Georg Voigt was a German historian who was born in 1827 in Königsberg in East Prussia. He died in Leipzig in 1891. Voigt was the son of the historian Johannes Voigt. Voigt belonged to the s of modern research into the Italian Renaissance along with Jacob Burckhardt. In 1860 Voigt was called by Sybel to the University of Rostock as professor of history. 1866 he became professor of history at the University of Leipzig, following the historian Wilhelm Wachsmuth.

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  • Georg Voigt was a German historian who was born in 1827 in Königsberg in East Prussia. He died in Leipzig in 1891. Voigt was the son of the historian Johannes Voigt. Voigt belonged to the s of modern research into the Italian Renaissance along with Jacob Burckhardt. In 1860 Voigt was called by Sybel to the University of Rostock as professor of history. 1866 he became professor of history at the University of Leipzig, following the historian Wilhelm Wachsmuth. His research was into the topics of humanism in the 15th and 16th centuries and the history of the Schmalkaldic war. Unlike Burckhardt, Voigt described only the first century of a movement which came from Renaissance Florence and spread all through Europe. Burckhardt described all features of Italian society of the Renaissance. Their research methods were very different. Burckhardt was more a cultural historian with a historic-philosophical method. Voigt, in the methodical scholarship of Leopold von Ranke, worked more with a philological method. Voigt wrote Wiederbelebung des classischen Alterthums oder das erste Jahrhundert des Humanismus (Revival of Classical Antiquity or the First Century of Humanism). In Voigt's opinion Francesco Petrarca was the origin of Italian humanism. What was very important to him was the new relationship of man in the Renaissance to Classical antiquity especially to Cicero and his humanitas (humanity). Cicero's humanitas is the terminological origin of humanism in general. Despite the connection between Dante Alighieri and Roman authors such as Seneca, Cicero and so on, in Voigt's opinion he is not a typical Renaissance man like Petrarca and his successors, because Dante stood in the late mediaeval world and the corporatives structures. In recognizing his own self as a human in context with the studies of the Classical authors, Petrarca left the old mediaeval world and its corporative structures behind. The consciousness of being a human was the new quality. In the tradition of Ranke and Johann Gustav Droysen, Voigt used the term "humanism" for the description of a historical period. Furthermore, Voigt wrote on Maurice of Saxony. Voigt's biography about the elector is the first, which is compare to the standards of an objective historical science. He realized within a postulate from the German historian Wilhelm Maurenbrecher.
  • Georg Ludwig Voigt war ein deutscher Historiker. Er gehört neben Jacob Burckhardt zu den Begründern einer modernen Renaissanceforschung. Seine Arbeitsschwerpunkte liegen auf dem Gebiet des Humanismus im 15. und 16. Jahrhundert und der Geschichte des Schmalkaldischen Krieges.
  • George Voigt fue un historiador alemán. Estudió en su ciudad natal y pasó a ser conservador de la biblioteca de la Universidad de Leipzig en 1852. Dirigió junto con Sybel las Actas de Reichstag en Múnich, y fue profesor en esta ciudad, en Rostock y en Leipzig. Sus principales obras son Wiederbelebung des klassischen Altertums oder das erste Jahrhundert des Humanismus y Enea Silvio de Piccolomini als Papst Pius II und sein Zeitalter.
  • Professore dal 1861 al 1866 a Rostock e dal 1866 all'Università di Lipsia, fu il più significativo studioso dell'umanesimo italiano prima di Francesco De Sanctis e di Jacob Burckhardt. A lui tra l'altro si deve la coniazione del termine umanesimo. Fondamentale la sua opera Die Wiederbelebung des classischen Alterthums, oder das erste Jahrhundert des Humanismus; Giorgio Voigt: il risorgimento dell'antichità classica ovvero il primo secolo dell'umanesimo (traduzione italiana di Diego Valbusa 1890); giunte e correzione con gli indici bibliografico e analitico a cura di Giuseppe Zippel, Firenze 1897.
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  • Georg Voigt was a German historian who was born in 1827 in Königsberg in East Prussia. He died in Leipzig in 1891. Voigt was the son of the historian Johannes Voigt. Voigt belonged to the s of modern research into the Italian Renaissance along with Jacob Burckhardt. In 1860 Voigt was called by Sybel to the University of Rostock as professor of history. 1866 he became professor of history at the University of Leipzig, following the historian Wilhelm Wachsmuth.
  • Georg Ludwig Voigt war ein deutscher Historiker. Er gehört neben Jacob Burckhardt zu den Begründern einer modernen Renaissanceforschung. Seine Arbeitsschwerpunkte liegen auf dem Gebiet des Humanismus im 15. und 16. Jahrhundert und der Geschichte des Schmalkaldischen Krieges.
  • George Voigt fue un historiador alemán. Estudió en su ciudad natal y pasó a ser conservador de la biblioteca de la Universidad de Leipzig en 1852. Dirigió junto con Sybel las Actas de Reichstag en Múnich, y fue profesor en esta ciudad, en Rostock y en Leipzig. Sus principales obras son Wiederbelebung des klassischen Altertums oder das erste Jahrhundert des Humanismus y Enea Silvio de Piccolomini als Papst Pius II und sein Zeitalter.
  • Professore dal 1861 al 1866 a Rostock e dal 1866 all'Università di Lipsia, fu il più significativo studioso dell'umanesimo italiano prima di Francesco De Sanctis e di Jacob Burckhardt. A lui tra l'altro si deve la coniazione del termine umanesimo.
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