Rodolphe Reuss

Background

Rodolphe Reuss was born to Protestant theologian Edouard Reuss and his wife Julie (née Himly).

Education

He was educated at Strasbourg, receiving a bachelor at the Faculty of Arts in 1861. Subsequently, he spent three years at different universities in Germany, at first in Munich, then Jena, Berlin, and finally Göttingen, where he attended the lectures of German historian Georg Waitz and where he finished his Doctor of Philosophy thesis on Count Ernst von Mansfeld in Bohemia in October 1864.

Career

He also published under the pseudonym Anton Schweidnitz. Reuss worked as a teacher and librarian in his hometown until 1896. He then moved to Versailles, close to Paris, where he was appointed professor at the École des hautes études in June 1896.

He gave lectures there two times a week for 26 years, while living with his family in Versailles.

He died there in 1924.

Connections

teacher:

Jean Sturm Gymnasium