Archive for cultural history

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Archive for cultural history

description Trade journal
Area of ​​Expertise Intellectual and cultural history
language German
publishing company Böhlau Verlag ( Germany )
First edition 1903
Frequency of publication half-yearly
Sold edition approx. 850 copies
(2011)
editor Klaus Herbers (since 2010)
Article archive DigiZeitschriften.de (1951–2007)
ISSN (print) 0003-9233

Archiv für Kulturgeschichte (AKG) is the title of a German historical journal published by Böhlau Verlag . The magazine, founded in 1903, focuses on the intellectual and cultural history of all historical epochs and contains articles and reviews.

history

In 1894, at the age of 28, Georg Steinhausen created "his own publication organ, the 'Zeitschrift für Kulturgeschichte'". The year before that, the magazine for German cultural history had ceased its publication, in which Steinhausen had published several times, and as its successor (and "4th episode") he saw his new magazine. After the cultural-historical periodicals abroad , historical paperback and quarterly for economics, politics and cultural history had been received, Steinhausen saw the journal for cultural history as a replacement for all of them and "the only main cultural-historical organ". During his years as editor of the Zeitschrift für Kulturgeschichte , Steinhausen established himself full-time as a librarian, but he was denied a university career. When the Zeitschrift für Kulturgeschichte ceased its publication in 1902 due to problems with the publisher Emil Felber , Steinhausen founded the Archive for Cultural History as its successor and new center of German cultural history , which he published from 1903 in Alexander Duncker's publishing house.

The founding of the AKG was preceded by struggles over the concept of cultural history in historical studies before the turn of the century: Karl Lamprecht , as a Leipzig professor, declared cultural and economic history to be primary and the prevailing political and personal history to be secondary in the dispute over methods of historical studies . He had met massive resistance in the historians' guild. Steinhausen, however, represented a completely different conception of cultural history than Lamprecht.

The group of editors introduced in 1910 included eleven well-known humanities scholars, including Wilhelm Dilthey , Heinrich Finke and Aloys Schulte , who shaped the journal's focus on the humanities and cultural history. Since 1912 Walter Goetz was co-editor of the AKG next to Steinhausen. Goetz also brought the Lamprecht tradition of cultural history more strongly into the magazine, after all he was a student of Lamprecht and in 1913 he succeeded him as professor in Leipzig and head of the institute for cultural and universal history there . However, Lamprecht's defeat diluted his claim to a leading role in cultural history, and Goetz wanted to include political history more in the profile of the magazine.

Goetz coined the AKG after Steinhausen's death in 1933 as the sole publisher. After the magazine had to be discontinued due to the war in 1944, it was published again in 1951 by Goetz with the assistance of Herbert Grundmann and Fritz Wagner . After Grundmann's death in 1970, the AKG replaced its review section of literature and research reports with a cultural-historical survey with a relatively permanent group of editors and employees. The later editor Egon Boshof , who headed the magazine until 2002 , also joined the editorial team. From Boshof, Helmut Neuhaus took over the editing, who until his retirement in 2010 appointed the sociologist Karl Acham , the art historian Günther Binding and the Germanists Wolfgang Brückner and Michael Schilling as co-editors in addition to the historians Egon Boshof, Kurt Düwell and Gustav Adolf Lehmann . The successor to Neuhaus was the Erlangen medieval historian Klaus Herbers .

Alignment

The Archive for Cultural History aims to synthesize various disciplines to describe an overall culture. The term cultural history is interpreted broadly; in terms of time, the AKG focuses on the epochs from the Middle Ages to the present. The magazine is philosophically influenced by methodical culturalism in the tradition of Erlangen constructivism .

Since 1951, supplements to the Archive for Cultural History have been published in addition to the biannual AKG issues , until 2002 53 volumes appeared at irregular intervals. A year of the AKG usually comprises around 500 pages.

literature

  • Archiv für Kulturgeschichte 85, 2003, Issue 1 (anniversary issue 100 years archive for cultural history ).

Web links

Wikisource: Archive for cultural history  - sources and full texts

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Archive for Cultural History . In: Boehlau-Verlag.com , accessed on March 28, 2011.
  2. ↑ a b c d e Archive for Cultural History . In: Chair for Medieval History and Historical Auxiliary Sciences at the Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nürnberg, accessed on March 28, 2011.
  3. ↑ a b Jürgen Herold: Georg Steinhausen and the cultural history . In: Archiv für Kulturgeschichte 85, 2003, issue 1, pp. 29–70, here p. 33.
  4. ↑ Helmut Neuhaus: One Hundred Years “Archive for Cultural History” . In: Archiv für Kulturgeschichte 85, 2003, issue 1, pp. 1–28, here p. 2.
  5. ↑ Helmut Neuhaus: One Hundred Years “Archive for Cultural History” . In: Archiv für Kulturgeschichte 85, 2003, issue 1, p. 4.
  6. ↑ Helmut Neuhaus: One Hundred Years “Archive for Cultural History” . In: Archiv für Kulturgeschichte 85, 2003, issue 1, p. 3f.
  7. ↑ Helmut Neuhaus: One Hundred Years “Archive for Cultural History” . In: Archiv für Kulturgeschichte 85, 2003, issue 1, p. 1.
  8. ↑ Helmut Neuhaus: One Hundred Years “Archive for Cultural History” . In: Archiv für Kulturgeschichte 85, 2003, issue 1, p. 10.
  9. ↑ Jürgen Herold: Georg Steinhausen and the cultural history . In: Archiv für Kulturgeschichte 85, 2003, issue 1, p. 29.
  10. ↑ See the overview by Bernhard Laxy: Supplements to the archive for cultural history. Vol. 1 – Vol. 53 . In: Zeitschriftenfreihandmagazin , January 13, 2004, accessed on March 28, 2011.