Albert Bauer (historian)

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Albert Bauer (born June 23 or July 2 or July 5, 1894 in Riga , † July 17, 1961 in Tübingen ) was a German historian and librarian .

The son of a high school teacher attended high schools in Pernau and from 1910 to 1911 in Mitau . He then studied history at the Universities of Dorpat and Riga . From 1916 to 1918 he did military service as a Russian officer. In 1922 he passed the Latvian state examination. From 1923 to 1925 he deepened his history studies at the University of Tübingen . There he received his doctorate with Johannes Haller with the thesis Gau und Grafschaft in Schwaben . From 1925 to 1933 he taught German history and auxiliary sciences as a lecturer at the Herder University in Riga . From 1933 he was the successor to Nicolaus Busch, the second director of the Riga City Scientific Library. As a German, Bauer lost his post again as a result of the coup d'état of May 15, 1934 in Latvia . In 1935 he married a librarian. Bauer took over the management of the library of the Society for History and Antiquity in Riga. In 1941 he was drafted into the Wehrmacht . He was used as an interpreter for Russian from 1941 to 1945. In 1945/46, Bauer became a French prisoner of war. From 1946 to 1951 he found a job as a librarian and teacher in Neuendettelsau in Middle Franconia . From 1956 to 1960 he edited the Historical Atlas of Baden-Württemberg, a basic work on the historical regional studies of Southwest Germany. Bauer also worked on a new edition of a Latin-German edition of the "Historians of the Ottonian Age ". He could no longer fully complete the edition of source works from the Ottonian period. Bauer was a member of the Baltic Historical Commission .

His main focus was the history of the Baltic and Württemberg. In 1939 he completed an edition of the "Courland Goods Documents (1200–1500)". Bauer published the socially important maintenance tax list of the Goldingen Commandery for the years 1355-1362 . Bauer worked with Leonid Arbusow on a new edition of the Livonian Chronicle of Heinrich of Latvia for the Monumenta Germaniae Historica , which was published in 1955. In 1959 Bauer added a bilingual edition to this edition. Contrary to the claims of Latvian historians, Bauer was able to prove that Heinrich came from the Magdeburg area and was not of Latvian origin.

Fonts

  • Livonian Chronicle = Chronicon Livoniae. Hahn, Hanover 1955 ( digitized version ).
  • Gau and county in Swabia. A contribution to the constitutional history of the Alemanni (= representations from the history of Württemberg. Vol. 17). Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 1927.

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Remarks

  1. ^ Baltic Historical Commission (ed.): Entry on Albert Bauer. In: BBLD - Baltic Biographical Lexicon digital
  2. ↑ Hans Jänichen: Albert Bauer. In: Zeitschrift für Württembergische Landesgeschichte 20 (1961), pp. 365–366, here: p. 365.
  3. ^ Paul Johansen: Albert Bauer (1894–1961). In: Zeitschrift für Ostforschung 11 (1962), pp. 476–478, here: p. 476.
  4. ↑ Georg von Rauch : The German Baltic history writing after 1945. In: Georg von Rauch (Hrsg.): History of the German Baltic history writing (= East Central Europe in the past and present. Vol. 20). Böhlau, Cologne et al. 1986, ISBN 3-412-05085-7 , pp. 399-435, here p. 409.
personal data
SURNAME Bauer, Albert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian
DATE OF BIRTH June 23, 1894 or July 2, 1894 or July 5, 1894
PLACE OF BIRTH Riga
DATE OF DEATH 17th July 1961
Place of death Tübingen