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into English for the first time.
Treitschke, Heinrich von, 1834-1896. London, Jarrold & sons, 1914.
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? TREITSCHKE
HIS LIFE AND WORKS
Translated into English
for the first time
LONDON
JARROLD * SONS. WARWICK LANE, E. C.
ALLEN fr UNWIN, LTD. , MUSEUM STREET, W. C.
19M.
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? CONTENTS.
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9
THE LIFE OF TREITSCHKE -
THE ARMY ------ 139
INTERNATIONAL LAW - 158
FIRST ATTEMPTS AT GERMAN COLONISATION - I93
TWO EMPERORS ----- 213
GERMANY AND THE NEUTRAL STATES - - 230
AUSTRIA AND THE GERMAN EMPIRE - - 242
THE ALLIANCE BETWEEN RUSSIA AND PRUSSIA - 268
FREEDOM - ----- 292
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? THE LIFE OF TREITSCHKE.
By Adolf Hausrath.
I.
There are some names which we instinctively connect
with eternal youth. Those of Achilles and Young
Siegfreid we cannot conceive otherwise than as belonging
to youth itself. If amongst the more recent ones we
count Hoelty, Theodore Koerner, and Novalis the
divine youth, this is due to death having overtaken them
while yet young in years. But if involuntarily we also
include Heinrich von Treitschke, the reason for it lies
not in the age attained by him but in his unfading fresh-
ness. Treitschke died at the age of sixty-two, older or
nearly of the same age as his teachers--Hausser, Mathy,
and Gervinus, all of whom we invariably regard as
venerable old men. And yet he seemed to us like Young
Siegfreid with his never-ageing, gay temperament, his
apparently inexhaustible virility. To his students he
seemed new at every half term, and living amongst young
people he remained young with them. Hopeful of the
future and possessed of a fighting spirit, he retained within
him the joy and sunshine of eternal youth. Thus Death,
when he came, appeared not as an inexorable gleaner
9
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gathering the withered blades in the barn of his Lord,
but rather as a negligent servant destroying in senseless
fashion a rare plant which might yet have yielded much
delicious fruit.
We cannot, therefore, call it a happy inspiration which
prompted the representation of Treitschke as a robed
figure in the statue about to be erected in the University
in Berlin.
It is, of course, not the figure of a Privy Councillor,
who has assumed some resemblance with Gambetta, but
that of a tall, distinguished-looking, strong youth, with
elastic muscles, whose every movement attests health
and virility, a figure such as students and citizens were
wont to see in Leipzig and Heidelberg, and which would
have served an artist as the happiest design for monu-
mental glorification. But to represent the opponent of
all academic red-tapeism in robe is analagous with
Hermann Grimm's proposal to portray the first Chan-
cellor of the German Empire as Napoleon in the Court
of the Brera, that is to say, in the full nude. Neverthe-
less, we greet with joy the high-spirited decision to
honour Treitschke by a statue. In the same way as
the name of Hutten will be connected with the revolt
against the Pope, and the name of Koerner with that *&
against Napoleon, so the name of Treitschke will always
be connected with the redemption of our people from
the disgrace of the times of Confederation to the mag-
nificence of 1870.
It was in August, 1863, that I heard the name of
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? iTSCHKE
AND WORKS
. :into F. nglhh
'he first ttme
t
. n-f *
>? i . ? . . t? MAM WICK LANK, L. C
- . <! ? . MUSEUM STRttT. W C.
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? TREITSCHKE
HIS LIFE AND WORKS
Translated into English
for the first time
LONDON
JARROLD * SONS. WARWICK LANE, E. C.
ALLEN fr UNWIN, LTD. , MUSEUM STREET, W. C.
19M.
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? CONTENTS.
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9
THE LIFE OF TREITSCHKE -
THE ARMY ------ 139
INTERNATIONAL LAW - 158
FIRST ATTEMPTS AT GERMAN COLONISATION - I93
TWO EMPERORS ----- 213
GERMANY AND THE NEUTRAL STATES - - 230
AUSTRIA AND THE GERMAN EMPIRE - - 242
THE ALLIANCE BETWEEN RUSSIA AND PRUSSIA - 268
FREEDOM - ----- 292
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? THE LIFE OF TREITSCHKE.
