Wilhelm Wachsmuth
Wilhelm Wachsmuth ( born December 28, 1784 in Hildesheim, † January 23, 1866 in Leipzig ) was a German historian and university professor.
Life
Wachsmuth studied philology and theology at the Protestant Frederick University Hall and in 1803 member of the Corps Saxonia Hall. He then became a teacher at the convent school Magdeburg and 1811 Subrektor on Francisceum Zerbst. In 1815 he returned as a teacher of the Francke Foundations in Halle (Saale ). He was also a lecturer in Italian and English language at the Frederick University.
In 1820, he followed the call of the Christian -Albrechts- University of Kiel on her chair. For the Office year 1825/26 he was elected rector; But by the end of the year he moved to the University of Leipzig. There he was 1834/35 also elected rector. His successor at the Leipzig chair was his proposed Georg Voigt.
An important student of Wachsmuth is Heinrich Wuttke. He earned his doctorate at Gustav Adolf Harald Stenzel in Wroclaw and habilitated at Wachsmuth in Leipzig. Wuttke got a small Festschrift for Wachsmuth.
Wachsmuth was a member of the League of Freemasons in several lodges.
Work
Wachsmuth is as ancient historians and cultural historians, as well as historical theorist of meaning. With Johann Gustav Droysen he was one of the pioneers for a History.
The 1820 published theory of the history of Wachsmuth stands out from the number of contemporary texts as an introduction to the history produced by the complex approach to all aspects of their History, the basics of their craft, as it was recorded later by Droysen again. Wachsmuths design is so in his theoretical- methodological content of the most interesting documents from the transitional period of historical thinking from the late Enlightenment to historicism. Some of the views expressed in 1820 still seem very modern.
Another focus was the history of Lower Saxony and the Bishopric of Hildesheim
Publications
- Older history of the Romans. Hall 1819
- Outline of a Theory of history. Hall 1820; (Reprint ed. V. Hans veil and Dirk Fleischer, 1992)
- Outline the general history of peoples and states. Leipzig 1826, 4th edition 1875
- Hellenic Antiquity, 4 vols Hall 1826-1830. ; 2nd edition, 1843-46, 2 vols ( his most important work )
- Historical accounts of the history of modern times, 3 vols. Leipzig 1831-35
- European customs History, 5 vols. Leipzig 1831-39
- History of France in the Revolutionary Age, 4 vols Hamburg. 1840-44
- Weimar Court of the Muses in the years 1772-1807. Berlin 1844
- The Age of Revolution, 4 vols. Leipzig 1846-48
- General Cultural History, 3 vols. Leipzig 1850-1852
- History of political factions, 3 vols. Brunswick 1853-57
- History of German nationality, 3 vols. Brunswick 1860-62
- Lower Saxony stories. Braunschweig 1863