Jacob Caro

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Jacob Caro (born February 2, 1835 in Gnesen ; died December 12, 1904 in Breslau ) was a German historian and university professor .

life and work

Caro came from an old rabbi family: his father was the German-Polish rabbi Joseph Chajim Caro (1805–1895). After attending high school in Poznan , he studied history and philosophy at the University of Berlin and Leipzig University . He received his doctorate on the subject of the election of King Siegismund III. from Poland . In 1862 he went on study trips to Galicia and southern Russia . Although his habilitation request with the monograph The Party Struggles of the Houses of Zborowski and Zamoyski was rejected, he was admitted to the University of Jena as a private lecturer in history in 1863 .

In Jena he received from the publisher Perthes commissioned for the Perthessche compilation history of European countries by Richard Roepell with the book History of Poland, First Part continue begun series of books about the history of Poland. He went to St. Petersburg for half a year to conduct archival studies there. He then lived there for a few years at the court of Tsar Alexander II and became the travel companion of Grand Duchess Jelena Pavlovna . He turned down an offer to continue his professional career in the Russian civil service. After his book History of Poland, Second Part (1300–1386) was published in 1863 , he returned in 1865 as a private lecturer at the University of Jena.

In 1869 he was appointed honorary professor at the University of Breslau , where he was appointed associate professor of history in 1876. After he had written another volume for the Perthessche collective work, he was honored by the University of Breslau with the award of the title Professor honoris causa . In 1884 he was appointed full professor in Breslau. Volumes II to V were published by him in the period 1863–1886 for the above-mentioned collection. In 1886 he was accepted as a corresponding member of the Russian Academy of Sciences in Saint Petersburg .

His scientific interest was primarily in the history, culture and literature of the Slavic peoples. In addition to teaching, Jacob Caro also worked at the Foreign Office in Berlin from 1869 to 1875. At times he was rector of the University of Wroclaw.

Works

  • The Interregnum of Poland in 1586, or the Zborowski and Zamojski houses . Gotha 1861.
  • History of Poland (continuation of the history of Poland started by Richard Roepell ).
  1. First part. Hamburg 1840, written by Richard Roepell ( e-copy )
  2. Second part (1300-1386). Gotha 1863 (unaltered reprint: Elibron Classics, USA, ISBN 978-0-543-82277-2 ), 617 pages ( e-copy ).
  3. Third part (1386-1430). Gotha 1869, 657 pages ( e-copy ).
  4. Fourth part (1430-1455). Gotha 1875 (unaltered reprint: Elibron Classics, USA, ISBN 978-0-543-82269-7 ), 513 pages ( e-copy ).
  5. Fifth part (1455-1486). Gotha 1886.
  6. This compilation was continued by Ezekiel Zivier : Modern History of Poland . Volume I (not continued by Zivier): The two last Jagellons (1506–1572) , Gotha 1915, 809 pages.

literature

  • Caro, Jacob. In: Lexicon of German-Jewish Authors . Volume 5: Carmo – Donat. Edited by the Bibliographia Judaica archive. Saur, Munich 1997, ISBN 3-598-22685-3 , pp. 9-13.
  • Barbara Kalinowska-Wójcik: Jewish historical research in Silesia in the 19th and early 20th centuries: Jacob Caro (1835–1904), Markus Brann (1849–1920) and Ezechiel Zivier (1868–1925) . In: Joachim Bahlcke / Roland Gehrke (eds.): Scholars - Schools - Networks. Historical researchers in Silesia in the long 19th century, Vienna / Cologne / Weimar: Böhlau 2019 (New research on Silesian history; 28), ISBN 978-3-412-51666-6 , pp. 331–366.

Web links

Wikisource: Jakob Caro  - Sources and full texts

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Georg Kaufmann, In: Chronik der Königlichen Universität Breslau, Volume 17–20 (1903–1906), p. 133. The figure 1836 is based on an incorrect conversion of the Jewish calendar.
  2. ^ Anton Bettelheim : Biographical Yearbook and German Nekrolog, Vol. 10: List of the Dead . 1904, p. 20 * (p. 368), 1907
  3. ↑ The name of this Sephardic Jewish family was formerly spelled Karo ; cf. Neue Deutsche Biographie , Vol. 3 . Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1957, p. 152.
  4. ^ Foreign members of the Russian Academy of Sciences since 1724. Jacob Caro. Russian Academy of Sciences, accessed September 4, 2015 .
personal data
SURNAME Caro, Jacob
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian
DATE OF BIRTH February 2, 1835
PLACE OF BIRTH Gniezno
DATE OF DEATH December 12, 1904
Place of death Wroclaw