Arnold Berney
Arnold Berney (born May 14, 1897 in Mainz , † December 29, 1943 in Jerusalem ) was a German historian and emigrant to Palestine .
Life
The son of a Jewish wine merchant attended the old-language Rabanus-Maurus-Gymnasium in Mainz together with Carl Zuckmayer . He took part in the First World War and in 1918 helped found a council of intellectual workers in Mainz . He completed his quickly completed law studies with a doctorate in Heidelberg at the end of 1920 and began to study history. In Heidelberg he got to know the members of the George Circle Friedrich Gundolf and Ernst Kantorowicz . At the end of 1921 he moved to Freiburg . There he befriended Hermann Heimpel . Both received their doctorate in Freiburg in 1924 and completed their habilitation there in 1927. Berney published on August Ludwig Schlözer , on King Friedrich I of Prussia and in 1929 in the historical journal the essay Reich tradition and national thought (1789-1815). For his habilitation, Berney did lengthy archive studies in Vienna , Paris and Berlin .
In 1925 Gerhard Ritter took over the chair and gave Heimpel the assistant position at the seminar instead of the older Berney. After Heimpel's appointment to the Below chair, Berney took up the position of assistant.
Berney finished the first volume of his biography of Frederick the Great in 1933 , which lasted until 1756. The efforts of Ritters and Heimpel to promote Berney or at least to keep the seminary in spite of the law to restore the civil service (April 7, 1933) failed. In addition, he was attacked as a Jew by Erwin Hölzle in 1935 .
From 1936 he became a lecturer in history at the Institute for the Science of Judaism in Berlin. Immediately after the November pogrom in 1938 he emigrated to Palestine , with the library and most of the written documents confiscated in the port of Hamburg. He started a family in Jerusalem . At the Hebrew University was Richard Koebner responsible for history. After his dismissal, he went there as an associate professor in Breslau in 1933 and founded a history institute. Berney received only a subordinate position, additionally taught privately and had to accept simple auxiliary jobs. He had already learned Hebrew in Berlin. On December 29, 1943, he suddenly died of the Spanish flu .
literature
- Heinz Duchhardt : Arnold Berney (1897-1943): The fate of a Jewish historian , Cologne: Böhlau Verlag, 1993. ISBN 978-3-412-13492-1 .
- Michael Matthiesen: Lost Identity: The Historian Arnold Berney and his Freiburg colleagues 1923–1938 , Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1998. ISBN 978-3-525-36233-4 .
- Berney, Arnold. In: Lexicon of German-Jewish Authors . Volume 2: Bend Bins. Edited by the Bibliographia Judaica archive. Saur, Munich 1993, ISBN 3-598-22682-9 , pp. 248-250.
Web links
- Literature by and about Arnold Berney in the catalog of the German National Library
- Arnold Berney and Hermann Heimpel - two friends and their relationship to National Socialism
Individual evidence
- ^ Hermann Heimpel, Sabine Krüger: Aspects: old and new texts , Wallstein Verlag, 1995, p. 155, ISBN 3892440956
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Berney, Arnold |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German-Jewish historian |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 14, 1897 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Mainz |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 29, 1943 |
| Place of death | Jerusalem |