Gustav Droysen
Johann Gustav Ferdinand Droysen (born April 10, 1838 in Berlin , † November 10, 1908 in Halle ) was a German historian .
Life
Droysen was the son of the much better known historian and university professor Johann Gustav Droysen and was of the Evangelical Lutheran denomination . Droysen first studied law in Jena and Berlin and from 1860 philosophy and history in Göttingen , where he received his doctorate in 1862. In addition to his father, his academic teachers included u. a. Georg Waitz and Leopold von Ranke . After completing his habilitation in Halle in 1864 and obtaining an extraordinary professorship in Göttingen, he was appointed full professor in Halle in 1872, where he represented the subject of modern history until his retirement in 1902.
Scientific work
Droysen's main area of interest was the Thirty Years War . But he also presented important works for the time of the Counter Reformation . The biography of Gustav II Adolf was published in 1869/70 , in 1877 a source edition of documents by the King of Sweden, and in 1885 a second major biography on Bernhard von Weimar . Since 1874 he published the Hallesche Abhandlungen zur Recent History ; In 1893 he presented a history of the Counter Reformation. Droysen revised the image of Gustav II Adolf, which was valid until then, according to which the Swedish king only waged a religious war in support of the Protestants, and looked at power-political and economic interests in his warfare.
In addition, Droysen's scientific importance lay in the opening up of historical studies to neighboring disciplines, as editor of the Historical Handatlas (1886) and as head of the Kupferstichkabinett at Halle University since 1884. Posthumously, the first volume of his father's biography appeared in 1910, which he is in his had turned more and more towards the last years of life. Also to be mentioned are essays which, in a narrower sense, concern the political history in Saxony during the 16th and 17th centuries. a. published in the journal Archive for Saxon History . In contrast to his father, who also exerted great influence on the methodology of historical studies ( history ) in general, Gustav Droysen dealt only little with problems of history theory.
Publications (selection)
- Albrecht's I efforts to succeed in the empire. Leipzig 1862 (Phil. Diss. Göttingen).
- Gustaf Adolf. 2 volumes. Leipzig 1869–1870.
- The Battle of Frankenhausen (1525). In: Journal for Prussian History and Regional Studies. Volume 2, Berlin 1873, pp. 590-617 ( digitized version ).
- (Ed.) Printed relations on the battle of Nördlingen in 1634 (= materials on modern history. Vol. 4). Hall 1885.
- Bernhard of Weimar. 2 volumes. Leipzig 1885.
- General historical hand atlas in ninety-six cards, with explanatory text. Executed […] under the direction of Richard Andree . Bielefeld / Leipzig 1886 ( digitized ).
- History of the Counter Reformation. Berlin 1893 (= general history in individual representations ).
- Johann Gustav Droysen. First part: until I started working in Frankfurt. Berlin / Leipzig 1910 (no longer published).
literature
- Hans Schulz: Gustaf Droysen . In: Central German Life Pictures. Vol. 3: Life pictures of the 18th and 19th centuries , Magdeburg 1928, pp. 481–496.
Web links
- Works by and about Gustav Droysen in the German Digital Library
- Entry on Gustav Droysen in the Catalogus Professorum Halensis
- History in Halle (44th German Historians' Day in Halle an der Saale from September 10 to 13, 2002)
- G. Droysen's estate in the University and State Library of Saxony-Anhalt in Halle (Saale)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Droysen, Gustav |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Droysen, Johann Gustav Ferdinand (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German historian |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 10, 1838 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Berlin |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 10, 1908 |
| Place of death | Halle (Saale) |