Gustav Diercks

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Theodor Gustav Diercks (born January 13, 1852 in Königsberg , Prussia ; † January 4, 1934 in Berlin , German Empire ) was a German cultural historian, ethnologist, orientalist, writer and freemason.

Professional career

Gustav Diercks'
Spanish History and his
Portuguese History appeared in the Göschen Collection

Diercks did his Abitur at the Kneiphöfisches Gymnasium in Königsberg, where he began to study and compare oriental languages. At the Humboldt University in Berlin , he studied Islamic studies with Emil Rödiger and received his doctorate in Islamic history. At the age of 20 he was already professor of Sanskrit, Persian and Arabic at the University of Naples and as a librarian in Cairo. When he returned to Germany, he first worked as a private teacher in Annaberg, and from 1875 as a vicar in Zittau. From 1877 he lived in Spain, Portugal and Morocco for health reasons. Diercks was a corresponding member of the Royal Spanish Academy of History . As a private scholar, he lectured at the Humboldt Academy in Berlin from 1891 and lived in Steglitz . As a foreign correspondent for various newspapers, Diercks was often on the road and published numerous essays, mainly on North African and Spanish history. In it he assumed, for example, Morocco "one of the lowest stages of development in cultural life at all".

Freemasonry

Gustav Diercks was a Freemason in the Brother League lodge in Steglitz and temporarily worked in the Grand National Mother Lodge “To the Three Worlds” as its 2nd major archivist and editor of the members' magazine Bundesblatt.

Publications (selection)

  • The Arabs in the Middle Ages and their Influence on European Culture (1875/1882)
  • Literature tables - Synchronistic representation of world literature in its most outstanding representatives (1878)
  • The history of the development of the spirit of mankind (1881/1882)
  • On the Tunisian Question In: The Present, Volume XIX (1881)
  • The Modern Spiritual Life of Spain (1883)
  • Poetic Tournaments (1884)
  • North Africa in the light of cultural history (1886)
  • Arab Culture in Medieval Spain (1887)
  • Heligoland (1891)
  • Cultural Images from the United States (1893)
  • A Century of North American Culture (1893)
  • Morocco and German Interests (1893)
  • Morocco - Materials for Knowledge and Assessment of the Sherif Empire and the Morocco Question (1894)
  • History of Spain from the earliest times to the present (1895/1896)
  • Men of the time - life pictures of outstanding personalities of the present and recent past (1898)
  • Spemann's golden book of world literature (1901/1912)
  • Spain - cultural-historical and economic considerations (1901)
  • Art in Spain today (1902)
  • The Jesuits (1903)
  • Spanish History (1905)
  • The Moroccan Question and the Algeciras Conference (1906)
  • Modern Spain (1908)
  • Cross and Crescent (1910)
  • Portuguese History (1912)
  • Modern Portugal (1913)
  • Allah! The awakening of Islam (1914)
  • World Economic Archive (1919/1920)
  • History panels from the oldest prehistory to the nineteen hundred (1922)
  • The Far Land in Pictures (1930)
  • Europe's Debt to Islam - The Arabs in the Middle Ages and Their Influence on the Culture of Europe (1930)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c News about the Johanneum , page 3. Richard Menzel, Zittau 1876
  2. ↑ a b c Meyers Großes Konversationslexikon, Volume 4, Page 894 (Diercks, Gustav). Sixth edition, Leipzig 1906
  3. ↑ a b Brockhaus' Kleines Konversationslexikon, Volume 1, page 432 (Diercks, Gustav). Fifth edition, Leipzig 1911
  4. ^ A b German Digital Library: Gustav Diercks
  5. ↑ Helmut Möller, Ellic Howe: Sources and Researches on European Ethnology , Volume 2 (Merlin Peregrinus - from the underground of the occident), page 131. Königshausen + Neumann, Würzburg 1986
  6. ↑ a b Listing in a magazine from 1966
  7. ↑ a b c Reimer Eck, Kurt Jochen Ohlhoff, Dirk Voss: North America from the perspective of European travelers , page 102. America House, Berlin 1991
  8. ↑ Jaime de Salas, Dietrich Briesemeister: Las Influencias de las culturas académicas alemana y española desde 1898 hasta 1936 , page 148. Vervuert, 2000
  9. ↑ a b Ethnologischer Anzeiger, Volume 3, page 255. E. Schweizerbart Verlag, Stuttgart 1935
  10. ↑ Ottův slovník naučný nové doby: dodatky k velikému Ottovu slovníku naučnému , Volume 2, Part 1, page 109. J. Otto Verlag, Prague 1932
  11. ↑ Gunther Mai: The Morocco-Germans 1873–1918 , page 20. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2014
  12. ↑ Messages from the Association of German Freemasons born in 1911, p. 8
personal data
SURNAME Diercks, Gustav
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German cultural historian
DATE OF BIRTH January 13, 1852
PLACE OF BIRTH Königsberg (Prussia)
DATE OF DEATH January 3, 1934
Place of death Berlin