Paul Gustav Wislicenus

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Paul Gustav Wislicenus (born January 2, 1847 in Halle an der Saale , † February 12, 1917 in Bad Nauheim ) was a German historian, writer and Shakespeare researcher.

He came from an originally from the Polish Wiślica coming Burgmann family , which in the 17th century to Hungary during the Counter-Reformation of Thuringia came. His father Gustav Adolf Wislicenus was a theologian and biblical scholar . His brothers were the chemist Johannes Wislicenus , as well as the Germanist Hugo Wislicenus, who died in an accident at Tödi in Switzerland in 1866 . The painter Hermann Wislicenus was his cousin. He moved to America with his parents in 1853, lived there in Boston and from 1854 in Hoboken near New York, but came to Zurich via Paris in 1856 and attended the cantonal school there. From 1863 he studied history at the University of Zurich and in 1868 went first to Bonn, then Halle and in 1869 to Berlin. In the summer of 1868 he completed his doctoral thesis on the history of the Elbe Germans before the Migration Period under Max Büdinger (Zurich) and Ernst Ludwig Dümmler (Halle). In this work on the early history of the Teutons, which is based purely on derivations from ancient Roman sources, he created the technical term " Elbgermanen ".

Between 1869 and 1873 he lived in Hamburg, where he married Marie Auguste Stückrath in 1870, with whom he was to have 7 children. Then he worked as a teacher at the commercial school in Leipzig. In 1875 he went to Berlin and worked there for the Society for the Spread of Popular Education , which he headed as General Secretary from 1886 to 1890. After that he was temporarily head of the Pan-German Association and the Berlin Bismarck Committee founded in 1893. The remaining years of his life he lived as a journalist and writer, partly in Berlin, partly in Switzerland. At times he made a name for himself as a Shakespeare researcher, so he examined the authenticity of the death mask in a work that was highly regarded at the time.

Works

  • The history of the Elbe Germans before the migration of the peoples in their main trains . Eduard Heynemann Verlag, Halle 1868 ( full text online in the Google book search).
  • Konrad the First, King of Germany: A Tragedy from History , Leipzig, 1872
  • Evidence for Shakespeare's death mask: The authenticity of the mask , Diederichs, Jena, 1913
  • England and the World War: Reflections on the Volksseele , Falken-Verlag, Darmstadt, 1916

Web links

Wikisource: Paul Wislicenus  - Sources and full texts

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Johannes Hoops, Heinrich Beck, Dieter Geuenich, Heiko Steuer: Reallexikon der Germanischen Altertumskunde: Volume 7 ; Walter de Gruyter, 1989, ISBN 9783110114454 (p. 108, § 1)
personal data
SURNAME Wislicenus, Paul Gustav
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian, writer and Shakespeare researcher
DATE OF BIRTH January 2, 1847
PLACE OF BIRTH Halle on the Saale
DATE OF DEATH February 12, 1917
Place of death Bad Nauheim