Ernst Hinrichs

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Ernst Hinrichs (born May 22, 1937 in Hamburg ; † April 4, 2009 in Potsdam ) was a German historian with a focus on the Early Modern Period .

life and work

As the son of the pharmacist Adolf Hinrichs and his wife Anneliese Lorenzen, he studied at the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg , at the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen and at the University of Hamburg philosophy, German and history from 1957 to 1963. 1966 he was in Göttingen with the thesis Princely doctrine and political action in the France of Henry IV. Studies on the political forms of thought and action in late humanism doctorate .

He then worked at the Max Planck Institute for History (MPIG) from 1966 to 1974 , and many research stays took him to France. In 1974 he was offered a professorship for early modern history at the Carl von Ossietzky University in Oldenburg . From 1984 to 1992 he was director of the Georg Eckert Institute for International Textbook Research in Braunschweig. As a member of the German UNESCO Commission, he was active in France, Great Britain, Japan, Poland, the USA, the Soviet Union and Israel.

In 1991 he was visiting professor at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem . From 1992 to 1995 he taught early modern history at the Technical University of Braunschweig , and from 1995 until his retirement in 2003 at the University of Oldenburg. In 1996 he was founding director and until 2000 head of the Research Institute for the History of Preussens e. V. in Berlin.

Ernst Hinrich's main research interests were the constitutional history of France, comparative absolutism research and the history of the “small area”, which he established as an internationally recognized sub-discipline in Germany. In addition, he was considered a connoisseur of the regional history of northwest Germany. In his work he showed the literacy in the Weser and Ems area and the history of the development of the population of Oldenburg and Osnabrück .

Hinrichs' grave at Nikolassee cemetery

With the publication of the work Princes and Powers in 2000, he analyzed the emergence of royalty in early modern Europe. In this study, he particularly showed how the topic of absolutism was able to persist among historians in Germany for so long. He was the initiator of the Oldenburg Historical Quartet . Hinrichs was a member of the board of the Lessing Academy in Wolfenbüttel in 1987 and became a member of the German UNESCO Commission in 1988.

His grave is in the Nikolassee cemetery in Berlin.

Fonts (selection)

  • Princely doctrine and political action in the France of Henry IV. Investigations into the political forms of thought and action in late humanism. Goettingen 1969.
  • From the ancien regime to the French Revolution. Research and Perspectives. With Eberhard Schmitt and Rudolf Vierhaus , Göttingen 1978.
  • Regional history: problems and examples. With Wilhelm Norden, Brigitte Menssen and Anna-Margarete Taube, Hildesheim 1980.
  • Introduction to the history of the early modern period. Munich 1980.
  • Social and cultural change in the rural world of the 18th century. With Günter Wiegelmann, Wolfenbüttel 1982.
  • Absolutism. Frankfurt / Main 1986.
  • The economy of the state of Oldenburg in pre-industrial times. A regional historical documentation for the period from 1700 to 1850. With Rosemarie Krämer, Christoph Reinders and Christoph Reinders-Düselder, Oldenburg 1988.
  • Ancien Regime and Revolution. Studies on the constitutional history of France between 1589 and 1789. Frankfurt / Main 1989.
  • Spaces of life and experience in the Age of Enlightenment. The correspondence between Heinrich Christian Boie and Luise Mejer. Hamburg 1990.
  • Enlightenment in Lower Saxony. Centers, institutions, forms. Goettingen 1990.
  • Old Europe, ancien regime, early modern times. Problems and Methods of Research. With Hans Erich Bödeker , Stuttgart-Bad Cannstatt 1991.
  • The lower school system in the transition from the 18th to the 19th century. With Peter Albrecht, Tübingen 1995.
  • Data on the population history of the State of Oldenburg. 1662–1815, offices, parishes, farmers. With Brigitte Schulze-Fröhlich and Anna-Margarete Taube, Cloppenburg 1996.
  • "Pardon, mon cher Voltaire ...". Three essays on Voltaire in Germany. With Roland Krebs and Ute van Runset, Göttingen 1996.
  • Daniel Chodowiecki (1726-1801). Engraver, illustrator, businessman. With Klaus Zernack , Tübingen 1997.
  • Literacy and literacy in Germany in the early modern period. With Hans Erich Bödeker and Andrea Hofmeister, Tübingen 1999.
  • Princes and powers. On the problem of European absolutism. Göttingen 2000.
  • History of france. With Heinz-Gerhard Haupt , Darmstadt 2002.
  • Forms of socializing in northwest Germany 1750–1820. With Peter Albrecht and Hans Erich Bödeker, Tübingen 2003.
  • Little history of France. With Heinz-Gerhard Haupt, Bonn 2005.

literature

  • Oliver Junge: Sole rulers signed off. On the death of the early modern historian Ernst Hinrichs. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , April 11, 2009, No. 85, p. 35.

Web links

Remarks

  1. ↑ Walter Habel: Who is who? Lübeck 1993.
  2. ^ Ernst Hinrichs - University of Oldenburg, accessed on April 12, 2009.
personal data
SURNAME Hinrichs, Ernst
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian
DATE OF BIRTH May 22, 1937
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH April 4, 2009
Place of death Potsdam