Friedrich Karl Hermann Kruse

Friedrich Karl Hermann Kruse ( born July 21, 1790 in Oldenburg, † August 3, 1866 in Gohlis, today in Leipzig ) was a German historian.

Kruse attended the Thomas School and studied in Leipzig, in 1816 became a teacher at the Maria Magdalena Gymnasium in Breslau, in 1821 professor of Old and Middle history and geography in Hall and was followed in 1828 a call to Dorpat in Estonia as a professor of historical sciences, from where he 1853 retired to retire to Germany.

Publications

Merit full are his research on the geography of ancient Germany: " Budorgis, or the old Silesia before the introduction of the Christian religion " ( Dresd. 1819) and " German Antiquities" (Hall 1824-29, 3 volumes).

He established his literary reputation mainly through his " Hellas, or geographically - antiquarian representation of ancient Greece " (Leipzig 1825-27, 3 volumes). He also wrote:

• " De Istri ostiis " (Breslau 1820)
• " Anastasis Varangians " ( Tallinn 1841)
• " Nekrolivonika, or antiquities of Livonia, Courland and Esth " ( Dorpat 1842)
• "Russian Antiquities" ( Dorpat 1844-45, 2 booklets )
• " Prehistory of the Baltic provinces " (Moscow 1846)
• " Chronicon Nortmannorum " ( Gotha 1851)
• " Historical and Biographical Memorial Book " on all days of the year (2nd edition, Leipzig 1866).
• As editor: German antiquities or archive of old and middle history, geography and antiquities, insonderheit the Germanic tribes. Hall 1824 - 1830.