Historiographer of the Prussian state

Historiographer of the Prussian state and / or historiographer of Brandenburg history was an official title for a historian in Prussia .

Holder of the office

• 1792 Jean Pierre Erman (1735–1814), historiographer from Brandenburg
• 1803 Friedrich Ancillon (1767–1837), historiographer of the House of Brandenburg
• 1804 Johannes von Müller (1752–1809), historiographer of the House of Brandenburg
• 1810 Barthold Georg Niebuhr (1776–1831), historiographer of the Prussian state
• 1817 Friedrich Rühs (1781–1820), historiographer of the Prussian state
• 1821 Friedrich Wilken (1777–1840), historiographer of the Prussian state and especially of Brandenburg history
• 1841 Johann David Erdmann Preuss (1785–1868), historiographer of the royal house
• 1841 Leopold von Ranke (1795–1886), historiographer of the Prussian state
• 1868 Adolph Friedrich Riedel (1809–1872), historiographer of Brandenburg history
• 1877 Johann Gustav Droysen (1808-1884), historiographer of Brandenburg history ("Historiographer for Brandenburg and the royal house")
• 1884 Maximilian Duncker (1811–1886), historiographer of Brandenburg history
• 1886 Heinrich von Treitschke (1834–1896), historiographer of the Prussian state
• 1887 Gustav Schmoller (1838–1917), historiographer of Brandenburg history
• 1898 Reinhold Koser (1852–1914), historiographer of the Prussian state
• 1922 Erich Marcks (1861–1938), historiographer of the Prussian state
• 1922 Friedrich Meinecke (1862–1954), historiographer of the Prussian state

literature

• Wolfgang Neugebauer: The Prussian state historiographers of the 19th and 20th centuries . In: Wolfgang Neugebauer (Ed.): The subject of "Prussia" in science and science policy of the 19th and 20th centuries (= research on Brandenburg and Prussian history, supplement NF 8). Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2006, ISBN 3-428-12061-2 , pp. 17-60.