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Adalbert Emil August Wahl (born November 29, 1871 in Mannheim ; † March 5, 1957 in Tübingen ) was a German historian and university professor.

Life

After graduating from high school at the humanistic grammar school in Bonn, Adalbert Wahl began studying history at the universities of Oxford , Berlin , Vienna and Bonn , which he achieved in Bonn in 1895 with the academic degree of Dr. phil. completed.

In 1900 he completed his habilitation as a private lecturer at the University of Freiburg , and in 1905 he was appointed associate professor there. In 1908 Adalbert Wahl accepted a professorship for modern history in Hamburg , in 1910 he moved in the same capacity to the University of Tübingen and from there in 1918 to the University of Dorpat , until he took over the chair for his subject in Tübingen in 1919, which he up to his retirement in 1937. In addition, he was the rector's office there in the 1921/1922 academic year .

Wahl was one of those conservative-patriotic-minded historians who regard the concept of race as a historical force. In 1935, for example, he told his cousin, the publisher Wilhelm Oldenbourg , that he had always advocated greater consideration of the concept of race and judged the historian Otto Hintze's wife , the historian Hedwig Hintze , to be a "disgusting Jewess".

Fonts (selection)

  • Prehistory of the French Revolution , volumes 1–2, JCB Mohr (P. Siebeck), Tübingen 1905.
  • History of the European State System in the Age of the French Revolution and the Wars of Freedom (1789–1815), Oldenbourg, Munich / Berlin 1912.
  • Montesquieu as a forerunner of action and reaction, Oldenbourg, Munich / Berlin 1912.
  • The ideas of 1813. Ceremonial speech in memory of the uprising of the German people in 1813 and the 25th anniversary of the reign of His Majesty the Emperor held in the ballroom of the University of Tübingen on June 16, 1913, JCB Mohr, Tübingen 1913.
  • Contributions to the history of the time of conflict, JCB Mohr, Tübingen 1914.
  • Hamburg and European Politics in the Age of Napoleon, Gräfe & Sillem, Hamburg 1914.
  • What happened? What has to happen? A memorandum from July 1919 . Kloeres, Tübingen 1919.
  • The Volkish Thought and the Highlights of Modern German History . H. Beyer & Sons, Langensalza 1925, 2nd edition 1934.
  • German history from the founding of the Empire to the outbreak of the World War (1871 to 1914) , 4 volumes, W. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 1926–1936.
  • Repetitions in the course of historical events, Cohen, Bonn 1926.
  • Of leadership in history . H. Beyer & Sons, Langensalza 1929.
  • The current status of the war guilt question . H. Beyer & Sons, Langensalza 1929.
  • History of the French Revolution 1789–1799, Quelle & Meyer, Leipzig 1930.
  • About the aftermath of the French Revolution, primarily in Germany. Thoughts and Investigations. W. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 1939.
  • The old and the new world under the sign of revolution and restoration . Propylaen publishing house, Berlin 1943 (= The new Propylaen world history , 5).

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  1. ↑ Quoted from Karl Ferdinand Werner : The NS-historical image and the German history. W. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 1967, p. 82. There in the footnote the reference to Helmut Heiber : Walter Frank and his Reich Institute for the History of the New Germany. DVA, Stuttgart 1966, pp. 280, 294.
personal data
SURNAME Choice, Adalbert
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wahl, Adalbert Emil August (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian
DATE OF BIRTH November 29, 1871
PLACE OF BIRTH Mannheim
DATE OF DEATH March 5, 1957
Place of death Tübingen