Wilhelm Maurenbrecher
Karl Peter Wilhelm Maurenbrecher (
December 21,
1838 -
November 6,
1892) was a German historian.
He was born at
Düsseldorf in 1838 and studied in
Berlin and
Munich under
Leopold von Ranke and
Heinrich von Sybel, being especially influenced by the latter historian. After doing some research work at
Simancas in Spain, he became extraordinary and ordinary professor of history at the university of
Dorpat in 1867; and was then in turn professor at
Königsberg in 1869,
Bonn in 1877 and
Leipzig in 1884. In Leipzig he was the successor of
Carl von Noorden, who died in 1883. Noorden was a friend auf Maurenbrecher. Maurenbrecher died at Leipzig in 1892. The historian Maurenbrecher was the first Protestant, who wrote about the Catholic reform's movement. In consequence of this and the following controverses in the Catholic and Protestant historical science the research of sources of the Catholic reform's movement began.
Many of Maurenbrecher's works are concerned with the Reformation, among them being
England im Reformationszeitalter (Düsseldorf, 1866);
Karl V. und die deutschen Protestanten (Düsseldorf, 1865);
Studien und Skizzen zur Geschichte der Reformationszeit (Leipzig, 1874); and the incomplete
Geschichte der Katholischen Reformation (Nördlingen, 1880). He also wrote
Don Karlos (Berlin, 1876);
Gründung des deutschen Reiches 1859-1871 (Leipzig, 1892, and again 1902); and
Geschichte der deutschen Königswahlen (Leipzig, 1889).
*
Wilhelm Busch: Zur Erinnerung an Wilhelm Maurenbrecher. Neue Bonner Zeitung, Bonn 1893.
*
Gustav Wolf: Wilhelm Maurenbrecher. Ein Lebens- und Schaffensbild. Berlin 1893.
*
Hubert Jedin: Katholische Reformation oder Gegenreformation Luzern 1946.
*
Walther Hubatsch: Wilhelm Maurenbrecher. In: Bonner Gelehrte. Geschichtswissenschaften. Bonn 1968, S. 155-161.
*
Gangolf Hübinger: Maurenbrecher. In: Neue Deutsche Biographie Bd.16. Berlin 1990, S. 433 f.
*
John C. G. Röhl: Wilhelm II. Die Jugend des Kaisers 1859-1888. München 1993, S. 312-319.
*
Mario Todte: Wilhelm Maurenbrecher und die Lutherische Reformation. Leipzig 2001.
* Mario Todte: Wilhelm Maurenbrecher als Reformationshistoriker. Leipzig 2002.