By Adolf Hausrath.
I.
There are some names which we instinctively connect
with eternal youth. Those of Achilles and Young
Siegfreid we cannot conceive otherwise than as belonging
to youth itself. If amongst the more recent ones we
count Hoelty, Theodore Koerner, and Novalis the
divine youth, this is due to death having overtaken them
while yet young in years. But if involuntarily we also
include Heinrich von Treitschke, the reason for it lies
not in the age attained by him but in his unfading fresh-
ness. Treitschke died at the age of sixty-two, older or
nearly of the same age as his teachers--Hausser, Mathy,
and Gervinus, all of whom we invariably regard as
venerable old men. And yet he seemed to us like Young
Siegfreid with his never-ageing, gay temperament, his
apparently inexhaustible virility. To his students he
seemed new at every half term, and living amongst young
people he remained young with them. Hopeful of the
future and possessed of a fighting spirit, he retained within
him the joy and sunshine of eternal youth. Thus Death,
when he came, appeared not as an inexorable gleaner
9
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gathering the withered blades in the barn of his Lord,
but rather as a negligent servant destroying in senseless
fashion a rare plant which might yet have yielded much
delicious fruit.
We cannot, therefore, call it a happy inspiration which
prompted the representation of Treitschke as a robed
figure in the statue about to be erected in the University
in Berlin.
It is, of course, not the figure of a Privy Councillor,
who has assumed some resemblance with Gambetta, but
that of a tall, distinguished-looking, strong youth, with
elastic muscles, whose every movement attests health
and virility, a figure such as students and citizens were
wont to see in Leipzig and Heidelberg, and which would
have served an artist as the happiest design for monu-
mental glorification. But to represent the opponent of
all academic red-tapeism in robe is analagous with
Hermann Grimm's proposal to portray the first Chan-
cellor of the German Empire as Napoleon in the Court
of the Brera, that is to say, in the full nude. Neverthe-
less, we greet with joy the high-spirited decision to
honour Treitschke by a statue. In the same way as
the name of Hutten will be connected with the revolt
against the Pope, and the name of Koerner with that *&
against Napoleon, so the name of Treitschke will always
be connected with the redemption of our people from
the disgrace of the times of Confederation to the mag-
nificence of 1870.
It was in August, 1863, that I heard the name of
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Treitschke for the first time, when, before an innumerable
audience, he spoke at the Gymnastic Tournament in
Leipzig in commemoration of the Battle of Leipzig. A
youth of twenty-nine, a private University lecturer, and
the son of a highly-placed officer related to Saxon nobility,
he proclaimed with resounding force what in his family
circle was considered demagogical machination and
enmity against illustrious personages, and as such was
generally tabooed. But the principal idea underlying
his argument--that what a people aspires to it will
infallibly attain--found a respondent chord in many
a breast; and I, like many another who read the verbatim
report of the speech in the South German Journal Braters,
resolved to read in future everything put into print by
this man.
We were overjoyed when, in the autumn of 1863, the
Government of Baden appointed Treitschke as Uni-
versity Deputy Professor for Political Science. It was
so certain that at the same time he would give historic
lectures that, on hearing of Treitschke's appointment,
Wegele of WMrzburg--who had already accepted the
position of Professor of History at Freiburg--immediately
asked to be released from his engagement, as henceforth
he could no longer rely on securing pupils. The new
arrival was pleased with his first impressions of Baden.
From his room he overlooked green gardens stretching
towards the River Munster. In the University he
gave lectures on politics and on the Encyclopaedia of
Political Science; but before a much larger audience
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he spoke in the Auditory of Anatomy, and later on in
the Aula on German History, the History of Reforma-
tion, and similar subjects, creating a sensation not only
at the University but also in Society. It was his phe-
nomenal eloquence--not North-German verbosity, but
fertility of thought surging with genius and flowing like
an inexhaustible fountain--which drew his audience at
public lectures and festivities.
