Wilhelm Busch (historian)

Wilhelm Busch 1927

Karl Eilhard Wilhelm Busch (born February 18, 1861 in Bonn , † September 23, 1929 in Marburg ) was a German historian .

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Wilhelm Busch, son of the Bonn professor of surgery Wilhelm Busch (1826–1881), attended grammar school in Bonn and the Nikolai school in Leipzig, studied history, German and geography at the University of Bonn , where he received his doctorate in 1884, and completed his habilitation in 1886 at the University of Leipzig . He was a student of Wilhelm Maurenbrecher . In 1890 he was appointed associate professor in Leipzig , then in 1893 as a full professor of history at the Technical University of Dresden and in 1894 as the successor of Erich Marcks as full professor of history at the University of Freiburg . In the fall of 1896 he went to the University of Tübingen as a full professor of history and finally in the spring of 1910 as a full professor of medieval and modern history at the University of Marburg . In 1915 he was appointed secret councilor in Hesse . In 1919/1920 and 1926/1927 he was rector of the Philipps University of Marburg.

He dealt with the history of the Tudors in England and the German Empire in the 19th century and in particular with Bismarck .

Three years of English mediation policy. 1518-21. Bonn 1884 (dissertation).
Cardinal Wolsey and the Imperial-English Alliance 1522–1525. Bonn 1886 (habilitation thesis).
England under the Tudors. Stuttgart 1892.
The Berlin March days of 1848. The events and their tradition. Munich / Leipzig 1899.
Relations between France and Austria and Italy between the wars of 1866 and 1870/71. Tubingen 1900.
The German headquarters and the fight against Paris in the 1870–71 campaign. Stuttgart 1905.
The struggles for the imperial constitution and empire 1870–71. Tubingen 1906.

Busch was made an honorary citizen of Marburg in 1918.

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SURNAME	Busch, Wilhelm
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Busch, Karl Eilhard Wilhelm (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German historian
DATE OF BIRTH	February 18, 1861
PLACE OF BIRTH	Bonn
DATE OF DEATH	September 23, 1929
Place of death	Marburg