Ludwig Adolf Cohn

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Ludwig Adolf Cohn (born May 22, 1834 in Breslau , † January 13, 1871 in Göttingen ) was a German historian . From 1857 Cohn was a private lecturer in history at the University of Göttingen .

Life

Ludwig Adolf came from a respected Jewish merchant family from Breslau. From childhood he suffered from whooping cough and scrofula as well as a curvature of the vertebrae. A deformity of the body that was fatal for his whole life.

Due to his weakened constitution, he initially received home schooling from his mother. Only after the age of eight did he attend the Maria Magdalenen grammar school in Breslau under the direction of Karl Gottlob Schönborn. Cohn passed his Abitur at the age of 17 and began studying history at the Albertina in Königsberg in April 1851 . He attended lectures by Gustav Adolf Harald Stenzel , Richard Roepell , Julius Ambrosch and Heinrich Rückert and became a member of the historical seminar of the Königsberg University. In 1853, Cohn moved to the University of Berlin, where he mainly attended lectures by Leopold von Ranke , Georg Curtius and Carl Gustav Homeyer and suggested the foundation of a historical association, which Wilhelm Wattenbach took over as chairman . He was also on friendly terms with Eduard Lasker .

After a severe nervous fever and a slow recovery, he had to return to Breslau, but during this time he had access to the colleges of Theodor Mommsen and Wilhelm Junkmann . In February 1856 , Cohn received his doctorate at the University of Breslau with the dissertation De rebus inter Henricum VI. imperatorem et Henricum Leonem actis. Pars prior to Dr. phil. The subject of his doctoral thesis, the age of Henry the Lion , has since remained the main subject of his studies and reviews.

With the support of close relatives, in 1857, after converting to the Protestant faith , Cohn became a private lecturer in history at the University of Göttingen. He adored Georg Waitz, who taught there as a legal historian and medievalist , and found a rich field of research in the Göttingen University Library . Despite his poor health, he taught 26 semesters only with short breaks. He gave lectures on the Wars of Liberation from 1813–15, the history of Europe, especially France from 1789 to 1815, the age of the Thirty Years' War, but especially on the basics of document theory. Later he also gave lectures on historical chronology, propaedeutics and practical diplomatic and palaeographic exercises. From 1866 onwards, Cohn included the history of the Prussian state in his classes. In a so-called historical partnership, he explained medieval writers, including Adam von Bremen and Lambert von Hersfeld .

Ludwig Adolf Cohn died on January 13, 1871, at the age of 36, after a short illness of asthmatic disease. He was buried in the cemetery of the Mariengemeinde in Göttingen.

Cohn left an extensive body of literature . In 1858 his work The Pegauer Annalen from the 12th and 13th centuries was published and in 1871 the family tables on the history of the German states and the Netherlands , a revision of the tables by Traugott Gotthelf Voigtel based largely on his own research, which he no longer completed experienced. He was the author of numerous smaller works such as the Wettin studies , Piasts and Wettiners , On the history of the Counts of Reinhausen and Winzenburg , The ancestors of the House of Reuss , Relatives of the Staufer and Anhaltins but also a popular story about Emperor Heinrich II in 1867 has been published. Cohn wrote many, sometimes very extensive, reviews and advertisements about his own works, as well as those of others. He was co-author of the Historical Journal of Heinrich von Sybel and the Göttingen scholar indicator operates. In 1861, Cohn and Julius Otto Opel gave The Thirty Years' War. A collection of poems and private representations and a year later A German Merchant from the 16th Century. Hans Ulrich Kraft's memorabilia .

Publications (selection)

author

  • De rebus inter Henricum VI. et Henricum Leonem actis. ( Dissertation ) Breslau 1856.
  • The Pegau Annals from the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. Critically examined using handwritten aids. Altenburg 1858.
  • Did Emperor Frederick I throw himself at Duke Henry the Lion's feet before the Battle of Legnano? Goettingen 1863.
  • Wettin studies. Contributions to the genealogy of the Saxon principality. Nordhausen 1866.
  • Emperor Heinrich the Second. Hall 1867.
  • Quedlinburg Abbey and Voigtland. Wernigerode 1870.

editor

  • The Thirty-Year War. A collection of historical poems and prose accounts. together with Julius Otto Opel , Halle 1861.
  • A German merchant of the sixteenth century. Hans Ulrich Krafft's Memories. Goettingen 1862.
  • Family tables on the history of the European states. The German states and the Netherlands. Braunschweig 1871.

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personal data
SURNAME Cohn, Ludwig Adolf
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Cohn, Adolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH May 22, 1834
PLACE OF BIRTH Wroclaw
DATE OF DEATH January 13, 1871
Place of death Goettingen