Wilhelm Adolf Schmidt
# Wilhelm Adolf Schmidt

Wilhelm Adolf Schmidt (26 September 1812, Berlin – 10 April 1887) was a German historian.

## Biography

He studied at Berlin, in 1839 becoming a lecturer there, and in 1845 professor. In 1851, he became professor for history at the University of Zürich; nine years, he went to the University of Jena, where he remained for the rest of his life. He was a member of the Frankfurt Parliament in 1848, and of the German Reichstag from 1874 to 1876.

## Works

### German history

This is his main body of work, mostly limited to the 19th century. The most important are:

* Geschichte der Denk- und Glaubensfreiheit im ersten Jahrhundert der Kaiserherrschaft und des Christentums (1847)
* Preussens deutsche Politik (Berlin, 1850, and other editions)
* Geschichte der preussisch-deutschen Unionsbestrebungen (Berlin, 1851)
* Zeitgenössische Geschichten: I. Frankreich von 1815 bis 1830. II. Oesterreich von 1830 bis 1848 (Berlin, 1859)
* Elsass und Lothringen (Leipzig, 1859 and 1870)
* Geschichte der deutschen Verfassungsfrage während der Befreiungskriege und des Wiener Kongresses (Stuttgart, 1890), which was published after his death by A Stern.

He edited the 8th issue of Karl Friedrich Becker's Weltgeschichte, 22 vols. (Leipzig, 1874–79).

### Non-German History

* Tableaux de la Révolution Française publiés sur les papiers inédits du département de la police secrete de Paris (Leipzig, 1867-1870)
* Pariser Zustände während der Revolutionszeit (Jena, 1874—1876), translated into French by Paul Viollet (Paris, 1880—1885)
* Das Perikleische Zeitalter (Jena, 1877—1879)
* Handbuch der griechischen Chronologie (Jena, 1888)
* Abhandlungen zur alten Geschichte (Leipzig, 1888).
