Wilhelm Junghans

Who was Wilhelm Junghans?

Wilhelm Junghans was a German historian who was a native of Lüneburg.

He studied under Friedrich Wilhelm Ritschl at the University of Bonn, and with Georg Waitz at the University of Göttingen. In 1862 he was appointed professor at the University of Kiel, a position he held until his death in 1865 at the age of 30. At Kiel he was also secretary of the Schleswig-Holstein Historical Society.

Junghans is remembered for his 1856 work involving the Merovingian kings- Childeric I and Clovis I, titled Die Geschichte der fränkischen Könige Childerich und Chlodovech, kritisch untersucht. This book was later translated into French by historian Gabriel Monod and published as Histoire critique des règnes de Childerich et de Chlodovech.