Wilhelm Junghans

Karl August Wilhelm Junghans ( May 3, 1834 in Lüneburg, † January 27, 1865 ) was a German historian and medievalist.

His father was rector of the grammar school in Lüneburg. Junghans studied in 1853 when Friedrich Wilhelm Ritschl at Bonn University and classical philology at the University of Göttingen Georg Waitz history (PhD 1856). Then he dealt with source editions on the history of Northern Germany and went first to Johann Martin Lappenberg to Hamburg and then to the Historical Commission of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences in Munich, to issue, on the recommendation of Lappenberg files of the Hanseatic League. To this end, he travels to London, Copenhagen, into the Rhineland, Westphalia and the Netherlands and also to Skåne. In 1862 he became a professor in Kiel as the successor of Karl Wilhelm Nitzsch and Schleswig- Holsteinischer turned to history. He died soon after, at age 30, 1865. His notes in particular the relationship of the Hanseatic League to England and Scandinavia were later used in the Hanseatic deed books from the publishers.

He is known for his book on Childeric I and Clovis I (his dissertation ), which was translated into French in 1879 by Gabriel Monod.

Junghans was secretary of the Society of Patriotic History in Kiel.

Writings

  • The history of the Frankish kings, Childeric and Chlodovech, critically examined, Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht, Göttingen 1857
  • The older provincial archives of Schleswig-Holstein and the Return of pages of Denmark, yearbooks for regional studies of the duchies of Schleswig, Holstein and Lauenburg Vol 8, 1866, pp. 1-23
  • About defensive alliances and military power of the Hanseatic League in the 13th and 14th centuries, Historical Journal, 13, 1865, 309-340
  • Count Henry of the Iron Holstein in the wars of the north and in the service of foreign princes, Soest 1864
  • Johann Sebastian Bach as a student of Partikularschule to St. Michaelis in Lüneburg; or, Lüneburg a Pflegstätte church music, Lüneburg 1870
  • Kiel in the thirteenth century, year books for the regional studies of the duchies of Schleswig, Holstein and Lauenburg Vol 9, 1867, pp. 1-30
  • Utrecht in the Middle Ages, research on German history, Vol 9, 1869, pp. 511-526
  • Hanserecesse, news of the Historical Commission of the Royal Bavarian Academy of Sciences, Vol 2, 1860, pp. 23-39 ( trip to London), Vol 3, 1867, pp. 37-92, Vol 4, 1863, S. 8-60, Vol 5, 1863, pp. 10-26 ( trip to Westphalia, the Netherlands, Cologne)
  • The history of the channel connection between the Baltic and the North Sea in the 14th, 15th, 16th, century, year books for the regional studies of the duchies of Schleswig, Holstein and Lauenburg Vol 7, 1864, pp. 335-340
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