Gustav Buchholz

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Johann Hermann Gustav Buchholz (born February 16, 1856 in Buxtehude , † June 26, 1916 in Posen ) was a German historian .

Life

From 1875 Gustav Buchholz studied history at the universities of Bonn , Strasbourg and Leipzig . At the latter university he received his PhD in 1879 . PhD . His dissertation is called Die Würzburger Chronik . In the same year the Royal Library in Dresden hired him as a librarian, which he stayed until 1888.

After Buchholz had completed his habilitation for middle and modern history at the University of Bonn in 1889 , he worked there as a private lecturer . In 1893 he married Elisabeth His, the daughter of the Leipzig anatomy professor Wilhelm His . In 1896 he came to the University of Leipzig as an associate professor , there at the Faculty of Philosophy. From there he moved in 1906 to the Royal Academy in Poznan , which had been founded three years earlier , where he received a full professorship. He held this until his death; he died in 1916 at the age of 60.

Buchholz had written a work on the chronicler Ekkehard von Aura and contributed two articles to the Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie . He was co-editor of the German journal for historical science .

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