Johann Wilhelm Löbell

Johann Wilhelm loebell (also Loebell; born September 15, 1786 in Berlin, † July 12, 1863 in Bonn ) was a German historian.

Life

He came from a formerly Jewish family. He attended high school to horror monastery in Berlin and initially began an apprenticeship as a merchant at a Berlin bank. At the universities of Heidelberg and Berlin, he then studied classical antiquity, literature and history. During the war of liberation, he worked as a volunteer in an office of the Landwehr. 1818 moved loebell as a private scholar to Wroclaw and taught at the local military academy, the subject of history. During this time he made ​​friends with Henrich Steffens and Friedrich von Raumer. In 1823 he was on the mediation of the Commandant of Cadets shower teacher at the Berlin cadet school and gave the Becker'sche world history out as a revision in 3rd edition. In 1829 he received an associate professor of history at the University of Bonn. In 1831 he became a full professor there.