Treitschke, Heinrich von, 1834-1896. London, Jarrold & sons, 1914.
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? iTSCHKE
AND WORKS
. :into F. nglhh
'he first ttme
t
. n-f *
>? i . ? . . t? MAM WICK LANK, L. C
- . <! ? . MUSEUM STRttT. W C.
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? TREITSCHKE
HIS LIFE AND WORKS
Translated into English
for the first time
LONDON
JARROLD * SONS. WARWICK LANE, E. C.
ALLEN fr UNWIN, LTD. , MUSEUM STREET, W. C.
19M.
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? CONTENTS.
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76781
PAGE
9
THE LIFE OF TREITSCHKE -
THE ARMY ------ 139
INTERNATIONAL LAW - 158
FIRST ATTEMPTS AT GERMAN COLONISATION - I93
TWO EMPERORS ----- 213
GERMANY AND THE NEUTRAL STATES - - 230
AUSTRIA AND THE GERMAN EMPIRE - - 242
THE ALLIANCE BETWEEN RUSSIA AND PRUSSIA - 268
FREEDOM - ----- 292
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? THE LIFE OF TREITSCHKE.
By Adolf Hausrath.
I.
There are some names which we instinctively connect
with eternal youth. Those of Achilles and Young
Siegfreid we cannot conceive otherwise than as belonging
to youth itself. If amongst the more recent ones we
count Hoelty, Theodore Koerner, and Novalis the
divine youth, this is due to death having overtaken them
while yet young in years. But if involuntarily we also
include Heinrich von Treitschke, the reason for it lies
not in the age attained by him but in his unfading fresh-
ness. Treitschke died at the age of sixty-two, older or
nearly of the same age as his teachers--Hausser, Mathy,
and Gervinus, all of whom we invariably regard as
venerable old men. And yet he seemed to us like Young
Siegfreid with his never-ageing, gay temperament, his
apparently inexhaustible virility. To his students he
seemed new at every half term, and living amongst young
people he remained young with them. Hopeful of the
future and possessed of a fighting spirit, he retained within
him the joy and sunshine of eternal youth. Thus Death,
when he came, appeared not as an inexorable gleaner
9
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? io TREITSCHKE: HIS LIFE AND WORKS
gathering the withered blades in the barn of his Lord,
but rather as a negligent servant destroying in senseless
fashion a rare plant which might yet have yielded much
delicious fruit.
We cannot, therefore, call it a happy inspiration which
prompted the representation of Treitschke as a robed
figure in the statue about to be erected in the University
in Berlin.
It is, of course, not the figure of a Privy Councillor,
who has assumed some resemblance with Gambetta, but
that of a tall, distinguished-looking, strong youth, with
elastic muscles, whose every movement attests health
and virility, a figure such as students and citizens were
wont to see in Leipzig and Heidelberg, and which would
have served an artist as the happiest design for monu-
mental glorification. But to represent the opponent of
all academic red-tapeism in robe is analagous with
Hermann Grimm's proposal to portray the first Chan-
cellor of the German Empire as Napoleon in the Court
of the Brera, that is to say, in the full nude. Neverthe-
less, we greet with joy the high-spirited decision to
honour Treitschke by a statue. In the same way as
the name of Hutten will be connected with the revolt
against the Pope, and the name of Koerner with that *&
against Napoleon, so the name of Treitschke will always
be connected with the redemption of our people from
the disgrace of the times of Confederation to the mag-
nificence of 1870.
It was in August, 1863, that I heard the name of
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? TREITSCHKE
HIS LIFE AND WORKS
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THE LIFE OF TREITSCHKE -
THE ARMY ------ 139
INTERNATIONAL LAW - 158
FIRST ATTEMPTS AT GERMAN COLONISATION - I93
TWO EMPERORS ----- 213
GERMANY AND THE NEUTRAL STATES - - 230
AUSTRIA AND THE GERMAN EMPIRE - - 242
THE ALLIANCE BETWEEN RUSSIA AND PRUSSIA - 268
FREEDOM - ----- 292
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? THE LIFE OF TREITSCHKE.
