Wilhelm Zimmermann (theologian)

Wilhelm Zimmermann 1869

Balthasar Friedrich Wilhelm Zimmermann (born January 2, 1807 in Stuttgart , † September 22, 1878 in Mergentheim ) was a German Protestant theologian , poet , historian , member of the Frankfurt National Assembly , the Württemberg state constitutional assembly and the Württemberg state parliament .

Life

Wilhelm Zimmermann was the son of a wine grower and later a kitchen servant at the Württemberg court in Stuttgart. Because of his talent, he could despite the poverty of his parents as his friend Eduard Mörike (today's high school Illustre Eberhard-Ludwigs-Gymnasium visit) in Stuttgart, came in 1821 in the Evangelical Seminar Blaubeuren and entered 1825 in the Evangelical pin Tübingen , where he became a pupil of Ferdinand Christian Baur . 1825/1828 he became a member of the Commentburschenschaft Tübingen. He graduated in 1829 and received his doctorate the following year. In 1832 he earned a doctorate in philosophy. He lived as a private scholar in Stuttgart until 1840 , then was accepted into the civil service as second pastor ("helper") in Dettingen an der Erms and pastor in Hülben . In 1847 he received the chair for German language and literature as well as history at the Polytechnic and Oberrealschule in Stuttgart and the title of professor. During the revolution of 1848/49 , the constituency Schwäbisch Hall / Gaildorf / Crailsheim elected him on April 28, 1848 as a member of the Frankfurt National Assembly (Paulskirchenparlament). Here Zimmermann joined the extreme left. In 1849 and 1850 he was elected three times by a large majority in the constituency of Hall as a member of the Württemberg state assembly. In 1851 he was dismissed from civil service because of his activities during the revolution, but then got a job as a pastor in Leonbronn and thus returned to civil service and church service. From 1851 he represented the constituency of Leutkirch in the second chamber of the Württemberg state parliament . In 1853 he resigned from this mandate. In 1864 he moved to Schnaitheim and in 1872 to Owen . He died while staying in Bad Mergentheim on September 22, 1878.

Works

Zimmermann published numerous, scientifically sound and at the same time vividly written historical books, of which his history of the great peasant war based on extensive source studies was particularly well received and is still published today. The events and political struggles of the 19th century are reflected in his evaluations and weightings - in particular his liberal view as a proponent of a "German Federal Republic" as early as 1848. In addition, he also dealt with theological, church history and literary topics, as Mörike said in 1836 Yearbook of Swabian poets and short stories and also wrote poems, plays and short stories.

The history of Württemberg ...

• Poems , 1831. ( digitized 2nd edition 1839 )
• Masaniello . Tragedy in five acts. Neff, Stuttgart 1833. ( digitized version )
• Franziska von Hohenheim . Novell. Bal, 1833
• Cupids and satyrs . 2 volumes. Hallberger, Stuttgart 1834
• Princely love . Novella from the recent history of Swabia. Courtship, Stuttgart 1834
• Cornelia Boroquia (novella), 1834
• History of Württemberg , 1834
• Prince Eugene, the noble knight. According to mostly new sources, especially according to the political writings left behind by the prince . Imle and Liesching, Stuttgart 1836 ( MDZ Reader )
• The liberation struggles of the Germans against Napoleon . Rieger, Stuttgart 1836. ( digitized version of the 3rd, reworked edition of Rieger, Stuttgart 1859 )
• History of Württemberg based on its legends and deeds . 2 volumes. Imle & Krauss, Stuttgart 1836/37. ( Digitized volume 1 ), ( volume 2 )
• History of the Hohenstaufen for the German people . Scheible, Rieger & Sattler, Stuttgart 1838
• General history of the great peasant war . 3 volumes
  • First part . Franz Heinrich Köhler, Stuttgart 1841 ( MDZ Reader )
  • Second part . Franz Heinrich Köhler, Stuttgart 1842 ( MDZ Reader )
  • Third part . Franz Heinrich Köhler, Stuttgart 1843 ( MDZ Reader )
• The German Imperial Hall . Rieger, Stuttgart 1833. ( digitized 2nd edition )
• History of the prosaic and poetic German national literature . Hallberger, Stuttgart 1846. ( digitized version of the 1856 edition )
• History of the poetry of all peoples. For readers of all levels . Verlags-Bureau, Stuttgart 1847 MDZ Reader
• The history of the German states from the dissolution of the empire to our day (continuation of the first two volumes written by Johann Georg August Wirth )
  • Vol. 3 (1830–1848), 1850 ( MDZ Reader )
  • Vol. 4: The German Revolution , 1848 ( MDZ Reader )
• World history for educated virgins . Rieger, Stuttgart 1854.
• Church history , 1854
• Life story of the Church of Jesus Christ . Belser, Stuttgart 1857-1859. ( Digitized volume 1 ), ( volume 2 ), ( volume 3 ), ( volume 4 )
• True Tales from Patriotic History , 1862
• Illustrated war history of the year 1866 for the German people . Gustav Weise, Stuttgart 1868 ( MDZ Reader )
• The German hero fight 1870–1871 , 1871
• Illustrated history of the German people . Weise, Stuttgart 1873–1877, Friedrich Hottenroth made the illustrations . ( Digitized volume 1 ), ( volume 2 ), ( volume 3 )

