Wilhelm Adolf Schmidt
Jump to navigation
Jump to search
![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d0/Schmidt-Wilhelm-Adolf.jpg/220px-Schmidt-Wilhelm-Adolf.jpg)
Wilhelm Adolf Schmidt (26 September 1812, Berlin – 10 April 1887) was a German historian.
Biography
He studied at Berlin, in 1839 becoming a lecturer there, and in 1845 professor. In 1851, he became professor for history at the University of Zürich; nine years, he went to the University of Jena, where he remained for the rest of his life. He was a member of the Frankfurt Parliament in 1848, and of the German Reichstag from 1874 to 1876.
Works
German history
This is his main body of work, mostly limited to the 19th century. The most important are:
- Geschichte der Denk- und Glaubensfreiheit im ersten Jahrhundert der Kaiserherrschaft und des Christentums (1847)
- Preussens deutsche Politik (Berlin, 1850, and other editions)
- Geschichte der preussisch-deutschen Unionsbestrebungen (Berlin, 1851)
- Zeitgenössische Geschichten: I. Frankreich von 1815 bis 1830. II. Oesterreich von 1830 bis 1848 (Berlin, 1859)
- Elsass und Lothringen (Leipzig, 1859 and 1870)
- Geschichte der deutschen Verfassungsfrage während der Befreiungskriege und des Wiener Kongresses (Stuttgart, 1890), which was published after his death by A Stern.
He edited the 8th issue of Karl Friedrich Becker's Weltgeschichte, 22 vols. (Leipzig, 1874–79).
Non-German History
- Tableaux de la Révolution Française publiés sur les papiers inédits du département de la police secrete de Paris (Leipzig, 1867-1870)
- Pariser Zustände während der Revolutionszeit (Jena, 1874—1876), translated into French by Paul Viollet (Paris, 1880—1885)
- Das Perikleische Zeitalter (Jena, 1877—1879)
- Handbuch der griechischen Chronologie (Jena, 1888)
- Abhandlungen zur alten Geschichte (Leipzig, 1888).
See also
Notes
![]() | This article includes a list of references, related reading, or external links, but its sources remain unclear because it lacks inline citations. (January 2014) |
References
- public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Schmidt, Wilhelm Adolf". Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. This work in turn cites:
- H. Landwehr, Zur Erinnerung an Adolf Schmidt (Berlin, 1887).
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the - Gilman, D. C.; Peck, H. T.; Colby, F. M., eds. (1905). . New International Encyclopedia (1st ed.). New York: Dodd, Mead.
External links
Media related to Wilhelm Adolf Schmidt at Wikimedia Commons
Categories:
- Articles with short description
- Short description matches Wikidata
- Articles lacking in-text citations from January 2014
- All articles lacking in-text citations
- Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica with Wikisource reference
- Wikipedia articles incorporating text from the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica
- Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the New International Encyclopedia
- Commons category link from Wikidata
- Articles with FAST identifiers
- Articles with ISNI identifiers
- Articles with VIAF identifiers
- Articles with WorldCat Entities identifiers
- Articles with GND identifiers
- Articles with J9U identifiers
- Articles with LCCN identifiers
- Articles with Libris identifiers
- Articles with NKC identifiers
- Articles with NLG identifiers
- Articles with NTA identifiers
- Articles with PLWABN identifiers
- Articles with VcBA identifiers
- Articles with DTBIO identifiers
- Articles with Trove identifiers
- Articles with SUDOC identifiers
- 1812 births
- 1887 deaths
- Politicians from Berlin
- People from the Province of Brandenburg
- German Protestants
- National Liberal Party (Germany) politicians
- Members of the Frankfurt Parliament
- Members of the 2nd Reichstag of the German Empire
- Academic staff of the University of Zurich
- Academic staff of ETH Zurich
- Academic staff of the University of Jena
- Historians from the Kingdom of Prussia