Sigmund von Riezler

Siegmund or Sigmund Riezler ( since 1900 Riezler; born 2 May 1843 in Munich, † January 28, 1927 in Ambach ( Münsing ) ) was a German historian, archivist and professor in Munich.

Life

The son of Joseph Riezler attended the Ludwigsgymnasium and studied under the influence of Heinrich von Sybel from 1861 to 1866 at the University of Munich among others, Ignaz von Dollinger and Felix Dahn history and jurisprudence. Since 1862 he was a member of the Corps Isaria Munich. In 1865, he sparked a historical question of price and acquired in 1867 at the Faculty of Philosophy doctoral degree with a dissertation on the Duchy of Bavaria under Henry the Lion, after he was hired in 1866 as an intern at the National Archives.

In 1869 he completed his habilitation with a thesis on the crusade of Emperor Frederick Barbarossa, and was then a lecturer in history and diplomacy at the University of Munich. 1870 made ​​Riezler as a volunteer a part of the French campaign, the 1st Bavarian Corps and was appointed in 1871 as Head of the Furstenberg 's archive to Donaueschingen. 1872, the management of the local princely library and the coin and the print room, he was assigned. In 1883 he was appointed as chief librarian at the Bavarian Court and State Library in Munich. In 1877 he became a corresponding member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences, 1883 Associate Member and 1888 finally a full member.

From 1878 to 1914 he worked on a total of eight-volume "History of Bavaria ", but was never completed and handed to the death of Elector Max Emanuel in 1726. In this work Riezler joined one of the first political history, with the representation of cultural, legal and socio-historical aspects. In the 1880s Riezler worked on behalf of the Historical Commission of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences of the edition of the Acts of the Holy See to the Emperor Louis of Bavaria, and was also appointed in 1885 as Chief Executive of the Royal Academic Foundation Maximilianeum.

From 1898 until his retirement in 1917, the moderately small German -oriented Riezler was the first professor of the newly created chair of Bavarian history. On December 25, 1900 him the title of nobility Knights of Riezler was awarded. His bust -up took place in the hall of fame in Munich.

Writings

  • The Duchy of Bavaria at the time of Henry the Lion and Otto I ( with Heigel, Münch. 1867)
  • The Crusade Emperor Frederick I (1870 )
  • The literary adversaries of the popes at the time of Louis the Bayers (Leipzig 1874)
  • Furstenberg cal Urkundenbuch (ed., 4 volumes, Tübingen 1876-79 )
  • History of Bavaria ( Gotha 1878ff. )
  • History of the Princely House of Fürstenberg and his ancestors (Tübingen 1883)
  • History of witch trials in Bavaria (1896 ) online
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