Ludwig Timotheus Spittler

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Ludwig Timotheus Spittler.

Ludwig Timotheus Freiherr von Spittler (born November 11, 1752 in Stuttgart , † March 14, 1810 ibid) was a German historian of church history , political history and regional history .

Life

As the son of a pastor in Stuttgart, he was naturally destined for a theological career. The principal of the grammar school, Johann Christian Volz (1721–1783) aroused his interest in history.

In 1771 Spittler went to the Tübingen monastery , where he did philosophical and theological studies. a. in the field of church and dogma history. His role models were Johann Salomo Semler and Lessing . In 1775 he completed his theological studies and made a trip to Weimar, Göttingen, Wolfenbüttel, Berlin and Halle in the summer of 1776, where he also visited Lessing. In 1777 he returned to the Tübingen monastery as a repetitionist, and in 1778 he became a professor at the Georg-August University in Göttingen . In 1797 he left the academic career and in 1806 became Minister in Württemberg and curator of the University of Tübingen .

Since 1782 Spittler was a member of the Göttingen Masonic Lodge "Augusta to the Three Flames". 1784 and 1789–1793 he held the office of master from the chair . In 1784 he was elected a full member of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences . Since 1808 he was a foreign member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences .

Together with the history researcher Johann Christoph Gatterer (professor in Göttingen since 1759, founded a Royal Historical Institute in Göttingen in 1764/66 ), the constitutional law teacher Johann Stephan Pütter and the historian August Ludwig von Schlözer , he founded the Göttingen historical school .

As the founder of Hanoverian regional historical research , he wrote his history of the Principality of Hanover since the Reformation in 1786 . Together with the Göttingen professor Christoph Meiners , he published the Göttingen Historical Magazine from January 1787 to August 1791 . Spittler, Schlözer and Ernst Brandes belonged to the Hanoverian Whigs .

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literature

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 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, Volume 50). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2001, ISBN 3-525-82516-1 , p. 230.
personal data
SURNAME Spittler, Ludwig Timotheus
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Spittler, Ludwig Timotheus Freiherr von (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian for church history, political history
DATE OF BIRTH November 11, 1752
PLACE OF BIRTH Stuttgart
DATE OF DEATH March 14, 1810
Place of death Stuttgart