SYBEL, HEINRICH von. - German historian, b. 2 Dec. 1817 in Düsseldorf, d. 1 Aug. 1895 in Marburg. He was professor in Bonn in 1844, in Marburg in 1846, in Munich in 1856, again in Bonn in 1861, and director of the Prussian State Archives in 1875.
His works on the First Crusade (Geschichte des ersten Kreuzzuges, 1841) and on the genesis of the Kingdom of Germany in the Middle Ages (Die Entstehung des deutschen Königtums, 1844) are among the best critical productions of the Rankean school. After 1848 S. broke away from Ranke and became the head of Little-German historiography, subordinating the impartiality of research and the understanding of the past to the interpretive canon of the validity of the national State in history. The first document of this tendency is the Geschichte der Revolutionszeit (5 vols., 1853-58). Subsequently he polemicized against Ficker, condemning the Italian policy of the medieval emperors because it harmed German interests in the lands east of the Elbe. From 1889 to 1894 he edited, on the basis of the Prussian archives, Die Begründung des deutschen Reiches durch Wilhelm I (7 vols.). In 1856 he founded the Historische Zeitschrift, the most authoritative German historical journal.
Bibliography2 worksE. Fueter, Storia della storiografia moderna, Italian trans., II, Naples 1944, pp. 240-45; H. v. Srbik, Geist und Gesch. vom dent. Humanismu
BIBL.: E. Fueter, Storia della storiografia moderna, Italian trans., II, Naples 1944, pp. 240-45; H. v. Srbik, Geist und Gesch. vom dent. Humanismus bis zur Gegenwart, 2 vols., Munich-Salzburg 1950-51, passim.
Furlani, Silvio. “Sybel, heinrich von.” In Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. XI, col. 1666. Città del Vaticano: Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1953. https://azioneromana.com/article/sybel-heinrich-von.
MLA
Furlani, Silvio. “Sybel, heinrich von.” Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. XI, Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1953, col. 1666. Azione Romana, https://azioneromana.com/article/sybel-heinrich-von.
BibTeX
@incollection{ec11_sybel_heinrich_von,
author = {Furlani, Silvio},
title = {Sybel, heinrich von},
booktitle = {Enciclopedia Cattolica},
volume = {XI},
pages = {1666},
note = {Cited by column},
publisher = {Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico},
address = {Città del Vaticano},
year = {1953},
url = {https://azioneromana.com/article/sybel-heinrich-von}
}
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