Historical Journal (1844)
By Wilhelm Adolf Schmidt published magazine of History (ZGW) appeared in two volumes per year from 1844 to 1848 the publishing house Veit and Comp. in Berlin (from 1846 under the title Allgemeine Zeitschrift für Geschichte ). It is considered to be one of the first scientific journals for general historical research in German-speaking countries.
history
In the first volume, the historian and Ranke student Wilhelm Adolf Schmidt outlined the aim of founding the magazine to be the creation of a “point of union for the diverse and scattered endeavors of the German mind in the field of historical studies.” Schmidt distinguished the magazine equally from political journalism and that "Scientific amateurism".
Indeed, the historical journal reached an unusually high scientific standard for this early stage. A large part of the journal articles was written in the form of the essay , which is the canonized form of scientific contributions in specialist journals today. Renowned contemporary historians such as Wilhelm von Giesebrecht , Heinrich von Sybel and Georg Waitz regularly contributed articles. A literary report and the criticism of current phenomena was given a lot of space, which shows the efforts of the journal to institutionalize itself as a central organ of German-language historical studies. The source-critical method was at the center of both the essays and the reviews from the start.
Overall, the Zeitschrift für Geschichtswwissenschaft - more so than Leopold von Ranke's historical-political journal from the 1830s - can be regarded as a scientifically equal forerunner of the historical journal , which was institutionalized from 1859 as a permanent general periodical of German-language historical research.
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Individual evidence
- ^ Schmidt: Preface, in: ZfG 1 (1844), p. IV