Moritz Wilhelm Heffter

Moritz Wilhelm Heffter (born October 7, 1792 in Schweinitz , Electorate of Saxony , † July 8, 1873 in Brandenburg an der Havel ) was a German historian and high school teacher.

Life

Moritz Wilhelm Heffter 1792

Moritz Wilhelm Heffter

Born as the son of General Admission Commissioner Johann Christian Heffter (1746–1830), he enjoyed his first lessons from private tutors. From 1807 to 1813 he was a student at the Saxon princely school St. Augustin in Grimma . Like his younger brother August Wilhelm Heffter, he studied at the University of Leipzig from 1814 and later moved to the University of Halle. From 1824 he was vice rector and from 1831 vice rector at the grammar school in Brandenburg an der Havel . Moritz Wilhelm Heffter is the author of the list of names (3 volumes) for Adolph Friedrich Riedel's " Codex diplomaticus Brandenburgensis ".

Publications

• The divine services on Rhodus in antiquity, Zerbst 1827–33, 3 booklets.
• History of the spa and capital of Brandenburg ..., Potsdam 1840 ( digitized in the Google book search).
• Memories of Georg Sabinus ..., Leipzig 1844.
• The mythology of the Greeks and Romans, Potsdam 1845 ff., 2nd edition 1848.
• The world struggle of the Germans and Slavs since the end of the 5th century ..., 1847.
• Signpost through Brandenburg and its antiquities, 1850.
• Outline of an ethnography . 1850/51 ( digitized version )
• The history of the Lehnin monastery, 1851 ( digitized in the Google book search).
• The History of the Latin Language During its Lifetime, 1852 ( digitized in Google Book Search).

Web links

• Literature by and about Moritz Wilhelm Heffter in the catalog of the German National Library