Lecture notes : manuscript, 1839-1841.

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Boeckh, August, 1785-1867. Lecture notes : manuscript, 1839-1841.

Lecture notes : manuscript, 1839-1841.

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Bound, handwritten notes taken by an unidentified student at the University of Berlin (today Humboldt-Universität), ca. 1839 to 1841, at 6 courses, 2 given by August Boeckh (in one volume, Box 1) and 4 by Leopold von Ranke (in two volumes, Box 2). Boeckh's courses were on Greek antiquities (Griechische Alterthumer), given in summer 1839, and on classical philology (Encyklopädie der Philologie). The latter is undated; the latest date cited is 1839 (p. 147). The course on Greek antiquities has an introduction; a general section on the Greeks; and a specialized section in 3 parts, on public life or the state, on private life, and on culture and the arts. A table of contents is included (p. 153). The course on philology has an introduction; a section on theoretical method, including hermeneutics and the theory of criticism; and a section on content, including aspects of classical societies and of scholarly knowledge about the classical world. A table of contents (p. 261) is mostly incomplete. Volume 1 of the notes from Ranke contains courses on the history of the Middle Ages (Geschichte des Mittelalters; Mittlere Geschichte), winter semester 1840-1841, and on German history, summer 1840. Volume 2 contains courses on modern history (Neuere Geschichte) and on contemporary history (Neueste Geschichte). Both are undated; the latest date cited in the former is 1835 (p. 2, 37) and in the latter, 1839 (p. 139, 298). (Ranke taught at the University of Berlin from 1825 until 1871.) Both volumes have a table of contents (vol. 1, pp. 320-324; vol. 2, pp. 292-294). The course on the Middle Ages covers the 4th to the 15th centuries, with an introduction and 4 chapters, focusing on an opposition between Occident and Orient. The course on German history has an introduction and 14 sections that proceed chronologically, from around the 2nd century BCE to 1815, with an emphasis on phases in the development of national autonomy. The course on modern history focuses on Europe from the end of the 15th century until around 1740, with an introduction and 4 chapters. The notes end abruptly with the rubric Die Entstehung Preussens (p. 118). The course on contemporary history has an introduction and 2 main parts. The first looks at Europe from the end of the Seven Years' War up to the French Revolution; the second covers the French Revolution through the end of the Napoleonic Wars. All 3 volumes of notes are written with heavy use of abbreviated forms.

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