Wilhelm Adolf Schmidt

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Wilhelm Adolf Schmidt

Wilhelm Adolf Schmidt (born September 26, 1812 in Berlin , † April 10, 1887 in Jena ) was a German historian .

Life

After graduating from high school in 1831, Wilhelm Adolf Schmidt began studying philology and history at the University of Berlin . His most influential teachers there were August Boeckh and Leopold von Ranke , in whose famous historical exercises he took part. Already 1834 with a thesis on the sources to the incursions of the Gauls to Greece doctorate . First he taught during his probationary year at the Royal Realschule and later at the Joachimsthalschen Gymnasium in Berlin. His work at that time included a. a. with the first Hellenism volume by Johann Gustav Droysen and the sources of the Zonara . In 1840 he completed his habilitation with a study of Greek papyrus documents from the royal library in Berlin . From 1840/41 he taught as a private lecturer - also on the mediation of August Boeckh and Friedrich von Raumer at the Berlin University ; In 1845 he was appointed associate professor.

He taught ancient history as well as German and universal history and continued his studies in the field of epigraphy and papyrology . In 1843, together with Boeckh, Georg Heinrich Pertz , Leopold von Ranke and the Brothers Grimm, he founded the Zeitschrift für Geschichtswwissenschaft , which he published throughout its publication from 1844 to 1848.

As a member of the Württemberger Hof parliamentary group, he was a member of the Frankfurt National Assembly from 1848. Because he saw no prospect of promotion in Berlin due to his contemporary history lectures in 1849, which were very well received, Schmidt went to the University of Zurich in 1851 as full professor of history . and nine years later as Droysen's successor to Jena , where he stayed until the end of his life. From 1874 to 1876 he was a member of the Reichstag . In his later historical work, he dealt primarily with recent German history.

In 1874 he became a foreign member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences .

Fonts

  • De fontibus veterum auctorum in enarrandis expeditionibus a Gallis in Macedoniam atque Graeciam susceptis , Berlin: Schad 1834, Diss.
  • History of freedom of thought and belief , Berlin 1847
  • Prussia's German policy , Berlin 1850
  • History of the Prussian-German Union Efforts , Berlin 1851
  • Contemporary stories , Berlin 1859
  • Alsace and Lorraine: Evidence of how these provinces were lost to the German Empire, Leipzig 1859 (3rd edition 1870)
  • Tableaux de la Révolution Française publiés sur les papiers inédits du département de la police secrète de Paris, Leipzig 1867–1870
  • Conditions in Paris during the Revolution , Jena 1874–1876; Translated into French by Paul Viollet, Paris 1880–1885
  • The Periclean Age , Jena 1877–1879
  • Handbook of Greek Chronology , Jena 1888
  • Treatises on Ancient History , ed. by Franz Rühl, Leipzig 1888
  • History of the German constitutional question during the Wars of Liberation and the Congress of Vienna , Stuttgart 1890 (posthumously published by Alfred Stern)

literature

  • Alexander Demandt , Ancient History in Berlin 1810–1960 , in: Reimer Hansen and Wolfgang Ribbe (eds.), History in Berlin in the 19th and 20th centuries. Personalities and Institutions , Berlin 1992, pp. 149–210, here pp. 157f.
  • Hans-Werner Hahn , History in the service of unity and freedom. The Jena historian Adolf Wilhelm Schmidt (1812–1887) , in: Dieter Hein u. a. (Ed.), History and Life. The historian as a scientist and contemporary. Festschrift for Lothar Gall on his 70th birthday , Munich 2006, pp. 411–428
  • Hugo Landwehr, Adolf Schmidt, b. September 12, 1812, d. April 10, 1887 , in: Biographisches Jahrbuch für Altertumskunde , vol. 10, volume 53 (= annual report on the progress of classical antiquity, vol. 15), 1887, pp. 1–34 ( with list of publications); also as a separate print, in: fers., In memory of Adolf Schmidt , Berlin: Calvary, 1887
  • Samuel Löwenfeld :  Schmidt, Adolf . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 31, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1890, pp. 703-713.
  • Ottokar Lorenz : Wilhelm Adolf Schmidt, professor at the University of Jena. In: Journal of the association for Thuringian history and antiquity. Gustav Fischer, Jena, 1887, 13th vol. NF. 5th vol., P. 297 ff. ( Online )

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Remarks

  1. ↑ In Hugo Landwehr's necrology, September 12th is given as WA Schmidt's date of birth.
  2. ^ Schmidt was a member of the first electoral district in Brandenburg (= Berlin), see parliament album. Autographed memo sheets of the members of the first German Reichstag , Frankfurt am Main 1849, No. 104.
personal data
SURNAME Schmidt, Wilhelm Adolf
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schmidt, Adolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian and politician (NLP), MdR
DATE OF BIRTH September 26, 1812
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH April 10, 1887
Place of death Jena