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See also:HEEREN, See also:ARNOLD See also:HERMANN See also:LUDWIG (1760–1842) , See also:German historian, was See also:born on the 25th of See also:October 176o at Arbergen, near See also:Bremen. He studied See also:philosophy, See also:theology and See also:history at See also:Gottingen, and thereafter travelled in See also:France, See also:Italy and the See also:Netherlands. In 1787 he was appointed one of the professors of philosophy, and then of history at Gottingen, and he afterwards was chosen aulic councillor, privy councillor, &c., the usual rewards of successful German scholars. He died at Gottingen on the 6th of See also:March 1842. Heeren's See also:great merit as an historian was that he regarded the states of antiquity from an altogether fresh point of view. Instead of limiting himself to a narration of their See also:political events, he examined their economic relations, their constitutions, their See also:financial systems, and thus was enabled to throw a new See also:light on the development of the old See also:world. He possessed vast and varied learning, perfect calmness and impartiality, and great See also:power of See also:historical insight, and is now looked back to as the See also:pioneer in the See also:movement for the economic See also:- INTERPRETATION (from Lat. interpretari, to expound, explain, inter pres, an agent, go-between, interpreter; inter, between, and the root pret-, possibly connected with that seen either in Greek 4 p4'ew, to speak, or irpa-rrecv, to do)
interpretation of history.
Heeren's See also:chief See also:works are: Ideen fiber Politik, den Verkehr, and den See also:Handel der vornehmsten Volker der See also:alten Welt (2 vols., Gottingen, 1793–17996; 4th ed., 6 vols., 1824–1826; Eng. trans., See also:- OXFORD
- OXFORD, EARLS OF
- OXFORD, EDWARD DE VERE, 17TH EARL
- OXFORD, JOHN DE VERE, 13TH EARL OF (1443-1513)
- OXFORD, PROVISIONS OF
- OXFORD, ROBERT DE VERE, 9TH EARL OF (1362-1392)
- OXFORD, ROBERT HARLEY, 1ST
Oxford, 1833) ; Geschichte See also:des Studiums der klassischen Litteratur seit dem Wiederaufleben der Wissenschaften (2 vols., Gottingen, 1797–1802; new ed., 1822); Geschichte der Staaten des Altertums (Gottingen, 1799; Eng. trans., Oxford, 184o) ; Geschichte des europaischen Staalensystems (Gottingen, 1800; 5th ed., 1830; Eng. trans., 1834) ; Versuch einer Entwickelung der F olgen der Kreuzziige (Gottingen, 1808; See also:French trans., See also:Paris, iRo8), a See also:prize See also:essay of the
See also:Institute of France. Besides these, Heeren wrote brief See also:biographical sketches of Johann von See also:- MULLER, FERDINAND VON, BARON (1825–1896)
- MULLER, FRIEDRICH (1749-1825)
- MULLER, GEORGE (1805-1898)
- MULLER, JOHANNES PETER (18o1-1858)
- MULLER, JOHANNES VON (1752-1809)
- MULLER, JULIUS (18oi-1878)
- MULLER, KARL OTFRIED (1797-1840)
- MULLER, LUCIAN (1836-1898)
- MULLER, WILHELM (1794-1827)
- MULLER, WILLIAM JAMES (1812-1845)
Muller (See also:Leipzig, 1809); Ludwig Spittler (See also:Berlin, 1812); and See also:Christian See also:Heyne (Gottingen, 1813). With See also:Friedrich See also:August Ukert (1780-1851) he founded the famous historical collection, Geschichte der europaischen Staaten (See also:Gotha, 1819 seq.), and contributed many papers to learned See also:periodicals.
A collection of his historical works, with autobiographical See also:notice, was published in 15 volumes (Gottingen, 1821-183o).
End of Article: HEEREN, ARNOLD HERMANN LUDWIG (1760–1842)
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