Karl Robert Wenck

Karl Robert Wenck (born August 12, 1854 in Leipzig , † July 8, 1927 in Marburg ) was a German historian.

Life

He comes from the scholarly Wenck family and was the son of the Reich judge Rudolf Wenck . After studying history in Heidelberg, Göttingen, Berlin and Leipzig, where he was awarded a doctorate on August 2, 1876. phil. received his doctorate, he became in 1878 librarian at the university library in Halle . In 1881 he completed his habilitation in history at the University of Halle and taught there as a private lecturer. In 1889 he moved to Marburg , where he qualified as a professor in 1891. In 1893 he received the title of professor and in 1905 was made a full honorary professor. He retired in the winter semester of 1922/23.

The focus of his research were papal documents from the Middle Ages and Hessian regional history.

In 1924 the University of Marburg awarded him an honorary theological doctorate. In 1925 he became a corresponding member of the Prussian Academy of Sciences .

Fonts

• The Wettins in the 14th century, especially Margrave Wilhelm and King Wenceslaus. In addition to an excursion: The Vogtland War. Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1877
• Clement the Fifth and Henry the Seventh. The beginnings of the French Papacy. A contribution to the history of the 14th century Niemeyer, Halle 1882
• Saint Elizabeth . Mohr, Tübingen 1908
• The University of Marburg in the years 1866–1916 with an afterword about the years 1916–1920 . Koch, Marburg (Lahn) 1921

literature

• Herrmann AL Degener (Ed.): Who is it. 4th edition, 1909.
• Franz Gundlach: Catalogus professorum Academiae Marburgensis . 1927.
• Inge Auerbach: Catalogus professorum Academiae Marburgensis . Volume 2, 1979.

Web links

• Literature by and about Karl Robert Wenck in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

1. ↑ see Hessisches Staatsarchiv Marburg (HStAMR), Best. 915 No. 5729, p. 383 ( digitized version ).
2. ↑ Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences .