Bernhard Erdmannsdörffer

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Bernhard Erdmannsdörffer

Bernhard Erdmannsdörffer (born January 24, 1833 in Altenburg , † March 1, 1901 in Heidelberg ) was a German historian .

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Bernhard was the son of the businessman Friedrich Eduard Erdmannsdörffer (1797–1873) and Marie Sophie born. Zinc Iron (1800-1839). From 1852 he studied classical philology and history in Jena and did his doctorate with Johann Gustav Droysen . During his studies he became a member of the Teutonia Jena fraternity . He was the brother of Adolph Erdmannsdörffer , who died in a duel in Wöllnitz in 1845 . He became tutor in Venice , where he became interested in the relations between the Republic of Venice and Germany. Returning to Germany, he dedicated his habilitation thesis to this topic. As an employee of the Munich Historical Commission, he again spent a long time in Italy to study files.

From 1861 he worked with Droysen and Maximilian Duncker (1811–1886) in Berlin on the mammoth work of documents and acts on the history of Elector Friedrich Wilhelm von Brandenburg , which was only to be completed in 1930 with the 23rd volume. From 1862 Erdmannsdörffer was a private lecturer at the Berlin University, from 1864 also at the War Academy. In 1871 he became a full professor of modern history at the University of Greifswald , in 1873 at the University of Breslau and in 1874 as the successor to Heinrich von Treitschke at the University of Heidelberg , where he taught until his death. Max Weber , who co-founded German-speaking sociology together with Ferdinand Tönnies and Georg Simmel , had also heard history from him.

From 1897 he was a corresponding member of the Prussian Academy of Sciences . He was a member of the Baden Historical Commission . In 1894 he received the Verdun Prize .

His anti-Semitic attitude is mentioned in the correspondence between his wife Anna and her mother, and he also attested to his father-in-law Gustav Lenz " the establishment of five good German families [...] and not a drop of false Semite blood ... ".

Erdmannsdörffer married Anna born in 1874. Lenz (1854-1892). His son Otto Erdmannsdörffer (1876–1955) was professor of geology and mineralogy in Hanover and Heidelberg. Two of his four daughters, Hanna and Sophie, married the writer Heinrich Lilienfein (1879–1952).

Fonts

  • De prytaniis atticis. (Dissertation, University of Jena).
  • De commercio quod inter Venetos et Germaniae civitates aevo medio intercessit. (Habilitation thesis, University of Jena, 1858). German: About the dispatches of the Venetian ambassadors, with special reference to Germany. In: Reports of the Kgl. Saxon Society of Sciences, Philosophical-Historical Class. 1857, pp. 38-85.
  • Duke Karl Emanuel of Savoy and the election of the German emperor in 1619. (Habilitation thesis, University of Berlin). Veit, Leipzig 1862.
  • Count Georg Friedrich von Waldeck. Reimer, Berlin 1869.
  • The great elector. Brockhaus, Leipzig 1879.
  • Political correspondence of Karl Friedrich von Baden: 1783–1806. 5 volumes. Winter, Heidelberg 1888–1901 (from Volume 3 together with Karl Obser ).
  • German history from the Peace of Westphalia to the accession of Frederick the Great. 1648-1740. 2 volumes. Grote, Berlin 1892–1893 (= general history in individual representations . History of the Modern Era, Vol. 7,1–2).
  • Mirabeau. Velhagen & Klasing, Bielefeld u. a. 1900.

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Remarks

  1. Dirk Kaesler : Max Weber. Preuße, Denker, Muttersohn , Munich 2014, p. 208.
  2. Quoted from Götz Aly: On the sociology of anti-Semitism in the 19th and 20th centuries. In: Oliver Rathkolb (ed.): The long shadow of anti-Semitism. Critical examination of the history of the University of Vienna in the 19th and 20th centuries. Göttingen 2013, pp. 59–68, here: p. 66.