Constantin von Höfler

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Konstantin Höfler, contemporary engraving

Karl Adolf Konstantin (since 1873 Ritter von ) Höfler (also Karl Adolf Constantin Ritter von Hoefler ; born March  26, 1811 in Memmingen , Kingdom of Bavaria , †  November 29, 1897 in Prague , Austria-Hungary ) was a German-Austrian historian , archivist , Professor and rector of Charles University in Prague .

Life

Karl Adolf Konstantin, a son of the married couple Johann Nepomuk Höfler (1780–1843), senior appellate judge and Therese, b. Hofer (1790–1848) first studied law , then the history of philosophy under the influence of Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich and in Landshut, and obtained his doctorate in philosophy in 1831 . This was followed by history studies in Göttingen and, from 1834, study trips to Florence and Rome . In 1836 he worked as an editor for the Munich political newspaper . In 1838 he completed his habilitation at the Ludwig Maximilians University, where he was appointed associate professor of history in 1839 and full professor in 1841, and since 1842 a member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences.

In addition to his teaching activities, he dealt with current political issues and published them during the unrest in 1846. Because of his partisanship against the dancer Lola Montez , who exerted a great influence on the Bavarian King Ludwig I , and his participation in protests over the dissolution of the clerical Parliament he retired on March 26, 1847 and was transferred to Bamberg as a district archivist , where he published research results from Franconian historical sources.

In 1851, through the mediation of Count Leo von Thun and Hohenstein, he received a call to Charles University in Prague , where he taught as a full professor of history until 1882. In Prague , in the field of tension between the Germans and the Czechs, he came into increasing opposition to František Palacký's view of history . He was co-founder of the "Association for the History of Germans in Bohemia" was, from 1865 to 1869 a member of the Czech parliament, since 1872 in the mansion, since 1873, he led the historical seminar of the University, from 1876 to 1880 together with Anton Gindely was several times dean of the Philosophical Faculty of Charles University in Prague and in 1871 its rector. He was an advocate of the division of the Technical University (TH) (1868) and the University of Prague (1882) into two national universities with separate languages ​​of instruction. After his retirement he continued to work scientifically, literarily and politically.

For his services in promoting science and the concerns of the Germans in Bohemia , he was appointed National Councilor and later Hofrat , received the Austrian Order of the Iron Crown III. Class and was raised in 1873 as a knight of Höfler to the herbländisch-Austrian nobility . In 1866 he was made an honorary citizen of the city of Liberec .

Konstantin von Höfler's publications as a historian are extensive. During his stay in Bavaria he researched contributions to the history of the papacy , highlighted the Romanesque period of the Middle Ages with the struggles between popes and emperors for supremacy in Europe . As an archivist , he had access to writings on these topics, which he commented on and published. Some of his publications were rejected in contrary specialist circles and there were heated discussions. He published some texts together with Pavel Jozef Šafárik .

Publications

  • History of the English civil list. Stuttgart [u. a.] 1834 ( digitized version )
  • The German Popes. Based on handwritten and printed sources . 2 volumes - Regensburg 1839
  • Documentary contributions to the history of Emperor Ludwig IV and other Bavarian princes. From Italian archives and libraries , in Oberbayerisches Archiv , No. 1 (1839) pp. 45–118. [1]
  • Concordat and constitutional oath of the Catholics in Bavaria . Munich 1847 (concerns: State Church Treaty and Roman Catholic Church )
  • About John called Porta de Annoniaco - 1860
  • Carmen historicum occulti autoris saeculi XIII. Vienna 1861
  • Des Bartholomaeus by Sct. Aegidius Chronicle of Prague in the Reformation Age (Chronica de Seditione et Tumultu Pragensi 1524-1531) 1859, translated and commented by Constantin Höfler
  • Emperor Friedrich H. Munich 1844
  • Albert von Behaim et al. Regesten Pope Innocent IV. Stuttgart 1847 (concerns: Albert Behaim and Pope Innocent IV. )
  • Collection of sources for Franconian history . Bayreuth 1849-52
  • Bavaria , his right u. his story . Regensburg 1850
  • About the political reform movement in Germany in the 14th year a. Bavaria's share in it . Munich 1850
  • Franconian Studies . Vienna 1852–53 (concerns: history of the Franks )
  • The historians of the Hussite movement . 1865–66 (concerns: time of the Hussite Wars )
  • Bohemian Studies . 1854
  • Mag. Johannes Huss and the departure of German professors and students from Prague . Prague 1864 (also concerns Jan Hus , among others (see below) )
  • Concilia Pragensia 1353-1413 . 1862
  • Documents to illuminate the history of Bohemia and the German Empire in the XV. Century. In 1865
  • Barbara Margravine of Brandenburg, widowed, Duchess of Silesia, married Queen of Bohemia . 1867 (concerns: Barbara von Brandenburg (1464–1515), Queen of Bohemia)
  • From Avignon . 1868
  • The time of the Luxembourg emperors . Vienna 1867 (see: House of Luxemburg )
  • Anna of Luxembourg . 1871
  • The German Kaiser and the last German Pope : Kaiser Karl V and Pope Adrian VI. 1876
  • The uprising of the Castilian cities against Emperor Charles V Prague 1876 (concerns: Emperor Charles V (HRR) )
  • The Romance world and its relation to the reform ideas of the Middle Ages . Vienna, 1878 (see: Reformation )
  • Treatises from the field of Slavic history . 1879–83 (concerns: History of the Slavs )
  • Pope Adrian VI 1880 (concerns: Pope Hadrian VI. )
  • Monumenta Hispania sacra . Prague 1881-82
  • Don Antonio de Alcuña called the Luther of Spain . Vienna 1882 (comparison with the reformer Martin Luther )
  • Donna Juana, Queen of Leon etc. 1885 (concerns: Johanna (Castile) )
  • Habsburg trilogy: Charles V's first love . 1888
  • Leonore v. Austria . 1888 (concerns: Eleonore of Austria )
  • Don Rodrigo de Borja (Pope Alexander VI.) U. his sons . 1889 (concerns: Pope Alexander VI. )
  • Emperor Charles V end . 1889
  • The era of the bastards at the end of the Middle Ages . Prague 1891

Republished works

  • Magister Johannes Hus and the departure of German professors and students from Prague in 1409 . 1985 (concerns: Exodus of the students and Masters of the Saxon, Bavarian and Polish nationes from the University of Prague to Leipzig in 1409, see: University of Leipzig )
  • Memories from the Reformation Age . Pirckheimer, Charitas. 1984
  • Law book . 1984
  • Memories of Brandenburg (Hohenzollern) Prince Ludwig von Eyb. 1984 (concerns: Eyb (noble family) )
  • Albert von Beham and Regesten Pope Innocent IV. Albertus Bohemus . 1981
  • Historian of the Hussite movement in Bohemia

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.liberec.cz/cz/mesto-samosprava/cestni-obcane/
personal data
SURNAME Höfler, Constantin von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Höfler, Karl Adolf Konstantin Ritter von (full name); Höfler, Karl Adolf Konstantin (birth name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-Austrian historian
DATE OF BIRTH March 26, 1811
PLACE OF BIRTH Memmingen
DATE OF DEATH November 29, 1897
Place of death Prague