Heinrich Bernhard Christian Brandes

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Heinrich Bernhard Christian Brandes (born April 10, 1819 in Breslau , † March 19, 1884 in Leipzig ) was a German historian . He taught at the University of Leipzig .

Life

The son of Heinrich Wilhelm Brandes began studying at the Universities of Göttingen and Leipzig in 1839 . In 1844 he received his doctorate in Leipzig . and completed his habilitation in history there in 1850.

After completing his habilitation, Brandes was initially a private lecturer at the Faculty of Philosophy , and from 1865 an associate professor of history. In addition, from 1853 he was the librarian of the Leipzig City Library .

Works (selection)

  • Contributions to the characteristics of Duke and Elector Moritz and his government (Leipzig 1853; online )
  • The Ethnographic Relationship of the Celts and Teutons (Leipzig 1857; Online )
  • Outline of Saxon History (Leipzig 1860)
  • Report on the German Society at the University of Leipzig . Leipzig: Dürr, 1863. ( Online )
  • The Lauenburg Succession Question (Leipzig 1864)
  • About the Age of the Geographer Eudoxus and the Astronomer Geminos (Leipzig 1866)
  • About the geographical knowledge of the ancient Egyptians . In: Ninth annual report of the Society of Friends of Geography in Leipzig . JC Hinrichs'sche Buchhandlung, Leipzig 1870, pp. 32-48. ( Online )
  • The royal ranks of Judah and Israel according to the biblical reports and the cuneiform inscriptions (Leipzig 1873)
  • Treatises on the history of the Orient in antiquity (Halle 1874)

literature

  • Alexander Jacob Schem: German-American Conversations-Lexicon , Volume 2, 1869, p. 557, online

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personal data
SURNAME Brandes, Heinrich Bernhard Christian
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian
DATE OF BIRTH April 10, 1819
PLACE OF BIRTH Wroclaw
DATE OF DEATH March 19, 1884
Place of death Leipzig