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SCHLOZER, AUGUST LUDWIG VON (1735-1809)

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SCHLOZER, See also:AUGUST See also:LUDWIG VON (1735-1809) , See also:German historian, was See also:born at Gaggstedt, in the See also:county of See also:Hohenlohe-Kirchberg, on the 5th of See also:July 1735. Having studied See also:theology and See also:oriental See also:languages at the See also:universities of See also:Wittenberg and See also:Gottingen, he went in 1755 as a See also:tutor to See also:Stockholm, and after-wards to See also:Upsala; and while in See also:Sweden he wrote in See also:Swedish an See also:Essay on the See also:General See also:History of See also:Trade and of Seafaring in the most See also:Ancient Times (1758). In 1759 he returned to Gottingen, where he began the study of See also:medicine. In 1761 he went to St See also:Petersburg with See also:Gerhardt See also:Friedrich See also:Muller, the See also:Russian historiographer, as See also:Miller's See also:literary assistant and as tutor in his See also:family. Here Schlozer learned Russian and devoted himself to the study of Russian history. In 1762 a See also:quarrel with Muller placed him in a position of some difficulty from which he was delivered by an introduction to See also:Count Rasumovski, who procured his See also:appointment as See also:adjunct to the See also:Academy. In 1765 he was appointed by the empress See also:Catherine an See also:ordinary member of the Academy and See also:professor of Russian history. In 1767 he See also:left See also:Russia on leave and did not return. He settled at Gottingen, where in 1764 he had been made professor extraordinarius, and See also:doctor honoris causa in 1766, and in 1769 he was promoted to an ordinary professorship. In 1804 he was ennobled by the See also:emperor See also:Alexander I. of Russia and made a privy councillor. He retired from active See also:work in 18o5 and died on the 9th of See also:September 1809. Schlozer's activity was enormous, and he exercised See also:great See also:influence by his lectures as well as by his books, bringing See also:historical study into See also:touch with See also:political See also:science generally, and using his vast erudition in an See also:attempt to solve See also:practical questions in the See also:state and in society.

He was " a journalist before the days of journalism, a traveller before that of travelling, a critic of authorities before that of political oppositions." His most important See also:

works were his Ailgemeine nordische Geschichte, 2 vols. (See also:Halle, 1772) and his See also:translation of the Russian chronicler See also:Nestor to the See also:year 98o, 5 vols. (Gottingen, 1802—1809). He awoke much intelligent See also:interest in universal history by his Weltgeschichte See also:im Auszuge and Zusammenhange, 2 vols. (2nd ed., Gottingen, 1792—1801); and in several works he helped to See also:lay the See also:foundations of statistical science. He also produced a strong impression by his political writings, the Briefwechsel, 10 vols. (1776—1782) and the Staatsanzeigen, 18 vols. (1782—1793). Schlozer, who in 1769 married See also:Caroline See also:Roederer, daughter of Johann Georg Roederer (1726—1763), professor of medicine at Gottingen and See also:body physician to the See also:king of See also:England, left five See also:children. His daughter Dorothea, born on the loth of August 1770, was one of the most beautiful and learned See also:women of her See also:time, and received in 1787 the degree of doctor. She was re-cognized as an authority on several subjects, especially on Russian coinage. After her See also:marriage with Rodde, the burgomaster of See also:Lubeck, she devoted herself to domestic duties.

She died on the 12th of July 1825 (see See also:

Reuter, Dorothea Schlozer, Gottingen, 1887). Schlozer's son See also:Christian (1774-1831) was a professor at See also:Bonn, and published Anfangsgriunde der Staatswirthschaft (1804—1806) and his See also:father's Offentliches and Privat-Leben aus Originalurkunden (1828). The youngest son, Karl von Schlozer, a See also:merchant and Russian See also:consul-general at Lubeck, was the father of Kurd von Schlozer (1822—1894), the historian and diplomatist, who in 1871 was appointed German See also:ambassador to the See also:United States and in 1882 to the Vatican, when he was instrumental in healing the See also:breach between See also:Germany and the papacy caused by the " May See also:Laws." See Zermelo, August Ludwig SchlOzer (See also:Berlin, 1875) ; Wesendpnck, See also:Die Begriindung der neuern deutschen Geschichtsschreibung durch Gatterer and Schlozer (See also:Leipzig, 1876) and F. Frensdorff in Allgemeine deutsche Biog. vol. xxxi.

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