August Kluckhohn

August from Kluckhohn ( born July 6, 1832 in Bavenhausen, community Kalletal, † May 19, 1893 in Munich) was a German historian.

Life

From Kluckhohn studied in Heidelberg under Louis Haeusser and in Göttingen under Georg Waitz history. He habilitated in 1858 in Heidelberg as professor of history and moved in the autumn of the same year to Munich to take over the editorship of the critical part of the Historical Journal by Heinrich von Sybel. Then joined by Kluckhohn as a staff at the Historical Commission, until the Reichstagsakten, then in the editing of Wittelsbach correspondence, of which he has published the letters of Frederick the Pious, Elector Palatine ( 1868-72 Braunschweig, 2 vols ).

Having had his habilitation of Kluckhohn 1860 as a lecturer in history at the University of Munich, he became associate professor in 1865 and went in 1869 as full professor at the Technical College, while he worked at the University as an honorary professor.

He was also a member of the Academy of Sciences and the Historical Commission. In 1883 he was appointed Full Professor of History in Göttingen. 1886 there his son Paul Kluckhohn was born.

Works

• The story of God's peace (Leipzig 1857);
• Research on German history, Vol 2, ( Göttingen, 1861);
• . Wilhelm III, Duke of Bavaria- Munich, the Protector of the Basel Council ( Göttingen 1862);
• Ludwig the Rich, Duke of Bavaria -Landshut ( Nördlingen 1865), winning a prize essay of the Historical Commission;
• Frederick the Pious, Elector of the Palatinate ( Nördlingen 1876-79 );
• Louise, Queen of Prussia (Berlin 1876);
• Blücher (ibid. 1879) and various essays on the Palatine history and the history of education in Bavaria in the writings of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences.

From the hand- written estate west Rieder he gave his memoirs and letters out (Munich 1882).