Alexander Scharff (historian)

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Alexander Scharff (1964)
Alexander Scharff (right) at the awarding of the Great Federal Cross of Merit by Helmut Lemke (1970)

Alexander Scharff (born July 2, 1904 in Calbe (Saale) , † March 27, 1985 in Kiel ) was a German historian .

Life

Scharff was born in 1904 as the son of orthopedic specialist Otto Wilhelm Alexander Scharff (1874–?) And his wife Catharina Sophie Johanna born. Macco (1876–1955) born. He went to the humanistic high school in Flensburg and studied history at the universities in Tübingen, Munich and Kiel. During his studies in 1923 Scharff became a member of the Tübingen fraternity Derendingia . It was in 1928 at the University of Munich to that of Karl Alexander von Müller supervised dissertation on the idea of the Prussian supremacy in the early days of German unification movement doctorate . In 1929 he worked in the Schleswig-Holstein University Society - from 1938 as a lecturer. In 1938 he completed his habilitation. Classified as not suitable for front use, Scharff took over the position of civilian teacher at the Naval School Mürwik in Flensburg - Mürwik in 1939 . There he was appointed adjunct professor for middle and modern history in 1944. In 1939 he married S. Herta Wilhelmsen († 1958), with whom he had a son and two daughters.

From 1946 he worked at the Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel , in 1949 he was appointed lecturer for Schleswig-Holstein history and in 1952 a regular associate professor. From 1957 to 1972 Scharff held the chair for Schleswig-Holstein and Nordic history.

He also researched the university and student history of Kiel. He was on the advisory board of the Society for Fraternity History Research and since 1963 co-editor of the presentations and sources on the history of the German unity movements in the 19th and 20th centuries (Volumes 4–8).

Honors

Fonts

  • The idea of ​​Prussian supremacy in the beginning of the German unity movement. Schroeder, Bonn 1929 (also: dissertation, University of Munich, 1928).
  • The Great European Powers and the German Revolution: German Unity and European Order 1848–1851. Koehler & Amelang, Leipzig 1942.
  • The Schleswig-Holstein Art Association in the Political Movements of the 19th Century. North Elbingen 1960.
  • Schleswig-Holstein in German and Northern European History. Collected Essays. ( Kiel historical studies. Vol. 6). Edited by Manfred Jessen-Klingenberg. Klett, Stuttgart 1969.
  • Schleswig-Holstein and the dissolution of the entire Danish state 1830-1864 / 67 . In: History of Schleswig-Holstein, Volume 8), Wachholtz, Neumünster 1975–1980.
  • Schleswig-Holstein history. An overview , 3rd edition, Ploetz, Freiburg / Würzburg 1982.

literature

  • Oliver Auge , Martin Göllnitz: State historical magazines and university state history: The example of Schleswig-Holstein (1924-2008). In: Thomas Küster (Ed.): Media of limited space. State and regional history magazines in the 19th and 20th centuries (= research on regional history. Vol. 73). Schöningh, Paderborn 2013, ISBN 3-506-77730-0 , pp. 69–125.
  • Oliver Auge , Martin Göllnitz: Between border struggle, international understanding and the search for democratic identity: The national history at the Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel between 1945 and 1965. In: Christoph Cornelißen (Ed.): Wissenschaft im Aufbruch. Contributions to the re-establishment of Kiel University after 1945 (= communications from the Society for Kiel City History. Vol. 88). Klartext-Verlag, Essen 2014, ISBN 978-3-8375-1390-5 , pp. 101–129.
  • Manfred Jessen-Klingenberg : Alexander Scharff. In: Journal of the Society for Schleswig-Holstein History . Vol. 111, 1986, pp. 9-18 ( digitized version ).
  • Scharff, Alexander , in: Friedhelm Golücke : Author's lexicon for student and university history. SH-Verlag, Cologne 2004, ISBN 3-89498-130-X . Pp. 285-286.

Web links

Commons : Alexander Scharff  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Remarks

  1. ↑ Manfred Jessen-Klingenberg: Alexander Scharff, b. July 11, 1904, died March 27, 1985. In: Journal of the Society for Schleswig-Holstein History . Volume 111 (1986), p. 16.
  2. ↑ Membership directory of the Derendingia fraternity in Tübingen. October 1933, p. 54.
  3. ↑ Oliver Auge, Martin Göllnitz: Landesgeschichtliche Zeitschriften und University Landesgeschichte. 2013, p. 82 ff.
  4. ^ Lornsen chain for Prof. Scharff. In: Quickborn. Journal for Low German Language and Literature , Volume 59, 1969, No. 4, p. 47.
personal data
SURNAME Scharff, Alexander
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian
DATE OF BIRTH July 2, 1904
PLACE OF BIRTH Calbe
DATE OF DEATH March 27, 1985
Place of death Kiel