Carl Friedrich Johannes von Noorden (September 11, 1833 - December 25, 1883) was a German historian

Historian

A historian is a person who studies and writes about the past and is regarded as an authority on it. Historians are concerned with the continuous, methodical narrative and research of past events as relating to the human race; as well as the study of all history in time. If the individual is...

 who was a native of Bonn

Bonn

Bonn is the 19th largest city in Germany. Located in the Cologne/Bonn Region, about 25 kilometres south of Cologne on the river Rhine in the State of North Rhine-Westphalia, it was the capital of West Germany from 1949 to 1990 and the official seat of government of united Germany from 1990 to 1999....

. He studied in Bonn, Marburg

Marburg

Marburg is a city in the state of Hesse, Germany, on the River Lahn. It is the main town of the Marburg-Biedenkopf district and its population, as of March 2010, was 79,911.- Founding and early history :...

 and Berlin

Berlin

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, and in 1868 became a professor of history at the University of Greifswald. While in Bonn, he was a student of Heinrich von Sybel

Heinrich von Sybel

Heinrich Karl Ludolf von Sybel , German historian, came from a Protestant family which had long been established at Soest, in Westphalia....

 (1817–1895). After leaving Greifswald

Greifswald

Greifswald , officially, the University and Hanseatic City of Greifswald is a town in northeastern Germany. It is situated in the state of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, at an equal distance of about from Germany's two largest cities, Berlin and Hamburg. The town borders the Baltic Sea, and is crossed...

, he became a professor at Marburg (1870), Tübingen

Tübingen

Tübingen is a traditional university town in central Baden-Württemberg, Germany. It is situated south of the state capital, Stuttgart, on a ridge between the Neckar and Ammer rivers.-Geography:...

 (1873), Bonn (1876) and Leipzig

Leipzig

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 (1877). At the University of Leipzig

University of Leipzig

The University of Leipzig , located in Leipzig in the Free State of Saxony, Germany, is one of the oldest universities in the world and the second-oldest university in Germany...

, one of his students was Karl Lamprecht (1856–1915). Noorden was a grandson to psychiatrist

Psychiatrist

A psychiatrist is a physician who specializes in the diagnosis and treatment of mental disorders. All psychiatrists are trained in diagnostic evaluation and in psychotherapy...

 Christian Friedrich Nasse

Christian Friedrich Nasse

Christian Friedrich Nasse was a German psychiatrist who was born in Bielefeld. He studied medicine at the University of Halle under physiologist Johann Christian Reil , and following graduation returned to Bielefeld as a general practitioner and later director of a hospital for the poor...

 (1778–1851) and the father of pathologist Carl von Noorden

Carl von Noorden (pathologist)

Carl Harko von Noorden was a German internist, born at Bonn and educated in medicine at Tübingen, Freiberg, and Leipzig . in 1885 he was admitted as privatdocent to the medical facility of the University of Giessen, where he had been assistant in the medical clinic since 1883...

 (1858–1944).

Carl von Noorden published books on medieval and Renaissance

Renaissance

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 history, as well as works on more contemporary European history. He is largely known for his writings involving history during the War of Spanish Succession, and the historical era surrounding Charles V

Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor

Charles V was ruler of the Holy Roman Empire from 1519 and, as Charles I, of the Spanish Empire from 1516 until his voluntary retirement and abdication in favor of his younger brother Ferdinand I and his son Philip II in 1556.As...

. He also published several articles concerning the political history of England, France and the Netherlands. One of his better works was an unfinished book on the recent history of Spain.

Noorden was a catalyst in the founding of Königlich-Sächsischen Historischen Seminars (Royal Saxon Historical Seminars) at the University of Leipzig

University of Leipzig

The University of Leipzig , located in Leipzig in the Free State of Saxony, Germany, is one of the oldest universities in the world and the second-oldest university in Germany...

 in 1877. After his death, his position at Leipzig was succeeded by his friend Wilhelm Maurenbrecher

Wilhelm Maurenbrecher

Karl Peter Wilhelm Maurenbrecher was a German historian.He was born at Bonn and studied in Berlin and Munich under Leopold von Ranke and Heinrich von Sybel, being especially influenced by the latter historian...

 (1838–1892).

Selected writings

• Hinkmar, Erzbischof von Reims (Hincmar, Archbishop of Reims 806-882); Bonn 1863
• Europäische Geschichte im 18. Jahrhundert, 1. Abteilg.: Der Spanische Erbfolgekrieg, Bd. 1-3 (European history in the 18th Century, Division: The Spanish War of Succession, Vol 1-3); Düsseldorf 1870 to 1882.
• Historischen Vorträge, eingeleitet und herausgegeben von Wilhelm Maurenbrecher (Historical lectures, initiated and edited by Wilhelm Maurenbrecher), Leipzig 1884.