Wilhelm Oncken
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Died | 11 August 1905 | (aged 66)
Occupation | Historian |
Christian Friedrich Georg Wilhelm Oncken (19 December 1838 – 11 August 1905) was a German historian.
Biography[]
Oncken was born in Heidelberg. The brother of economist August Oncken, he taught history at the University of Gießen.
Oncken was a typical nineteenth-century national liberal, using history as a means of national political education. From the history of ancient Greece, he later turned to the history of Prussia.
Oncken was also editor of the collection de:Allgemeine Geschichte in Einzeldarstellungen ("general history in monographs"; 45 volumes, 1876-1893).
Oncken died in Gießen.
Books[]
- Athen und Hellas. Forschungen zur nationalen und politischen Geschichte der alten Griechen. 1865/66.
- Stadt, Schloß und Hochschule Heidelberg, Bilder aus ihrer Vergangenheit. 1874.
- Oesterreich und Preussen im Befreiungskriege. 1876/79.
- Das Zeitalter Friedrichs des Grossen. 1880/81.
- Zeitalter der Revolution, des Kaiserreichs und der Befreiungskriege. 1884/86.
- Das Zeitalter des Kaisers Wilhelm. 1890.
References[]
- Helmut Berding: Oncken, Wilhelm. Neue Deutsche Biographie. Vol. 19, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1999, ISBN 3-428-00200-8, p. 536 f.
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- 1838 births
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- German Protestants
- National Liberal Party (Germany) politicians
- Members of the 2nd Reichstag of the German Empire
- 19th-century German historians
- Historians of Germany
- Historians of antiquity
- German male non-fiction writers
- Heidelberg University alumni
- University of Göttingen alumni
- Humboldt University of Berlin alumni
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