Wilhelm Sieglin
Wilhelm Sieglin (born April 19, 1855 in Stuttgart , † July 9, 1935 in Hofgastein (today Bad Hofgastein )) was a German historian. His research focus was historical geography . His main works are the historical atlas "Atlas antiquus" and a historical school atlas.
Life
Early years
Wilhelm Sieglin was the youngest son of a total of 6 children of the pharmacist Ernst Sieglin (1814–1855) and his wife, the pastor's daughter Mathilde nee. Staub (1832-1895). His oldest brother was the entrepreneur and patron of culture Ernst von Sieglin . Sieglin studied from 1873 classical philology and history at the universities of Tübingen , Leipzig , Berlin and Greifswald . In 1878 he was in Leipzig with a thesis on the chronology of the siege of Sagunto Dr. phil. PhD .
job
From 1880 Sieglin worked as an assistant and librarian at the Leipzig University Library and from 1880 to 1888 as an adjunct at the Russian Philological Institute of the University of Leipzig. In 1886 he became director of the university's coin collection, in 1888 curator and in 1896 first curator of the university library.
In 1898 Sieglin was appointed extraordinary professor for historical geography by the Philosophical Faculty of Leipzig University , although he did not have a habilitation . A year later, in the autumn of 1899, he accepted a call at the Berlin University for the newly founded Department of Historical Geography. Here he taught as a full professor for 15 years .
From 1898 to 1902 Sieglin undertook extensive research trips to Europe, Morocco and Egypt , where he accompanied his brother Ernst von Sieglin, who, at his suggestion, financed excavations in Alexandria .
Retirement
In 1914 Sieglin retired for health reasons. He first moved to Regensburg , then to Munich . He died at the age of 80 in Hofgastein, Austria, where he had sought recovery after a serious illness.
plant
Sieglin began his academic career as an ancient historian. Since the mid-1880s, he increasingly turned to historical cartography. He published numerous philological, historical and geographical writings, including a fragment collection by Lucius Coelius Antipater (Leipzig 1879), a map of the development of the Roman Empire (Leipzig 1885) and a school atlas on the history of antiquity (Gotha 1899). His main work Atlas Antiquus. Atlas for the History of Antiquity was published in six editions from 1893 to 1909. Sieglin was the founder and editor of the "Sources and Researches on Ancient History and Geography", which appeared from 1901 to 1918.
family
Wilhelm Sieglin had 2 sisters and 3 brothers.The brothers were:
- Ernst von Sieglin (1848–1927), entrepreneur and patron of culture in Stuttgart.
- Hermann Sieglin (or Sieglin-Fehr, 1849–1923), professor of agriculture at the Hohenheim Agricultural University .
- Eugen Karl Sieglin (1851–1982), parish priest in Schwäbisch Hall .
Wilhelm Sieglin married Gertrud Berner in 1888, the daughter of a Berlin senior consistorial councilor .
Fonts
- Wilhelm Sieglin: The chronology of the siege of Sagunt. Dissertation. Leipzig: Teubner, 1878, pdf .
- Wilhelm Sieglin: The fragments of L. Coelius Antipater. In: Yearbooks for Classical Philology, Supplement 11, 1880, Pages 1–92, pdf .
- Wilhelm Sieglin: Map of the development of the Roman Empire. Designed and drawn and provided with explanations by Wilhelm Sieglin. Leipzig: Schmidt & Günther, 1885.
- Wilhelm Sieglin: School atlas on the history of antiquity. 64 main and secondary maps on 28 pages. Gotha: Perthes, 1899, pdf .
- Sieglin's school atlas reached its 7th edition in 1922 and was still in Perthes' offer in 1935.
- Wilhelm Sieglin: Atlas Antiquus. Atlas of Ancient History. 34 colored maps in copper engraving containing 19 overview sheets, 94 historical maps and 73 inset maps. Gotha: Perthes, 1893-1909, pdf .
- The atlas was announced with 8 deliveries, of which only 6 deliveries appeared. Deliveries 1–5 were “designed and processed by Dr. Wilhelm Sieglin ”and was published from 1893 to 1895. They contained 21 of the announced 34 cards. Delivery 6 was published in 1909 with 4 cards, “designed and edited by Dr. Wilhelm Sieglin, continued by Dr. Max Kiessling ”, a student of Sieglin's. Of the tables announced in the table of contents, tables 1–6, 8–10, 14–18, 20–30 appeared.
- The atlas appeared as section 1 of a planned hand atlas on the history of antiquity, the Middle Ages and modern times . However, no other departments have appeared.
- Wilhelm Sieglin: The blond hair of the Indo-European peoples of antiquity: a collection of ancient evidence as a contribution to the Indo-European question. Munich: Lehmann, 1935.
- In a review in 1936 , the linguist Hans Krahe gave an ambiguous judgment on the work. He rejected Sieglin's hypothesis about an Indo-European original home and similar speculations, but found the book to be a lasting merit "a complete collection of all ancient and late antique - written as well as pictorial - evidence relating to hair color", whereby "not only the blonde, but also the dark color ”was taken into account.
- The publication of the work by JF Lehmanns Verlag , which published medical, ethnic and racist literature, could throw a wrong light on Sieglin's basic scientific position. The publication, published in 1935, was largely completed in 1905, long before the Nazi era.
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Honors
- Imperial Russian Order of St. Stanislaus III. Class.
- Prussian Red Eagle Order IV class.
Footnotes
- ↑ #Hantsche 2010 .
- ↑ #Hantsche 2010 .
- ^ Sources and research on ancient history and geography at Wikisource
- ↑ #Hantsche 2010 .
- ↑ #Krahe 1936 .
- ↑ #Hantsche 2010 .
- ↑ #Professor catalog .
literature
- Irmgard Hantsche: Sieglin, Wilhelm. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 24, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-428-11205-0 , p. 357 f. ( Digitized version ).
- Hans Krahe : Sieglin Wilhelm. The blonde hair of the ancient Indo-European peoples. Review. In: Indogermanische Forschungen, Volume 54, 1936, pages 304-305.
- Estate of Wilhelm Sieglin (1855–1935) - Bayerische Staatsbibliothek Siegliniana. 0. Repertory of the estate, pdf .
- Prof. Dr. phil. Wilhelm Sieglin. Professor catalog of the University of Leipzig, pdf .
Web links
- Literature by Wilhelm Sieglin in the catalog of the German National Library
- Short biography and linked documents in the digital collections of the HU Berlin
- Overview of Wilhelm Sieglin's courses at the University of Leipzig (winter semester 1898 to summer semester 1899)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Sieglin, Wilhelm |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German geography historian |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 19, 1855 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Stuttgart |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 9, 1935 |
| Place of death | Hofgastein |