Dietrich Claude

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Dietrich Claude (born October 12, 1933 in Düsseldorf , † August 2, 1999 in Marburg ) was a German historian .

Dietrich Claude attended the Pforta State School from 1946 to 1950 . He then switched to the Heese high school in Berlin-Steglitz . In 1953 he passed the Abitur. Claude studied history, Romance languages ​​and economics in Tübingen, Toulouse and Berlin. With Walter Schlesinger at the Free University of Berlin he received his doctorate with a thesis on "Topography and constitution of the cities of Bourges and Poitiers up to the 11th century". His habilitation took place in 1969/70 over the first centuries of the Archdiocese of Magdeburg . The more than 1000-page presentation became the basic work. Claude came to the Philipps University of Marburg via Frankfurt as an assistant to Schlesinger . In 1969 he received the Venia Legendi for Medieval History. In 1971 he became a professor in Marburg and taught there until his retirement in 1990. Claude was a member of the Commission for Classical Studies in Northern and Central Europe at the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen .

His main research interests were the Mediterranean region in late antiquity and the Migration Period, with particular emphasis on Gaul, Spain and Byzantium. On this subject he wrote three monographs: “The Byzantine City in the 6th Century” (1969), the “History of the Visigoths” (1970) and “Nobility, Church and Kingship in the Visigothic Empire” (1971). Claude published important essays on the history of the Eastern and Visigoths , the Franks , Suebi , Vandals and Alamanni . Another area of ​​research was the early medieval economic and social history. Claude also wrote studies on the East Saxon royal palaces, royal courts and imperial castles.

Fonts

  • Trade in the western Mediterranean during the early Middle Ages (= studies of trade and traffic in prehistoric and early historical times in Central and Northern Europe. Tl. 2 = Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen. Philological-historical class. Volume 3, No. 144 ). Report on a colloquium of the commission for the antiquity of Central and Northern Europe in 1980. Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht, Göttingen 1985, ISBN 3-525-82427-0 .
  • History of the Archdiocese of Magdeburg up to the 12th century. 2 volumes. Böhlau, Cologne et al. 1972–1975, (at the same time: Marburg, University, habilitation paper, 1969/1970);
    • Volume 1: The history of the archbishops up to Ruotger (1124) (= Central German research. 67, 1). 1972, ISBN 3-412-90072-9 ;
    • Volume 2: History of the Archdiocese of Magdeburg up to the 12th century (= Central German Research. 67, 2). 1975, ISBN 3-412-11375-1 .
  • Nobility, church and royalty in the Visigoth Empire (= Constance working group for medieval history. Lectures and research. Special vol . 8, ISSN  0933-4467 ). Thorbecke, Sigmaringen 1971, ( online ).
  • History of the Visigoths (= Urban Pocket Books. Bd. 128, ZDB -ID 995319-x ). Kohlhammer, Stuttgart et al. 1970, (In Russian and Cyrillic script: Дитрих Клауде: История вестготов , Евразия, Санкт-Петербург 2002, ISBN 5-8071-0115-4 ).
  • The Byzantine city in the 6th century (= Byzantine Archive. H. 13, ISSN  1864-9785 ). Beck, Munich 1969, (index on this in: Günter Prinzing : Place name index on urban history works from Byzantine studies. Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 1994, ISBN 3-447-03538-2 ).
  • Topography and constitution of the cities of Bourges and Poitiers up to the 11th century (= historical studies. H. 380, ZDB -ID 514152-7 ). Matthiesen, Lübeck et al. 1960, (At the same time: Berlin, Free University, dissertation, from February 22, 1960).

literature

  • Hans K. Schulze : Dietrich Claude (1933–1999). In: Saxony and Anhalt. Yearbook of the Historical Commission for Saxony-Anhalt. Vol. 22, 1999/2000, ISSN  0945-2842 , pp. 424-426.
  • Catalogus professorum Academiae Marburgensis. = The academic teachers at the Philipps University in Marburg. Volume 3: From 1971 to 1991. Part 1: Inge Auerbach: Faculty 01-19 (= publications of the Historical Commission for Hesse. 15, 3). Ewert, Marburg 2000, ISBN 3-7708-1159-3 , p. 154.

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personal data
SURNAME Claude, Dietrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian
DATE OF BIRTH October 12, 1933
PLACE OF BIRTH Dusseldorf
DATE OF DEATH August 2, 1999
Place of death Marburg