Emil Daniels

Emil Daniels (born March 8, 1863 in Osnabrück , † 1934 in Berlin) was a German historian .

Life and work

After studying history, Daniels, a student of Hans Delbrück , presented his dissertation in Greifswald in 1886 with the title “On the Battle of Torgau on November 3, 1760. A secular memory of Hans Joachim von Zieten” .

In addition to various monographs and essays, Daniels, politically and historically committed to national-conservative views, mainly produced articles for the Prussian yearbooks published by Delbrück , on which he worked as a "political correspondent" and later as editor. There he spoke about such topics as the relations between the major European powers or the massacres of the Armenians living in the Ottoman Empire during the First World War , which he still discussed during the war: “The Armenian question finds little interest in Germany; only a handful of professional politicians and a bunch of idealists participate in the fate of the Armenians. "

The outbreak of war in the summer of 1914 hit Daniels unexpectedly, after all in the spring of 1914 he believed he could pin down "a present era of détente".

During the years of the Weimar Republic , Daniels turned against the ideas of democracy, republicanism and the League of Nations in numerous publications. As the main reason for the German defeat in World War I, he subsequently identified the constitutional-parliamentary elements of the empire, which were its weak point. He strictly devalued the League of Nations as a threat to patriotism and national sentiment that it would water down. Internationally, Daniels distinguished himself primarily through his work on the prestigious "Cambridge Modern History" series.

In the later 1920s Daniels also worked on the completion of Delbrück's large, seven-part late-work “History of the Art of War in the Framework of Political History”, the last three parts of which he co-authored. Of particular importance are the three books in Part 6, in which he describes a history of the Franco-Prussian War of 1870/71, which was long considered a standard work.

Daniels, whose last known place of residence was Berlin, died in 1934 at the age of 81.

Remarks

1. ^ Siegmund Kaznelson : Jews in the German cultural area. A compilation , 1959, p. 375.

Works

author

• On the battle of Torgau on November 3, 1760. A secular memory of Hans Joachim von Zieten, Greifswald 1886.
• The State of Venice in its Older Period, see p. l. 1906.
• Ancient warfare, Leipzig 1910.
• English and French war literature, Berlin 1916.
• History of the War, Leipzig sa
• History of the art of war: Part 5 to 7 (series completed for Hans Delbrück):
  • Politics spoils strategy: The Franco-German War 1870–1871, (= History of the Art of War, Part 6, Book 1), 1929.
  • Quantity versus quality: the Franco-German War 1870–1871, (= History of the Art of War, Part 6, Book 2), 1931.
  • The peoples learn nothing from history: The Franco-German War 1870–1871, (= History of the Art of War, Part 6, Book 3), 1932.
• English statesmen. From Pitt to Asquith and Gray, Berlin 1925.

editor

• “At the loom of time. A souvenir issue. Hans Delbrück, the eighty-year-old, offered by friends and students ”, Berlin 1928. (Festschrift)

Web links

• Literature by and about Emil Daniels in the catalog of the German National Library