Peter Feddersen Stuhr

Peter Feddersen Stuhr (born May 28, 1787 in Flensburg in the Duchy of Schleswig , † March 13, 1851 in Berlin ) was a German university professor and historian; he also published under the pseudonym Feodor Eggo.

Life

Nothing further is known about Peter Feddersen Stuhr's parental home or his youth and school days.

He studied law and philosophy at the University of Kiel , the University of Heidelberg and the University of Göttingen and the University of Halle . He received his doctorate in philosophy, there are no further findings on this either.

Henrich Steffens , who inspired him for the liberation of the German fatherland, shaped him particularly from his university lecturers , while his Danish sovereign Friedrich VI. had entered into an alliance with the French. Peter Feddersen Stuhr interrupted his studies and took part as Ulan in the Hanseatic Legion in the campaigns of 1813 and 1814. After the First Peace of Paris , he resigned as a staff commander . Even after Napoleon's return from Elba to France , he volunteered again and fought as a premier lieutenant in the Prussian Landwehr . After the Second Peace of Paris he was for a time secretary at the Military Study Commission in Berlin. In 1821 he completed his habilitation at the University of Berlin and in 1826 was appointed associate professor in the philosophical faculty and mainly taught history, later being appointed full professor.

Café Stehely on Gendarmenmarkt in Berlin, watercolor by Leopold Ludwig Müller 1827

After his lectures he went to the Stehély pastry shop after lunch, had his coffee there and read political newspapers. Then he returned to his apartment on Unter den Linden . At home he indulged his only passion, sniffing tobacco; for this he always had four to five cans of different sorts, from which he took turns taking his pinches. As a result, all of his books were so impregnated with the snuff that a reader would have to sneeze constantly when using them.

He dealt with the history and religions of all peoples and times, but particularly intensively with German history, Nordic mythology and the philosophy of mythology.

Stuhr remained unmarried throughout his life. As a young lecturer, he was in love with Princess Alexandrine of Prussia , daughter of King Friedrich Wilhelm III. , in love and followed her at a distance when she appeared in public; because he did not exceed the limits of harmlessness in doing so, he was allowed to go, especially since the ruling king was favored by him and did not resent this behavior. Peter Feddersen Stuhr also owned a golden snuffbox that King Friedrich Wilhelm III gave him. and which was engraved with various symbolic figures relating to the romantic relationship.

Although he had been ailing for a long time, Peter Feddersen Stuhr's death came unexpectedly. He died on March 13, 1851 at the age of 63 in Berlin after a stroke. Since Karl Lachmann, another professor at Berlin University, passed away on the same day, both of them repeatedly received joint obituaries in the newspapers. The funeral service for Stuhr took place on March 16; the memorial speech was given by Karl Wilhelm Nitzsch . Subsequently, the burial took place in the Trinity Cemetery I in front of the Hallesches Tor . The grave has not been preserved.

Fonts (selection)

• The states of antiquity and Christian times . Heidelberg, 1811
• The fall of the natural states: depicted in letters about Niebuhr's Roman history . Berlin 1812.
• Of the belief, knowledge and poetry of the ancient Scandinavians . Copenhagen 1815.
• Treatises on Nordic antiquities . Berlin 1817.
• Brandenburg-Prussian war constitution at the time of Friedrich Wilhelm the Great, Elector of Brandenburg . Berlin 1819.
• Germany and the Peace of God: Letter to J. Görres against his last work with excerpts from it . Berlin 1820.
• The relationship of the Baltic Sea and the Rhine to one another, as it is founded in nature, and has been proven in history for centuries: presented in two lectures given at the high school in Berlin . Berlin 1820
• Studies on astronomy among the Chinese and Indians and on the influence of the Greeks on the course of their education . Berlin 1831.
• The last three campaigns against Napoleon , Volume 1. Lemgo 1832.
• The Chinese imperial religion and the systems of Indian philosophy in their relationship to the doctrine of revelation . Berlin 1835.
• The Seven Years' War in its historical, political and military relations . Lemgo 1836.
• The religious systems of the pagan peoples of the Orient . Berlin 1836.
• General history of the forms of religion of the pagan peoples . Berlin 1836.
• The history of the maritime and colonial power of the Great Elector Friedrich Wilhelm von Brandenburg in the Baltic Sea, on the coast of Guinea and on the islands of Arguin and St. Thomas is presented from archival sources . Berlin 1839.
• Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph von Schelling , Peter Feddersen Stuhr, Karl Rosenkranz : Religious historical view; for letters from Munich . Berlin 1841.
• The relation of Christian theology to philosophy and mythology . Berlin 1842.
• Research and Explanations on Key Points in the History of the Seven Years' War, Volume 1 . Hamburg 1842.
• Research and Explanations on Main Points in the History of the Seven Years' War, Volume 2 . Hamburg 1842.
• The Prussian constitutional question . Berlin 1847.
• The fantasies of Mr. Gervinus and his friends about the history and constitution of Prussia are illuminated . Berlin 1847.
• From state life according to Platonic, Aristotelian and Christian principles. Part 1 . Berlin 1850.

He also wrote a few essays in the Neuestes Conversationslexikon for all classes , in which he treated the history of the kings of Prussia ( Friedrich I , Friedrich Wilhelm I , Friedrich Wilhelm II and Friedrich Wilhelm III ). He published further papers in the magazine for philosophy and speculative theology , in the magazine for art, science and the history of war , in the Halle yearbooks , German yearbooks for science and art and the Berlin yearbooks for scientific criticism .

In the Zeitschrift für Geschichtswwissenschaft ( general journal for history from 1846 ) he published:

• On some principal questions of Nordic antiquity . Volume I (1844). Pp. 237-282.
• Viking trains. Trips to the east . Volume III (1845), pp. 354-382.
• Macpherson's Ossian . Volume V. (1846). Pp. 172-179.
• The meaning of the Finnish names of gods Jumala and Ukko . Volume VI: (1846). Pp. 269-285.

literature

• Peter Feddersen Stuhr in New Nekrolog der Deutschen , 29th year, 1851, 1st part. Weimar 1853. pp. 224-225.
• Clemens Friedrich Meyer:  Stuhr, Peter Feddersen . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 36, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1893, pp. 738-741.    

Individual evidence

1. ^ Clemens Friedrich Meyer:  Stuhr, Peter Feddersen . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 36, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1893, pp. 738-741.
2. ↑ Allgemeine Zeitung , March 17, 1851, p. 1204. Magdeburgische Zeitung , March 16, 1851, p. 6.
3. ^ Meyer: Stuhr, Peter Feddersen . P. 741.