Alois quail

This article describes the historian Alois Wachtel. For the character of the same name in the GDR television series Ferienheim Bergkristall, see there.

Alois Wachtel (born November 16, 1910 in Essen , † March 18, 1968 in Paris ) was a German historian .

Life

Alois Wachtel studied Catholic theology , history and new languages ​​at the universities of Bonn , Florence and Rome . In 1937 he received his doctorate from the University of Bonn . After passing the state examination for teaching at secondary schools in 1939, he was drafted into army service the following year, but in 1943 he was nevertheless able to be appointed as a study assessor after successfully completing his legal clerkship . He returned in 1946 from the captivity and became 1949 teacher at the high school in Euskirchen appointed. After being promoted to senior teacher in 1956, he became head of the municipal high school in Zülpich . In addition to his educational activities, he had little time for historical research; In addition, he had lost all of his source material during the Second World War , but the Monumenta Germaniae Historica gave him the task of creating volume 5 of the "Sources on the Spiritual History of the Middle Ages" as the "Postilla in Jerenmiam Prophetam ad Heinricum VI. imperatorem «. On the basis of a teaching position supported by Walther Holtzmann , Wachtel offered since the summer semester of 1948 a. a. Reading courses on Latin sources on the history of the Middle Ages , so that he was appointed honorary professor by the University of Bonn in 1961 . On August 1, 1966, Wachtel was appointed director of the German Historical Institute in Paris on the initiative of the medievalist Eugen Ewig from Bonn . At the moment he took office, Wachtel was a sick man whose suffering only worsened in the years that followed. Alois Wachtel died on March 18, 1968 in Paris. Karl Ferdinand Werner was appointed his successor .

Publications

• Alois Wachtel: Contributions to the historical theology of Aurelius Augustinus (= Bonn historical research. Vol. 17, ZDB -ID 500545-0 ). Röhrscheid, Bonn 1960.
• as editor: Alexander Minorita: Expositio in Apocalypsim (= Monumenta Germaniae Historica . Sources for the intellectual history of the Middle Ages. Vol. 1, ISSN  0540-830X ). Böhlau, Weimar 1955.
• The Sicilian candidacy for the throne of Prince Edmund of England. In: German Archive for Research into the Middle Ages . Vol. 4, 1941, pp. 98-178.
• The world-historical apocalypse interpretation of the Minorite Alexander von Bremen. In: Franciscan Studies. Vol. 24, 1937, ISSN  0016-0067 , pp. 201-259, 305-363, (also as a special print: Franziskus-Druckerei, Werl i. W. 1937).