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Ludwig Geiger (1848–1919) was a German author and historian, born at Breslau
Wroclaw

Wroclaw is the chief city of the historical region of Lower Silesia in south-western Poland, situated on the Oder River river. Over the centuries the city has been part of Kingdom of Poland , Bohemia, Austria, Prussia, and Germany....
, a son of Abraham Geiger
Abraham Geiger

Abraham Geiger was a Germany rabbi and scholar who led in the foundation of Reform Judaism, seeking to remove all nationalistic elements from Judaism, stressing it as an evolving and changing religion....
. After study at Heidelberg
Heidelberg

Heidelberg is a city in Baden-W?rttemberg, Germany. As of 2006, over 140,000 people live within the city's area. The town of Heidelberg is an administrative district of its own....
, Göttingen
Göttingen

G?ttingen is a college town in Lower Saxony, Germany. It is the Capital of the district of G?ttingen . The Leine river runs through the town. In 2006 the population was 129,686....
, and Bonn
Bonn

Bonn is the 19th largest city in Germany. Located about 20 kilometres south of Cologne on the river Rhine in the Federal State of North Rhine-Westphalia, it was the Capital of Germany West Germany from 1949 to 1990 and the official seat of government of united Germany from 1990 to 1999....
, he became docent in history at Berlin
Berlin

Berlin is the Capital of Germany city and one of sixteen States of Germany of Germany. With a population of 3.4 million within its city limits, Berlin is the country's largest city....
 in 1873 and in 1880 was appointed to a chair
Chair (official)

The chairman is the highest office of an organized group such as a Board of directors, committee, or deliberative assembly. The person holding the office is typically elected or appointed by the members of the group....
 of modern history there. His more important researches have been concerned with the history of humanism
Humanism

Humanism is a broad category of ethics that affirm the dignity and worth of all people, based on the ability to determine right and wrong by appealing to universal human qualities, particularly rationalism, without resorting to the supernatural or alleged divine authority from religious texts....
, to which he contributed such studies as Nikolaus Ellenbog, ein Humanist und Theolog des sechzehnten Jahrhunderts (1870); Johann Reuchlin
Johann Reuchlin

Johann Reuchlin , was a Germany Renaissance humanism and a scholar of Greek language and Hebrew language. For much of his life, he was the real centre of all Greek and Hebrew teaching in Germany....
, sein Leben und seine Werke (1871); Petrarca (1874), an examination of Petrarch
Petrarch

Francesco Petrarca , known in English language as Petrarch, was an Italy scholar, poet and one of the earliest Renaissance humanism. Petrarch is often popularly called the "Father of Humanism"....
's significance as author and scholar; and Renaissance und Humanismus in Italien und Deutschland (1882).






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Ludwig Geiger (1848–1919) was a German author and historian, born at Breslau
Wroclaw

Wroclaw is the chief city of the historical region of Lower Silesia in south-western Poland, situated on the Oder River river. Over the centuries the city has been part of Kingdom of Poland , Bohemia, Austria, Prussia, and Germany....
, a son of Abraham Geiger
Abraham Geiger

Abraham Geiger was a Germany rabbi and scholar who led in the foundation of Reform Judaism, seeking to remove all nationalistic elements from Judaism, stressing it as an evolving and changing religion....
. After study at Heidelberg
Heidelberg

Heidelberg is a city in Baden-W?rttemberg, Germany. As of 2006, over 140,000 people live within the city's area. The town of Heidelberg is an administrative district of its own....
, Göttingen
Göttingen

G?ttingen is a college town in Lower Saxony, Germany. It is the Capital of the district of G?ttingen . The Leine river runs through the town. In 2006 the population was 129,686....
, and Bonn
Bonn

Bonn is the 19th largest city in Germany. Located about 20 kilometres south of Cologne on the river Rhine in the Federal State of North Rhine-Westphalia, it was the Capital of Germany West Germany from 1949 to 1990 and the official seat of government of united Germany from 1990 to 1999....
, he became docent in history at Berlin
Berlin

Berlin is the Capital of Germany city and one of sixteen States of Germany of Germany. With a population of 3.4 million within its city limits, Berlin is the country's largest city....
 in 1873 and in 1880 was appointed to a chair
Chair (official)

The chairman is the highest office of an organized group such as a Board of directors, committee, or deliberative assembly. The person holding the office is typically elected or appointed by the members of the group....
 of modern history there. His more important researches have been concerned with the history of humanism
Humanism

Humanism is a broad category of ethics that affirm the dignity and worth of all people, based on the ability to determine right and wrong by appealing to universal human qualities, particularly rationalism, without resorting to the supernatural or alleged divine authority from religious texts....
, to which he contributed such studies as Nikolaus Ellenbog, ein Humanist und Theolog des sechzehnten Jahrhunderts (1870); Johann Reuchlin
Johann Reuchlin

Johann Reuchlin , was a Germany Renaissance humanism and a scholar of Greek language and Hebrew language. For much of his life, he was the real centre of all Greek and Hebrew teaching in Germany....
, sein Leben und seine Werke (1871); Petrarca (1874), an examination of Petrarch
Petrarch

Francesco Petrarca , known in English language as Petrarch, was an Italy scholar, poet and one of the earliest Renaissance humanism. Petrarch is often popularly called the "Father of Humanism"....
's significance as author and scholar; and Renaissance und Humanismus in Italien und Deutschland (1882). He also revised Jakob Burckhardt
Jacob Burckhardt

Carl Jacob Christoph Burckhardt was a Switzerland historian of art history and cultural history, and an influential figure in the historiography of each field....
's Die Kultur der Renaissance in Italien (seventh edition, two volumes, Leipzig, 1899). In 1880 he began the publication of the Goethe-Jahrbuch and from 1886–1892 was proprietor and an editor of the Zeitschrift für Geschichte der Juden in Deutschland (five volumes), in connection with which subject he published Das Studium der hebräischen Sprache in Deutschland vom Ende des 15ten bis zur Mitte des 16ten Jahrhunderts (1870) and Geschichte der Juden in Berlin (1871); He wrote: Vorträge und Versuche (1890); Berlin, 1688–1840 (1893–1895); Das junge Deutschland und die preussische Zensur (1900); Bettina von Arnim und Friedrich Wilhelm IV (1902); Aus Chamissos Frühzeit (1905); Goethe
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

was a Germans writer and according to George Eliot, "Germany's greatest man of letters? and the last true polymath to walk the earth." Goethe's works span the fields of poetry, drama, literature, theology, philosophy, humanism and science....
 und Zelters Briefwechsel (1905); Chamissos Leben (1907); Chamissos Werke (1907); Der Briefwechsel Goethes mit Humboldt (1908); Charlotte von Schiller (1908).