Hermann von Liebenau (3 October 1807 – 28 July 1874) was a
Swiss historian.
He studied medicine in Germany and Austria until 1836, but after this published in historiography exclusively.
He moved to Lucerne in 1837, where he remained until his death with the exception of an absence during 1855 to 1860 during which he was in
Roman
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*Rome, the capital city of Italy
*Ancient Rome, Roman civilization from 8th century BC to 5th century AD
*Roman people, the people of ancient Rome
*'' Epistle to the Romans'', shortened to ''Romans'', a lette ...
service as a physician.
He published some works on contemporary history, the
Swiss Regeneration and the formation of
Switzerland as a federal state but mostly focussed on the medieval history of the
Old Swiss Confederacy.
Works
*1845 „Der Aprilgang der
Freischaaren aufgeführt im Jahre 1845 gen Luzern“ (Lucerne)
*1846 „Versuch einer urkundlichen Darstellung des reichsfreien
Stiftes Engelberg St. Benedicten-Ordens in der Schweiz, XII. und XIII. Jahrhundert“ (Lucerne)
*„Die
Winkelried
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The name is mostly associated with Arnold von Winkelried, the her ...
e von Stans, bis auf Arnold Winkelried, den Helden von Sempach“, (1854).
*1864 „Die
Tell-Sage zu dem Jahre 1230“ (Aarau)
* 1862 „
Arnold Winkelried, seine Zeit und seine That, ein historisches Bild nach den neuesten Forschungen“ (Aarau)
*1868 „Lebensgeschichte der Königin
Agnes von Ungarn, der letzten Habsburgerin des erlauchten Stammhauses im Aargau“ (Regensburg)
*1873–1875 „Urkunden und Regesten zur Geschichte des
St. Gotthardpasses“, Archiv für schweizerische Geschichte, XVIII-XX
References
*Gerold Meyer von Knonau, â
Liebenau, Hermann von€œ in:
Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie, Historische Kommission bei der Bayerischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, vol. 18 (1883), 562–563.
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1807 births
1874 deaths
19th-century Swiss historians
Swiss male writers
19th-century male writers