Wilhelm Adolf Schmidt (26 September 1812,

Berlin Berlin ( , ) is the capital and largest city of Germany by both area and population. Its 3.7 million inhabitants make it the European Union's most populous city, according to population within city limits. One of Germany's sixteen constitue ...

– 10 April 1887) was a German historian.

Biography

He studied at

, in 1839 becoming a lecturer there, and in 1845 professor. In 1851, he became professor for history at the

University of Zürich The University of Zürich (UZH, german: Universität Zürich) is a public research university located in the city of Zürich, Switzerland. It is the largest university in Switzerland, with its 28,000 enrolled students. It was founded in 1833 f ...

; nine years, he went to the

University of Jena The University of Jena, officially the Friedrich Schiller University Jena (german: Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena, abbreviated FSU, shortened form ''Uni Jena''), is a public research university located in Jena, Thuringia, Germany. The un ...

, where he remained for the rest of his life. He was a member of the

Frankfurt Parliament The Frankfurt Parliament (german: Frankfurter Nationalversammlung, literally ''Frankfurt National Assembly'') was the first freely elected parliament for all German states, including the German-populated areas of Austria-Hungary, elected on 1 Ma ...

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 Karl Friedrich Becker (11 March 1777 – 15 March 1806) was a German educator and historian. His most noted work was ''World History for Children and Teachers of Children'' (german: Weltgeschichte für Kinder und Kinderlehrer) which was widely us ...

'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 Paul Marie Viollet (24 October 1840, Tours, France22 November 1914, Paris) was a French historian. Life After serving his native city as secretary and archivist, he became archivist at the Archives impériales in Paris in 1866, and later librar ...

(Paris, 1880—1885) *''Das Perikleische Zeitalter'' (Jena, 1877—1879) *''Handbuch der griechischen Chronologie'' (Jena, 1888) *''Abhandlungen zur alten Geschichte'' (Leipzig, 1888).

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