Bernhard Schmeidler

Bernhard Schmeidler (born August 6, 1879 in Berlin , † May 28, 1959 in Munich ) was a German historian and diplomat .

Bernhard Schmeidler studied history in Berlin and Freiburg and was a student of Paul Scheffer-Boichorst . Schmeidler received his doctorate in 1902 under Michael Tangl and worked from 1904 to 1920 at the Monumenta Germaniae Historica . In 1909 his habilitation took place in Leipzig with the work Italian historians in the 12th and 13th centuries . From 1909 to 1916 he taught as a private lecturer and from 1916 to 1921 as an adjunct professor for Middle and Modern History at the University of Leipzig . From 1921 he taught as an associate professor and from 1926 as a full professor until his retirement in 1936 in Erlangen . Schmeidler was prematurely retired because of criticism of a Hitler speech during a lecture. From 1954 to 1959 he was a corresponding member of Monumenta.

Bernhard Schmeidler wrote the Monumenta editions of Helmold's Slavenchronik (1909, with a new introduction and registers 1937), Adam's Hamburg Church History (1917) and the Annals of Tholomeus von Lucca (1930). He also published studies on the history of the Tegernsee monastery from the 11th to the 16th century and his Franconian document studies. In Wattenbach - Holtzmann Germany's historical sources in the Middle Ages , he dealt with the historical sources of Saxony and Thuringia in the age of the investiture dispute . In his work, The later Middle Ages , he summarized his knowledge of European history, but also of intellectual, art and economic history.

His son Felix Schmeidler was a well-known astronomer .

Fonts

Monographs

• Studies on the history of the Tegernsee Monastery. From the 11th to the 16th , Aalen 1974, ISBN 3-511-06520-8 . (Reprint of the 1935 edition).
• Emperor Heinrich IV and his helpers in the investiture dispute. Style-critical and subject-critical studies , Aalen 1970, ISBN 3-511-00738-0 (reprint of the Leipzig 1927 edition).
• The later Middle Ages from the middle of the 13th century to the Reformation , Darmstadt 1962 (reprint of the 1937 edition).

Editorships and editions

• Helmold's Slavenchronik , 3rd edition, Hanover 1937.
• The annals of Tholomeus von Lucca in duplicate , 2nd, unchanged edition, Berlin 1955.

literature

• Herbert Grundmann : Obituary Bernhard Schmeidler . In: German Archive for Research into the Middle Ages 16 (1960), p. 306.
• Klaus Herbers : From Venice to Northern Europe. Bernhard F. Schmeidler and European medieval research in Erlangen since 1921. In: Helmut Neuhaus (Ed.): History in Erlangen, Erlangen a. a. 2000, pp. 71-102.

• Heinz Löwe : Bernhard Schmeidler . In: Historisches Jahrbuch 79 (1960), pp. 516-518.

Web links

• Literature by and about Bernhard Schmeidler in the catalog of the German National Library
• Employee at Monumenta Germaniae Historica (MGH) Munich
• Bernhard Schmeidler - About the formation of concepts and value judgments in history
• Overview of Bernhard Schmeidler's courses at the University of Leipzig (winter semester 1909 to summer semester 1914)
• Bernhard Schmeidler in the professorial catalog of the University of Leipzig

Remarks

1. ^ Preussische Allgemeine Zeitung 1/2010 of January 9, 2010