Gustav Adolf Bergenroth

Gustav Adolf mountain Roth ( born February 26, 1813 in Oletzko, East Prussia, † February 13, 1869 in Madrid ) was a German historian.

Life

Bergenroth studied law at the Albertus University of Königsberg and was a member of the Corps Masovia since 1833.

After the examinations, he entered the Prussian state judicial service. Become a revolutionary club leaders and Preßleiter In the German Revolution 1848/1849, he was dismissed from the civil service. In 1850 he helped Gottfried Kinkel in the escape from the Citadel Spandau. He then went to California, but returned in 1851 to Europe 1857 and devoted himself to thorough studies in British archives about the time of the Tudors.

In 1860 he went to the same purpose by Simancas in Spain and was awarded the contract for the British government a Regestenwerk about the England relevant documents in Spanish archives to work out how the Archivo General de Simancas. He met with the habilitated in 1862 just under Heinrich von Sybel Wilhelm Maurenbrecher, who also stayed until 1863 in Simancas. Maurenbrecher was working on his biography of Charles V ( HRR ). Although Maurenbrecher estimated Bergenroth, but gave him by name in connection with Joanna the Mad with no little criticism. Its thesis, Johanna was not insane, had rejected this. In his estimation, Maurenbrecher leaning next to the works of Berg Roth himself on Louis Prosper Gachard, in Simancas doubted this claim based on its own studies.

Bergenroth died of Malignant Fever.

Kurd v. Schlozer reported in Roman letters under 1 March 1867 by him: " His life is a novel. 1848, when he was Superior Court Assessor, he joined the revolution and stood at the corner of the pigeon street on the Barrikade.Im following years wrote to B. Manteuffel, that his political views in the meantime did not allow him to remain in government service; he must wait for a time when another minister derive the judiciary. Then he went to Frankfurt, soon to America on behalf of a company that wanted to buy up land in California. In San Francisco arrived, he lost everything and was left with nothing. He collected 70 settlers from various nations around, over which he posed as chief and now founded an independent principality, where he lived as an autocrat. He got into trouble with the Americans and went to England. He is in the 16th and 17th centuries as well versed as if he had lived with all the outstanding personalities of the time. He is now preparing to write a story of Emperor Charles V.. "

The mentioned by Schlozer projects to Emperor Charles V could not realize Bergenroth. Its source works, however, represent a significant resource for the study of these time dar.

Works

The same was published under the title: Calendar of letters, despatches and state papers Relating to the Negotiations in between England and Spain, preserved in the archives of Simancas and elsewhere " (London 1862-68, 3 vols ) The three lifetime of Bergenroth published volumes form the beginning of a posthumous amortized standard work:

  • Volume 1 Henry VII 1485-1509.
  • Volumes 2-8. Henry VIII 1509-12 v.
  • Volumes 9-10. Edward VI. 1547 -
  • Volumes 11 Edward VI. and Mary. In 1553.
  • Volumes 12 Mary. January - July 1554th
  • Volumes 13 Philip and Mary. July 1554 - November 1558
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