Karl Lamprecht

Karl Lamprecht studied at University of Göttingen, Leipzig University and Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München. Training under Georg Voigt is recorded. Paul Clemens Redlich is recorded as having studied under Karl Lamprecht. The recorded working language is German. The field of work recorded is history, economics and cultural history. Places of work recorded in the authority are Bonn and Marburg. Residence is recorded at Kingdom of Prussia. Employment is recorded with University of Bonn, University of Marburg and Leipzig University. Distinctions recorded are honorary doctorate of the University of Oslo and honorary doctorate from Columbia University.

• Name — Karl Lamprecht • Born — 25 February 1856 • Birthplace — Jessen, Province of Saxony, Kingdom of Prussia • Died — 10 May 1915 (aged 59) • Place of death — Leipzig, German Empire • Occupation — Historian • Illustration — Karl Lamprecht by Max Klinger, Albertinum, Dresden

Lamprecht was born in Jessen in the Province of Saxony. As a student, he trained in history, political science, economics, and art at the University of Göttingen, Leipzig University, and the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München. Lamprecht taught at Marburg University and later at Leipzig University, where he founded the Institut für Kultur und Universalgeschichte center dedicated to comparative world and cultural history. Lamprecht was employee at the successful edition project "The Chronicles of the German Cities" under the leadership of the well-known and highly reputable German historian Karl von Hegel. Lamprecht studied German and European social and economic history, particularly of the Middle Ages. He aroused considerable controversy with his loose interdisciplinary methods and focus on broad social, environmental, and even psychological, questions in history. To him, history meant as much the revelation of sociology as of political events. Lamprecht's ambitious Deutsche Geschichte (13 vols., 1891–1908) on the whole trajectory of German history sparked a famous Methodenstreit (methodological dispute) within Germany's academic history establishment, especially Max Weber, who habitually referred to Lamprecht as a mere dilettante. Lamprecht came under criticism from scholars of legal and constitutional history like Friedrich Meinecke and Georg von Below for his lack of methodological rigor and inattention to important political trends and ideologies. As a result, Lamprecht and his students were marginalized by German academia, and interdisciplinary social history remained something of a taboo among German historians for much of the twentieth century. However, during the years of the series' publication, his work enjoyed a wide readership among the nonacademic German community. He was the chief exponent of the Kulturgeschichte (“History of Culture”), and believed intensely in the superiority of German culture. Shortly before his death he repudiated, with some indignation, the conception of Germany's part in World War I as having been dictated by “warlords,” and avowed that in regard to it that Germany was united. Lamprecht died in Leipzig on 10 May 1915 from what appears to have been the result of internal bleeding brought on by a perforated ulcer.

Karl Lamprecht worked in history, economics, cultural history and economic history. He was employed by University of Bonn, University of Marburg and Leipzig University. He belonged to Academy of Science for Public Utility, Saxon Academy of Sciences and Humanities, AMV Makaria Bonn, StMV Blaue Sänger Göttingen and Königlich Sächsischer Altertumsverein. He worked at Bonn, Marburg and Kingdom of Prussia.

Karl Lamprecht is recorded as having studied at University of Göttingen, Leipzig University and Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München.