Abriss Der Chronologie
by Johann Christoph Gatterers
First edition of Gatterers’s Outline on chronology, written by German historian Johann Christoph Gatterer and published in 1777.
Chronology is the science of arranging events in their order of occurrence in time. Consider, for example, the use of a timeline or sequence of events.Chronology is part of periodization. It is also part of the discipline of history, including earth history, the earth sciences, and study of the geologic time scale.
Gottingen , Dietrich, 1777
Size 5 by 8 1/4"
288 pages
Original hardcover.
Text in German
Very good condition

Johann Christoph Gatterer (1727 – 1799) was a German historian who was a native of Lichtenau. He was the father of cameralist Christoph Wilhelm Jacob Gatterer (1759–1838) and poet Magdalena Philippine Engelhard (1756–1831). He was a member of the Gottingen School of History.
From 1747 he studied theology at Altdorf, where his interest later changed to history. In 1752 he became a school teacher of history and geography in Nuremberg, and in 1756 gained his professorship in natural history. In 1759 he was appointed professor of history at the University of Gottingen, where he remained for the next forty years.
Gatterer was a pioneer of "universal history", and with fellow Göttingen historian August Ludwig von Schlozer (1735–1809), he was instrumental in developing a modern, hermeneutical approach to history. He believed that historical events needed to be systematically arranged by describing their causal relationships, rather than simply providing a chronology of events. Gatterer used the phrase nexus rerum universalis to represent "a universal connection of things in the world".
His focus dealt largely with ancillary disciplines such as genealogy, heraldry, diplomatics, and physical geography, and he treated these subjects from a modern scientific viewpoint.
In 1785 Gatterer estimated that the time span from Creation to the birth of Christ to be 4181 years.


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