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TREITSCHKE, HEINRICH VON (1834-1896)
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See also:TREITSCHKE, HEINRICH VON (1834-1896) , See also:German historian and See also:political writer, was See also:born at See also:Dresden on the 15th of See also:September 1834. He was the son of an officer in the Saxon See also:army who See also:rose to be See also:governor of See also:Konigstein and military governor of Dresden. See also:Young Treitschke was prevented by deafness from entering the public service. After studying at See also:Leipzig and See also:Bonn, where he was a See also:pupil of See also:Dahlmann, he established himself as a privatdozent at Leipzig, lecturing on See also:history and politics. He at once became very popular with the students, but his political opinions made it impossible for the Saxon See also:government to appoint him to a professorship. He was at that
See also:time a strong Liberal; he hoped to see See also:Germany See also:united into a single See also:state with a See also:parliamentary government, and that all the smaller states would be swept away. In 1863 he was appointed See also:professor at See also:Freiburg; in 1866, at the outbreak of See also:war, his sympathies with See also:Prussia were so strong that he went to See also:Berlin, became a Prussian subject, and was appointed editor of the Preussische Jahrbitcher. A violent See also:article, in which he demanded the See also:annexation of See also:Hanover and See also:Saxony, and attacked with See also:great bitterness the Saxon royal See also:house, led to an estrangement from his See also:father, who enjoyed the warm friendship of the See also: He did more than any one to See also:mould the minds of the rising See also:generation, and he carried them with him even in his violent attacks on all opinions and all parties which appeared in any way to be injurious to the rising See also:power of Germany. He supported the government in its attempts to subdue by legislation the Socialists, Poles and Catholics; and he was one of the few men of See also:eminence who gave the See also:sanction of his name to the attacks on the See also:Jews which began in 1878. As a strong See also:advocate of colonial expansion he was also a See also:bitter enemy of Great See also:Britain, and he was to a large extent responsible for the See also:anti-See also:British feeling of German See also:Chauvinism during the last years of the 19th See also:century. In the Reichstag he had originally been a member of the See also:National Liberal party, but in 1879 he was the first to accept the new commercial policy of See also:Bismarck, and in his later years he joined the Moderate Conservatives, but his deafness prevented him from taking a prominent See also:part in debate. He died at Berlin on the 28th of See also:April 1896. As an historian Treitschke holds a very high See also:place. He approached history as a politician and confined himself to those periods and characters in which great political problems were being worked out: above all, he was a patriotic historian, and he never wandered far from Prussia. His great achievement was the History of Germany in the Nineteenth Century. The first See also:volume was published in 1879, and during the next sixteen years four more volumes appeared, but at his death he had only advanced to the See also:year 1847. The See also:work shows extreme. See also:diligence, and scrupulous care in the use of authorities. It is discursive and badly arranged, but it is marked by a power of See also:style, a vigour of narrative, and a skill in delineation of See also:character which give See also:life to the most unattractive See also:period of German history; notwithstanding the extreme spirit of partisanship and some faults of See also:taste, it will remain a remarkable See also:monument of See also:literary ability. Besides this he wrote a number of See also:biographical and See also:historical essays, as well as numerous articles and papers on contemporary politics, of which some are valuable contributions to political thought. The most important of the essays have been collected under the See also:title Historische and politische Aufsatze (4 vols., Leipzig, 1896) ; a selection from his more controversial writings was made under the title Zehn Jahre deutscher Kampfe; in 1896 a new volume appeared, called Deutsche Kampfe, neue Folge. After his death his lectures on political subjects were published under the title Politik. He brought out also in 1856 a See also:short volume of poems called Vaterlandische Gedichte, and another volume in the following year. The only See also:works translated into See also:English are two See also:pamphlets on the war of 1870, What we demand from See also:France (See also:London, 1870), and The See also:Fire-test of the See also:North German See also:Confederation (187o). See Schiemann, Heinrich v. Treitschkes Lehr- and Wanderjahre, 1836–1866 (See also:Munich, 1896) ; Gustav Freitag and Heinrich v. Treitschke See also:im Briefwechsel (Leipzig, 1900) ; Deutsche Rundschau (Oct. 1896) ; and article by J. W. Headlam, Hist. Rev. (Dec. 1897). (J. W. Additional information and CommentsThere are no comments yet for this article.
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