Beschreibung
This is a new edition of the biography written 75 years ago by Karl Menne. Its scrupulously faithful adherence to the sources means that it has lost none of its reliability as a foundation for new consideration of the life and work of August Hermann Niemeyer (1754-1828), the great-grandson of the Pietist August Hermann Francke. As director of the Franckesche Stiftungen (the charitable foundations named after their instigator) and chancellor and rector of Halle University, A.H. Niemeyer was the key figure of the time in the public life of his home city. The lucid and clearly laid out account of his life closes with a complete catalogue of August Hermann Niemeyer's writings.
