Wilhelm Bernhardi (historian)

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Friedrich Wilhelm Bernhardi (born November 2, 1834 in Meuselwitz , † 1921 in Berlin ) was a German teacher and historian .

Life

The grandson of the linguist August Ferdinand Bernhardi and son of the writer Wilhelm Bernhardi put 1859 the Abitur at the Berlin High School for Gray Abbey from. After studying history and philology in Berlin, he worked from 1864 to 1904 as a senior teacher at the Luisenstadt grammar school in Berlin (since 1879 with the title of professor). On February 15, 1870 he was promoted to Dr. phil. PhD in Göttingen. Bernhardi had married the writer Luise Firle as early as 1864 . He was a Freemason in the Berlin Lodge on Secrecy , temporarily its master from the chair and a member of the federal board of directors of the Great National Mother Lodge "To the Three Worlds" .

Bernhardi has established himself as a historian mainly by editing the yearbooks of German history for the time of Lothar von Supplinburg and Konrad III. deserved. He also wrote several essays and articles for the Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie .

literature

  • The bear of Berlin. Yearbook 1953, p. 67 (indication of the year of death)

Web links

Wikisource: Wilhelm Bernhardi (historian)  - sources and full texts

Individual evidence

  1. In library catalogs the historian is thrown together with his father, likewise in the PND (status: August 2010). For the family circle (without naming the historian) see the finding aid of the estate of the Bernhardi family in the Landesarchiv Berlin: Archived copy ( memento from June 10, 2015 in the Internet Archive ).
  2. Freemaurer-Zeitung 58 (1904), pp. 222, 359.