Dietrich Hermann Hegewisch

Dietrich Hermann Hegewisch (* December 15 1746 in Quakenbruck, † April 4, 1812 in Kiel ) was a German historian.

Hegewisch studied theology in Göttingen, but soon turned mainly history and its auxiliary sciences.

After he had been some time tutor of a young Earl Grey man in Hamburg, he was a newspaper editor in Hamburg and received in 1780 the extraordinary, 1782, the full professor of history at Kiel. 1805 appointed a Privy Councillor, he died on April 4, 1812 Of his numerous, but sometimes outdated writings we call. :

  • History of Charlemagne. ( Leipzig, 1777);
  • History of the Frankish monarchy (Leipzig 1779);
  • History of the German Konrad I. to Henry II (Leipzig );
  • History of the government of Maximilian I (Leipzig ); the continuation of Christianis
  • History of the duchies of Schleswig and Holstein (Vol. 3 and 4, Kiel from 1801 to 1802 ); * Geographical and historical news, the colonies of the Greeks concerning (Kiel 1808) 1811). He even got a collection of his historical- philosophical and literary writings (Kiel 1793, 2 ​​vols ).

His son Franz Hermann Hegewisch was a well known journalist and politician.

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