Ludwig Timotheus Spittler (11 November 1752 – 14 March 1810) was a German

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 species; as well as the ...

born in

Stuttgart Stuttgart (; ; Swabian German, Swabian: ; Alemannic German, Alemannic: ; Italian language, Italian: ; ) is the capital city, capital and List of cities in Baden-Württemberg by population, largest city of the States of Germany, German state of ...

. He published works on national,

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and

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. He was a member of the

Göttingen school of history The Göttingen school of history was a group of historians associated with a particular style of historiography located at the University of Göttingen in the late 18th century. The University of Göttingen was the original centre of the " Geschi ...

. Spittler studied at

Tübingen Tübingen (; ) is a traditional college town, university city in central Baden-Württemberg, Germany. It is situated south of the state capital, Stuttgart, and developed on both sides of the Neckar and Ammer (Neckar), Ammer rivers. about one in ...

, and in 1778 became a full professor at the

University of Göttingen The University of Göttingen, officially the Georg August University of Göttingen (, commonly referred to as Georgia Augusta), is a Public university, public research university in the city of Göttingen, Lower Saxony, Germany. Founded in 1734 ...

. At Göttingen he collaborated on several important projects with historians

August Ludwig von Schlözer August Ludwig von Schlözer (5 July 1735, in Gaggstatt – 9 September 1809, in Göttingen) was a German historian and pedagogist who laid foundations for the critical study of Russian medieval history. He was a member of the Göttingen schoo ...

(1735–1809), Johann Christoph Gatterer (1727–1799) and constitutional law teacher

Johann Stephan Pütter Johann Stephan Pütter (25 June 1725, Iserlohn – 12 August 1807, Göttingen) was a German law lecturer and publicist. He was professor of law at the university of Göttingen from 1746 until his death. He exerted great influence on the law inst ...

(1725–1807). With

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Christoph Meiners Christoph Meiners (31 July 1747 – 1 May 1810) was a German racialist, philosopher, historian, and writer born in Warstade. He supported the polygenist theory of human origins. He was a member of the Göttingen school of history. Biogra ...

(1747–1810), he published the ''Göttingische Historische Magazin'' from January 1787 to August 1791. In 1786 he wrote ''Geschichte des Fürstenthums Hannover seit der Reformation'' ("History of the

Hanover Hanover ( ; ; ) is the capital and largest city of the States of Germany, German state of Lower Saxony. Its population of 535,932 (2021) makes it the List of cities in Germany by population, 13th-largest city in Germany as well as the fourth-l ...

Principality since the

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"), and in 1796, published ''Geschichte der Dänischen Revolution im Jahr 1660'', a book in which he described how Frederick III introduced

political absolutism Absolutism may refer to: Government * Absolutism (European history), period c. 1610 – c. 1789 in Europe ** Enlightened absolutism, influenced by the Enlightenment (18th- and early 19th-century Europe) * Absolute monarchy, in which a monarch r ...

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. Another influential work of Spittler's was ''Landesgeschichte in der Zeit der Deutschen Spataufklarung'' ("The Country's History during the German Spataufklarung").

References

Kant in the Classroom
(biographical information on Johann Christoph Gatterer)

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* 18th-century German historians Writers from Stuttgart 1752 births 1810 deaths Academic staff of the University of Göttingen University of Tübingen alumni German male non-fiction writers 19th-century German historians {{Germany-historian-stub