Karl Wilhelm Nitzsch

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Karl Wilhelm Nitzsch

Karl Wilhelm Nitzsch (born December 22, 1818 in Zerbst , † June 20, 1880 in Berlin ) was a German historian .

Live and act

The son of Gregor Wilhelm Nitzsch came to Kiel with his father in 1827 and completed his training at the Kiel School of Academics until he was seventeen . Following his father's wishes, he attended grammar school in Wittenberg in 1837 , where he studied the Greek and Roman classics on his own. In 1839 he went to the University of Kiel , then moved to the University of Berlin and devoted himself to an intensive study of history under Leopold von Ranke . During his studies he became a member of the Teutonia fraternity in Kiel .

When he returned to Kiel, he received his doctorate in philosophy in April 1842 and made a scientific trip to Italy from autumn 1842 to 1843. When he returned to Kiel , he completed his habilitation in 1844 as a private lecturer in history at the University of Kiel, and in autumn 1848 he became an associate professor and in 1858 a full professor of history. In 1862 he followed a call in the same position at the University of Königsberg and in 1872 also at the University of Berlin. In Königsberg he acted as director of the historical seminar. Wilhelm Maurenbrecher finally came to Königsberg through his mediation. He had an exchange of letters with Nitzsch, which is also available in print. In 1867 he was elected a corresponding member of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences and in 1878 a member of the Royal Prussian Academy of Sciences . Nitzsch left extensive articles in the specialist journals of his time. He was also the director of the Monumenta Germaniae Historica (MGH) and wrote contributions to August Friedrich Pauly's Real Encyclopedia of Classical Classical Antiquities .

In 1849 he married Sophie († 1850), daughter of the professor of law in Kiel Paul Detlev Christian Paulsen (1798-1854). In 1855 he got his second marriage with Marie Patzig from Greifswald. There were two children from this marriage.

Karl Wilhelm Nitzsch died in Berlin in 1880 at the age of 61. A blow river put an end to his life. He was buried in the Old Twelve Apostles Cemetery in Schöneberg . The grave has not been preserved.

Fonts

  • Polybius. On the history of ancient politics and historiography. Schwers, Kiel 1842.
  • The Gracchen and their next predecessors. Four books of Roman history. Veit, Berlin 1847.
  • Roman annals from its beginnings to Valerius Antias. Borntraeger, Berlin 1873.
  • History of the German people up to the Augsburg religious peace. 3 volumes. Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1883/85.
  • History of the Roman Republic. 2 volumes. Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1884/1885.

literature

  • Ignaz Jastrow :  Nitzsch, Karl Wilhelm . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 23, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1886, pp. 730-742.
  • Georg Waitz : Karl Wilhelm Nitzsch. In: Conrad Bursian: Biographisches Jahrbuch für Altertumskunde. Verlag von S. Calvary & Co, Berlin, 3rd vol., 1880, pp. 23-26.
  • Herbert Merzdorf: Karl Wilhelm Nitzsch - The methodological foundations of his historiography - a contribution to the history of historical science. R. Voigtländer, Leipzig 1913.
  • Ignaz Jastrow: Karl Wilhelm Nitzsch and the German economic history Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1884.
  • Eduard Alberti: Lexicon of the Schleswig-Holstein-Lauenburg and Eutinian writers from 1829 to mid-1866. G. v. Maacks Verlag, Kiel 1868 2nd section M – Z. P. 134.
  • Georg von Below , Marie Schulz (ed.): Letters from KW Nitzsch to Wilhelm Maurenbrecher (1861-1880). In: Archives for cultural history . 8, 1910, pp. 305-366.

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Remarks

  1. ^ Teutonia fraternity in Kiel
  2. ^ Georg von Below , Marie Schulz (Ed.): Letters from KW Nitzsch to Wilhelm Maurenbrecher (1861-1880). In: Archives for cultural history . 8, 1910, pp. 305-366.
  3. ↑ Holger Krahnke: The members of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen 1751-2001 (= Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Philological-Historical Class. Volume 3, Vol. 246 = Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Mathematical-Physical Class. Episode 3, vol. 50). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2001, ISBN 3-525-82516-1 , p. 179.
  4. ^ Hans-Jürgen Mende: Lexicon of Berlin burial places . Pharus-Plan, Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-86514-206-1 , p. 755.
personal data
SURNAME Nitzsch, Karl Wilhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian
DATE OF BIRTH December 22, 1818
PLACE OF BIRTH Zerbst
DATE OF DEATH June 20, 1880
Place of death Berlin