Carl Erdmann

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Carl Erdmann (born November 17, 1898 in Dorpat , † May 7, 1945 near Zagreb ) was a German historian and Medievalist .

Erdmann first studied Protestant theology in Berlin from 1916 to 1919 , but then turned to studying history in Munich and Würzburg . From 1921 he lived as a tutor in Portugal for three years. Erdmann received his doctorate in Würzburg in 1925, and a year later, on behalf of Paul Fridolin Kehr , he began collecting papal documents in Portugal for the Göttingen papal documents . From 1926 to 1932 he was an assistant at the Prussian Historical Institute in Rome and from 1934 worked at the Monumenta Germaniae Historica (MGH) in Berlin. In 1935 his habilitation thesis appeared, The emergence of the crusade thought , which became a classic and made Erdmann one of the most important German medievalists of the 20th century from today's perspective. In 1938 he published his studies on the letter literature in Germany in the eleventh century .

Erdmann was an early and decisive opponent of National Socialism. Since he did not hesitate to express this clearly, a university career was denied him. 1936 deprived him of Frankfurt University , the instructor , but he remained employees of the Monumenta Germaniae Historica. When he was over 40, Erdmann was drafted into the Wehrmacht in 1943 and integrated into the Italian department of an interpreting company. In 1944 he came to Tirana (Albania), where he worked as an interpreter in a prison camp near Zagreb . He probably got typhus there . His grave is in a military cemetery near Zagreb.

Since April 2011, the award for the most recently habilitated, awarded by the Association of Historians in Germany , has been named after Carl Erdmann.

Fonts

  • The origin of the idea of ​​the crusade. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 1935, (also reprints) online .
  • as editor: The letters of Heinrich IV. (= Monumenta Germaniae historica. Critical study texts of the Monumenta Germaniae Historica. German Middle Ages. Vol. 1, ISSN  0340-8396 ). Hiersemann, Stuttgart 1937, (also reprints).
  • Studies on the letter literature of Germany in the eleventh century (= Monumenta Germaniae historica. Schriften. Vol. 1, ISSN  0080-6951 ). Hiersemann, Leipzig 1938, (also reprints).

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  1. ↑ Communication from the Association of Historians of Germany from April 12, 2011 .
personal data
SURNAME Erdmann, Carl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian and medievalist
DATE OF BIRTH November 17, 1898
PLACE OF BIRTH Dorpat
DATE OF DEATH May 7, 1945
Place of death near Zagreb