Erik Amburger

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Erik Amburger (born August 4, 1907 in Saint Petersburg , Russian Empire ; † November 6, 2001 in Heuchelheim near Gießen ) was a German historian of Eastern Europe.

Life

Erik Amburger was born the son of the doctor Nikolai Amburger and his wife Gerda, née Schottländer. His father's family had long been closely connected to Russian economic life, and his mother's relatives had also been involved in Russian industry for decades. From 1914 to 1918 Amburger attended the Katharinenkirche school in Petrograd. After the October Revolution he had to leave his hometown with his mother and siblings in 1918. The father stayed there and died in 1920 as a result of an epidemic. From 1918 to 1920 Amburger attended the Knights and Cathedral School in Reval , and from 1920 to 1926 the Humanist High School in Heidelberg .

In 1926 Amburger began studying history at Heidelberg University . In 1927 he continued his studies in Berlin , where he on 14 October 1933 of the magazine "Russia and Sweden from 1762 to 1772" to Dr. phil. received his doctorate. Since he was not accepted into the public service because of his Jewish ancestors , Karl Stählin employed him until 1938 as a private assistant for the conclusion of the "History of Russia".

After military service in the Wehrmacht and subsequent Soviet imprisonment from 1939 to September 1945, Amburger lived and worked in Berlin. From 1946 to 1948 he was employed at the Institute for Slavic Studies at the German Academy of Sciences , from 1948 to 1950 head of the Academic Anniversary Publication Office , from 1950 to 1953 employee of the Leibniz edition and was dismissed in 1953 for refusing to move to East Berlin. From 1953 to 1957 he was a fellow of the German Research Foundation . In 1957 he received a position at the University of Giessen , initially at the Commission for Research into Agricultural and Economic Conditions in Eastern Europe , since 1960 as Academic Councilor at the Institute for Continental Agricultural and Economic Research , since 1968 as Academic Senior Councilor. In 1962 Amburger was also given a teaching position at the University of Marburg , where he was also appointed honorary professor in the field of history in 1968 . In 1972 he retired. - Since 1956 he has been a full member and since 1987 an honorary member of the Baltic Historical Commission. .

He was married to the classical archaeologist Eleni-Alexandra Amburger .

Act

Erik Amburger's life's work includes many special studies on the history of individuals and families of German origin in Russia and the Baltic States .

In 1961 the Evangelischer Verlagswerk, Stuttgart, published the history of Protestantism in Russia and in 1966 his history of the organization of authorities in Russia from Peter the Great until 1917 , in 1968 the study of the recruitment of foreign skilled workers for the Russian economy from the 15th to the 19th Century and 1980 the two-volume work on Ingermanland as a Russian province. He also contributed significantly to the creation of the German Baltic Biographical Lexicon 1710–1960 published by Wilhelm Lenz in 1970 .

During his life he collected biographical data from foreigners living in Russia, which he filed in a card index. This has been converted into a database by the Eastern Europe Institute (OEI). In addition, the card index and its library, part of which has since been digitized, are in the holdings of the successor institution of the OEI, the Leibniz Institute for East and Southeast European Research .

Publications (selection)

  • The treatment of foreign first names in Russian in recent times (= treatises of the Academy of Sciences and Literature. Humanities and social science class. Born 1953, Volume 7). Publishing house of the Academy of Sciences and Literature in Mainz (commissioned by Franz Steiner Verlag, Wiesbaden).

literature

  • Inge Auerbach: Catalogus professorum academiae Marburgensis. Volume 2: From 1911 to 1971. Elwert, Marburg 1979, p. 460.
  • Peter Wörster: "Very soon I was attracted to personalities more and more". Erik Amburger in memory . In: Yearbook of the Baltic Germans, Vol. 50 (2003) [Lüneburg u. Munich 2002], pp. 10–17 (with portrait photo).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Paul Kaegbein , Wilhelm Lenz : Fifty Years of Baltic Historical Research 1947–1996. Mare Balticum, Cologne 1997. p. 92
personal data
SURNAME Amburger, Erik
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Eastern European historian
DATE OF BIRTH 4th August 1907
PLACE OF BIRTH St. Petersburg
DATE OF DEATH November 6, 2001
Place of death Hypocritical home