Ernst-Peter Wieckenberg

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Ernst-Peter Wieckenberg (born March 23, 1935 in Kiel ) is a German Germanist , Romance studies and lecturer . From 1966 to 1999 he was chief editor of the humanities department of the CH Beck publishing house .

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Wieckenberg studied German and Romance languages ​​in Göttingen and Nancy . After the state examination in Göttingen, he was initially a lecturer at the S. Fischer publishing house in Frankfurt am Main from 1961 to 1966, before moving to the humanities department of the CH Beck publishing house in Munich in 1966 as chief editor . In 1969 Albrecht Schöne in Göttingen did his doctorate with a thesis on the history of the chapter heading in the German novel from the 15th century to the end of the Baroque era . As a lecturer, Wieckenberg succeeded in winning numerous large-scale projects - especially in the field of history - for the Munich publishing house and successfully asserting it on the market. The outstanding series supervised by Wieckenberg include, for example, the ten-volume New German History , the German History 1866–1945 by the American historian Gordon A. Craig , Thomas Nipperdey's three-volume German History 1800–1918 and the five-volume German history of society by Hans-Ulrich Wehler , With the conclusion of the contract, Wieckenberg succeeded in gradually poaching the Bielefeld historian from publishing competitors Suhrkamp and Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht . The publications supervised by Wieckenberg also include numerous works by leading German historians and philologists such as Franz-Josef Brüggemeier , Alfred Haverkamp , Manfred Fuhrmann , Reinhart Herzog , Paul Nolte , Jürgen Osterhammel , Volker Press , Friedrich Prinz , Wolfgang Reinhard , Peter Lebrecht Schmidt , Ernst Schulin , Wolfram Siemann or Heinrich August Winkler .

Wieckenberg himself became well known in 1988 with his Almanac Invitation to the 18th Century , a collection of sources that is still central to Enlightenment research today, which at the time of its publication bundled mostly unknown texts that were, however, extremely meaningful for the epoch. In 2017 Wieckenberg was awarded the Academy Prize of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences .

Fonts (selection)

  • On the history of the chapter heading in the German novel from the 15th century to the end of the Baroque. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1969 (dissertation).
  • Invitation to the 18th century. An almanac from the CH Beck publishing house in the 225th year of its existence. With 19 first prints of texts from Goethe's time. Munich: Beck, 1988, ISBN 3-406-32821-0 .
  • Johann Heinrich Voss and "Thousand and One Nights". Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann, 2002, ISBN 3-8260-2372-2 .
  • Johan Melchior Goeze. Hamburg: Ellert & Richter, 2007, ISBN 978-3-8319-0294-1 .
  • Ernst Robert Curtius: Elements of Education. Edited by Ernst-Peter Wieckenberg and Barbara Picht. Munich: Beck, 2017, ISBN 978-3-406-69760-9 .

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Dr. Ernst-Peter Wieckenberg | Author profile and works | beck-shop.de. Retrieved February 8, 2020 .
  2. ↑ a b c Bavarian Academy of Sciences: Laudation. December 2017, accessed February 8, 2020 .
  3. ^ Paul Nolte: Hans-Ulrich Wehler. Historian and contemporary . Munich 2015, p. 78, 84 f., 95-97, 112 f., 115, 136 .
personal data
SURNAME Wieckenberg, Ernst-Peter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German studies in German, Romance studies and lecturer
DATE OF BIRTH March 23, 1935
PLACE OF BIRTH Kiel