Gustav Adolf Harald Stenzel

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Gustav Adolf Harald Stenzel

Gustav Adolf Harald Stenzel (born March 21, 1792 in Zerbst , † January 2, 1854 in Breslau ) was a German historian .

family

Stenzel was the son of the Protestant vice principal at the court and collegiate school St. Bartholomäi, Balthasar Stenzel and his wife Johanna Caroline Friederike nee Mehske. Gustav Stenzel married on November 8, 1821 in Breslau Maria Bredow (* March 2, 1799 in Eutin, † January 7, 1845 in Breslau), the daughter of the Helmstadt historian Gabriel Gottfried Bredow (1773-1814).

Among his children were the educator and writer Hedwig Haberkern , b. Stenzel (1837–1901), text author of the children's song Snow Maiden, White Skirt and the botanist Karl Gustav Wilhelm Stenzel . He himself drew the nickname Gustav Adolf, within the family he was called Gustav.

Life

Stenzel obtained his certificate of maturity in Zerbst in 1810. He then studied theology and history in Leipzig , completed his habilitation in Leipzig in 1813 and in Berlin in 1817 after taking part in the Wars of Liberation as a volunteer hunter (about which he held enthusiastic lectures for the students) .

In 1820 he took up a position as professor of history at the University of Wroclaw and in 1821 became archivist of the Silesian Provincial Archives . 1848-1849 he was a deputy for Neumarkt in the National Assembly in Frankfurt , where he joined the emperor deputation belonged. In 1850 he belonged to the Volkshaus of the Erfurt Union Parliament . 1850-1852 he was a member of the Second Chamber of the Prussian Landtag .

In 1832 he founded a history seminar in Königsberg with the support of the Prussian Ministry of Culture and in 1844 in Breslau. One of his most important students was Heinrich Wuttke , with whom he fell out after his doctorate as a result of a dispute over his proof of the inauthenticity of Gierth's diary . He made special contributions to the history of Silesia .

In 1832 he became a corresponding member of the historical class of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences , in 1853 its external member. In 1845 he was elected a corresponding member of the Prussian Academy of Sciences . In 1853 he was also elected a corresponding member of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences .

His grave is in the cemetery of the Wroclaw Church of Eleven Thousand Virgins .

Fonts (selection)

  • Handbook of Anhalt History . Dessau 1820 ( digitized in the Google book search).
  • Appendix to GAH Stenzel's Handbooks of Anhalt History . Leipzig 1824 ( digitized in the Google book search).
  • History of Germany under the Frankish emperors . 2 volumes (Leipzig 1827/1928)
    • Volume 1, Leipzig 1827 ( digitized in the Google book search)
    • Volume 2, Leipzig 1828 ( digitized in the Google book search)
  • Contributions to the elucidation of Silesian history . In: General Archive for the History of the Prussian State . Volume 8, Berlin Posen Bromberg 1831-1832.
    • I: Genealogy of the Piastische Herzoge in Oels , Volume 5, 1831, pp. 244-258 ( digitized in the Google book search)
    • II: Albrecht v. Waldstein, Herzog von Friedland and Sagan , Volume 5, 1831, pp. 289–297 ( digitized in the Google book search)
    • III: On the division of the city of Groß-Glogau, in the 14th and 15th centuries , Volume 8, 1832, pp. 137–157 ( digitized in the Google book search).
    • IV: From the oldest borders of Upper Silesia to Lower Silesia , Volume 8, 1832, pp. 361–370 ( digitized in the Google book search)
    • V: The Roman King Rudolf confirms the privileges of the city of Leobschütz , Volume 8, 1832, pp. 370–371 ( digitized in the Google book search)
  • Floor plan and literature for lectures on German state and legal history according to KF Eichhorn and with constant reference to his German state and legal history . Breslau 1832 ( digitized in the Google book search).
  • together with Gustav Adolf Tzschoppe: Document collection on the history of the origins of the cities and the introduction and spread of German colonists and rights in Silesia and Upper Lusatia . Hamburg 1832 ( digitized in the Google book search).
  • History of the Prussian State . 5 vols. (Perthes, Hamburg and Gotha 1830–54)
    • Volume 1: From the year 1191 to 1640 . Hamburg 1830 ( digitized in the Google book search)
    • Volume 2: From 1640 to 1688 , Hamburg 1837 ( digitized in the Google book search)
    • Volume 3: From 1688 to 1739 . Hamburg 1841 ( digitized in the Google book search)
    • Volume 4: From 1739 to 1756 . Hamburg 1851 ( digitized in the Google book search)
    • Volume 5: From 1756 to 1763 . Hamburg 1854 ( digitized in the Google book search)
  • History of Silesia . (Breslau 1853)
    • Volume 1: From the oldest times to the year 1355 ( digitized version in the Google book search)
As editor
  • Scriptores rerum Silesiacarum . Breslau 1835-1851, 5 vols.
    • Volume 1, Breslau 1835 ( digitized in the Google book search).
    • Volume 2, Breslau 1839 ( digitized in the Google book search).
    • Volume 3, Breslau 1847 ( digitized in the Google book search).
    • Volume 4, Breslau 1850.
    • Volume 5, Breslau 1851.
  • Documents on the history of the diocese of Wroclaw in the Middle Ages . Breslau 1845 ( digitized in the Google book search).

