Gerhard Seeliger

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Gerhard Wolfgang Seeliger (born April 30, 1860 in Biala ; † November 24, 1921 in Leipzig ) was a German historian .

Life

Grave of Gerhard Wolfgang Seeliger in the south cemetery in Leipzig

Gerhard Wolfgang Seeliger, born in Biala in the Bielitz-Bialaer Sprachinsel , was a son of the politician, long-time mayor of Biala, and publicist Rudolf Theodor Seeliger (1810–1884) and had seven siblings, a. a. his brother was the astronomer Hugo von Seeliger . His wealthy Protestant family enabled him to pursue science free from limitations. From 1879 he studied economics and history at the University of Vienna , moved to Berlin , where he received his doctorate in philosophy in 1874 . In 1887 he completed his habilitation at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich , where he worked as a private lecturer.

In 1895 the University of Leipzig appointed Seeliger full professor for historical auxiliary sciences as well as middle and modern history. In his lectures he preferred to deal with the German history of the Middle Ages before the Reformation. He was able to secure the collaboration of Albert Brackmann , Oswald Redlich and Friedrich Philippi for the series of auxiliary scientific table works, documents and seals in replicas for academic use . Seeliger also took part in the organizational tasks of the Leipzig University. In 1908/09 he was dean of the philosophical faculty and in 1905/06 rector of the alma mater . Since 1898 he was the editor of the historical quarterly and in 1907 he was privy councilor. In 1907 he headed the German Historians' Day in Dresden . Since 1900 he was a full member of the Saxon Academy of Sciences and since 1919 a corresponding member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences . From 1906 to 1907 he was chairman of the Association of Historians .

Seeliger was of the opinion that in the high Middle Ages public order was of state quality; but he also recognized the importance of economic and social forces that would have helped to shape domestic conditions at the communal and private economic level.

Seeliger represented politically conservative positions and consequently joined the DNVP in 1920 .

Seeliger had married Louise Stölzel in 1887. The marriage had five children.

Works

  • The German Hofmeisteramt in the late Middle Ages. Innsbruck 1885.
  • Arch Chancellor and Imperial Chancellery. Innsbruck 1889.
  • The Carolingian capitularies. Munich 1893.
  • The social and political significance of manorial rule in the early Middle Ages. Leipzig 1903.
  • Studies on the older constitutional history of Cologne. Leipzig 1909.
  • State and manorial rule in older German history. Leipzig 1909.
  • Article Conquests and Imperial Coronation of Charles the Great , Legislation and Administration of Charles the Great , in: Cambridge Medieval History , Volume 2, Macmillan 1913
  • The Germanness in the West Beskids and the Duchy of Auschwitz and Zator , 1916

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Members of the SAW: Gerhard Seeliger. Saxon Academy of Sciences, accessed December 3, 2016 .
  2. ^ Gerhard Seeliger obituary in the 1922 yearbook of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences (PDF file).

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personal data
SURNAME Seeliger, Gerhard
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Seeliger, Gerhard Wolfgang
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian
DATE OF BIRTH April 30, 1860
PLACE OF BIRTH Biala
DATE OF DEATH November 24, 1921
Place of death Leipzig