Hermann Heinrich Grauert (7 September 1850 – 12 March 1924) since 1914 Knight of Grauert, was a German

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. He was born in

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and died in

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Life

After attending the

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, Grauert initially worked in his father's manufactured goods shop. In 1872 he went to

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where in 1873 he sat exams in Latin, Greek and history, in order to obtain a qualification equivalent to the Abitur, to enable him to attend university. From 1873 to 1876 he studied history at the

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and received his PhD under Georg Waitz. Grauert then extended his historical and legal knowledge at the universities of

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and Strasbourg . Since his student days, Grauert was an avid Kartellverband member in Göttingen in K.St.V. Winfridia, in Berlin at the Catholic Reading Club (now K.St.V. Askania-Burgundia Berlin) and in Munich in the K.St.V. Ottonia. Later, he was still in further Kartellverband compounds honor Philistines, such as at Alamannia and Rheno-Bavaria, Munich. In the

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for the 25th anniversary of the Association, Hermann von Grauert 1906 is shown as an honorary member. 1877 Grauert was an intern at the National Archives active in Munich; he habilitated in 1883 after a stay in Rome, and became a full-time professor of

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in 1885. Through 1915 and 1916, he was the rector of the university. 1884 Grauert board member since 1885 and editor of History Yearbook of

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. Grauert played a prominent role in the society until his death. In Germany and Europe, he was highly regarded as a scientist. Grauert was Privy Councillor and was created in 1914 by King Ludwig III. with the Knight's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Bavarian Crown encumbered.Bavarian State Office for Statistics (ed.) Court and State Manual of the Kingdom of Bavaria for the year 1914, Munich 1914 S. 27th This was associated with the collection in the personal nobility, and he was allowed after entry into the Matricula Knights of Grauert call. In Munich Harlaching the "Grauertstraße" was named after him in 1959. Women's rights activist

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described him as "stock Catholic".

Works

*''Die Kaisergräber im Dom zu Speyer''. 1901. *''Meister Johann von Toledo''. 1901. *''Dante und Houston Stewart Chamberlain''. 1903. *''Görres in Straßburg''. 1910.

Literature

*S. Koß. In: Biographisches Lexikon des KV. Band 5 (1998) S. 59ff. m.w.N. *Ansgar Frenken: Hermann von Grauert. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches *Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Band 30, Bautz, Nordhausen 2009, , Sp. 518–522.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Grauert, Hermann 1850 births 1924 deaths People from Pritzwalk People from the Province of Brandenburg 19th-century German historians 20th-century German historians University of Göttingen alumni Academic staff of the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich