Ludwig Timotheus Spittler
Ludwig Timotheus Spittler (11 November 1752 – 14 March 1810) was a German historian born in Stuttgart. He published works on national, church and political history. He was a member of the Göttingen School of History.
Spittler studied at Tübingen, and in 1778 became a full professor at the University of Göttingen. At Göttingen he collaborated on several important projects with historians August Ludwig von Schlözer (1735–1809), Johann Christoph Gatterer (1727–1799) and constitutional law teacher Johann Stephan Pütter (1725–1807). With philosopher Christoph Meiners (1747–1810), he published the Göttingische Historische Magazin from January 1787 to August 1791.
In 1786 he wrote Geschichte des Fürstenthums Hannover seit der Reformation ("History of the Hanover Principality since the Reformation"), and in 1796, published Geschichte der Dänischen Revolution im Jahr 1660, a book in which he described how Frederick III introduced political absolutism in Denmark. Another influential work of Spittler's was Landesgeschichte in der Zeit der Deutschen Spataufklarung ("The Country's History during the German Spataufklarung").
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- This article incorporates translated text from an equivalent article at the Danish Wikipedia.
- Kant in the Classroom (biographical information on Johann Christoph Gatterer)
External links[]
- Franz Xaver von Wegele (1893), "Spittler, Ludwig Timotheus Freiherr von", Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB) (in German), 35, Leipzig: Duncker & Humblot, pp. 212–216
- German historians
- Writers from Stuttgart
- 1753 births
- 1810 deaths
- University of Göttingen faculty
- University of Tübingen alumni
- German male non-fiction writers
- German historian stubs