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Heidelberg, 1809) revealed more genuine scholarship. In 1812 appeared his History of the Iconoclastic Emperors of the East (Geschichte der bilderstiurmenden Kaiser des ostromischen Reichs), in which he controverted some points in See also:

Gibbon and sought to avoid See also:

PAINTING

painting the past in See also:

PRESENT

present-See also:

day See also:

COLOURS, MILITARY

colours. His own strong predispositions prevented him from accomplishing this, however, and the history remains open to See also:

GRAVE

grave scientific See also:

criticism. But it won for him the favour of See also:

ARCHBISHOP (Lat. archiepiscopus, from Gr. apxceatorcoros)

Archbishop Karl Theodor See also:

DALBERG

Dalberg, and secured for him a professorship in the See also:

FRANKFORT

Frankfort See also:

LYCEUM

Lyceum. He See also:

LEFT

left Frankfort in 1819 to become See also:

PROFESSOR (the Latin noun formed from the verb profiteri, to declare publicly, to acknowledge, profess)

professor of history at Heidelberg, where he resided until his See also:

DEATH

death on the 23rd of See also:

SEPTEMBER (Lat. septem, seven)

September 1861. In 1815 appeared the first See also:

VOLUME

volume of his See also:

WORLD

World History (Weltgeschichte in zusammenhdngender Erzahlung). This work, though never completed, was extended through many volumes, bespeaking an inexhaustible See also:

ENERGY (from the Gr. ivipyela; iv, in, ipyov, work)

energy and a vast erudition. But it lacks both accuracy of fact and See also:

CHARM (through the Fr. from the Lat. carmen, a song)

charm of See also:

style, and is to-day deservedly quite forgotten.

On the other See also:

hand a See also:

TRANSLATION

translation of the pedagogical handbook of See also:

Vincent of See also:

BEAUVAIS

Beauvais and the accompanying monograph are still of value. The next See also:

note-worthy work was a history of antiquity and its culture (Universalhistorische Ubersicht der Geschichte der See also:

ALIEN (Lat. alienus)

alien Welt and ihrer Kultur, 1st See also:

PART

part, 1826; 2nd part, 1834), which, while revealing little knowledge of the new criticism of See also:

SOURCES

sources inaugurated by F. A. See also:

Wolf and B. G. See also:

Niebuhr, won its way by its unique handling of the subject and its See also:

GRAND

grand style. In 1823 he published in two volumes a Geschichte des 18ten Jahrhunderts; then, enlarged and improved, this work appeared in six volumes as Geschichte des i8ten Jahrhunderts and des' 9ten bis zum Sturz des franzosischen Kaiserreichs (1836—1848). The history had a most extraordinary success, especially among the See also:

COMMON

common See also:

PEOPLE

people, owing, not to its scientific qualities, but to the fact that the author boldly and sternly sat in See also:

JUDGMENT

judgment upon men and events, and in his judgments voiced the feelings of the German nation in his day. For this very See also:

REASON (Lat. ratio, through French raison)

reason it is no longer read. It has been translated into See also:

ENGLISH

English by D. See also:

DAVISON, WILLIAM (c. 1541-1608)

Davison (8 vols., 1843—1852). Finally, Schlosser undertook a popular World History for the German People (Weltgeschichte far das deutsche Voile, 1844—1857), which also enjoyed the favour of those for whom it was written.

Schlosser stands apart from the See also:

MOVEMENT

movement towards scientific history in See also:

Germany in the 19th century. Refusing to limit himself to See also:

POLITICAL

political history, as did See also:

RANKE, LEOPOLD VON (1795-1886)

Ranke, he never learned to handle his See also:

LITERARY

literary sources with the care of the scientific historian. History was to him, as it had been to See also:

CICERO

Cicero, a school for morals; but See also:

lie had perhaps a juster conception than Ranke of the breadth and See also:

SCOPE (through Ital. scopo, aim, purpose, intent, from Gr. o'KOaos, mark to shoot at, aim, o ic07reiv, to see, whence the termination in telescope, microscope, &c.)

scope of the historian's See also:

field. See G. G. See also:

GERVINUS, GEORG GOTTFRIED (18os–1871)

Gervinus (Schlosser's See also:

PUPIL (Lat. pupillus, orphan, minor, dim. of pupus, boy, allied to puer, from root pm- or peu-, to beget, cf. "pupa," Lat. for " doll," the name given to the stage intervening between the larval and imaginal stages in certain insects)

pupil), F. C. Schlosser, ein Nekrolog (1861) ; G. See also:

Weber, F. C. Schlosser, der Historiker, Erinnerungsblatler (See also:

LEIPZIG

Leipzig, 1876) ; and O. Lorenz, F.

C. Schlosser (See also:

Vienna, 1878).

End of Article: SCHLOSSER, FRIEDRICH CHRISTOPH (1776—1861)

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