DROYSEN, JOHANN GUSTAV

yōhänˈ goosˈtäf droiˈzən, 1808–84, German historian. A member of the Frankfurt Parliament, he was a leading proponent of German unification under the leadership of his native Prussia. His Geschichte der preussischen Politik [political history of Prussia] (14 vol., 1855–86) poses the goal of German unification as the dominant theme of Prussian history.

See his Outlines of the Principles of History (1858, tr. 1893, repr. 1967).

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Gustav Adolf, the Great
Book by Nils Ahnlund, Michael Roberts; Princeton University Press; American-Scandinavian Foundation, 1940
Subjects: Gustaf--Ii Adolf--King Of Sweden--1594-1632
...Slots, the mother of Gustav Gus tavsson. Johannes Rudbeckius rebukes...later maintained by Johannes Rudbeckius in his sermons before Gustav Adolf as king, and...audience of Count Johann of Nassau, upon...army in Livland. Gustav Adolf saw him again...
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J.S. Bach's Great Eighteen Organ Chorales
Book by Russell Stinson; Oxford University Press, 2001
Subjects: Bach, Johann Sebastian--1685-1750--Choreale Von Verschiedener Art--Bwv 651-668, Chorale Prelude
...references. ISBN 0-19-511666-6 1. Bach, Johann Sebastian, 1685 1750. Chorale von verschiedener...Thematischsystematisches Verzeichnis der musikalischen Werke Johann Sebastian Bachs (Leipzig: Breitkopf...Bach-Ausgabe ). NBA Neue Bach-Ausgabe. Johann Sebastian Bach: Neue Ausgabe samtlicher...
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The Music of J.S. Bach: Analysis and Interpretation - Vol. 4
Book by David Schulenberg; University of Nebraska Press, 1999
Subjects: Bach, Johann Sebastian--1685-1750--Criticism And Interpretation
...39 Praeludia et Fugen del Signor Johann Sebastian Bach?: The Langloz Manuscript...well as music by the flutist-composer Johann Joachim Quantz, gaining a new perspective...Mendel, eds. The Bach Reader: A Life of Johann Sebastian Bach in Letters and Documents...
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The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing Biblical, Historical, Doctrinal, and Practical Theology and Biblical, Theological, and Ecclesiastical Biography from the Earliest Times to the Present Day - Vol. 12
Book by Johann Jakob Herzog; Funk and Wagnalls Company, 1908
Subjects: Theology--Encyclopedias
...SAILER, J. M. VON: R. Stolzle, Johann Michael Sailer, seine Massregelung an...1911. VOLTAIRE: R. Koser and H. Droysen, Briefwechsel Friedrichs des Grossen...denied them a vote. Melanchthon and Johann Brenz qq.v. , with some other German...
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A History of Historical Writing - Vol. 2
Book by James Westfall Thompson, Bernard J. Holm; MacMillan, 1942
Subjects: Historiography
...who had learned Greek from Melanchthon, and was for some years secretary and librarian of the rich merchant of Augsburg, Johann Jakob Fugger, and later from 1557 to his death in 1580 rector of the newly-founded gymnasium, had edited Suidas 1564...
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The Foundations of Mozart Scholarship
Journal article by Thomas Irvine; Current Musicology, 2006
Subjects: Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus--Criticism and interpretation, Music criticism--Study and teaching, Music theory--Study and teaching, Music--Study and teaching, Music--Theory, Musical criticism--Study and teaching, Musicology--Study and teaching
...dialectic. (31) Jahns friend Johann Gustav Droysen (1808-84), an influential historian...Schriften, no. 8. Leipzig: Taubner. Droysen, Johann Gustav. 1967. Historik: Vorlesungen...1983:104-15). On Dahlhaus and Droysen, see Hepokoski (1991:233). For...
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Wilsonian Crisis Leadership, the Organic State, and the Modern Presidency
Journal article by C. Eric Schulzke; Polity, Vol. 37, 2005
Subjects: Locke, John, Madison, James, Princeton University Press, Wilson, Woodrow
...University Press, 1965). (8.) Johann Gustav Droysen, E. Benjamin Andrews trans...Howard Fertig, 1967). (9.) Droysen, Outline of the Principles of...University Press, 1988), 129. (20.) Johann Gustav Droysen, E. Benjamin Andrews trans...
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The "Imperial Chancellor of the Sciences": Helmholtz between Science and Politics
Journal article by David Cahan; Social Research, Vol. 73, 2006
Subjects: Helmholtz, Hermann Ludwig Ferdinand von--Innovations, Science--Analysis
...the philosopher Eduard Zeller; the political economists Adolf Wagner and Gustav von Schmoller; the historians Johann Gustav Droysen, Theodor Mommsen, and Heinrich von Treitschke; and the Egyptologist Richard Lepsius. To be sure, some contemporaries...
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Teaching And/or Research: Gadamerian Reflections on a Pseudo-Dilemma
Journal article by Joel Weinsheimer; Renascence: Essays on Values in Literature, Vol. 56, 2004
Subjects: Gadamer, Hans-Georg--Criticism and interpretation, Hermeneutics--Criticism and interpretation
...nineteenth century, he turns for his example to Johann Gustav Droysen, author of Historik (1858), because Droysen defines historical knowledge as "understanding through research"; more emphatically, Droysen asserts that historians "only do research...
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Duchet, Claude, Dominique Pety, et Philippe Regnier. Bibliographie Du Dix-Neuvieme Siecle, Annee 2002
Journal article by Thomas H. Goetz; Nineteenth-Century French Studies, Vol. 34, 2005
Subjects: Books--Book reviews, Duchet, Claude, Dominique Pety, et Philippe Regnier. Bibliographie du dix-neuvieme siecle, Annee 2002 (Book)--Book reviews
...include: two reference works by German historians, Johann Gustav Droysen (a condensed version of his Historik 1857 (E86) and...Jh dealing with the theories of Karl Marx and J-G. Droysen (0128); the Acts of the 4TH colloquium of Heidelberg...
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encyclopedia articles on: Droysen Johann Gustav  - 2 results

 
 
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Droysen, Johann Gustav
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
DROYSEN, JOHANN GUSTAV yohan goos taf droi z n, 1808 84, German historian. A member of the Frankfurt Parliament , he was a leading proponent of...
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History
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...school was the great Leopold von Ranke . His efforts and those of his successors, notably Theodor Mommsen , Johann Gustav Droysen , and Heinrich von Treitschke , established canons of criticism and historical methods. This German school...


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