Aloys master

Aloys Meister (born December 7, 1866 in Frankfurt am Main , † January 27, 1925 in Münster ) was a German historian .

Aloys Meister was the son of a senior postal worker and came from a strictly Catholic family. Meister passed the higher school leaving examination in 1885 and studied theology in Münster from 1885 . In 1886 he went to Strasbourg and turned to the study of history. Meister was particularly influenced by Paul Scheffer-Boichorst . In 1890 he received his doctorate with the thesis The Hohenstaufen im Alsace, 1079–1255. In 1890 he received an assistant position at the Historical Institute of the Görres Society in Rome . His main research interests in Rome were the history of the Strasbourg chapter dispute , the history of the papal nunciatures and Italian cryptography . In 1894 he completed his habilitation with a thesis on the schism in the Strasbourg Cathedral Chapter 1583–1592. In the same year he became a private lecturer in Bonn . During his time in Bonn he mainly dealt with Rhenish topics. In 1899 he succeeded Heinrich Finke as an associate professor for middle and modern history in Münster. In 1903 he became a personal professor there. In 1907 he published a presentation of German constitutional history from the beginnings to the 15th century . In 1908 he became a full professor in Münster. In 1910/11 he held the office of dean and in 1911/12 he was rector. In 1918 he became a secret councilor .

Master became important as a scientific organizer. He tried to alleviate the lack of scientific handbooks with a plan of historical science (1906). Meister was able to win numerous well-known scientists for collaboration. When Meister became editor of the 6th edition of the classic textbook of German history, the " Gebhardt ", in 1922 , he made profound changes. The history of the German federal states as well as new issues relating to social and party history were given greater consideration. In the interest of the high scientific standard, Meister also employed more university teachers than before for Gebhardt. His main research interests were state, territorial and local history. His account of the Strasbourg chapter dispute (1899) became fundamental. In 1900 he was elected a full member of the Historical Commission for Westphalia , and from 1914 until his death he was its first chairman. Parts of his personal and academic estate are kept in the university archive of the Westphalian Wilhelms University in Münster , of which he was the first director.

Fonts

• Guidelines for Studying Medieval and Modern History. Borgmeyer, Münster 1916.
• German constitutional history from the beginning to the 15th century. 3. Edition. Teubner, Leipzig 1922 ( digitized 2nd edition from 1913 ).
• The County of Mark. Festschrift to commemorate the 300-year union with Brandenburg-Prussia. 2 vols. Ruhfus, Dortmund 1909.
• The Hohenstaufen in Alsace. With special consideration of the imperial property and the family property of the same in Alsace 1079–1255. Trübner Verlag, Strasbourg 1890.

literature

• Bernd Mütter , Robert Meyer :  Meister, Aloys. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 16, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1990, ISBN 3-428-00197-4 , p. 723 f. ( Digitized version ).
• Bernd Mütter: Aloys Meister (1866–1925) . In: Westphalian magazine . 121: 173-247 (1971).
• Max Braubach : Aloys Meister. In: 150 Years of the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität zu Bonn 1818–1968. Bonn scholars. Historical sciences (= contributions to the history of science in Bonn. Volume 5). Bouvier, Bonn 1968, pp. 299-310.

Web links

Wikisource: Aloys Meister  - Sources and full texts

• Literature by and about Aloys Meister in the catalog of the German National Library
• Finding aid for the small estates in the university archive of the Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster , which also includes the estate of Aloys Meister.
• Biographical information on the website of the Historical Commission for Westphalia

predecessor	Office	successor
Franz Diekamp	Rector of the University of Münster 1911–1912	Paul Krückmann