Arnold Hermann Ludwig Heeren

Arnold Hermann Ludwig Heeren ( born October 25, 1760 Arbergen in Bremen, † March 6, 1842 in Göttingen ) was a German historian.

Biography

Heeren was the son of Arberger priest and later Dompredigers HE armies. He attended the Cathedral School in Bremen and studied from 1779 at the Georg- August-Universität Göttingen first theology, then philosophy and history. From 1784 Privatdozent in Göttingen, he undertook to prepare his edition of John Stobaeus a trip to Italy, France and the Netherlands. After his return he was in 1787 in Göttingen Extraordinary, 1794 as full professor of philosophy in 1801 appointed professor of history, later councilor and in 1837 a Privy Councillor. He was a member of the Göttingen Masonic Lodge Augusta to the golden circle.

With his influential work on trade and transport history, he broke new ground for those historians. With Friedrich August Ukert he founded in 1829 the compilation history of the European states and edited from 1833 to 1840 the Gottingen learned displays.

Heeren was since 1796 with Wilhelmine Heyne ( 1779-1861 ), the daughter of his colleague Christian Gottlob Heyne, married.

Works (selection)

Monographs

  • Ideas about politics, transport and trade of the principal nations of the Old World (Göttingen 1793-96, 2 vols, 4th Edition 1824-26, 5 ​​vols )
  • History of the study of classical literature since the revival of Sciences (Göttingen from 1797 to 1802, 2 parts, new edition 1822)
  • History of the states of antiquity (Göttingen 1799, 5th edition 1828)
  • History of the European state system (Göttingen 1800, 5th edition 1830)
  • Studies on the sources of the principal ancient historians and geographers (reprinted in the writings of the Göttingen Society of Sciences )
  • Attempt a development of the consequences of the Crusades (Göttingen, 1808)
  • History of the European state system and its colonies. (Göttingen 1809) ( digitized and full text in German Text Archive )
  • Biography of Johannes Müller (Leipzig 1810)
  • Biography Ludwig Timotheus Spittler (Berlin 1812)
  • Biography Christian Gottlob Heyne (Göttingen, 1813)

Editions

  • Menander Rhetor: De Encomiis (Göttingen, 1785)
  • Johannes Stobaeus: Eclogues (Göttingen from 1792 to 1804, 4 volumes)

Expenditure

  • Mixed historical writings (Göttingen from 1803 to 1808, 3 volumes)
  • Historical works (Göttingen from 1821 to 1826, 15 volumes )

Honors

  • Commander of the Order of Guelph
  • Knights of the North Star Order
  • 1817: Honorary citizenship of the city of Göttingen
  • The Arnold Heeren Street in Bremen, Hemelingen, Arbergen district was named after him.
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