Hans F. Helmolt

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Hans Ferdinand Helmolt (born July 8, 1865 in Dresden , † March 19, 1929 in Berlin ) was a German historian and political publicist .

Life

Hans Helmolt was born in 1865 as the son of the royal Saxon financier Ferdinand Helmolt and attended the citizens' schools in Glauchau and Chemnitz , the Royal Gymnasium in Chemnitz (today Karl-Schmidt-Rottluff-Gymnasium ) and the Gymnasium zum Heiligen Kreuz in Dresden. After leaving school in 1884, he studied philology and history at the University of Leipzig and Bonn . After an interruption due to military service (1890), he received his doctorate in Leipzig for his work on the Italian expedition of the Roman-German King Ruprecht von der Pfalz .

Hans F. Helmolts main work is the nine-volume Helmolts Weltgeschichte , published from 1913 to 1922. Other publications deal with Otto von Bismarck , Paul von Hindenburg and Friedrich the Great , among others . Helmolt also gained notoriety through the work “The stair joke of world history”, which was edited by him from the sixth edition (1905) after the previous editor, William Lewis Hertslet, died in 1898. Helmolt structured the topics and incorporated additions from readers. From the 10th edition of 1925, he added a chapter: The World War and the Guilt Lie (pp. 342–352), a settlement typical of the time with the Treaty of Versailles of 1919 and a trivialization of the German colonial question.

Since 1885 he was a member of the University Choir St. Pauli Leipzig (today in Mainz).

Publications (selection)

  • World History , 1913–1922 (Vol. 1: Introduction. - Prehistory. - East Asia. - High Asia and Siberia. - India.- Indonesia. - The Indian Ocean; Vol. 2: West Asia; Vol. 3: Africa. - Pyrenees Peninsula. - Ancient Greece; Vol. 4: Balkan Peninsula; Vol. 5: Italy - Central Europe; Vol. 6: Eastern and Northern Europe; Vol. 7: Western Europe 1350-1859; Vol. 8: Western Europe since 1859; Vol. 9: America .- Australia. - General register)
  • The Secret History of the World War , 1914
  • The Book of War , 1915
  • A quarter of a century of world history 1894-1919 , 1919
  • History of the Triple Alliance , 1923
  • The Book of Honor of the German People , 1923
  • as publisher: Letters from Duchess Elisabeth Charlotte von Orleans , Leipzig 1924
  • Frederick the Great and his Prussian , 1925
  • Hindenburg. The life of a German , 1926

literature

Web links

Commons : Helmolts Weltgeschichte  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Richard Kötzschke, History of the University Singers at St. Pauli in Leipzig. 1822–1922, Leipzig 1922
personal data
SURNAME Helmolt, Hans F.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Helmolt, Hans Ferdinand
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian and political publicist
DATE OF BIRTH July 8, 1865
PLACE OF BIRTH Dresden
DATE OF DEATH March 19, 1929
Place of death Berlin