Edgar Hösch

Edgar Hösch (born August 20, 1935 in Aschaffenburg ) is a German historian and professor emeritus for the history of Eastern Europe and Southeastern Europe at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich .

Life

After graduating from high school in Aschaffenburg, Hösch studied history, classical and Middle Latin philology and German at the University of Munich from 1954 for teaching at grammar schools, followed by a doctorate in Eastern European history, Slavic and Byzantine studies, which he completed with a doctorate in 1962 on Evgenij Viktorovič Tarle and his position in Soviet history . This was followed by teaching positions at the university and in 1967 the habilitation , which led to an appointment as apl. Professor and Head of Department for Eastern European History at the Historical Institute of Saarland University in Saarbrücken immediately followed. From 1971 to 1975 he was a full professor of Eastern European history at the University of Würzburg . In 1975 he succeeded Georg Stadtmüller at the Munich Chair for the History of Eastern Europe and Southeastern Europe. In 1976 he also became head of the history department of the non-university Eastern Europe Institute in Munich. In 2004 he handed over this function to his successor in Munich, Martin Schulze Wessel . From 1990 to 2007 he was Mathias Bernath's successor and head of the Südost-Institut in Munich.

His research encompasses the history of Eastern and Southeastern Europe from the Middle Ages to modern times. In recent years he has devoted himself particularly to the history of Finland . He is also one of the pioneers in the use of electronic data processing in the historical sciences. The transfer of Erik Amburger's personal files , which lists over 90,000 foreigners in pre-revolutionary Russia, into a database, supported by the Fritz Thyssen Foundation and the Volkswagenwerk Foundation , was included in the work program of the Eastern Europe Institute. He was also responsible for the application for funding from the DFG for the Eastern European Virtual Library .

He is editor of the Lexicon on the History of Southeast Europe . He is also the editor or co-editor of the scientific journals Year Books for the History of Eastern Europe , Russia mediaevalis, Südost-Forschungen and Südosteuropa . In addition, there is his activity for these series: "Writings on the intellectual history of Eastern Europe", "Publications of the Eastern Europe Institute Munich, series: History", "Southeast European Works" and "Studies on Contemporary Studies in Southeast Europe".

In 1996 he was elected an external member of the Finnish Academy of Sciences .

Fonts (selection)

As an author:

• Evgenij Viktorovič Tarle (1875–1955) and his position in Soviet history (= publications of the Eastern European Institute in Munich . Vol. 23). Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 1964, DNB 452057027 (dissertation, University of Munich, 1962; digitized version ).
• Orthodoxy and heresy in ancient Russia (= writings on the intellectual history of Eastern Europe. Vol. 7). Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 1975, ISBN 3-447-01666-3 (habilitation thesis, University of Munich; digitized version ).
• with Hans-Jürgen Grabmüller: Dates of Russian History. 2 volumes. DTV, Munich 1981, ISBN 3-423-03240-5 , ISBN 3-423-03241-3 .
• History of the Balkans. From the early days to the present. Beck, Munich 1988; 5th, updated and expanded edition. Beck, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-406-57299-9 .
• History of Russia. From the beginnings of the Kiev Empire to the collapse of the Soviet empire. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 1996, ISBN 3-17-011322-4 .
• History of the Balkans (= CH Beck Knowledge ). Beck, Munich 2004; 3rd, updated edition 2011, ISBN 978-3-406-50856-1 .
• Small history of Finland (= CH Beck Knowledge ). Beck, Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-406-58455-8 .
• with Erich Donnert : Old Russian Cultural Lexicon. Steiner, Stuttgart 2009, ISBN 978-3-515-09224-1 .

As editor:

• with Franz-Lothar Altmann and Annli Ute Gabanyi: Reforms and reformers in Eastern Europe. Pustet, Regensburg 1994, ISBN 3-7917-1416-3 .
• Germany and Finland in the 20th century (= publications by the Eastern European Institute in Munich. Series: Research on the Baltic Sea Region. Vol. 4). Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 1999, ISBN 3-447-04200-1 ( digitized version ).
• with Karl Nehring and Holm Sundhaussen : Lexicon on the history of Southeast Europe (= UTB . Vol. 8270). Editor Konrad Clewing. Böhlau, Vienna 2004, ISBN 3-205-77193-1 .

literature

• Karl Nehring (Ed.): Southeast Institute Munich 1930–2005. Edgar Hösch on his seventieth birthday (= Southeast Europe Bibliography. Supplementary Volume 5). Oldenbourg, Munich 2005, ISBN 3-486-57887-1 (with bibliography by Edgar Hösch, pp. 197–205).
  • therein: Helmut Altrichter : Edgar Hösch. An interim balance. Pp. 3-6.
• Konrad Clewing, Oliver Jens Schmitt (Ed.): Southeast Europe. Of premodern diversity and national standardization. Festschrift for Edgar Hösch (= Southeast European Works. Vol. 127). Oldenbourg, Munich 2005, ISBN 3-486-57888-X .

Web links

• Literature by and about Edgar Hösch in the catalog of the German National Library
• Hösch's page at the forost Research Association for Eastern and South Eastern Europe
• Publications by and about Edgar Hösch at Litdok East Central Europe / Herder Institute (Marburg)
• Publications by Edgar Hösch in the Opac of the Regesta Imperii

Remarks

1. ↑ The institutes moved to Regensburg in 2007: History of the Leibniz Institute for East and Southeast European Studies
2. ^ Erik Amburger database at the Leibniz Institute for East and Southeast European Studies
3. ↑ Suomalaisen Tiedeakatemian ulkomaiset jäsenet. Suomalainen Tiedeakatemia, accessed January 15, 2018 .