Ludwig Häusser

Ludwig Hausser ( born October 26, 1818 in Kleeburg, Alsace, † March 17, 1867 in Heidelberg ) was a German historian and liberal politician.

Life

His father was a Reformed pastor in the Alsatian Kleeburg and died only 33 years old in 1821. Ludwig's mother Anna Maria Dorothea, born Paniel, took the two year old boy then with her ​​family in Mannheim. Haeusser was from 1846 married to Eleonore Wilhelmine, born Rettig, with whom he had four children. His mother lived until her death in 1857 in the son's household.

Ludwig visited in 1826 by Karl -Friedrich -Gymnasium in Mannheim, studied from 1835 to 1839 Classical Philology at the University of Heidelberg and received his doctorate at Friedrich Christoph Schlosser. The summer term of 1838 he spent at the University of Jena, where he joined the company in 1838 in the castle cellar. In 1839 he taught briefly as a high school teacher in Wertheim, 1840, he was for three months in Paris. After his habilitation in 1840, he worked as a secondary school in Heidelberg. He was also the Allgemeine Zeitung, which appeared at this time in Augsburg since 1841 employees. Following the departure of Georg Gottfried Gervinus as editor of the German newspaper founded in 1847, he took over the editorship.

During the Revolution he was a member of the 1848 Second Baden chamber (up to 1850 and 1860 to 1865 ) in November. He took a strictly legalistic standpoint and fought the revolutionary democrats. He could contribute to the implementation of essential reforms in education, local self-government, the railway network and of Jewish emancipation through purposeful action. On 18 March 1850 he was elected for the 4th electoral district of Baden in the Erfurt Parliament and took part in 1863 at the Frankfurt Chamber of Deputies.

He was appointed full professor in Heidelberg end of 1849, offers from Zurich and Erlangen, he declined as a result. Since 1861 he was Grand Duke of Baden and Councillor Privy Council since 1865. In the discussion about German unity, he represented the small German solution of a constitutional monarchy under Prussian leadership.

In 1860 the honorary citizenship of the city of Heidelberg awarded him.

As Haeusser 1867 died of a heart ailment, the whole country took content, even Grand Duke Frederick, who referred to him as his true teacher. The tomb at the Heidelberg Mountain Cemetery was created by Franz summer and corresponds to the traditional form, earned representatives of society to appreciate. The bust was designed by sculptor Konrad Knoll. The tomb of Louis Haeusser was originally located next to the grave of Kuno Fischer on the Professorenweg. After the dissolution of his grave conditioning the tomb at the beginning of the Professor series was erected to commemorate the scholars.

Works

Its historic main work is the German story of the death of Frederick the Great to the creation of the German Confederation, which appeared from 1854 to 1857 in Heidelberg.