Franz Rühl (26 October 1845,
Hanau
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– 3 July 1915,
Jena) was a German historian who published numerous works in the field of
classical history. He was a son-in-law to
anatomist Jacob Henle
Friedrich Gustav Jakob Henle (; 9 July 1809 – 13 May 1885) was a German physician, pathologist, and anatomist. He is credited with the discovery of the loop of Henle in the kidney. His essay, "On Miasma and Contagia," was an early argument f ...
.
He studied history and
philology at the universities of
Jena and
Marburg, receiving his doctorate in 1867. After graduation, he took a study trip to
Italy and worked as a gymnasium teacher in
Schleswig. In 1871 he obtained his
habilitation
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at the
University of Leipzig, and during the following year relocated to
Dorpat, where he subsequently became an associate professor of history. From 1876 onward, he was a professor at the
University of Königsberg, serving as
university rector
A rector (Latin for 'ruler') is a senior official in an educational institution, and can refer to an official in either a university or a secondary school. Outside the English-speaking world the rector is often the most senior official in a un ...
in 1905/06.
Selected works
From 1872 up until his death, he published numerous articles in the scientific journal ''Rheinisches Museum für Philologie''. He was the editor of
Alfred von Gutschmid
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*"Alfred (Interl ...
's ''Kleine Schriften'' (5 volumes, 1889-1904), and after the death of
Wilhelm Adolf Schmidt
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 ...
, he published Schmidt's ''Handbuch der griechischen chronologie'' ("Handbook of Greek chronology", 1888). Rühl's other noted works are as follows:
* ''Die Quellen Plutarchs im Leben des Kimon'', (dissertation), Marburg 1867 –
Plutarch's sources in regards to the life of
Cimon
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He was the son of Miltiades, also an Athenian ''strategos''. Cimon rose to prominence for his bravery fighting in the naval Batt ...
.
* ''Die Verbreitung des Justinus im Mittelalter'', Leipzig 1871 – The spread of
Justinus in the
Middle Ages.
* ''Die Textesquellen des Justinus'', Verlag von B. G. Teubner, Leipzig 1872 – Text sources of Justinus.
* as editor: ''Briefwechsel des Ministers und Burggrafen von Marienburg Theodor von Schön'', 1896, (
Theodor von Schön
Heinrich Theodor von Schön (20 January 1773 – 23 July 1856) was a Prussian statesman who assisted in the liberal reforms in Prussia during the Napoleonic Wars.
Biography
Schön was born in Schreitlauken, Tilsit district, East Prussia (now Še ...
,
Georg Heinrich Pertz,
Johann Gustav Droysen).
* ''Chronologie des Mittelalters und der Neuzeit'', 1897 – Chronology of the Middle Ages and modern times.
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1845 births
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19th-century German historians
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University of Marburg alumni
University of Jena alumni
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Academic staff of the University of Königsberg
19th-century German male writers
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