Gustav Hertzberg


Gustav Friedrich Hertzberg, was a German historian and publicist.

Life

Hertzberg was the eldest son Gustav Ludwig Hertzberg and his wife, the former Friederike Bucholz. He studied theology at the University of Halle-Wittenberg. In the fall of 1844 he earned a degree in classics and related topics from the University of Leipzig. In 1851 he earned his habilitation from the University of Halle-Wittenberg in ancient history. Among his professors there had been Gottfried Bernhardy and Heinrich Leo. In 1854 he joined a Masonic Lodge. Hertzberg was a member of the National Liberal Party. By the late 1850s he was working in Berlin.
On his death Hertzberg was survived by his second wife, Auguste Ziebarth, whom he married in 1862. His first wife, Rosalie Carpenter, died in 1859 in child-birth.

Literary activity

Hertzberg wrote primarily on the history of Ancient Greece and Rome as well as on the Byzantine Empire.
He published a German translation of Victor Duruy's "Histoire des Romains" and made contributions to Wilhelm Oncken's "Allgemeine Geschichte in Einzeldarstellungen", to Heeren and Ukert's "Geschichte der Europäischen Staaten" and to Hans Prutz' "Illustrierte Weltgeschichte".