Auguste Cornu

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Auguste Cornu (born August 9, 1888 in Beaune , † May 6, 1981 in Berlin ) was a French historian who taught as one of the few foreign professors in the GDR.

Auguste Cornu studied German , economics and law at the Sorbonne and the University of Berlin from 1906 to 1918 . In 1913 he joined the French Socialist Party (SFIO), in 1920 the French Communist Party . He received his doctorate in the same year with a thesis on La Jeunesse de Karl Marx 1818-1845 at the Sorbonne. The habilitation followed in 1934 with the work Moses Hess et la Gauche hégélienne . He then became a lecturer at the Sorbonne. From 1949 to 1951, Cornu was visiting professor for comparative human and literary history at the University of Leipzig . In 1951 he was appointed to a chair for cultural history at the Humboldt University in Berlin . In 1956, Cornu was also head of the Marx-Engels research center at the German Academy of Sciences (DAW). In 1958 he retired. His estate is in the archive of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences .

The main research area of ​​Cornus was the life and work of Karl Marx . He was honored with a number of high awards in the GDR. In 1956 he was awarded the Friedrich Engels Prize of the German Academy of Sciences , in 1959 he received the National Prize of the GDR , III. Class and was made an honorary doctorate from Humboldt University. The Patriotic Order of Merit in Silver was awarded to Cornu in 1963, in 1964 he became a corresponding member of the DAW, the Karl Marx Order followed in 1968, the Patriotic Order of Merit in Gold in 1973. In 1978 he was awarded the Star of Friendship of Nations . Cornu was also an external member of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR . His writings have been translated into several languages.

Fonts

  • Karl Marx et la pensée modern. Contribution to the étude de la formation du marxisme. Ed. sociales, Paris 1948 (also in Czech)
    • German: Karl Marx and the development of modern thought. Contributions to the study of the formation of Marxism. Dietz, Berlin 1950
  • Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels - Life and Work. (3 volumes), Aufbau Verlag, Berlin 1954, 1962, 1968
  • Karl Marx. The economic-philosophical manuscripts (= lectures and writings of the German Academy of Sciences in Berlin. Issue 57). Academy, Berlin 1955 (also Chinese)
  • as editor with Wolfgang Mönke : Moses Hess. Philosophical and Socialist Writings 1837–1850. A selection. Academy, Berlin 1961.

literature

  • Cornu, Auguste : In: Collegium Politicum at the University of Hamburg , Historiography Working Group (ed.): Historians in Central Germany . Ferd. Dümmlers Verlag, Bonn / Hanover / Hamburg / Munich 1965 (printed by Grenzland-Druckerei Rock & Co), pp. 20–21. ( DNB 451513835 )
  • Cornu, Auguste . In: Federal Ministry for All-German Issues (ed.): SBZ biography . Deutscher Bundes-Verlag, Berlin 1964, pp. 58–59.
  • Heinrich Scheel (Ed.): Contributions to Marx-Engels research. Dedicated to the work of Auguste Cornus. Speeches and lectures at the Festive Colloquium, organized by the German Academy of Sciences in the GDR on September 20, 1973 in honor of the 85th birthday of the corresponding member of the Academy of Sciences in the GDR, Auguste Cornu. Academy, Berlin 1975 ( meeting reports of the Academy of Sciences of the GDR. Born 1973, No. 20, bibliography p. 179–181. ZDB ID 221067-8 ).
  • Lothar Mertens : Lexicon of the GDR historians. Biographies and bibliographies on the historians from the German Democratic Republic. Saur, Munich 2006, ISBN 3-598-11673-X , p. 164.
  • Thomas Kuczynski : Marx-Engels research at the German Academy of Sciences. Sketches for an unprocessed field of research. In: Carl-Erich Vollgraf, Richard Sperl, Rolf Hecker (eds.): Contributions to Marx-Engels research. New episode. Special volume 5. The Marx-Engels editions of works in the USSR and GDR (1945–1968). 1945 - New beginning or continuation of the Marx-Engels-Edition? The Russian Marx-Engels work edition. The publication of the MEW in the GDR and its editors. To the reception based on the first MEGA and MEW. Documentation. In search of the SPD library 1947/46. Marx documents from the Longuet family archive. Letters from Roman Rosdolsky to Karl Korsch (1950–54). Argument Verlag, Hamburg 2006, ISBN 3-88619-691-7 , pp. 417-427. Digitized
  • Short biography for:  Cornu, Auguste . In: Who was who in the GDR? 5th edition. Volume 1. Ch. Links, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86153-561-4 .
  • Volker Külow: In memory of the corresponding (foreign) member of the Academy of Sciences of the GDR Auguste Cornu (1888–1981). "The Marxian doctrine then no longer appears as a finished product ..." ... Leibniz Society. Meeting reports 63 (2004), 146–157.

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personal data
SURNAME Cornu, Auguste
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French historian
DATE OF BIRTH August 9, 1888
PLACE OF BIRTH Beaune
DATE OF DEATH May 6, 1981
Place of death Berlin