Heinrich Witte (historian)

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Title page of the second volume of the regests of the Margraves of Baden and Hachberg 1050–1515.

Heinrich Witte (born February 13, 1854 in Leer , † February 15, 1903 in Baden-Baden ) was a German historian and high school teacher.

Life

In August 1873 Witte passed the Abitur examination at the Royal High School in Meppen . He then began studying history and ancient languages ​​at the Georg-August University in Göttingen and studied with Ernst Bernheim and Julius Weizsäcker . His doctoral thesis, with which he obtained his doctorate in Göttingen in 1877, was inspired by Bernheim. Weizsäcker won him over to work on the edition of the German Reichstag files , for which he created the register of places and persons for the third volume. As early as the autumn of 1877 he accepted a teaching position at the Lyceum in Strasbourg and in 1883 moved to Haguenau . His historical research focused on the rule of the Burgundians on the Upper Rhine and the Burgundian Wars, as well as genealogical issues . To this end, he published a large number of articles - especially in the magazine for the history of the Upper Rhine , but also in a number of other specialist journals. In addition to his dissertation, he published other monographs. In 1897 the Baden Historical Commission entrusted him with the continuation of the regests of the Margraves of Baden and Hachberg , which he ran until his death in 1903. In 1899 Witte became an honorary member of the General History Research Society of Switzerland .

literature

  • Biographisches Jahrbuch und Deutscher Nekrolog , Volume VIII, Berlin 1905, here: List of the dead 1903, column 124 Nekrolog 1903
  • Wilhelm Wiegand : Heinrich Witte, died on February 15, 1903. A necrology. In: Journal for the history of the Upper Rhine, Volume 57 (1903), pp. 564-570 in the Internet Archive

Web links

Wikisource: Heinrich Witte  - Sources and full texts

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Annual report on the Royal High School in Meppen. School year 1872–1873. , P. 30 digitized
  2. ^ The bishopric elections under Konrad III. in addition to an excursion on the electoral capitulation of Lothar III. of Saxony , Göttingen 1877
personal data
SURNAME Witte, Heinrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Witte, Hinricus Johann
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian and high school teacher
DATE OF BIRTH February 13, 1854
PLACE OF BIRTH Leer (East Frisia)
DATE OF DEATH February 15, 1903
Place of death Baden-Baden