literature

  • Karl Gustav Wilhelm Stenzel: Gustav Adolf Harald Stenzel's life. Perthes, Gotha 1897 ( limited preview in Google book search).
  • E. Reimann:  Stenzel, Gustav Adolf Harald . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 36, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1893, pp. 53-57.
  • Jochen Lengemann : The German Parliament (Erfurt Union Parliament) from 1850. A manual: Members, officials, life data, parliamentary groups (= publications of the Historical Commission for Thuringia. Large series, Vol. 6). Urban & Fischer, Munich 2000, ISBN 3-437-31128-X , pp. 304-305.
  • Ulrich Schmilewski: New research method , new organizational structures: On the scientific and scientific-organizational activities of the historian Gustav Adolf Harald Stenzel (1792–1854) at the University of Breslau . In: Joachim Bahlcke / Roland Gehrke (eds.): Scholars - Schools - Networks. Historical researchers in Silesia in the long 19th century, Vienna / Cologne / Weimar: Böhlau 2019 (New research on Silesian history; 28), ISBN 978-3-412-51666-6 , pp. 159–172.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Karl Gustav Wilhelm Stenzel: Gustav Adolf Harald Stenzel's life. Perthes, Gotha 1897, p. 457 ( limited preview in the Google book search).
  2. ^ Walter Schmidt : Oswald Friedrich Feyerabend (1809–1872). Evangelical pastor in the Silesian Oder town of Auras / Wohlau district from 1840 to 1857. In: Medical historical messages. Journal for the history of science and specialist prose research. Volume 34, 2015, pp. 265–294, here: p. 268.
  3. ^ Hans-Jürgen Pandel: The development of historical seminars in Germany. In: Werner Freitag (Hrsg.): Halle and German history around 1900: Contributions to the colloquium "125 Years of the Historical Seminar at the University of Halle" on 4th / 5th. November 2000 (= Studies on State History Volume 5). Mdv, Mitteldeutscher Verlag, 2002, ISBN 3-89812-109-7 , pp. 25–36, here p. 31 ( limited preview in the Google book search).
  4. ↑ Prof. Dr. Gustav Adolf Stenzel , members of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences
  5. ^ Members of the previous academies. Gustav Adolf Harald Stenzel. Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences , accessed on June 21, 2015 .
  6. ↑ Holger Krahnke: The members of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen 1751-2001 (= Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Philological-Historical Class. Volume 3, Vol. 246 = Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Mathematical-Physical Class. Episode 3, vol. 50). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2001, ISBN 3-525-82516-1 , p. 233.
personal data
SURNAME Stenzel, Gustav Adolf Harald
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian
DATE OF BIRTH March 21, 1792
PLACE OF BIRTH Zerbst
DATE OF DEATH January 2, 1854
Place of death Wroclaw