Ernst Robert Daenell

Ernst Robert Daenell (born August 28, 1872 in Stettin ; † December 17, 1921 in Münster ) was a German historian and university professor.

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Daenell was born in Szczecin. His father was a merchant, his mother was the daughter of the pastor of the St. Peter and Paul Church. Daenall attended the city high school in his hometown, where Otto Blümcke was his history teacher, who published on the history of the city of Szczecin and the history of the Hanseatic League. Daenall studied history from 1890 to 1894, first at the University of Marburg and then at the University of Leipzig . His academic teachers included Karl Lamprecht , Wilhelm Maurenbrecher , Dietrich Schäfer and Friedrich Ratzel . He finished his studies with a dissertation on The Cologne Confederation from 1367 and the Skåne pawns . After completing his military service in Leipzig in 1897, he followed up on his dissertation with his habilitation thesis The History of the German Hanseatic League in the 2nd half of the 14th century . In 1899 he moved to the University of Kiel .

Until the publication of his main work The heyday of the German Hanseatic League. Hanseatic history from the second half of the 14th to the last quarter of the 15th century (2 volumes, Berlin 1905/1906; subsequent editions 1973 and 2001), he researched primarily on Hanseatic history . For this portrayal of the Hanseatic history from the Stralsund Peace in 1370 to the Peace of Utrecht in 1474, he was awarded a prize advertised by the Historical Society of the Artists' Association in Bremen as early as Whitsun 1901 (although at this point only about a third of the work was available) . Daenell's work was particularly sharply criticized by the Hanseatic historian Walther Stein , which presumably contributed to Daenell's turning away from Hanseatic history topics.

In 1904 he was awarded the title of professor. In 1906 he received an extraordinary professorship at the University of Kiel with teaching assignments for middle and modern history, Schleswig-Holstein regional history and historical auxiliary sciences. His scientific interest was now primarily the history of America and overseas. As part of a German-American professors' exchange, Daenell taught in the winter semester of 1908/09 at the State University in Chicago and in the winter semester of 1910/11 in the performance of the Kaiser Wilhelm professorship at Columbia University in New York . At the intercession of Karl Lamprecht, he received a grant from the Carnegie Foundation for his stay in America. In 1911 he was at Columbia University and the State University in Wisconsin for an honorary doctorate doctorate.

In 1913 he received one of three full professorships for middle and modern history at the University of Münster . The emphasis on overseas history was continued by his chair successor Hermann Wätjen . In addition to his official courses, during the First World War and in the immediate post-war period he held university courses and lectures for non-academically educated groups of the population. On May 14, 1916, Daenell became a full member of the Historical Commission for Westphalia . Pneumonia suddenly led to his death on December 17, 1921, tore him out of his teaching activities and prevented the execution of long-edited publication projects, such as a two-volume history of America and a comprehensive account of Spanish colonial rule in North America.

Daenell was married to the daughter of a high school teacher in Salzwedler. The marriage produced a son.

Fonts (selection)

• History of the German Hanseatic League in the second half of the 14th century. (Leipzig 1897 [habilitation thesis])
• The Hanseatic League and Poland in the second half of the 14th century. (In: Journal for German History NF 2, 1897/98, pp. 317–341)
• The Baltic Sea traffic and the Hanseatic cities from the middle of the 14th to the middle of the 15th century. (Lecture at the Pentecost meeting of the Hanseatic History Association in Emden, 1902) (In: Hansische Geschichtsblätter 30, 1902, pp. 3–47)
• The Hanseatic cities and the war for Schleswig (1426–1435). (In: Journal of the Society for Schleswig-Holstein History 32, 1903, pp. 271–450)
• The constitutional position of Schleswig to Denmark in the age of Waldemar Atterdag, Margarethes and Erichs des Pommern. (In: Journal of the Society for Schleswig-Holstein History 33, 1903, pp. 329–338)
• Holland and the Hanseatic League in the 15th century. (Lecture at the Pentecost meeting of the Hanseatic History Association in Magdeburg, 1903) (In: Hansische Geschichtsblätter 31, 1903, pp. 3–41)
• About the Hanseatic shipping in the Middle Ages. (Lecture at the Pentecost meeting of the Hanseatic History Association in Kiel 1904) (In: To Friedrich Ratzels Gedächtnis. , Leipzig 1904, pp. 25–38)
• The heyday of the German Hanseatic League. Hanseatic history from the second half of the 14th to the last quarter of the 15th century. (2 volumes; Berlin 1905/06; 2nd edition 1973, 3rd edition 2001)
• History of the United States of America. (Leipzig 1907, 2nd edition 1914, 3rd edition [edited and expanded by Adolf Hasenclever] 1923)
• The position of the city of Schleswig in early medieval trade and traffic. (In: Journal of the Society for Schleswig-Holstein History 38, 1908, pp. 403–414)
• Considerations on the exchange of professors. (In: International Weekly for Science, Art and Technology 5, 1910, Sp. 145–154)
• Currents in the cultural politics of Latin America. (In: International Weekly for Science, Art and Technology 6, 1911, Sp. 1167–1180)
• The Spaniards in North America from 1513 to 1824. ( Historical Library , edited by the editorial team of the Historical Journal, Volume 22, Munich and Berlin 1911)
• To literature on the United States of America. (In: Germanisch-Romanische monthly 4, 1912, pp. 339-355)
• Colonization and colonial policy of the Spaniards, mainly in North America. (Lecture at the Pentecost meeting of the Hanseatic History Association in Wismar 1912) (In: Hansische Geschichtsblätter 40, 1912, pp. 463-482)
• North American University Policy in South America. (In: Akademische Rundschau , Leipzig, year 1912/13, pp. 108–112)
• North Schleswig since 1864. (In: Journal of the Society for Schleswig-Holstein History 43, 1913, pp. 372–409)
• How the war came about. (In: War lectures of the University of Münster i. W. , Volume 2, Münster 1914)
• The United States and Peace. (In: Germany and peace. Necessities and possibilities of the German future. , Edited by Walter Goetz, Leipzig and Berlin 1918, pp. 377–400)
• Does Denmark have a right to North Schleswig? (Münster 1918)
• The struggle of the world powers over Central and South America. (In: Meereskunde , No. 146, Berlin 1919)

literature

• Bernd Mütter: Ernst Robert Daenell (1872–1921). A Hanseatic historian in the era of imperialism. In: Hansische Geschichtsblätter , Vol. 128 (2010), pp. 189–231.
• Eckhard Wendt: Stettiner Lebensbilder (= publications of the Historical Commission for Pomerania . Series V, Volume 40). Böhlau, Cologne / Weimar / Vienna 2004, ISBN 3-412-09404-8 , pp. 116–117.

Web links

• Overview of the lectures of Ernst Robert Daenell at the University of Leipzig (winter semester 1897 to summer semester 1899)
• Prof. Dr. Ernst R Daenell at the Historical Commission for Westphalia