Wilhelm Oncken

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Wilhelm Oncken
Born	(1838-12-19)19 December 1838 Heidelberg, German Confederation
Died	11 August 1905(1905-08-11) (aged 66) Gießen, German Empire
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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