Hermann Ernst Adolf (Hermann)

(1812 - 1884), was a professor at Jena and Marburg. His main work - continued launched F. Shtral "Geschichte des Russischen Staates" (in the book "Geschichte der europaischen Staaten", Geer-Ukert). Germany owns the 3 - 6 volumes, covering the time from 1505 to 1792, Mr.. Especially valuable exposition of the history of XVIII century, based on a completely new documents from the archives of Dresden, London and Berlin. Retelling events XVI and XVII centuries, is also of interest because Herman very carefully used the sources. Beginning with the reign of Catherine I, Hermann, crushed mass of new material, draws attention exclusively on the external history, whereas in previous volumes, he tried to give description of inner history of the country. In 1866, Mr.. He issued a supplementary volume ( "Diplomatische Correspondenzen aus der Revolutionszeit"), . which included papers on the history of the European coalition against France, . Polish and Swedish cases, . as well as the history of Russia (mainly, . Russian court) for 1779 - 1790 years,
. As developed by Germany in its history and partly communicated to them in the "Collection of Russian Historical Society, (T. 3, 5, 6, 20, 22, 37) reports of the Saxon diplomats lot of valuable data for the characteristics of Russian society at that time. Other works of Herman: "Die Oesterreichischpreussiche Allianz vom 7. Febr. 1792 und die zweite Teilung Polens "(Gotha, 1861; directed against Siebel and led to fierce controversy; cm. "Forschungen zur Deuutschen Geschichte", Volume IV and V, and Erganzungsband to "Gesch. d. russ. St. ");" Zeitgenossische Berichte zur Geschichte Russland's "(Leipzig, 1872);" Peter der Grosse und Zarewitch Alexei "(1880; mainly on the reports of unpublished Friedrich Christian Weber, the author of essays" Das veranderte Russland ").