Gustav Hertzberg

Gustav Friedrich Hertzberg (1826–1907)

Gustav Friedrich Hertzberg (19 January 1826, Halle – 16 November 1907, Halle), was a German historian and publicist.

Life

Gustav Friedrich Hertzberg was the eldest son Gustav Ludwig Hertzberg and his wife, the former Friederike Bucholz. He studied theology at the University of Halle-Wittenberg. In the fall of 1844 he earned a degree in classics and related topics from the University of Leipzig. In 1851 he earned his habilitation from the University of Halle-Wittenberg in ancient history. Among his professors there had been Gottfried Bernhardy and Heinrich Leo. In 1854 he joined a Masonic Lodge. Hertzberg was a member of the National Liberal Party. By the late 1850s he was working in Berlin.

On his death Hertzberg was survived by his second wife, Auguste Ziebarth, whom he married in 1862. His first wife, Rosalie Carpenter, died in 1859 in child-birth.

Literary activity

Hertzberg wrote primarily on the history of Ancient Greece and Rome as well as on the Byzantine Empire.

• Die Geschichte Griechenlands unter der Herrschaft der Römer, 1866–75, (3 volumes).
  • 1.T. Von Flaminius bis auf Augustus.
  • 2.T. Von Augustus bis auf Septimius Severus.
  • 3.T. Von Septimius Severus bis auf Justinian.
• Geschichte von Hellas und Rom, 1879, (2 volumes).
• Geschichte des römischen Kaiserreiches, 1880.
• Geschichte der Byzantiner und des Osmanischen Reiches bis gegen Ende des sechszehnten Jahrhunderts, 1883.
• Geschichte der Römer im Altertum, 1885
• "Ancient Greece", Translated by Charles Forster Smith; first published in 1902.^[1]

He published a German translation of Victor Duruy's "Histoire des Romains" ("Geschichte des romischen Kaiserreichs", etc.) and made contributions to Wilhelm Oncken's "Allgemeine Geschichte in Einzeldarstellungen", to Heeren and Ukert's "Geschichte der Europäischen Staaten" and to Hans Prutz' "Illustrierte Weltgeschichte".^[2][3]

References and external links

• Gustav Hertzberg in the German National Library catalogue
• catalogus-professorum-halensis