Julius August Remer

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Julius August Remer (born July 31, 1738 in Braunschweig , † August 26, 1803 in Helmstedt ) was a German historian and university professor.

Life

The son of the preacher at the Braunschweiger Magnikirche , Joh. Heinr. Remer († 1741), attended the local Martineum and from 1757 studied theology in Helmstedt and Göttingen . In 1763 he found a job as a public court master at the Collegium Carolinum in Braunschweig, where he held lectures on general history from 1770. In 1774, Remer was appointed professor of universal and national history and, as the successor to Justus Friedrich Wilhelm Zachariae, who had suffered health problems, was appointed director of intelligence. He was also responsible for the publication of the scholarly articles to the Braunschweigische advertisements and the Neue Braunschweigische Zeitung .

In 1787 he moved to the University of Helmstedt as a full professor of history and statistics . In 1796 he was appointed councilor . He belonged to the Federation of Freemasons .

Remer died of nerve fever in Helmstedt in 1803. His colleague Paul Jakob Bruns gave the memorial speech .

Remer was married to the Brunswick merchant's daughter Marie Dorothee, born in 1774. Bierbaum (1750-1824). Her son was the physician and university professor Wilhelm Hermann Georg Remer .

Fonts (selection)

Remer's numerous publications include textbooks and manuals on European history and statistics, as well as translations of English and French histories.

  • Manual of General History , 1771.
  • Tabular overview of the most important statistical changes in the most distinguished European countries , 1786–1794.
  • History of the French Constitutions , 1795, 2nd edition 1808.
  • Representation of the historical world through all centuries , Berlin and Stettin, 1801.
  • Historical bas-reliefs in depictions of remarkable scenes from history , Halle, 1803.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Johann Christian Gädicke: Freemason Lexicon, elaborated after many years of experience and the best aids. Berlin 1818, p. 409. ( digitized version )

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personal data
SURNAME Remer, Julius August
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH July 31, 1738
PLACE OF BIRTH Braunschweig
DATE OF DEATH August 26, 1803
Place of death Helmstedt