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Erich Wilhelm Donnert (born June 18, 1928 in Altrohlau , Czechoslovakia ; † November 24, 2016 in Halle (Saale) ) was a German historian and Slavist .

Life

After national labor service and military service as an air force helper and Wehrmacht soldier from 1944 to 1945, after being expelled from Czechoslovakia in 1946 and working as an unskilled worker, Erich Donnert studied humanities at the University of Halle-Wittenberg from 1949 to 1953 . There he was in 1955 with the dissertation studies to assess the Slavs in the written tradition of the German early Middle Ages from 7 to early 11th century Dr. phil. for Slavic Studies doctorate.

In 1957 Erich Donnert began teaching as a lecturer in the history of Eastern Europe at the University of Jena , where he completed his habilitation in 1961 with the thesis The Livonian War and the Baltic Question in European Politics 1558–1583 . The history of Eastern Europe remained his subject until 1964 in Jena and from 1964 to 1967 at the University of Leipzig . In 1967 he returned to the University of Halle-Wittenberg when he accepted the offer for general history . In 1993 he was retired there.

After his retirement , Erich Donnert remained very active as a historian and published numerous books, particularly on Russian history.

Fonts

As an author

• Russia in the Age of Enlightenment. A cultural story . Edition Leipzig, Leipzig 1983.
• The Kievan Russia - cultural and intellectual life of 9 to the early 13th century . Urania-Verlag, Leipzig 1983.
• Peter the Great . The changer of Russia . Muster-Schmidt, Göttingen 1987, ISBN 3-7881-0129-6 .
• Courland in the area of ​​ideas of the French Revolution. Political movements and attempts at social renewal 1789–1795 . Peter Lang, Frankfurt am Main 1992, ISBN 3-631-43377-8 .
• Catherine II, the Great (1729–1796). Empress of the Russian Empire . Pustet Regensburg 1998, ISBN 3-7917-1576-3 (and other editions).
• St. Petersburg. A cultural story . Böhlau, Cologne 2002, ISBN 3-412-03502-5 .
• The University of Dorpat- Jur'ev 1802–1918. A contribution to the history of higher education in the Baltic provinces of the Russian Empire . Peter Lang, Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 978-3-631-56477-6 .
• Agricultural issues and education in Latvia and Estonia. Livonia, Estonia and Courland in the 18th and early 19th centuries . Peter Lang, Frankfurt am Main 2008, ISBN 978-3-631-57021-0 .

As editor

• with Edgar Hösch : Old Russian Cultural Lexicon . VEB Bibliographisches Institut, Leipzig 1985 (and other editions).
• with Günter Mühlpfordt : Baltic history. Estonians, Latvians and Lithuanians under foreign powers. From the early days to the beginning of the national liberation movement . Mitteldeutscher Verlag, Halle 2016, ISBN 978-3-95462-688-5 .

literature

• Thunders, Erich Wilhelm . In: Collegium Politicum at the University of Hamburg. Historiography Working Group (Ed.): Historians in Central Germany . Ferd. Dümmerls Verlag, Bonn, Hanover, Hamburg, Munich 1965, p. 24.
• Society and culture of Central, Eastern and Southeastern Europe in the 18th and early 19th centuries. Festschrift for Erich Donnert for his 65th birthday (= series of publications by the International Research Center “Democratic Movements in Central Europe 1770–1850”, Volume 11). Peter Lang, Frankfurt am Main 1994. ISBN 3-631-46285-9 .

Web links

• Erich Donnert in the professorial catalog of the University of Leipzig
• Erich Donnert, professors at the University of Leipzig 1945–1993 , accessed on November 21, 2017