Johann Wilhelm Löbell (15 September 1786 – 12 July 1863) was a German

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Biography

Löbell was a native of

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. He studied at the Universities of

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and

under

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and Böckh. He had entered the scholarly life against the wishes of his mother who wanted him to go into business. During the

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(1812–14), he served as a volunteer in a ''

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'' installation. He was not on the frontlines but worked in a supporting office. In 1814 he moved to Breslau, where he soon found work as a teacher in a war college. There he published a historical paper and another one on building connections between the sciences and humanities in gymnasium studies. In 1823, he went to work in Berlin at a military academy as a history teacher. There he also became involved with the issuance of new editions of Karl Friedrich Becker's "''Weltgeschichte''" (World history). He eventually oversaw the issuance of three new editions. During this time period he was friends to

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(1773-1845) and

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(1781-1873). In 1829 he became an associate professor of history at the

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, where two years later he became a full professor. Among the works he wrote at Bonn were "''Gregor von Tours und seine Zeit''" (

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and his times, 1839), a revision of Becker's "''Weltgeschichte''" (1836–38), "''Weltgeschichte in Umrissen und Ausführungen''" (World history outlined and explained Part I, 1846), "''Die Entwicklung der deutschen Poesie von Klopstocks erstem Auftreten bis zu Goethes Tode''" (The development of German poetry from Klopstock until

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's death, 1856–65), and "''Historische Briefe''" (Letters on history, 1861), an anonymous attack on

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Legacy

Löbell's large personal library is now kept in a school library at the Bielefeld ''Ratsgymnasium'', and is property of the city of

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Carl Schurz Carl Christian Schurz (; March 2, 1829 – May 14, 1906) was a German-American revolutionary and an American statesman, journalist, and reformer. He migrated to the United States after the German revolutions of 1848–1849 and became a prominent ...

, ''Reminiscences'' (3 volumes), New York: The McClure Company, 1907. Schurz mentions Löbell in Chapter V of Volume One as the leader of the “Constitutional Club” at the University of Bonn during the 1848 agitation. Schurz characterizes Löbell and his group as very respectable opponents to the democratic club which Schurz had helped found with his teacher

Gottfried Kinkel Johann Gottfried Kinkel (11 August 1815 – 13 November 1882) was a German poet also noted for his revolutionary activities and his escape from a Prussian prison in Spandau with the help of his friend Carl Schurz. Early life He was born at Ober ...

. {{DEFAULTSORT:Lobell, Johann Wilhelm 19th-century German historians Writers from Berlin Humboldt University of Berlin alumni Academic staff of the University of Bonn People of the Revolutions of 1848 1786 births 1863 deaths German male non-fiction writers