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DROZ, ANTOINE GUSTAVE
execution by drowning in Switzerland was in 1652, in Austria 1776, in Iceland 1777; while in France during the Revolution the penalty was revived in the terrible Noyades carried out by the terrorist Jean Baptiste Carrier at Nantes. It was abolished in Russia at the beginning of the 18th century. After 1851 it was impossible for him to remain at Kiel, and he was appomted to a professorship at Jena; hi 1859 he was called to Berlin, where he remained till his death. In his later years he was almost entirely occupied with Prussian history. In 1851 he brought out a life of Count Yorck von Wartenburg (Berlin, 18511852, and many later editions), one of the best biographies in the German language, and then began his great work on the Geschichte der preussisehen Póiitik (Berlin, 18551886). Seven volumes were published, the last not till after his death. . It forms a complete history of the growth of the Prussian monarchy down to the year 1756. This, like all Droysens work, shows a strongly marked individuality, and a great power of tracing the ~anner in which important dynamic forces worked, themselves out in history. It was Lhis characteristic quality of comprehensiveness that also gave him so much influence as a teacher. Droysen, who was twice married, died in Berlin on the ioth of June 1884. His eldest son, Gustav, is the author of several well-known historical works, namely, Gustav Adolf (Leipzig, 18691870); Herzog Bernhard von Weimar (Leipzig, 1885); an admirable Historischer Hand atlas (Leipzig, 1885), and several writings on various events of the Thirty Years War. Another son, Hans Droysen, is the author of some works on Greek history and antiquities. | |
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