Newer editions

• Wilhelm Blos : The great German peasant war . With engravings by Victor Schivert and OE Lau . Cologne 1999
• Dettinger Liedergarten . Edited by Günter Randecker. Dettingen / Erms 2002
• De litteris Romanorum, quantum a Graecis acceperint, quantum sui simile habuerint quantumque ipsi profecerint in iis / The Roman literature. Their dependence on the Greeks, their independence and their development [Dissertation Tübingen 1832 . ] Reviewed and translated by Friedrich Winterhager. Hildesheim 2009 (PDF; 210 kB)

Commemoration

In Dettingen an der Erms there is a Wilhelm Zimmermann memorial in the Johann Ludwig Fricker House. The Association of Friends of the Historical Institute of the University of Stuttgart has awarded the Wilhelm Zimmermann Prize every year since 1996 for the best dissertation prepared at the Historical Institute as well as the best state examination or master’s thesis.

literature

• Zimmermann, Balthasar Johann Ernst . In: Heinrich Best, Wilhelm Weege: Biographical Handbook of the Members of the Frankfurt National Assembly 1848/49 . Droste, Düsseldorf 1998, ISBN 3-7700-0919-3 , pp. 372-373.
• Norbert Conrads : Wilhelm Zimmermann (1807–1878), a Stuttgart historian (= publications of the Stuttgart University Archives. Vol. 1). University archive , Stuttgart 1998, urn : nbn: de: bsz: 93-opus-21559 .
• Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume I: Politicians. Volume 6: T-Z. Winter, Heidelberg 2005, ISBN 3-8253-5063-0 , pp. 435-437.
• Roland Müller, Anton Schindling (ed.): Peasants' War and Revolution, Wilhelm Zimmermann. A radical from Stuttgart. Symposium on the 200th birthday organized by the Commission for Historical Regional Studies in Baden-Württemberg, the Stuttgart City Archives and the Association of Friends of the Historical Institute of the University of Stuttgart (= publications of the Stuttgart City Archives. Vol. 100), Hohenheim, Stuttgart 2008, ISBN 3-89850-981-8 .
• Frank Raberg : Biographical handbook of the Württemberg state parliament members 1815-1933 . On behalf of the Commission for Historical Regional Studies in Baden-Württemberg. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 2001, ISBN 3-17-016604-2 , p. 1072 .
• Günter Randecker: Memorial for the “Peasant War Carpenter”. In: Blätter des Schwäbischen Albverein Vol. 92 (1986), pp. 14-16.
• Günter Randecker, Thomas Scheuffelen (arrangement): Wilhelm Zimmermann 1807–1878 (= Marbacher Magazin. Vol. 32, special issue). 2nd Edition. German Schiller Society, Marbach am Neckar 1998, ISBN 3-929146-78-9 .
• Günter Randecker: Wilhelm Zimmermann and Goethe . In: Reinhard Breymayer (Ed.): "In the mild and happy Swabia and in the New World". Contributions to Goethe's time (=  Suevica. Vol. 9 = Stuttgart works on German studies. Vol. 423). Akademischer Verlag Stuttgart, Stuttgart 2004 [2005], ISBN 3-88099-428-5 , pp. 345–355.
• Wolfgang Schenk : Thomas Müntzer from the perspective of a Swabian liberal in Vormärz. Notes on the 1st edition of Wilhelm Zimmermann's “General History of the Great Peasant War” (1841–1843). In: Scientific Journal - Social Science Series . Universität Jena, Vol. 38 (1989), pp. 657-671.
• Theodor Schön:  Zimmermann, Wilhelm . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 45, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1900, pp. 299-301.
• Friedrich Winterhager : Wilhelm Zimmermann. A Swabian pastor as a historian of the peasant war. Königshausen and Neumann, Würzburg 1986, ISBN 3-88479-246-6 .
• Friedrich Winterhager: Zimmermann, Wilhelm. In: Manfred Asendorf, Rolf von Bockel (eds.): Democratic ways. German résumés from five centuries. Metzler, Stuttgart / Weimar 1997, ISBN 3-476-01244-1 , pp. 711-712.
• Friedrich Winterhager:  Wilhelm Zimmermann (theologian). In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 26, Bautz, Nordhausen 2006, ISBN 3-88309-354-8 , Sp. 1588-1598.

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• Literature by and about Wilhelm Zimmermann in the catalog of the German National Library
• Friedrich Winterhager: Zimmermann, (Balthasar Friedrich) Wilhelm ( Memento from December 25, 2007 in the Internet Archive ). In: Authors of the Vormärz - an online lexicon
• Works by Wilhelm Zimmermann in the Gutenberg-DE project