Erasmus Jonas

Erasmus Jonas (born October 10, 1929 in Berlin , † December 19, 1986 in Kiel ) was a German writer and historian .

Life

Erasmus Jonas

Erasmus Jonas comes from an academic family. He was the grandson of the historian Fritz Jonas and the eldest son of the farmer Heinrich Jonas and his wife Erika Jonas, née von Patow from Mallenchen and brother of media politician Niels Jonas . Frequent stays at Gut Mallenchen in Niederlausitz were formative for him in his childhood and youth. Jonas grew up with four siblings in Schleswig. In 1951 he passed his Abitur at the cathedral school in Schleswig . He then began studying German and history in Freiburg / Breisgau, which he later continued in Hamburg and Kiel. During his studies Erasmus Jonas emerged as a writer of poems and essays. a. with the volume of poetry "Hidden in the Thicket", which he dedicated to his friends Harald Hartung and Jürgen Seifert .

Jonas completed his studies in 1961 with a doctorate under Karl Dietrich Erdmann . He received his doctorate with a thesis on "The People's Conservatives 1928-1933", where he was able to draw on the estate of Count Westarp , which was accessible for the first time . After receiving his doctorate, Jonas mainly worked as a writer and freelance publicist. He lived in Schönkirchen near Kiel.

Fonts (selection)

Hidden in the thicket. , Poems, Carl Hanser Verlag, Munich 1959
Junge Lyrik 1957. , Poems, Carl Hanser Verlag, Munich 1957
Transit - Mid-Century Poetry Book. , published by Walter Höllerer, Suhrkamp Verlag, Frankfurt a. M. 1956
The People's Conservatives 1928 - 1933. Development, structure, location and state-political objectives , published by the Commission for the History of Parliamentarism and Political Parties, dissertation, Droste Verlag, Düsseldorf, Volume 30, 1965
Briining and the Conservatives. , in “Historical-political Streiflichter; Historical contributions to the present ”, edited by Kurt Jürgensen and Reimer Hansen, with a preface by Karl Dietrich Erdmann, Wachholtz Verlag, Neumünster, 1971, p. 119 ff.
Kai-Uwe von Hassel - a modern German national. , in “werkhefte - magazine for problems in society and catholicism”, Munich, 17th year, issue 6, 1963, p. 206ff.
The early Moltke and Schleswig. Contributions to Schleswig's town history, issue 24, 1979, p. 108 ff.

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personal data
SURNAME	Jonas, Erasmus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German writer and historian
DATE OF BIRTH	October 10, 1929
PLACE OF BIRTH	Berlin
DATE OF DEATH	December 19, 1986
Place of death	Kiel