Ferdinand Gregorovius

Ferdinand Gregorovius ( born January 19, 1821 in Neidenburg ( East Prussia ); † May 1, 1891 in Munich) was a German writer and historian.

Life

Gregorovius graduated from high school at the Friedrich school Gumbinnen. He studied philology and history at the Albertus University of Königsberg and heard the historian Wilhelm Drumann. In 1838 he became a member of the Corps Masovia, where he remained all his life closely connected. The student body ( and the nichtkorporierten dippe ) chose him on July 21, 1840 Entrepreneur of homage for the new royal couple. When Friedrich Wilhelm IV and his wife Elizabeth visited Ludovica of Bavaria Konigsberg, he and Wilhelm Jordan wore on September 10, 1840, Carmen ( poetry ) of the student body before. A detailed report by Gregorovius is obtained. As Gregorovius after the PhD. the Albertina left, he was adopted on September 24, 1841 with a Comitat.

The history of the city of Rome his contributions to the science of history are the most important ones that affect the age of the Renaissance and humanism. In addition to Jacob Burckhardt, Georg Voigt, Ludwig von Pastor and Alfred von Reumont he is the authority of the German Renaissance Research of the 19th century. The history of the city of Rome in the Middle Ages is considered a classic of the literature on the Renaissance. Besides this well-known work belongs in this age his biography of Pope Alexander VI. Lucretia Borgia and. No less significant, but less well known are his writings on Greek history in the Byzantine period, or even of Athens in the Middle Ages.

To date, with the classification of Gregorovius public have difficulties; because, first, it distinguishes his writing talent by the historians of the tendril - school, on the other hand, he translated works of Italian authors into German, as a part of the Giovanni Melis writings. That he was not cross-linked with established colleagues in Germany, probably was mainly due to his deep dislike of the Prussian-German authoritarian state - for his senior colleagues were in Germany. Italy was exile for him. The value of his work has never been seriously doubted, though he was attacked personally. The frequent translations of his works into other languages ​​emphasize das.

When he died, telegraphed his family according to his wish to Rome:

"È morto Ferdinando Gregorovius cittadino romano. "

Honors

In the city Neidenburg him grateful friends built a memorial complex with a memorial stone and semi-circular benches.

The Bavarian Academy of Sciences declared him one of its members, as well as the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei in Rome since 1876. For his work The History of Rome in the Middle Ages, he became in 1876 the first German and the first Protestant honorary citizen of the " Eternal City ".

In Konigsberg Maraunenhof a street was named after him. In Rome, today called a road and a place for him.

In Corsica, a smaller peak in the vicinity of Monte Rotondo in Restonica Valley Aiguilles Gregorovius was named.

Works

  • History of the Roman emperor Hadrian and his time. 1851 (online), new publication as Hadrian and his time. Glory and Fall of Rome. Edition bottle in the Wunderkammer Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2011, ISBN 978-3-941245-08-2.
  • History of the city of Rome in the Middle Ages. From 1859 to 1872. New edition, 2nd edition. 4 volumes. Beck, Munich 1988, ISBN 3-406-07107-4.
  • Years of travel in Italy. From 1856 to 1877. 5th edition. Beck, Munich 1997, ISBN 3-406-42803-7.
  • The Ghetto and the Jews in Rome. Schocken, Berlin 1935 ( Library of Schocken Publishing No. 46)
  • Idylls from the Baltic shore. 1856, new edition 1940. Grafe and Dead Ringers. Königsberg. hohesufer.com, Hannover 2011, ISBN 978-3-941513-17-4.
  • History of the City of Athens in the Middle Ages. From the time of Justinian to the Turkish conquest., 1889. Dtv, Munich 1980, ISBN 3-423-06114-6.
  • Roman diaries 1852-1889, edited by Hanno -Walter Kruft. Verlag CH Beck, Munich, 1991, ISBN 3-406-34893-9.
  • Lucretia Borgia and their time, 1874, new edition, Wunderkammer, Neu-Isenburg, 2009 ISBN 978-3-941245-04-4 ( = edition bottle ).
  • Corsica. In 1854. Societäts -Verl., Frankfurt (Main ), 1988, ISBN 3-7973-0274-6.
  • History of the Corsicans. In 1854. Hohesufer.com, Hannover 2009, ISBN 978-3-941513-05-1.
  • Corsica. From my wanderings in summer 1852. 1854. Hohesufer.com, Hannover 2009, ISBN 978-3-941513-06-8.
  • Naples and Capri. Insel Verlag, Leipzig, 1944 ( Island Library No 340/ 2)
  • The island of Capri - Idylle from the Mediterranean. Wolfgang Jess Publishing, Dresden 1952.
  • Capri. Corfu. Idylls of the Mediterranean. hohesufer.com, Hannover, 2013, ISBN 978-3-941513-28-0.
  • Euphorion. A seal from Pompeii in four cantos Leipzig: FA Brockhaus, 1858 books.google
  • A trip to Palestine in 1882 (first published in 1883 and 1884. ) Munich. CHBeck 1995, ISBN 3-406-38546- X.
  • Letters to Königsberg. Munich: C.H.Beck, 2013, ISBN 978-3-406-65012-3.

Other:

  • Konrad Seven Horn's hell letters to his dear friends in Germany (Edited by Ferdinand Fuchs mouth and Hans -Joachim Polleichtner ) hohesufer.com, Hannover 2011 ( first edition 1843), ISBN 978-3-941513-18-1.
  • Expectant Omar and Vladislav. From the desert romance, two parts ( 1845), The idea of ​​Polenthums. Two books of Polish Passion (1848 ).
  • Poland and Magyar Songs ( 1849).
  • Goethe's Wilhelm Meister developed his socialistic elements ( 1849).
  • The death of Tiberius ( Tragedy, 1851).
  • Corsica, 2 volumes (1854 ).
  • The tombs of the Popes. Historical Studies ( 1857).
  • Athenaïs. History of a Byzantine empress (1882).
  • The Emperor Hadrian. Paintings of the Roman -Hellenic time in his time (1884 ).
  • Small writings on history and culture, 3 volumes ( 1887-1892 ).
  • Poems (1892 ).
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