Otto Herding

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Otto Herding , completely Otto Wilhelm Karl Herding , (born June 8, 1911 in Sulzbach , Amberg-Sulzbach district in the Upper Palatinate ; † January 18, 2001 in Frankfurt am Main ) was a German historian , professor of historical auxiliary sciences and regional history and first director of the Institute for Historical Regional Studies and Historical Auxiliary Sciences at the Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen .

Life

After graduating from high school at a humanistic grammar school , Herding studied history, German, English and philosophy at the universities of Birmingham , Vienna and Munich and passed his second state examination in 1935. In 1936 Otto Herding received his doctorate in philosophy from the University of Erlangen with a thesis on the Roman-German Empire. From 1935 on he was an assistant at the local institute for Franconian regional research, interrupted by brief periods in the school service. In 1941 he completed his habilitation on the constitutional and administrative history of the Margrave-Ansbach offices and became a private lecturer in Middle and Modern History in Erlangen. From 1943 to 1955 he was associate professor for regional history and historical auxiliary sciences in Tübingen . Before 1945 Herding was a member of the National Socialist Teachers' Association and took part in exercises of the National Socialist Driver Corps . In the Nazi system he was regarded as an adapted follower.

Otto Herding was a member of the regional studies working group founded in 1947, to which the prehistoric and early historian Kurt Bittel , the folklorist Helmut Dölker and the geographer Karl Heinz Schröder and later the geographer Friedrich Huttenlocher and the historian Hansmartin Decker-Hauff belonged. This working group laid the foundation stone for the Tübingen Regional Studies Working Group, which, in view of the almost identical objectives , united in 1965 with the Alemannic Institute in Freiburg im Breisgau , with which it had previously worked, and renamed itself the Alemannic Institute Working Group in Tübingen . Karl Heinz Schröder, Franz Quarthal , Dieter Mertens and Sönke Lorenz then chaired it .

Since 1954 Herding was the first director of the Institute for Historical Regional Studies and Historical Auxiliary Sciences in Tübingen. From 1955 to 1965 he taught as a full professor in Münster , then until his retirement in 1978 in Freiburg im Breisgau. Herding was elected a full member of the Historical Commission for Westphalia in 1955 . From 1966 he was a corresponding member of the commission. In 1963 he was co-opted into the Erasmus Commission of the Dutch Academy of Sciences . He was a member of the Senate Commission for Humanism Research of the German Research Foundation from 1972 and, together with August Buck, was the first editor of their communications. In 1976 he and Buck created the Wolfenbüttel working group for renaissance research, to whose publications he made a significant contribution. In 1977 he retired.

Herding was not just a regional historian in Tübingen. In 1947 he worked on Augustine , 1948 on Walahfrid Strabo and the so-called Carolingian humanism, 1950 on historiography in the Middle Ages, 1953 on Dante Alighieri . From 1955 Herding became one of the decisive re-founders of German humanism research and created the Institutum Erasmianum in Münster for research into humanism. Together with his students Franz Josef Worstbrock , Bruno Singer and Dieter Mertens , he edited the works of Jakob Wimpfeling over a period of decades.In 1974 and 1977 he published three works by this humanist in the critical Amsterdam Erasmus Complete Edition, including the Querela Pacis . He was a member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Sciences . During his time in Freiburg he was able to complete the Humanism Editions and at the same time turn to regional historiography, especially its early modern founding period. Preparatory work for a handbook of territorial historiography was his legacy. Herding was also a poet and writer ( The Other Life ; Shadow Story ; Stations in Life ).

Herding had been married to Pia Herding (nee Wittmann) since 1938. The marriage had six children. One of his sons was the art historian Klaus Herding .

Memberships

Fonts

  • The Roman-German Empire in German and Italian assessment from Rudolf von Habsburg to Henry VII. Inaugural dissertation. Palm & Enke, Erlangen 1937.
  • Investigations into the constitutional and administrative history of the Margrave-Ansbach offices with special consideration for Cadolzburg, Langenzenn and Roßtal. Habilitation thesis (typewritten), University of Erlangen, 1941.
  • Heinrich Meibom (1555–1625) and Reiner Reineccius (1541–1595) . In: Westfälische Forschungen 18, 1965, pp. 5–22 (PDF file; MB; 3.1 MB).
  • (Ed. :) The humanists in their political and social environment. Boldt, Boppard 1976.
  • (Ed.); Kaspar Elm , Eberhard Gönner, Eugen Hillenbrand (editors and authors): State history and intellectual history (= publications by the Commission for Historical Regional Studies in Baden-Württemberg. Series B, Research, Vol. 92). Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 1977.
  • (Ed.): Querela Pacis. In: Opera Omnia Desiderii Erasmi Roterodami recognita et adnotatione critica instructa notisque illustrata. Vol. 4.2. North Holland, Amsterdam 1977.
  • On the method of editing using the example of humanistic texts . In: Freiburg University Gazette. 78, 1982, pp. 29-43 (PDF file; 2.3 MB).
  • Erasmic peace writings in the 17th century: Querela Pacis . In: Jean-Pierre Massaut (ed.): Colloque Erasmien de Liège: commémoration du 450e anniversaire de la mort d'Erasme. Soc. d'Ed. Les Belles Lettres, Paris 1987, pp. 223-237 (PDF file; 1.25 MB).
  • Jakob Wimpfeling; Otto Herding, Dieter Mertens (ed.): Correspondence. Munich 1990.
  • Awareness, writing and research of history in the Duchy of Württemberg . In: Zeitschrift für Württembergische Landesgeschichte 51, 1992, pp. 205–231 (PDF file; 2.46 MB).
  • Contributions to Southwest German Historiography , Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 2005 (= publications of the Commission for Historical Regional Studies in Baden-Württemberg. Series B, Research, Volume 162), ISBN 3-17-018979-4 .
  • as ed. with August Buck : The commentary in the Renaissance. Bonn-Bad Godesberg and Boppard 1975 (= German Research Foundation: Communications from the Commission for Research on Humanism. Vol. 1).

literature

  • Kürschner's German Scholars Calendar. Vol. I: A-H. 22nd edition. Saur, Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-598-23629-7 .
  • Kaspar Elm , Eberhard Gönner , Eugen Hillenbrand (eds.): State history and intellectual history: Festschrift for Otto Herding on his 65th birthday (= publications of the Commission for Historical Regional Studies in Baden-Württemberg. Vol. 92). Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 1977, ISBN 3-17-004362-5 .
  • Clemens Wachter (arr.): The professors and lecturers at the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen 1743–1960 . Erlanger research, special series Volume 3, ISBN 978-3-930357-96-3 , p. 89 (with biography).

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Remarks

  1. ↑ The merger of the city of Sulzbach with the municipality of Rosenberg to form today's Sulzbach-Rosenberg did not take place until 1934. Herding himself only named Sulzbach as his place of birth as part of his judicial chamber proceedings after the Second World War : State Archives Sigmaringen , Wü 13 T 2 No. 2512/071 .
  2. ↑ Otto Herding: Investigations into the constitutional and administrative history of the margravial Ansbach area with special consideration of the offices of Cadolzburg, Lagenzenn and Roßtal . Habilitation thesis, University of Erlangen, 1941.
  3. ^ History of the Institute for Book Studies & Text Research , accessed on December 6, 2014.
personal data
SURNAME Herding, Otto
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Herding, Otto Wilhelm Karl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH June 8, 1911
PLACE OF BIRTH Sulzbach-Rosenberg
DATE OF DEATH January 18, 2001
Place of death Frankfurt am Main