Heinrich Rückert

Heinrich Rückert (born February 14, 1823 in Coburg , † September 11, 1875 in Breslau ) was a German historian and Germanist .

Life

Friedrich Rückert's son studied philology at the universities of Erlangen , Bonn and Berlin from 1840–1844 . In 1845 he completed his habilitation in history and German antiquity at the University of Jena . In 1852 he was a co-founder of the Association for Thuringian History and Antiquity , before becoming a professor at the University of Breslau in the same year .

Annals of German History (Leipzig 1850, 3 volumes; 2nd edition as German History 1861 and supplemented in 1873)
Cultural history of the German people during the transition from paganism to Christianity , 2 volumes (Leipzig 1853-1854)
History of the Middle Ages (Stuttgart 1853)
Modern history (Stuttgart 1854)
Textbook of world history in organic representation (Leipzig 1857, 2 parts)
History of the New High German written language (Leipzig 1875, 2 volumes)
Draft of a systematic representation of the Silesian dialect in the Middle Ages (Paderborn 1878, edited from the estate of Paul Pietsch)

Alexander Reifferscheid : Rückert, Heinrich . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 29, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1889, pp. 769-773.
Amélie Sohr and Alexander Reifferscheid: Heinrich Rückert in his life and his smaller writings (Weimar 1877–1880, 3 volumes).
Max-Rainer Uhrig : Under the spell of the Russian fright. Heinrich Rückert's Byzantine-Asiatic Slavic legend. In: Russians and Russia from a German perspective. 19./20. Century: From the Bismarckian Period to the First World War. Edited by Mechthild Keller. Munich 2000. pp. 257-297.

personal data
SURNAME	Rückert, Heinrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German historian and Germanist
DATE OF BIRTH	February 14, 1823
PLACE OF BIRTH	Coburg
DATE OF DEATH	September 11, 1875
Place of death	Wroclaw