Wilhelm Ensslin

Last updated • a couple of secsFrom Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia

Wilhelm Enßlin (9 December 1885 – 8 January 1965) was a German ancient historian.


Related Research Articles

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Friedrich Gilly</span> German architect (1772–1800)

Friedrich David Gilly was a German architect and the son of the architect David Gilly. His works are influenced by revolutionary architecture (Revolutionsarchitektur). Born in Altdamm, Pomerania,, Gilly was known as a prodigy and the teacher of the young Karl Friedrich Schinkel.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Rudolf Simek</span> Austrian philologist and religious studies scholar

Rudolf Simek is an Austrian philologist and religious studies scholar who is Professor and Chair of Ancient German and Nordic Studies at the University of Bonn. Simek specializes in Germanic studies, and is the author of several notable works on Germanic religion and mythology, Germanic peoples, Vikings, Old Norse literature, and the culture of Medieval Europe.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Wolfgang Helck</span> German Egyptologist (1914–1993)

Hans Wolfgang Helck was a German Egyptologist, considered one of the most important Egyptologists of the 20th century. From 1956 until his retirement in 1979 he was a professor at the University of Hamburg. He remained active after his retirement and together with Wolfhart Westendorf published the German Lexikon der Ägyptologie, completed in 1992. He published many books and articles on the history of Egyptian and Near Eastern culture. He was a member of the German Archaeological Institute and a corresponding member of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Lorenz von Westenrieder</span> German writer

Lorenz von Westenrieder was a well-known author and historian in Bavaria and a critic of the Elector Karl Theordor and supporter of Maximilian IV Joseph. There are several memorials to him in Munich.

Hellmut Diwald was a German historian and Professor of Medieval and Modern History at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg from 1965 to 1985.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Richard von Metternich</span> Austrian diplomat

Richard Klemens Josef Lothar Hermann, 2nd Prince of Metternich-Winneburg zu Beilstein, usually known as Richard von Metternich, was an Austrian diplomat and the eldest surviving son of the diplomat Klemens, Prince of Metternich-Winneburg zu Beilstein.

Gerhard Albert Ritter was a German historian.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Hans-Joachim Gehrke</span> German historian of classical antiquity

Hans-Joachim Gehrke, in full Hans-Joachim Günter Adolf Gehrke, is a German historian of ancient and classical antiquity. He was president of the German Archaeological Institute from 2008 to 2011.

Werner Eck is professor of Ancient History at Cologne University, Germany, and a noted expert on the history and epigraphy of imperial Rome. His main interests are the prosopography of the Roman ruling class and the ancient city of Cologne, Colonia Claudia Ara Agrippinensium. He also researched the Bar Kokhba revolt from the Roman point of view.

Paul Zanker is the professor of Storia dell’Arte Antica at the Scuola Normale Superiore in Pisa. Previously Zanker was professor of classical archaeology at the University of Munich (1976–2002) and the University of Göttingen (1972–1976). He is a noted expert on Roman art and archaeology and a member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences, corresponding Fellow of the British Academy, of the Academia Europaea, of the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters, the Pontifical Academy of Archaeology and of the German Archaeological Institute. From 1990 to 1991 he was the Sather professor of the University of California at Berkeley. Zanker is head of the German Commission for the Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Moltke family</span> Noble family

The Moltke family is an old German noble family. The family was originally from Mecklenburg, but apart from Germany, some of the family branches also resided throughout Scandinavia. Members of the family have been noted as statesmen, high-ranking military officers and major landowners in Denmark and Prussia.

Horst Wolfgang Böhme is a German archaeologist with a focus on Late Antiquity / Early Middle Ages and research into castles.

Ilko-Sascha Kowalczuk is a German historian and author. His work is focused on the German Democratic Republic and its Ministry for State Security.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Helmuth von Glasenapp</span> German Indologist and religious scholar (1891–1963)

Otto Max Helmuth von Glasenapp was a German indologist and religious scholar who taught as a professor at the University of Konigsberg in East Prussia (1928–1944) and Tübingen (1946–1959).

Werner Huß was a German ancient historian.

Otto Voelckers was a German architect and technical author.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Ingeborg Weber-Kellermann</span> German folklorist, anthropologist and ethnologist

Ingeborg Weber-Kellermann was a German folklorist, anthropologist and ethnologist. She was an academic teacher, from 1946 at the German Academy of Sciences at Berlin in East Berlin and from 1961 at the University of Marburg.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Proclamation of the German Empire</span> 1871 unification of the German states

The proclamation of the German Empire, also known as the Deutsche Reichsgründung, took place in January 1871 after the joint victory of the German states in the Franco-Prussian War. As a result of the November Treaties of 1870, the southern German states of Baden, Hesse-Darmstadt, with their territories south of the Main line, Württemberg and Bavaria, joined the Prussian-dominated "North German Confederation" on 1 January 1871. On the same day, the new Constitution of the German Confederation came into force, thereby significantly extending the federal German lands to the newly created German Empire. The Day of the founding of the German Empire, January 18, became a day of celebration, marking when the Prussian King William I was proclaimed German Emperor at the Palace of Versailles.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Eugen Fehrle</span> German philologist

Eugen Fehrle was a German philologist who specialized in classical and Germanic philology.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Reichsfeinde</span>

Reichsfeinde was a pejorative term used for groups which were in political opposition to the system of the German Reich during the tenure of Otto von Bismarck as chancellor of Germany and during the Nazi regime. Under Bismarck, the term was mainly employed against Catholics and Social Democrats to justify their political suppression. The Nazis added the Jewish people to this list of enemies and violently pursued their destruction for being "non-German".

References