Wilhelm Oncken
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| Wilhelm Oncken | |
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| File:Wilhelm Oncken 1838-1905 a.jpg | |
| Born | 19 December 1838 Heidelberg, German Confederation |
| Died | Script error: The function "death_date_and_age" does not exist. Gießen, German Empire |
| Occupation | Historian |
Christian Friedrich Georg Wilhelm Oncken (19 December 1838 – 11 August 1905) was a German historian.
Biography
Oncken was born in Heidelberg. The brother of economist August Oncken, he taught history at the University of Gießen.
Oncken was a typical nineteenth-century national liberal, using history as a means of national political education. From the history of ancient Greece, he later turned to the history of Prussia.
Oncken was also editor of the magazine Allgemeine Geschichte in Einzeldarstellungen ("common history in single representations"; 45 volumes, 1876-1893).
Oncken died in Gießen.
References
- Helmut Berding: Oncken, Wilhelm. Neue Deutsche Biographie. Vol. 19, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1999, ISBN 3-428-00200-8, p. 536 f.
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