Hans Prutz

Hans Prutz ( born May 20, 1843 in Jena, † January 29, 1929 in Stuttgart ) was a German historian and university professor.

Life

The son of liberal writer Robert Eduard Prutz studied from 1860 to 1863 in Jena and Berlin history. He was a member of the fraternity Germania Jena and stayed later Burschenschaft union movement closely connected. In 1863 he received his doctorate in Berlin with a thesis on Henry the Lion. From 1863 to 1872 worked as a high school teacher Prutz in Gdansk. Since 1872 he was a senior teacher at the Friedrichswerder trade school in Berlin. 1873 Habilitation Prutz at the University of Berlin for history. In 1874 he undertook on behalf of the Reich Chancellery an expedition to Syria, and Tyre. 1877 Prutz was appointed as a full professor of history at the University of Königsberg. 1888/89 he was rector of the University of Königsberg. 1902 Prutz had to give up the Königsberg chair because of a eye condition and moved to Munich. Since 1922 he lived in Stuttgart. In Konigsberg Prutz became a member of the local Masonic Lodge. In his Prussian History, he turned against the myth of Prussia German occupation.

Prutz was a member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences.

Works

  • Henry the Lion. History, legend and poetry, Leipzig 1866.
  • Emperor Frederick I, 3 vols, Gdansk 1871-1874.
  • From Phoenicia. Geographical sketches and historical studies, Leipzig 1876.
  • Secret teachings and secret statutes of the Templars Order. A critical examination, Berlin, 1879.
  • Cultural History of the Crusades, Berlin 1883.
  • States history of the West in the Middle Ages, 2 vols, Berlin 1885-1887.
  • Herman Schiller: Guide to the historical lessons in the upper classes of higher educational institutions. 3 parts. Grote, Berlin 1890-1891 ( digitized ).
  • The Royal Albertus University of Königsberg i.Pr. in the nineteenth century, to celebrate its 350th anniversary, Königsberg in 1894.
  • Prussian History, 4 vols, Stuttgart from 1900 to 1902.
  • The spiritual order of knights, their position relative to the ecclesiastical, political, social and economic development of the Middle Ages, Berlin 1908 ( emphasis Berlin 1977).
  • The idea of ​​peace. Their origin, initial meaning and gradual change, Munich / Leipzig 1917.
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