877. During this time he published historical writings, particularly on the history of Venice, and became an associate member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences in 1848 and a full member in 1856 . From 1866 he was a corresponding member of the Russian Academy of Sciences in Saint Petersburg .

In 1871 he was elected to the German Reichstag for the National Liberal Party as a member of the constituency of Middle Franconia 3, to which his hometown Ansbach belonged, to which he belonged until 1874.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Foreign members of the Russian Academy of Sciences since 1724. Georg Martin Thomas. Russian Academy of Sciences, accessed October 26, 2015 .
  2. ^ Fritz Specht, Paul Schwabe: The Reichstag elections from 1867 to 1903. Statistics of the Reichstag elections together with the programs of the parties and a list of the elected representatives. 2nd Edition. Carl Heymann Verlag, Berlin 1904, p. 207.

literature

  • Friedrich August Eckstein : Nomenclator philologorum. Teubner, Leipzig 1871
  • Wilhelm Pökel : Philological writer's lexicon. Krüger, Leipzig 1882
  • Henry Simonsfeld:  Thomas, Georg Martin . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 54, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1908, pp. 697-700.
  • Hermann Kalkoff (Ed.): National Liberal Parliamentarians 1867–1917 of the Reichstag and the individual state parliaments. Contributions to party history. Publication distribution center of the National Liberal Party of Germany, Berlin 1917.
  • Karl Bader: Lexicon of German librarians. Harrassowitz, Leipzig 1925 (= Central Journal for Libraries, Supplement 55)
  • Rüdiger vom Bruch : Thomas, Georg Martin. In: Karl Bosl (ed.): Bosls Bavarian biography. Pustet, Regensburg 1983, ISBN 3-7917-0792-2 , p. 776 ( digitized version ).

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personal data
SURNAME Thomas, Georg Martin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian and politician (NLP), MdR
DATE OF BIRTH February 12, 1817
PLACE OF BIRTH Ansbach
DATE OF DEATH March 24, 1887
Place of death Munich