Karl Theodor von Heigel

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Karl Theodor von Heigel

Karl Theodor Heigel , Knight von Heigel since 1897 , (born August 23, 1842 in Munich ; † March 23, 1915 ibid) was a German historian and archivist .

Live and act

Karl Theodor Heigel, son of the actor at the Munich National Theater August Heigel (1792–1849) and the singer Helene, née Nössner, and brother of the librarian and writer Karl August Heigel (1835–1905), studied at the University of Munich . During his studies he became a member of the AGV Munich in the special houses association . He was employed at the Bavarian Main State Archives in 1872 , completed his habilitation in 1873 as a private lecturer in history at the University of Munich, was appointed associate professor at the university in 1879, in 1883 as professor of history at the Polytechnic and in 1884 as full professor of history at the University of Munich. In 1885 he was appointed director of the university's history department.

Heigel was the Bavarian State Archivist and Royal Privy Councilor, member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences since 1875 and its President from 1904 to 1915.

As early as 1871 he was awarded the Order of Merit 1st Class by St. Michael; In 1893 he received the Commander's Cross, 2nd class, of the Ernestine House Order of the Ducal Saxon. In 1897 he was awarded the Knight's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Bavarian Crown by Prince Regent Luitpold . Associated with this was the elevation to the personal nobility status and he was allowed to call himself Ritter von Heigel after his entry in the nobility register . In 1907 he received the commander of this order. Heigel received the Cross of Honor of the Order of Ludwig in 1900, was also a member of the Department of Science of the Maximilian Order for Science and Art from that year and, since 1912, also holder of the Order of Merit of St. Michael 1st Class. In the same year he became an honorary citizen of the city of Munich.

In 1904 he was accepted as a corresponding member of the Prussian Academy of Sciences .

family

Karl Theodor Heigel married Maria Baur (* 1866), daughter of Major General a. D. Eduard Baur (1842–1884) and Elise, née Reicheneder. The daughter Elise (* 1888) married Friedrich Karl Nikolaus Endres in 1909, who worked for the historical commission of the Imperial Academy of Sciences. Heigel was buried in the Munich forest cemetery, old part (WAT) grave number 39-W-12.

Publications (selection)

  • The transition of the Duchy of Bavaria from Heinrich the Lion to Otto von Wittelsbach. Stuttgart 1867.
  • On behalf of King Ludwig II, an excellent biography of Ludwig I, King of Bavaria. Leipzig 1872.
  • Cain . Adapted freely from Byron's Mysterium by Theodor Heigel. For solo voices, choir and orchestra composed by Max Zenger. CWF seal, Leipzig around 1875.
  • The Austrian succession dispute and the election of Charles VII Nördlingen as emperor in 1877.
  • The German emperors. Stuttgart 1880.
  • The Wittelsbacher, a commemorative publication. Munich 1880.
  • From three centuries, lectures from modern German history. Vienna 1881.
  • Munich's history 1158–1806. Munich 1882.
  • Karl Theodor, Elector Palatinate-Bavaria , in ADB Vol. 15, 1882, pp. 250-258.
  • New historical lectures and essays. Munich 1883
  • (Ed.): Diary of Emperor Charles VII from the time of the Austrian War of Succession . Munich 1883.
  • Sources and treatises on the modern history of Bavaria (1884) and a large number of treatises and lectures, especially in the supplement of the Allgemeine Zeitung .
  • Nymphenburg. A historical study . Bamberg 1891.
  • The Rastatt Messengersmord , in: Essays from recent history . Munich, Stuttgart, Leipzig 1892, pp. 199-217.
  • Main political currents in Europe in the 19th century (= Aus Natur und Geisteswelt 129), Leipzig 1906.
  • German history from the death of Frederick the Great to the dissolution of the old empire . Vol. 2: From the campaign in Champagne to the dissolution of the old empire (1792–1806) . Stuttgart, Berlin 1911.

Literature (selection)

  • Wilhelm Zils (Hrsg.): Intellectual and artistic Munich in autobiographies. Kellerer, Munich 1913, pp. 151–156.
  • Erich Marcks : Nekrolog Karl Theodor Heigel. In: Yearbook of the Royal Bavarian Academy of Sciences 1916, pp. 151–156 ( digitized version ).
  • Karl Alexander von Müller : Karl Theodor von Heigel. In: Twelve Historian Profiles. Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, Stuttgart 1935, pp. 61–71.

Web links

Wikisource: Karl Theodor von Heigel  - Sources and full texts

Remarks

  1. ↑ Otto Grübel, Special Houses Association of German Student Choral Societies (SV): Cartel address book. As of March 1, 1914. Munich 1914, p. 88.
  2. ↑ Bavarian State Statistical Office (ed.): Court and State Manual of the Kingdom of Bavaria for the year 1914. Munich 1914. p. 20.
  3. ^ Bavarian State Statistical Office (ed.): Court and State Manual of the Kingdom of Bavaria for the year 1914. Munich 1914. P. 33, 104.
  4. ^ Members of the previous academies. Karl Theodor Ritter von Heigel. Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities , accessed on April 2, 2015 .
predecessor Office successor
Karl Alfred Ritter von Zittel President of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences
1904 to 1915 		Otto Crusius
personal data
SURNAME Heigel, Karl Theodor von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Heigel, Karl Theodor Ritter von (full name); Heigel, Karl Theodor
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian and archivist
DATE OF BIRTH August 23, 1842
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich
DATE OF DEATH March 23, 1915
Place of death Munich