Joseph Kutzen

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Joseph August Kutzen (born March 24, 1800 in Frankenstein / Silesia ; † October 14, 1877 in Breslau ) was a German historian , philologist , geographer , educator , politician and member of the Frankfurt National Assembly .

Life

His father was a town miller and landowner in his birthplace Frankenstein in Silesia. He attended high school in Glatz .

He studied history, philology and geography from 1822 to 1829 in Breslau and Berlin . In Breslau he joined the Arminia Breslau fraternity in 1822 (today the Old Breslau fraternity of the Raczeks ). In 1829 he was awarded a Dr. phil. PhD.

After his doctorate he worked as a private tutor for several count families in Silesia, later he became a high school teacher in Wroclaw. From 1832 to 1837 he was a private lecturer, from 1837 he was a professor of history and geography. In 1849 he voluntarily resigned from civil service, probably due to a marriage that gave him material independence. From 1837 to 1845 he was also the curator of the Wroclaw University Library . From 1837 to 1849 he was a member of the scientific examination commission for Silesia and Poznan in Wroclaw .

From 1845 to 1848 he was first responsible editor and later editor of the Allgemeine Oderzeitung in Breslau.

In the revolutionary year of 1848 he was a member of the constituency 25, province of Silesia (Frankenstein) in the Paulskirchenparliament. He joined the Café Milani faction . After 1848 he worked as a local civil servant and freelance writer in Wroclaw. In 1850 he was a member of the Volkshaus of the Erfurt Union Parliament .

Works

  • History of the Prussian State , 2 volumes, Breslau 1831
  • Pericles as statesman , Grimma 1834
  • The German Land , Breslau 1855
  • Remembrance days of German history , Breslau 1860
  • The county of Glatz , Glogau 1873
  • From the time of the Seven Years' War , Berlin undated

literature

  • Peter Kaupp : fraternity member in the Paulskirche. Brochure by the Society for Fraternity Research in History, 1999, p. 68.
  • Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume I: Politicians. Volume 3: I-L. Winter, Heidelberg 1999, ISBN 3-8253-0865-0 , pp. 212-213.
  • Rainer Koch (Ed.): The Frankfurt National Assembly 1848/49. An encyclopedia of the members of the German Constituent Assembly. Kunz, Kelkheim 1989, ISBN 3-923420-10-2 .
  • Bernhard von Poten :  Kutzen, Josef . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 17, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1883, p. 444.
  • Jochen Lengemann : The German Parliament (Erfurt Union Parliament) from 1850. A manual: Members, officials, life data, parliamentary groups (= publications of the Historical Commission for Thuringia. Large series, Vol. 6). Urban & Fischer, Munich 2000, ISBN 3-437-31128-X , pp. 194-195.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Bernhard von Poten :  Kutzen, Josef . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 17, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1883, p. 444.
personal data
SURNAME Kutzen, Joseph
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kutzen, Joseph August (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Historian, geographer, philologist, educator and politician
DATE OF BIRTH March 24, 1800
PLACE OF BIRTH Frankenstein / Silesia
DATE OF DEATH October 14, 1877
Place of death Wroclaw