Richard Treitschke

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Ernst Richard Treitschke (born February 10, 1811 in Leipzig , † October 11, 1883 in Dresden ) was a German writer and private scholar .

Richard Treitschke was the second oldest son of the lawyer Georg Carl Treitschke . His cousins ​​were the historians Heinrich von Treitschke and Albert Christian Weinlig , physicians and natural scientists. After studying philology and completing his doctorate, Treitschke became a teacher at the Leipzig Commercial College (ÖHLA), a pioneering educational institution in Saxony that is innovative in terms of its concept and implementation. Treitschke gave impetus to the thesis that the history of trade is nothing other than world history itself through the book Grundriß der Allgemeine Geschichte des Handels in chronological presentation. For use in business schools and for self-teaching (1852).

Richard Treitschke gave up his teaching activity to work entirely as a writer and journalist. First in Leipzig and later in Dresden he settled down as a private scholar. He dealt with the literary historical works of historians, linguists of the German language, poets and writers with their work at home and abroad and made their work known to a wide audience. In addition, there were his own works on world history and dramaturgical topics, political poems and so-called marginal glosses on controversial and contemporary issues . Because of his independent, contentious and eclectic reporting, u. a. During the German Revolution of 1848/49 , he was called a democratic publicist.

Works

  • New general repertory of the latest domestic and foreign literature. In: From the university. News from the University of Leipzig. 1833 (speech given by Richard Treitschke as a scholarship holder).
  • On the history of historical science at the end of the 18th century. Engelmann, Leipzig 1842.
  • The prince. In: Hermann Marggraff (Hrsg.): Political poems from Germany's modern times. From Klopstock to the present. Peter, Leipzig 1843, pp. 391–393 ( digitized from Google Books).
  • About the national character of the Saxons. In: Minerva. A journal of historical and political content (1846), pp. [?] - 414.
  • Hubert Languet ’s Vindiciae contra tyrannos . About the legal power of the prince over the people and the people over the princes. After the edition of 1580 with a historical introduction about the life and times of the author, edited by Richard Treitschke. Barth, Leipzig 1846 ( digitized from Google Books).
  • Three Seventeenth Century Politicians. In: New Yearbooks of History and Politics. Hinrichsche Buchhandlung, Leipzig 1846.
  • About Jakob Maskov and his time. In: Allgemeine Zeitschrift für Geschichte 8, 1847, pp. 146–184 ( digitized from Google books).
  • About Daniel Morhof and his teaching of the German language and poetry. In: Robert Eduard Prutz (Ed.): Literaturhistorisches Taschenbuch 6, 1848, pp. 439-460 ( digitized from Google books).
  • An overview of world history to stimulate the people, written in 1848. Dedicated to all German craft associations. Publisher August Reimann 1848.
  • Adolph Schmidt’s history of freedom of thought and belief in the first century of imperial rule and Christianity. (Written shortly before the German Revolution.). In: The border messengers . Journal for Politics, Literature and Art 7 (1848), 1st semester, 2nd volume, pp. 117–123, 157–163 (review, digitized version of the SUUB Bremen).
  • Outline of the general history of trade in chronological representation. For use in business schools and for self-teaching. Arnold'sche Buchhandlung, Dresden 1852 ( digitized from Google Books).
  • The dance fanatic. Soul painting. In: Reading fruits from the field of the latest literature at home and abroad. Volume 3, 1852, pp. 310-317, 324-326 ( digitized from Google Books).
  • Ambrosius Dalfinger. In: German Museum. Journal for Literature, Art, and Public Life 10 (1855), as well as in German-American Journal 1856.
  • Lucian and Voltaire. In: Karl Gutzkow (Ed.): Enthaltungen am häuslichen Herd 2, 1864, pp. 666–669, 691–693, 705–708 ( digitized from Google books).
  • Origin of poetry, especially the dramatic. In: German Museum. Journal of literature, art and public life. Volume 15, 1865, pp. 385-393 ( digitized from Google Books).
  • Hans Sachs and Old German Theater. In: Dramaturgische Wochenschrift . Reform organ and archive for the entire German theater scene 2, 1870, pp. 14–16, 28 f., 38–40, 63–66 ( digitized from Google books).
  • Literary bumpers. New marginal glosses on controversial and current issues Schloemp, Leipzig 1882.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ German monthly for the whole life of the present , Volume 2, 1902, p. 51.
  2. ^ Digitized version of the book , sentence on p. 7.
personal data
SURNAME Treitschke, Richard
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Treitschke, Ernst Richard (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer
DATE OF BIRTH February 10, 1811
PLACE OF BIRTH Leipzig
DATE OF DEATH October 11, 1883
Place of death Dresden