Carl Rodenberg

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Carl Rodenberg in Zurich around 1910.

Carl Rodenberg (born October 15, 1854 in Bremen , † July 6, 1926 in Kiel ) was a German historian .

Carl Rodenberg came from a farming family in Lower Saxony. He lost his parents when he was ten. Rodenberg studied history and classical philology at the universities of Tübingen, Zurich, Leipzig and Berlin since 1873. During his studies in 1873 he became a member of the Germania Tübingen fraternity . His main academic teachers were Georg Waitz and Wilhelm Wattenbach . He received his doctorate in 1877 under Waitz at the University of Göttingen with the work Die Vita Walae as a historical source , in which he examined the source from the Carolingian era for its credibility. From 1879 to 1894 Rodenberg worked in the Epistolae department at Monumenta Germaniae Historica . Rodenberg edited letters on the history of the 13th century. The edition "Epistolae selectae seculi XIII" appeared in three volumes with a total of 2219 pages from 1883 to 1894. In 1885 he received his habilitation in Berlin. From 1885 to 1892 he taught as a private lecturer in history at the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Berlin . Since 1893 he taught as an associate professor and since 1899 as a full professor of Middle and Modern History at the University of Kiel . Since 1892 he was a member of the board of directors of the Society for Kiel City History , first as deputy and then as first chairman. In 1908 he resigned from office for health reasons. In 1897 he was elected to the board of the Society for Schleswig-Holstein History . In 1912 he left the board. Rodenberg also worked as a teacher at the Naval Academy from 1897 to 1914 .

His editing activities made him one of the best experts in the history of the 13th century. For this century he wrote a basic overall presentation of Innocent IV and the Kingdom of Sicily from 1245 to 1254 as well as the important studies "The peace negotiations between Frederick II and Innocent IV. 1243-1244" and "The preliminary negotiations for the peace of San Germano 1229– 1230 ". As a professor in Kiel, Rodenberg published numerous papers on the history of Schleswig-Holstein and supervised several doctoral theses in this area. Important works on the medieval history of Kiel were “From the life of Kiel in the 14th and 15th centuries” (1894) and “The oldest document for the city of Kiel, 1242” (1908). He left an extensive manuscript on the founding history of the University of Kiel. The illustration was published in 1955 by his student Volquart Pauls from Rodenberg's estate.

Fonts

  • The beginnings of Christian-Albrechts-Universität Kiel (= sources and research on the history of Schleswig-Holstein. Vol. 31, ISSN  0173-0940 ). From the estate of Carl Rodenberg. Revised, supplemented and edited by Volquart Pauls. Wachholtz, Neumünster 1955.
  • Maritime power in history. Metzler, Stuttgart 1900.
  • From life in Kiel in the 14th and 15th centuries (= communications from the Society for Kiel City History. Vol. 12, ISSN  0173-0940 ). Jensen, Kiel 1894.
  • Innocent IV and the Kingdom of Sicily 1245–1254. Niemeyer, Halle 1892.

literature

Web links

Wikisource: Carl Rodenberg  - Sources and full texts

Remarks

  1. ^ Directory of the old men of the German fraternity. Überlingen am Bodensee 1920, p. 237.
  2. ^ The peace negotiations between Frederick II and Innocent IV. 1243–1244. In: Festgabe for Gerold Meyer von Knonau. Zurich 1913, pp. 165–204.
  3. ^ The Preliminary Negotiations for the Peace of San Germano 1229–1230. In: New Archive of the Society for Older German History 18 (1893), pp. 177–205.
personal data
SURNAME Rodenberg, Carl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian
DATE OF BIRTH October 15, 1854
PLACE OF BIRTH Bremen
DATE OF DEATH July 6, 1926
Place of death Kiel