Theodor Kern (historian)

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Theodor von Kern (born May 5, 1836 in Bruneck , Tyrol , †  November 18, 1873 in Veytaux on Lake Geneva) was an Austrian historian with Baden roots.

Life

Theodor von Kern came from an Austro-Baden family of craftsmen and officials. He attended high school in Innsbruck and from 1853 studied law, later history and philology in Innsbruck, Göttingen, Heidelberg and Munich. Julius Ficker in Innsbruck, Georg Waitz in Göttingen, Ludwig Häusser in Heidelberg and Heinrich von Sybel in Munich were his academic teachers. He had passed the state examination for the higher teaching post in 1857 "with brilliant success". He received his doctorate as a student of Ludwig Häusser the following year. Theodor von Kern became the first research assistant in 1859 for the publication of the renowned " Chronicles of the German Cities from the 14th to the 16th Century", which was published under the direction of the Erlangen historian Karl Hegel on behalf of the historical commission at the Bavarian Academy of Sciences in Munich were. His colleagues at the time were the well-known Germanist and compatriot Kerns Matthias Lexer , the later director of the Gernerallandesarchiv in Karlsruhe Friedrich von Weech and the later Göttingen legal historian Ferdinand Frensdorff . In 1863 he completed his habilitation on the "Chronicle of the City of Nuremberg from the 14th to the 16th Century", in the same year first became a private lecturer, in 1866 an associate professor and finally a professor in Freiburg im Breisgau in 1871, where he founded a historical association and the "Zeitschrift für Geschichte des Breisgau ”published. Even during this time, Kern and Matthias Lexer remained connected to the chronicles of the German cities as a fee-based employee. The very talented young historian died in 1873 of the consequences of a serious illness, for which he had last sought a cure in Veytaux on Lake Geneva.

Literature (selection)

  • August von Kluckhohn:  Kern, Theodor Ritter von . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 15, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1882, p. 635 f.
  • Friedrich von Weech in: Badische Biographien I, pp. 459-460.
  • Detailed information on Kern and his early research can also be found in: Marion Kreis: Karl Hegel. Historical significance and scientific history location (= series of publications of the Historical Commission at the Bavarian Academy of Sciences. Vol. 84). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen u. a. 2012, pp. 193-295, ISBN 978-3-525-36077-4 . (See e-book and reading sample )

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ See Marion Kreis: Karl Hegel. Historical significance and scientific historical location. Göttingen 2012, pp. 193–195.
  2. ↑ See August Kluckhohn in: ADB 15, p. 635.

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personal data
SURNAME Kern, Theodor
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kern, Theodor von (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austro-German historian
DATE OF BIRTH May 5, 1836
PLACE OF BIRTH Bruneck , Tyrol
DATE OF DEATH November 18, 1873
Place of death Veytaux on Lake Geneva