Max Büdinger

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Max Büdinger

Max Büdinger (born April 1, 1828 in Kassel , † February 22, 1902 in Vienna ) was a German-Austrian historian .

Life

Max Büdinger (birth name: Marcus) was the only son of the pedagogue and country rabbi Moses Mordecai Büdinger. After attending grammar school in Kassel, he passed the Abitur examination at the Philippinum grammar school in Marburg in autumn 1846 . He completed his habilitation in 1851 at the University of Marburg . In 1859 he provided the proof of the forgery of the controversial “ Königinhofer Manschrift ” in the “ Historischen Zeitschrift ” (No. 1/1859, p. 127) published in Munich . Also in 1859 he went to Vienna for the first time, where, in addition to teaching, he was involved in the publication of the Reichstag files. In the autumn of 1861 he was appointed associate professor of history at the University of Zurich , where he worked as a teacher of general history and head of the historical seminar until 1872. For a year he also held the dignity of rector magnificus in Zurich. In the autumn of 1872 he was appointed as successor to Joseph Aschbach professor of general history at the University of Vienna , where he held office for 28 years. For this professorship, Büdinger converted to the Catholic faith and was baptized. Büdinger was a member of the Bavarian and the Imperial Academy of Sciences. His lecture is described by his contemporaries as precise, well thought out and without superfluous accessories. His source research and instruction in the same was conscientiously thorough and shaped a generation of historians.

Büdinger's son Konrad Büdinger (1867–1944) was a professor of surgery in Vienna, his daughter Mathilde was married to the mathematician Heinrich Burkhardt , his daughter Emma to the Egyptologist Jakob Krall and his daughter Hedwig to the historian Paul Schweizer (1852–1932).

In 1929 the Büdingergasse in Vienna- Döbling (19th district) was named after him.

Works

  • About Gerbert's Scientific and Political Position (Kassel, 1851)
  • About the remnants of vagante poetry in Austria (without location, 1854)
  • Austrian history up to the end of the 13th century (Leipzig 1858; the magnificently laid out work, however, only extends to the year 976)
  • On the Critique of Old Bavarian History (Vienna, 1857)
  • King Richard III of England (Vienna, 1858)
  • News from old Etruscan yearbooks (Vienna, 1859)
  • The Normans and the Founding of States (Vienna, 1860)
  • Translations from Nestor's Russian Annals (Vienna, 1861)
  • The Königinhofer Manuscript and its latest defenders (Vienna, 1861)
  • On the Consciousness of the Transfer of Culture (Zurich, 1864)
  • From the beginnings of compulsory schooling (Zurich, 1865)
  • A book of Hungarian history (Leipzig, 1866)
  • The Central Greek Folk Epic (Leipzig, 1866)
  • Sketches on the History of Papal Power Development (Vienna, 1869)
  • Wellingthon (Vienna, 1869)
  • Lafayette, a picture of life (Leipzig 1870)
  • Egyptian influence on Hebrew culture (Vienna 1872–74)
  • On the research of Herodotus (no location, 1873)
  • Lafayette in Austria (Vienna 1878)
  • Croesus' fall (Vienna 1878)
  • Lectures on the English constitutional history (Vienna, 1880)
  • Kleon with Thucydides (Vienna 1880)
  • Exit of the Median Empire (Vienna, 1880)
  • The Origin of Otto von Freising's 8th Book (Vienna, 1881)
  • The newly discovered inscriptions about Cyrus (Vienna, 1881)
  • Sidonius Apollinaris as a politician (Vienna, 1881)
  • Historical writings on the old and young history of Austria and on general history (Vienna, 1881)
  • Don Carlos' imprisonment and death (Vienna, 1881)
  • Communications from Spanish history (without location, 1893)
  • Ammianus Marcellinus (Vienna, 1895)
  • Universal history in antiquity (Vienna, 1897)
  • Columbus (Vienna, 1898)
  • Numerous publications in the journal of the Academy of Sciences

literature

Web links

Wikisource: Max Büdinger  - Sources and full texts

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Moses Mordecai Büdinger, author of a "Small Bible for Israeli Women and Girls", Metzler, Stuttgart 1824 2nd edition
  2. ↑ Annual report of the Royal. Grammar school Philippinum zu Marburg for the school year 1910/11. Marburg 1911, p. 14
  3. ^ Felix Czeike : Historical Lexicon Vienna. Volume 1: A – Da. Kremayr & Scheriau, Vienna 1992, ISBN 3-218-00543-4 , p. 494.
  4. ↑ Judaism in German history from Hegel to Weber and Monika Richarz: The entry of the Jews into academic professions, both in: Series of scientific treatises of the Leo Baeck Institute, Vol. 17, p. 69 and Vol. 28, p. 126
  5. ↑ Innsbrucker Nachrichten, February 28, 1902 (obituary)
personal data
SURNAME Büdinger, Max
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-Austrian historian
DATE OF BIRTH April 1, 1828
PLACE OF BIRTH kassel
DATE OF DEATH February 22, 1902
Place of death Vienna