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DROYSEN, JOHANN GUSTAV (18081884)

This article appears in Volume V08, Page 596 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

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DROYSEN, JOHANN GUSTAV (18081884) , German historian, was born on the 6th of July 18o8 at Treptow in Pomerania. His father, Johann Christoph
Droysen
 , was an army chaplain, in which capacity he was present at the celebrated siege of Kolberg in 1806-7. As a child
young
 
Droysen
  witnessed some of the military operations during the War of Liberation, for his father was pastor at Greifenhagen, in the immediate neighbourhood of Stettin, which was held by the French during the greater part of 1813. The impressions of these early years laid the foundation of the ardent attachment to Prussia which distinguished him, like so many other historians of his generation. He was educated at the gymnasium of Stettin and at the university of Berlin; in 18.29 he became a master at the Graue Kloster (or Grey Friars), one of the oldest schools in Berlin; besides his
work
  there he gave lectures at the university, from 1833 as privat-dozent, and from 1835 as professor, without a salary. During these years he was occupied with classical antiquity; he published a translation of Aeschylus and a paraphrase of Aristophanes, but the
work
  by which he made himself known as a historian was his Geschichte Alexanders des Grossen (Berlin, 1833, and other editions), a book which still remains probably the best work on the subject. It was in some ways the herald of a new school of German historical thought, for it shows that idealization of power and success which he had learnt from the teaching of
Hegel
 . It was followed by other volumes dealing with the successors of Alexander, published under the title of Geschichte des Hellenismus (Hamburg, 18361843). A new and revised edition of the whole work was published in 1885; it has been translated into French, but not into English.
In 184o Droysen was appointed professor of history at Kiel. He was at once attracted into the political
movement
  for the defence of the rights of the Elbe duchies,. of which Kiel was the centre. Like his predecessor F. C. Dahlmann, he placed his historical learning at the service of the estates of Schleswig-Holstein and composed the address of 1844, in which the estates protested against the claim of the king of Denmark to alter the law of succession in the duchies. In 1848 he was elected a member of the Frankfort parliament, and acted as secretary to the committee for drawing up the constitution. He was a determined supporter of Prussian ascendancy, and was one of the first members to retire after the king of Prussia refused the imperial crown in 1849. During the next two years he continued to support the cause of the duchies, and in 1850, with Carl Samwer, he published a history of the dealings of Denmark with Schleswig-Holstein, Die Herzogthumer Schleswig-Holstein and das Konigreich Danmark seit dem Jahre 18o6 (Hamburg, 185o). A translation was published in London in the same year under the title The Policy of Denmark towards the Duchies of Schleswig-Holstein. The work was one of
great
  political importance, and had much to do with the formation of German public
opinion
  on the rights of the duchies in their struggle with Denmark.
After 1851 it was impossible for him to remain at Kiel, and he was appointed to a professorship at Jena; in 1859 he was called to Berlin, where he remained till his death. In his later years he was almost entirely occupied with Prussian history. In 1851 he brought out a life of Count Yorck von Wartenburg (Berlin, 1851-1852, and many later editions), one of the best biographies in the German language, and then began his
great
  work on the Geschichte der preussischen Politik (Berlin, .18551886). Seven volumes were published, the last not till after his death. It forms a complete history of the growth of the Prussian monarchy down to the year 1756. This, like all Droysen's work, shows a strongly marked individuality, and a great power of tracing the manner in which important dynamic forces worked themselves out in history. It was This characteristic quality of comprehensiveness that also gave him so much influence as a teacher.
Droysen, who was twice married, died in Berlin on the 19th of June 1884. His eldest son, Gustav, is the author of several well-known historical works, namely, Gustav Adolf (
Leipzig
 , 1869-187o); Herzog Bernhard von
Weimar
  (
Leipzig
 , 1885); an admirable Historischer Handatlas (Leipzig, 1885), and several writings on various events of the Thirty Years' War. Another son, Hans Droysen, is the author of some works on Greek history and antiquities.
See M. Duncker, Johann Gustav Droysen, ein Nachruf (Berlin, r885); and Dahlmann-
Waitz
 , Quellenkunde der deutschen Geschichte (Leipzig, 1906). U. W. HE.)


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