Wilhelm Wattenbach

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Wilhelm Wattenbach

Wilhelm Wattenbach (born September 22, 1819 in Rantzau , Holstein , † September 20, 1897 in Frankfurt ) was a German historian and paleographer .

Life

After the early death of the father Paul Christian Wattenbach in October 1824, the mother moved with the children to Lübeck , where Wattenbach attended the Katharineum until Michaelis in 1836 . Here he made lifelong friendships with schoolmates Emanuel Geibel and the brothers Ernst and Georg Curtius , which is why he is included in the Jung-Lübeck group . Wattenbach studied philology in Bonn , Göttingen and Berlin . In 1843 he began his work for the Monumenta Germaniae Historica (MGH).

His main work were Germany's historical sources from the Middle Ages to the middle of the XIII. Century (1858), a guide to the sources of the history of the German Middle Ages, which appeared in several editions.

1852 proved Wilhelm Wattenbach that the privilege Maius of 1358/59 - it made the rulers of Austria to archdukes and put them electors equal - was a forgery. In 1855 he became archivist at the University of Breslau , in 1862 he became professor of history in Heidelberg , eleven years later professor in Berlin. After the death of Georg Waitz , from 1886 until Ernst Dümmler took office in 1888, he was provisional manager of the MGH President. His studies of Peter Luder in Heidelberg were of outstanding importance for research into the beginnings of German humanism .

Awards

Fonts

  • Contributions to the history of the Christian Church in Bohemia and Moravia. Vienna 1849 ( full text ).
  • Germany's historical sources from the Middle Ages to the middle of the XIII. Century. Berlin 1858 ( Volume 1 , Volume 2 ).
  • Guide to Greek palaeography. Leipzig 1867 and 1895 ( full text ).
  • Peter Luder, the first humanistic teacher in Heidelberg. Karlsruhe 1869.
  • Guide to Latin palaeography. Leipzig 1869 and 1886 ( full text ).
  • Writing in the Middle Ages. Leipzig 1871, 3rd edition there in 1896, reprint (declared as “4th edition”) Graz 1958 ( full texts ).
  • History of the Roman papacy. Berlin 1876 ( full text ).

literature

Web links

Wikisource: Wilhelm Wattenbach  - Sources and full texts
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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Hermann Genzken: The Abitur graduates of the Katharineum zu Lübeck (grammar school and secondary school) from Easter 1807 to 1907. Borchers, Lübeck 1907. (Supplement to the school program 1907), No. 333.
  2. Berliner Philologische Wochenschrift 12 (1892), p. 994.