Heinrich Schäfer (historian)

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Heinrich Schäfer (born April 25, 1794 in Schlitz (Vogelsbergkreis) , † July 2, 1869 in Gießen ) was a German historian, librarian, Romanist , Lusitanist and Hispanist .

life and work

Schäfer attended high school in Bad Hersfeld , studied theology in Gießen and became a private tutor in Darmstadt . From 1821 he was secretary, then librarian at the court library in Darmstadt.

From 1833 until his death, Schäfer was a full professor of history at the Justus Liebig University in Giessen (1864 also rector, from 1864 also director of the university library). Since 1856 he was a foreign member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences .

Schäfer dedicated his scholarly life to the history of Portugal and Spain, to which he (after his own beginnings) had been encouraged by Jacob Grimm .

Works

  • History of Portugal (General History of States. Dept. 1. History of the European States, edited by Arnold Heeren )
    • 1. From the creation of the state to the extinction of the real Burgundian line in 1383 , Hamburg 1836
    • 2. From the extinction of the real Burgundian line to the end of the Middle Ages , Hamburg 1839
    • 3. From the accession of King Manuel to the unification of Portugal with Spain , Hamburg 1850
    • 4. From the unification of Portugal with Spain to the deposition of King Alfonso VI. , Hamburg 1852
    • 5. From the deposition of King Alfonso VI. until the outbreak of the revolution in 1820 , Gotha 1854 (with register)
      • (French by Henri Soulange-Bodin) Histoire de Portugal, depuis sa séparation de la Castille jusqu'à nos jours , Paris (1840-) 1858 (in one volume); Histoire de Portugal d'après la grande histoire de Schaeffer continuée jusqu'à nos jours par M. Jules Lacroix de Marlès , Tours 1867 (short version)
      • (Portuguese from the French by Joseph Lourenço Domingues de Mendonça) Historia de Portugal desde o começo da monarchia em 1095 até á época actual , Lisbon 1842 ff; Historia de Portugal desde 1820 até 1910, continuada por José Agostinho , Porto 1893–1899
  • History of Spain (General History of States. Dept. 1. History of the European States, edited by Arnold Heeren)
    • [First volume: Friedrich Wilhelm Lembke, The times from the complete conquest by the Romans to the middle of the ninth century , Stuttgart 1831]
    • Second volume: From the first decades of the ninth century to the beginning of the twelfth , Hamburg 1844
    • Third volume: History of southeastern Spain, especially its internal conditions in the Middle Ages , Gotha 1861

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