Hans Droysen

Hans Julius Adolf Droysen (born April 4, 1851 in Kiel , † September 4, 1918 in Berlin ) was a German historian , classical philologist and teacher.

Life

Hans Droysen was the son of the historian Johann Gustav Droysen (1808–1884) and his second wife Emma Michaelis (1829–1881), the daughter of the gynecologist Gustav Adolf Michaelis (1798–1848). He had four older half-siblings from his father's first marriage. After graduating from the Royal Wilhelms-Gymnasium in Berlin in 1869 , he studied philology and history in Leipzig for two semesters. He took part as a volunteer in the Franco-Prussian War of 1870/71. He then continued his studies in Berlin at the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität and attended the philological and historical exercises with Moriz Haupt , Emil Hübner , Adolf Kirchhoff and Theodor Mommsen . In 1873 he received his doctorate with a thesis that examined the Attic plebiscite resolutions inserted in Andokides' discourse in terms of authenticity and completeness. Just two years later he completed his habilitation; In addition, in 1874 he took the teacher’s examination and started his probationary year at the Joachimsthal Gymnasium at Easter 1875 , which he successfully completed on October 1, 1875.

After his preparatory service Droysen worked in the service of the Monumenta Germaniae Historica , for which he undertook extensive research trips to Italy, Sicily and Greece from autumn 1875 to summer 1876 and again in September 1876. After a habilitation request at the University of Breslau failed in March 1877, Droysen completed his habilitation at the Berlin University of History and held lectures and exercises as a private lecturer there from the winter semester 1877/78 to the winter semester 1897/98.

From April 1, 1878, Droysen taught at the Königstädtisches Gymnasium , where he worked until his retirement in 1916. On July 28, 1880, he was promoted from full teacher to senior teacher. In 1897 he received the title and title of high school professor.

In his research as a historian, he dealt particularly with the warfare of antiquity and the life of Frederick the Great , whose correspondence with Voltaire he edited together with Reinhold Koser . Other topics that he dealt with in his lectures were Greek epigraphy , the history of Athens and Alexander the Great . In the series of Auctores antiquissimi of the Monumenta Germaniae , he edited the volume on Eutropius' Breviarium ab urbe condita in 1879 with the Greek translations of Paianios and Kapiton of Lycia as well as the continuations of Paulus Diaconus and Landolfus Sagax .

Hans Droysen was married to Margarete Lührß (1856–1907), the daughter of the composer Carl Lührß (1824–1882) , since 1880 . The marriage resulted in three daughters: Emma (1881–1945), the writer Zoe Droysen (1884–1975) and Anna (* 1886). His estate is in the Secret State Archive of Prussian Cultural Heritage in Berlin.

Fonts (selection)

• De Demophanti Patroclidis Tisameni populiscitis quae inserta sunt Andocidis orationi peri mysterion , Berlin Phil. Diss. 1873.
• Sylloge inscriptionum atticarum in usum scholarum academicarum , Berlin 1878.
• To Aristotle Athenaion Politeia. Preliminary remarks . In: Supplement to the program of the Königstädtisches Gymnasium , Berlin 1891.
• Hans Droysen (Ed.): Auctores antiquissimi 2: Eutropi Breviarium ab urbe condita cum versionibus Graecis et Pauli Landolfique additamentis. Berlin 1879 ( Monumenta Germaniae Historica , digitized version ) [ND 2000].
• Contributions to a bibliography of the prosaic writings of Frederick the Great. Berlin 1904–1905 ( digital edition of the University of Trier ).
• Correspondence between Frederick the Great and Voltaire , 3 vol., Ed. v. Reinhold Koser u. Hans Droysen, Leipzig 1908-1911 (ND Osnabrück 1965-1968).

literature

• Christiane Hackel (Ed.): Johann Gustav Droysen 1808–1884: Philologist - Historian - Politician [catalog for the exhibition at the Humboldt University in Berlin], Berlin 2008.
• Entry . In: Kürschner's German Literature Calendar , Vol. 39, ed. v. Heinrich Klenz, Berlin; Leipzig 1917, p. 327.
• Zoe Droysen: CV and bibliography of Hans Droysen (1851-1918) . In: Friedrich the Great's correspondence with Countess Camas and Baron Fouqué . Selected and translated by Hans Droysen from his estate in the Secret State Archives (= publications from the archives of Prussian Cultural Heritage; 1), Cologne; Berlin 1967, pp. 79-83.

Web links

Wikisource: Hans Droysen  - Sources and full texts

• Literature by Hans Droysen in the catalog of the German National Library
• Hans Droysen's personnel form in the BIL's personal file in the archive database of the Library for Research on Educational History (BBF)

Individual evidence

1. ^ New archive of the Society for Older German History for the Promotion of a Complete Edition of the Source Writings of German Stories of the Middle Ages , Volume 42 (1921), p. 538.
2. ^ Theodor Schieder:  Droysen, Johann Gustav. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 4, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1959, ISBN 3-428-00185-0 , pp. 135-137 ( digitized version ).
3. ↑ De Demophanti Patroclidis Tisameni populiscitis quae inserta sunt Andocidis orationi peri mysterion , Berlin Phil. Diss. 1873, here: attached Vita.
4. ↑ Joachim Bahlcke : Habilitations in history at the Philosophical Faculty of the University of Breslau between 1811 and 1914: Academic qualifications, personal networks and integration in scientific schools . In: Joachim Bahlcke, Roland Gehrke (editor): Scholars - Schools - Networks. Historical researcher in Silesia in the long 19th century . Vienna et al. 2019, pp. 29-91, especially 74-76.
5. ↑ List of the lectures that are held at the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität zu Berlin in the summer / winter semester [year] , here for the years 1877–1898.
6. ↑ Alexander Demandt : Ancient History in Berlin 1810-1960 . In: Reimer Hansen, Wolfgang Ribbe (ed.): History in Berlin in the 19th and 20th centuries. Personalities and institutions . de Gruyter, Berlin 1992, ISBN 3-11-012841-1 , pp. 149-210, here: pp. 181f.