Detlef Döring

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Detlef Döring (born May 9, 1952 in Leipzig ; † April 1, 2015 there ) was a German historian , theologian and library scientist . The focus of his academic teaching and research activities were the history of science and universities in the early modern period , the history of European ideas and ideas, the history of the Enlightenment and the history of the city ​​and university of Leipzig.

Life

education

After attending the 54th Polytechnic High School in Leipzig- Connewitz and passing the school leaving examination, Detlef Döring began studying Protestant theology at the University of Leipzig in 1971 . There he passed the state examination in 1976. He completed his research studies in the Department of Church History with a doctorate to become a Dr. theol. in order to then devote himself to library science at Berlin's Humboldt University , in which he also received his doctorate in 1986 after passing the state examination as a scientific librarian. In 1991 he completed his habilitation in church history at the Academy of Sciences of the GDR with a highly acclaimed thesis on Samuel Pufendorf .

Professional activities

From 1980 Döring worked as a research assistant at the Leipzig University Library . During this time he laid the foundation for his in-depth knowledge of the handwritten sources at this institution, which he later incorporated into the four-volume catalog: The Modern Manuscripts of the Zero Group . From 1987 to 1991 he worked at the Central Institute for Philosophy, Leibniz Edition, the Academy of Sciences of the GDR in Berlin and from 1992 to 1995 at the European Enlightenment Research Center in Potsdam .

In 1995 he succeeded Gerald Wiemers as head of the archive of the Saxon Academy of Sciences in Leipzig and from 2000 he headed the edition of Johann Christoph Gottsched's correspondence , which takes on the task of handling the entire correspondence of this central figure of German Enlightenment in a historical-critical, 25-volume edition. From 2011 he also oversaw the edition of the correspondence between Christian Wolff and Ernst Christoph Graf von Manteuffel .

Since 1999 Döring has taught at the University of Leipzig; initially as a private lecturer in philosophy and from 2004 to 2015 as an adjunct professor for the history of science and universities in the early modern period at the Leipzig Faculty of History, Art and Oriental Studies . He developed an intensive research activity, the fruit of which were numerous important and pioneering publications such as his work on university history from the Age of Enlightenment to the university reform in volume 1 of the five-volume history of the University of Leipzig and his catalog published in the same year for the exhibition he helped initiate and which he supervised scientifically Enlightenment of the world on the occasion of the 600th birthday of Leipzig University.

In 2007 he founded the scientific conference series Tag der Stadtgeschichte in Leipzig , whose annual conferences Döring actively prepared and also contributed as an author to the conference volumes, which he published under the title Sources and Research on the History of the City of Leipzig .

In 2012 he was also co-editor of the Leipzig Yearbook on Book History .

He was unable to complete his collaboration on the second volume on the history of the city of Leipzig, From the Reformation to the Congress of Vienna , which appeared in four volumes on the occasion of the 1000th anniversary of the city's first mention.

Döring died after a serious illness at the age of 62. His urn was buried on April 30, 2015 in the Leipzig South Cemetery.

Memberships (selection)

literature

  • Kürschner's German Scholar's Calendar. Bio-bibliographical directory of contemporary German-speaking scientists . De Gruyter, Berlin 2011, Volume 1, pp. 744f.
  • Detlef Döring. In: Chair for Modern and Contemporary History, Historical Seminar of the University of Leipzig (Ed.): Catalog of professors of the University of Leipzig. Catalogus Professorum Lipsiensium .
  • Thomas Krzenck: The Leipzig History Association mourns the loss of Prof. Dr. Dr. Detlef Döring (May 9, 1952 - April 1, 2015). In: Leipziger Geschichtsverein e. V. (Ed.): Leipzig city history. Yearbook 2014 . Sax-Verlag, Markkleeberg 2015, ISBN 978-3-86729-151-4 , pp. 219-220.
  • Manfred Rudersdorf : In memoriam Detlef Döring (1952–2015). In: New Archive for Saxon History 86 (2015), pp. 247–253.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Detlef Döring: Pufendorf studies. Contributions to the biography of Samuel von Pufendorf and his development as a historian and theological writer. Academy of Sciences of the GDR, Berlin 1990.
  2. ↑ The modern manuscripts of the zero group . (= Catalog of the manuscripts of the Leipzig University Library; NF). Volumes 1–4, Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 2000–2005.
  3. ↑ Thomas Krzenck, p. 220.
  4. ^ City and University of Leipzig. Contributions to an eventful 600-year history. (= Sources and research on the history of the city of Leipzig. Volume 1). Universitätsverlag Leipzig, Leipzig 2010.
  5. ↑ with Cecilie Hollberg (ed.): Enlightenment of the world. Saxony and the beginning of modern science - 600 years of Leipzig University. 2 volumes, Sandstein-Verlag, Dresden 2009.
  6. ↑ with Thomas Fuchs and Christine Haug (edited on behalf of the Leipzig University Library): Leipziger Jahrbuch zur Buchgeschichte. Volume 20, Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 2012.
personal data
SURNAME Döring, Detlef
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian, theologian and library scientist
DATE OF BIRTH May 9, 1952
PLACE OF BIRTH Leipzig
DATE OF DEATH April 1, 2015
Place of death Leipzig