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Johann Gustav Bernhard Droysen was a German historian. His history of Alexander the Great was the first work representing a new school of German historical thought that idealized power held by so-called "great" men.
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Born 6 July 1808 · Died 19 June 1884 · Q60217
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Felix Gilbert wrote his doctoral dissertation on the subject of “Johann Gustav Droysen and the Prussian-German Question” under the supervision of eminent German professor Friedrich Meinecke
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And translated into French, but not at the time into English
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Died 1884-06-19.
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Awarded Bavarian Maximilian Order for Science and Art (1877).
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Career landmark: Historiographer of the Prussian state (1877).
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Awarded Verdun Award (1874).
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Was called to Berlin, where he remained until his death
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Brought out a life of Count Yorck von Wartenburg (Berlin, 1851–1852), generally considered one of the best biographies in the German language and then began his great work on the Geschichte der preussischen Politik, o
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With Carl Samwer, he published a history of the dealings of Denmark with Schleswig and Holstein, Die Herzogthümer Schleswig-Holstein und das Königreich Dänemark seit dem Jahre 1800 (Hamburg, 1850)
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Droysen was elected a member of the revolutionary Frankfurt parliament and acted as secretary to the committee for drawing up a proposed constitution
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Career landmark: Member of the Frankfurt Parliament (1848–1849).
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And his Outlines of the Principles of History, published 1858, translated 1893, was widely read throughout German universities
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Droysen was appointed professor of history at the University of Kiel
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And a paraphrase of Aristophanes (1835–1838), but the work by which he made himself known as a historian was his Geschichte Alexanders des Grossen (History of Alexander the Great; Berlin, 1833 and other editions), a book
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Became a master at the Graues Kloster, one of the oldest schools in Berlin; in addition, he gave lectures at the University of Berlin, from 1833 as Privatdozent, and from 1835 as professor, without a salary
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Born 1808-07-06.
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