Wilhelm Adolf Schmidt

Wilhelm Adolf Schmidt (September 26, 1812, Berlin - April 10, 1887) was a German historian.

In 1851,he became professor for history at the University of Zürich; nine years, he went to the University of Jena, where he remained for the rest of his life. He was a member of the Frankfurt Parliament in 1848, and of the German Reichstag from 1874 to 1876. His historical works deal mainly with modern German history; the most important of them are:

*"Preussens deutsche Politik" (Berlin, 1850, and other editions)
*"Geschichte der preussisch-deutschen Unionsbestrebungen" (Berlin, 1851)
*"Zeitgenössische Geschichten" (Berlin, 1859)
*"Elsass und Lothringen" (Leipzig, 1859 and 1870)
*"Geschichte der deutschen Verfassungsfrage während der Befreiungskriege und des Wiener Kongresses" (Stuttgart, 1890), which was published after his death by A Stern.

Schmidt also wrote:

*"Tableaux de la Révolution Française publiés sur les papiers inédits du département de la police secrete de Paris" (Leipzig, 1867-1870)
*"Pariser Zustände während der Revolutionszeit" (Jena, 1874—1876), translated into French by P. Viollet (Paris, 1880—1885)
*"Das Perikleische Zeitalter" (Jena, 1877—1879)
*"Handbuch der griechischen Chronologie" (Jena, 1888)
*"Abhandlungen zur alten Geschichte" (Leipzig, 1888).

ee also

* The Revolutions of 1848 in the German states

References

* H. Landwehr, "Zur Erinnerung an Adolf Schmidt" (Berlin, 1887).