Arthur Hermann

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Arthur Gustav Hermann (born February 21, 1944 in Kaunas , Lithuanian SSR at that time under German occupation, part of the Reichskommissariat Ostland ) is a German-Lithuanian author , editor and historian .

Life

Arthur Hermann is the second son of the married couple Ewald and Berta Hermann. He came to Wuppertal in 1958 with his parents and younger siblings from Lithuania as a late repatriate. He attended the Lithuanian high school Hüttenfeld and graduated from high school there in 1966. He then studied Eastern European history in Munich and trained as a qualified librarian at academic libraries. In his work, he has specialized in the history of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Lithuania and in German-Lithuanian relations in the 19th and 20th centuries. He headed the libraries of the Ecumenical Institute, the Diaconal Science Institute and the Practical Theological Seminar at the University of Heidelberg .

In 2004 he was awarded the Order for Services to Lithuania by the Lithuanian President . In 2005, District President Gerold Dieke awarded him the Rhine-Main / South Hesse Prize of Honor “in recognition of the special achievements and merits in the Lithuanian Cultural Institute in Lampertheim-Hüttenfeld and for international understanding in a united Europe”.

Services

He became involved early on in the Baltic Christian Union (formerly the Baltic Christian Student Union) and is a member of the board of the Lithuanian Cultural Institute . He did research into German-Lithuanian relations, the history of the Evangelical Churches in Lithuania and the interests of the Lithuanian community in Germany.

From 1984 to 1989 he was editor of the Baltic Yearbook, a specialist journal with articles on Baltic-German relations and the history of the Baltic region. Since 1993 he has edited the Annaberger Annalen together with Annemarie Lepa . The Annaberger Annalen are the only German-language specialist journal on Lithuania and German-Lithuanian relations. It appears annually and brings scientific and informative articles on the German-Lithuanian relationship in the past and present and on the culture of Lithuania.
He is significantly involved in the development of the Lithuanian library of the Lithuanian cultural institute in Rennhof Palace in Lampertheim - Hüttenfeld and runs it on a voluntary basis.

Works

  • Lutheran Church in the Baltic Region: An Overview (Author). Martin Luther Bund: 1985
  • The border as a place of rapprochement: 750 years of German-Lithuanian relations (editor). Cologne, Mare Balticum, 1992
  • Lithuanian language lessons in East Prussia and its representation in German and Lithuanian historiography (Abh.). Nordost-Archiv Volume I: 1992, no.2, page 375
  • Annaberger Annalen (editor). Bonn-Bad Godesberg, annually since 1993
  • The Reformed Churches of Lithuania (Editor). Erlangen: Martin Luther Verlag, 1998
  • The Lutheran Church of Lithuania. A historical overview (Dep.). Nordost-Archiv Volume VII: 1998, No. 2, page 395
  • Lietuvių ir vokiečių kaimynystė: straipsnių rinkinys (author). Vilnius, Baltos Lankos, 2000
  • Lietuvos evangelikų liuteronų bažnyčia 1915–1995 m. // Lietuvos evangelikų bažnyčios. Istorijos metmenys / Sudaryt. Arthur Hermann . Vilnius, 2003
  • further treatises, published a. a. in the Annaberg Annals and at the Lithuanian Cultural Institute.

Web links

Remarks

  1. ↑ See http://www.infobalt.de/Neue_Dateien/IB%202001_01_hermann_deutsch%20litauische%20nachbarschaft.pdf
  2. ↑ Press release from Heidelberg University
  3. ^ Lampertheimer Zeitung of October 24, 2005 on the LKI website
  4. ↑ See Annaberger Annalen 2006 (PDF; 50 kB)
personal data
SURNAME Hermann, Arthur
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hermann, Arthur Gustav
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-Lithuanian author, editor and historian
DATE OF BIRTH February 21, 1944
PLACE OF BIRTH Kaunas , Lithuanian SSR