1911 Encyclopædia Britannica/Schlosser, Friedrich Christoph
From Wikisource Jump to: navigation, search  SCHLOSSER,
FRIEDRICH CHRISTOPH (1776-1861), German historian, was born at
Jever in East Friesland on the 17th of November 1776. He took up
the study of theology, mainly at Göttingen, and began life as a
private tutor. Turning to the study of history, he carried with
him the tendency to construct his syntheses upon the scanty
basis of 18th-century generalizations; yet in spite of the
growing scientific school he became and remained for a quarter
of a century the most popular German historian. In 1807,
inspired by his study of Dante, he published his first work
Abälard und Dulcin, a defence of scholasticism and medieval
thought. Two years later biographical studies of Theodore Beza
and Peter Martyr Vermili (Leben des Theodor de Beza und des
Peter Martyr Vermili, Heidelberg, 1809) revealed more genuine
scholarship. In 1812 appeared his History of the Iconoclastic
Emperors of the East (Geschichte der bilderst