Theodor Lindner

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Theodor Lindner

Ernst Friedrich Theodor Lindner (born May 29, 1843 in Breslau ; † November 24, 1919 in Halle (Saale) ) was a German historian and contributor to the General German Biography .

Life

Theodor Lindner, whose father died in 1858, began his studies after completing his Abitur (1861) at the University of Breslau , where, in addition to lectures on history, he also attended lectures on ancient philology and Sanskrit . In 1864 he moved to Berlin and studied there with Johann Gustav Droysen and Leopold Ranke, among others . In the latter, he wrote his Latin dissertation on the Council of Mantua held in 1064. After the state examination he became a teacher at the Wilhelmsgymnasium in Berlin in 1865 , in Jauer in 1867 and in 1867-76 at the Realschule am Zwinger in Breslau. There he completed his habilitation at the same time in 1868 at the university as a private lecturer in history with a paper on the Archbishop of Cologne, Anno II. And after his interim military service at the siege of Paris (1870-1871), he became an associate professor in 1874.

In 1876 Lindner was appointed full professor at the academy in Münster . He wrote works dedicated to topics of late medieval history, such as a significant study of Feme (also Veme ), refuting fables about this form of jurisdiction and also able to ward off attacks from specialist colleagues because of this. In 1888 he moved to the University of Halle as the successor of Ernst Dümmler , where he worked as a full professor of middle and modern history. He caused a sensation in 1893 with a book in which he dismantled the legend that Charlemagne was buried in a seated position on the throne. Since 1893 he published the Halle contributions to historical research . From the turn of the 19th to the 20th century, he began to realize his life's work of writing a world history, which he was finally able to present in nine volumes in 1916. However, the first volume was only published posthumously by his wife together with Albert Werminghoff . Theodor Lindner died in 1919 at the age of 76 years at a pneumonia .

Fonts

  • Anno II, the saint, Archbishop of Cologne. Leipzig 1868.
  • History of the German Empire from the end of the 14th century to the Reformation. 2 volumes, CA Schwetschke und Sohn, Braunschweig 1875–1880 (only the two volumes on King Wenzel's government, 1376–1400) have been published.
  • Emperor Heinrich IV. Berlin 1881.
  • The document system of Charles IV and his successors. Stuttgart 1882.
  • The Veme. Paderborn 1887.
  • The alleged origin of the Veme dishes from the Inquisition. Paderborn 1890 (a refutation of Friedrich von Thudichum's reply ).
  • German history under the Habsburgs and Luxemburgers. 2 volumes, Stuttgart 1890–1893.
  • The fable of the burial of Charlemagne. Aachen 1893, addendum 1896.
  • The German elections for a king and the emergence of the electorate. Leipzig 1893.
  • History of the German people. 2 vol., Stuttgart 1894.
  • The war against France and the unification of Germany. Berlin 1895 (commissioned by the Prussian Ministry of Culture authored chapbook ).
  • The so-called donations from Pippin, Charlemagne and Otto I to the Popes. Stuttgart 1896.
  • The German Hanseatic League. Leipzig 1899; 3rd edition 1904.
  • The course of the German royal elections. Weimar 1899.
  • Philosophy of history. Stuttgart 1901; 2nd revised edition 1904.
  • World history since the Great Migration. 9 volumes, 1901–1916.

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personal data
SURNAME Lindner, Theodor
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Lindner, Ernst Friedrich Theodor (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian
DATE OF BIRTH May 29, 1843
PLACE OF BIRTH Wroclaw
DATE OF DEATH November 24, 1919
Place of death Halle (Saale)