Heinrich Wuttke

Johann Karl Heinrich Wuttke ( born February 12, 1818 in Brieg, Silesia, † June 14, 1876 in Leipzig ) was a German historian.

Life

The father, Mayor of Brieg, sent his only child, Heinrich Wuttke, 1829 at the Mary Magdalene Gymnasium in Breslau. After graduation in 1836 Heinrich Wuttke studied at the University of Breslau. From this period came his friendship with Hoffmann von Faller life. In 1838 he received his doctorate at Gustav Adolf Harald Stenzel in Wroclaw with a thesis on Thucydides. From 1841 he lectured at the University of Leipzig, after he was also his habilitation under Wilhelm Wachsmuth with a thesis on Thucydides. In 1848 he became a full professor of historical auxiliary sciences at the University of Leipzig. It is remarkable that he had never sought after obtaining his lectureship, after promotion to associate professor. His promotion from lecturer to full professor was due to his good relations with the then -Saxon Culture Minister Ludwig of the Pfordten and the death of Friedrich Christian August Hasse, who held the chair of the auxiliary historical sciences in Leipzig. In 1848 he was a member of the Frankfurt National Assembly, the moderate left and the large German direction belonging, closely associated with Robert Blum. He belonged to the so-called Württemberg court and the large German Constitutional Committee and voted against Friedrich Wilhelm IV Later he was temporarily Ferdinand Lassalle close.

He represented a large German conception of history, and was also seeking to obstruct appointments of professors from the so-called "Berlin directions ". Thus historians were meant, representing a decidedly small German - Prussian conception of history. For example, it was the case with the historian Georg Voigt. In his " historical seminar", which was actually only been a seminar- training company, also Heinrich von Treitschke sat as a student. Wuttke was all in all an excellent scholar. This eventually Treitschke had recognized, even if the historical standpoint the was opposed by almost Wuttke.

Wuttke was a member of numerous clubs, especially in Leipzig. So he was in the club for the history of Leipzig, the Leipzig Schillerverein, the German club, speech exercise club, literary club in Leipzig from 1840 and others.

For the history of the university he was also emerged as a reformer, though his efforts to re-regulate the fees being at the doctorate in Leipzig were blocked by colleagues first. He noticed that the customs- similar procedure had no relation to the university statutes in the promotions. Later came through pressure of the Saxon royal family, however, concluded such a scheme. He had also used along with other professors for the preservation of the ethnographic collection of Gustav Friedrich Klemm, which forms the basis for the Museum of Ethnology in Leipzig. However, he had not been able to move to the purchase of the collection The University.

Wuttke was an honorary member of the fraternity Leipzig Germania.

The successor Wuttkes connected with the renaming of the Department of History Auxiliary Sciences in the was of Medieval and Modern History Carl von Noorden.

Wuttke's son was the economist and folklorist Robert Wuttke.

Work

As a historian, he made himself especially with his history of writing a name. He Reserve left this work as a torso because he described only the non- alpha beta generic writing systems of the tattoo on the cuneiform and hieroglyphics to the Japanese and Chinese characters through. The alpha beta generic writing systems it no longer described. He had, according to the preface also taken for cost reasons, not least of which distance. In the Manuscripts Department of the University Library of Leipzig is a discount Wuttke, who testifies the existence of a collection of material for this volume. Lack of material is therefore exclude well. He also provided numerous publications on the history of Silesia to Frederick II.

His relationship with the Poles was an enemy. He also wrote under the impression, and certainly not without agitation intention a book under the title of Poland and German, which is a polemic against the Poles should be called as a true historical scientific treatise. He protested against the restoration of the partitioned among Prussia, Austria and Russia, Polish state and pointed explicitly to claim back that demanded Poland's western border should be the Oder. He admitted that the Slavs really were entitled to areas to the river Saale " and deep into the heart of Germany ", which had been wrested from them since the 10th century. Finally, he also wrote about the newspaper and journalism, in which he attacked the so-called reptile fund. Wuttke also wrote for geography in the Middle Ages.

The publication of Christian Wolff's own biography with an essay is due to the fact that the handwriting at that time located in Görlitz is considered lost, for the history of the Enlightenment and Wolffianism of a particular value. In addition, he edited together with his student Mosig of Ährenfeld, who arranged for the translation from Czech, a great treatise of Pavel Jozef Šafárik about the Slavic antiquities and Slavic folklore. Also a book of documents to the city of Poznań by him as well as about the Battle of Leipzig. However, this is only a selection of a variety of his writings.

To determine the value of his historical works, is extremely difficult because often historical presentation was mixed with mundane political events. The contemporary critics had therefore not seldom rebuked and disregards the value of his work on charge. Its mainly lying in Dresden discount of works that have been intended for publication, found from his political setting out also no editor and publisher. Scientific deficiencies is likely to be have been a secondary cause. Only his story to Saint Bartholomew was issued from the estate of his pupil Georg Müller- stone woman.

Honors

In the district of Leipzig Schoenefeld a street is named after him.

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