Johann Wilhelm Zinkeisen

Johann Wilhelm Zinkeisen (born April 12, 1803 in Altenburg , † January 5, 1863 in Berlin ) was a German historian .

Zinkeisen studied in Jena and Goettingen only theology , then history , was a short time teacher in Blochmann's institute to Dresden , where he also lectured on Greek history, and lived then to 1831 in Munich . After completing his habilitation in Leipzig , he went to Paris in the spring of 1833 , received the title of professor from Altenburg and, on Alexander von Humboldt's recommendation, was appointed chief editor of the Prussian state newspaper in Berlin in 1840 . In 1848 this magazine was converted into the Prussian State Gazette , which Zinkeisen edited until 1851. He then lived in Berlin as a private citizen and died on January 5, 1863.

Fonts

Of his writings are to be emphasized:

• History of Greece , ( Vol. 1 : “Das Altertum und die Mittel Zeiten”, Leipzig 1832; Vol. 2 has not been published; Vol. 3 and Vol. 4 , there in 1840, contain the history of the Greek Revolution, based on Gordon);
• History of the Ottoman Empire in Europe (Hamburg and Gotha 1840–1863, 7 vols. );
• The Jacobin Club (Berlin 1852-1853, first and second part );
• Three memoranda on the oriental question (Gotha 1854)

literature

• Ernst Friedländer :  zinc iron, Johann Wilhelm . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 45, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1900, pp. 331-334.
• Hans-Jürgen Kornrumpf: zinc iron, Johann Wilhelm . In: Biographical Lexicon on the History of Southeast Europe . Volume 4. Munich 1981, pp. 490-492

Web links

• Works by and about Johann Wilhelm Zinkeisen  in the German Digital Library
• Overview of the courses taught by Johann Wilhelm Zinkeisen at the University of Leipzig (winter semester 1831 to winter semester 1832)