By Adolf Hausrath.
I.
There are some names which we instinctively connect
with eternal youth. Those of Achilles and Young
Siegfreid we cannot conceive otherwise than as belonging
to youth itself. If amongst the more recent ones we
count Hoelty, Theodore Koerner, and Novalis the
divine youth, this is due to death having overtaken them
while yet young in years. But if involuntarily we also
include Heinrich von Treitschke, the reason for it lies
not in the age attained by him but in his unfading fresh-
ness. Treitschke died at the age of sixty-two, older or
nearly of the same age as his teachers--Hausser, Mathy,
and Gervinus, all of whom we invariably regard as
venerable old men. And yet he seemed to us like Young
Siegfreid with his never-ageing, gay temperament, his
apparently inexhaustible virility. To his students he
seemed new at every half term, and living amongst young
people he remained young with them. Hopeful of the
future and possessed of a fighting spirit, he retained within
him the joy and sunshine of eternal youth. Thus Death,
when he came, appeared not as an inexorable gleaner
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gathering the withered blades in the barn of his Lord,
but rather as a negligent servant destroying in senseless
fashion a rare plant which might yet have yielded much
delicious fruit.
We cannot, therefore, call it a happy inspiration which
prompted the representation of Treitschke as a robed
figure in the statue about to be erected in the University
in Berlin.
It is, of course, not the figure of a Privy Councillor,
who has assumed some resemblance with Gambetta, but
that of a tall, distinguished-looking, strong youth, with
elastic muscles, whose every movement attests health
and virility, a figure such as students and citizens were
wont to see in Leipzig and Heidelberg, and which would
have served an artist as the happiest design for monu-
mental glorification. But to represent the opponent of
all academic red-tapeism in robe is analagous with
Hermann Grimm's proposal to portray the first Chan-
cellor of the German Empire as Napoleon in the Court
of the Brera, that is to say, in the full nude. Neverthe-
less, we greet with joy the high-spirited decision to
honour Treitschke by a statue. In the same way as
the name of Hutten will be connected with the revolt
against the Pope, and the name of Koerner with that *&
against Napoleon, so the name of Treitschke will always
be connected with the redemption of our people from
the disgrace of the times of Confederation to the mag-
nificence of 1870.
It was in August, 1863, that I heard the name of
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Treitschke for the first time, when, before an innumerable
audience, he spoke at the Gymnastic Tournament in
Leipzig in commemoration of the Battle of Leipzig. A
youth of twenty-nine, a private University lecturer, and
the son of a highly-placed officer related to Saxon nobility,
he proclaimed with resounding force what in his family
circle was considered demagogical machination and
enmity against illustrious personages, and as such was
generally tabooed. But the principal idea underlying
his argument--that what a people aspires to it will
infallibly attain--found a respondent chord in many
a breast; and I, like many another who read the verbatim
report of the speech in the South German Journal Braters,
resolved to read in future everything put into print by
this man.
We were overjoyed when, in the autumn of 1863, the
Government of Baden appointed Treitschke as Uni-
versity Deputy Professor for Political Science. It was
so certain that at the same time he would give historic
lectures that, on hearing of Treitschke's appointment,
Wegele of WMrzburg--who had already accepted the
position of Professor of History at Freiburg--immediately
asked to be released from his engagement, as henceforth
he could no longer rely on securing pupils. The new
arrival was pleased with his first impressions of Baden.
From his room he overlooked green gardens stretching
towards the River Munster. In the University he
gave lectures on politics and on the Encyclopaedia of
Political Science; but before a much larger audience
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he spoke in the Auditory of Anatomy, and later on in
the Aula on German History, the History of Reforma-
tion, and similar subjects, creating a sensation not only
at the University but also in Society. It was his phe-
nomenal eloquence--not North-German verbosity, but
fertility of thought surging with genius and flowing like
an inexhaustible fountain--which drew his audience at
public lectures and festivities.
