Georg Friedrich Sartorius

Georg Friedrich Sartorius since 1827 hereditary nobility Bavarian Baron von Walter Hausen ( born August 25, 1765 in Kassel, † August 24, 1828 in Göttingen ) was a German historian and professor at the University of Göttingen.

Career

Sartorius was born in Kassel, where he graduated at the high school Carolinum. He then studied theology at Göttingen and Oriental Studies (the latter at Michaelmas ). He won a certain proximity to the young Göttingen and also wrote several articles for Gottingen Musenalmanach, but were already at that time were ignored. Later he turned to studying the history and began early on as an employee of the Göttingen University Library, whose custodian he was in 1794. In 1797 he was appointed associate professor at the Faculty of Arts and in 1802 he was appointed to Göttingen as a regular professor of history. Numerous calls from other universities, he refused life.

His main work is the story of the Hanseatic Confederation. which appeared in three volumes from 1802 to 1808. His research on this topic justified the extensive research on the subject of the Hanseatic League in the 19th century, which began with this issue temporarily transfigured euphoria especially in the wake of unification in the second half. A second Sartorius even more prepared edition of the work appeared posthumously in 1830. He was also known as a translator of Adam Smith Wealth of Nations. As an economic historian and economist, he also lectured on tax and tax law.

Family

Goethe was godfather to his second son, the geologist and known Ätnaforschers Wolfgang Sartorius von Walter Hausen.

Shortly before his death Sartorius acquired under the Franconian castle Walterhausen in grave field together with the related extensive Gutsländereien funds from one of his wife closed but heritage. Originally Walterhausen had been owned by the family of calf. With the acquired property of the acquisition of the object baron of hereditary Bavarian nobility was connected. The family took the name of Sartorius Walterhausen or simply by Walter Hausen. The property remained until the 20th century in the family. The castle was taken over by the imperial post as a convalescent home in 1944.