Ernst Schubert (historian)

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Ernst Schubert (born May 23, 1941 in Bemerode ; † March 18, 2006 in Hanover ) was a German historian and most recently professor of Lower Saxony regional history at the University of Göttingen .

Life

From 1960 Schubert studied history, German, geography and social studies at the University of Würzburg , where he became a member of the Alemannia Makaria Würzburg country team . In 1967 he received his doctorate with a thesis on the estates of the Hochstift Würzburg under Hanns Hubert Hofmann . In 1968 he then received a position as a scientific assistant at the Institute for Franconian State Research at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg , first with Gerhard Pfeiffer , later with Alfred Wendehorst . There he completed his habilitation in 1974 in Middle and Modern History and National History. His habilitation thesis “King and Empire. Studies on German Constitutional History in the Late Middle Ages ”was awarded the habilitation prize from the Erlangen-Nuremberg University Association.

Appointments to the Universities of Konstanz (1980) and Göttingen (1985) followed, there as full professor for the history of Lower Saxony. In addition, Schubert was director of the Göttingen Institute for Regional Historical Research . In 1998 he was elected chairman of the historical commission for Lower Saxony and Bremen ; since 1999 he was a full member of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen . In 1998 he received the Lower Saxony Prize for Science. Schubert was a co-founder of the Internet magazine Concilium Medii Aevi . In 2000 he was elected a full member of the Historical Commission for Westphalia .

His main research interests were the history of Lower Saxony, the social and constitutional history of the Middle Ages and early modern times, and environmental history . As successor to Hans Patze, Schubert was the editor of the five-volume, seven-volume series History of Lower Saxony , where he wrote the first volume of the second volume, Politics, Constitution, Economy from the 9th to the end of the 15th century for the most part himself.

Writings (monographs)

  • The estates of the Würzburg Monastery , Würzburg 1967.
  • Material and organizational basics of the Würzburg university development 1582–1821. A legal and economic historical contribution to an institutional history , Neustadt / Aisch 1973, ISBN 3-7686-9005-9 .
  • King and Empire. Studies on the late medieval German constitutional history (= publications of the Max Planck Institute for History. Volume 63). Vandenhoeck & Rupprecht, Göttingen 1979, ISBN 3-525-35375-8 .
  • Poor people, beggars and crooks in Franconia in the 18th century , 2nd edition Neustadt / Aisch 1990, ISBN 3-7686-9104-7 .
  • Introduction to German History in the Late Middle Ages , 2nd edition Darmstadt 1992, ISBN 3-89678-313-0 .
  • Traveling people in the Middle Ages , Bielefeld 1995, ISBN 3-89534-155-X .
  • Princely rule and territory in the late Middle Ages (= Encyclopedia of German History . Volume 35), Munich 1996, ISBN 3-486-55042-X .
  • Politics, constitution, economy from the 9th to the end of the 15th century (= History of Lower Saxony. Volume II, 1), Hanover 1997, ISBN 3-7752-5900-7 .
  • Together with Gerd Althoff , Hans-Werner Goetz : People in the shadow of the cathedral. News from the Middle Ages , Darmstadt 1998, ISBN 3-89678-090-5 .
  • Everyday life in the Middle Ages. Natural living environment and human coexistence , Darmstadt 2002, ISBN 3-89678-424-2 .
  • Deposition of the King in the German Middle Ages - A Study of the Development of the Imperial Constitution (= Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen , Philological-Hist. Class, Series III / Volume 267), Göttingen 2005, ISBN 3-525-82542-0 ( review ).
  • Eating and drinking beer? What people ate and drank in the Middle Ages , Darmstadt 2005.
  • Eating and drinking in the Middle Ages , Darmstadt 2006, ISBN 3-534-19897-2 .
  • Robbers, executioners, poor sinners: Crime and punishment in the Middle Ages. Darmstadt 2007, ISBN 978-3-89678-612-8 .

literature

Festschriften / commemorative publications

  • Johannes Mellinger: Atlas of the Principality of Lüneburg around 1600. Ed. By Peter Aufgebauer a . a., Bielefeld 2001 (Festschrift for Ernst Schubert on his 60th birthday), ISBN 3-89534-391-9 .
  • Stupor saxoniae inferioris. Ernst Schubert on his 60th birthday. Ed. For the colloquium on the history of Lower Saxony by Wiard Hinrichs u. a., Göttingen 2001, ISBN 3-89744-168-3 .
  • Rulership Practice and Social Orders in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Times. Ernst Schubert in memory. Edited by Peter Aufgebauer and Christine van den Heuvel (= publications of the Historical Commission for Lower Saxony and Bremen. Volume 232). Hannover 2006, ISBN 3-7752-6032-3 (with complete list of publications).

Obituaries and biographies

  • Memories of the Göttingen regional historian Ernst Schubert. Edited by Klaus P. Sommer with contributions by Peter Aufgebauer, Klaus J. Bade , Simon Benne, Manfred Bruns, Peter Burschel, Jürgen Gansäuer , Christine van den Heuvel, Wiard Hinrichs, Stefan von der Lahr, Julia Niekamp, Werner Paravicini , Frank Rexroth , Siegfried Schütz, Gerhard Streich, Wilfried Teichmann, Thomas Vogtherr , Alfred Wendehorst , Manfred Wichmann and Jürgen Wilke, Termessos Verlag, Göttingen 2009, ISBN 978-3-938016-07-7 .
  • Peter Burschel : Cultura - that means agriculture. On the death of Ernst Schubert. In: Zeitschrift für Geschichtswwissenschaft 54 (2006), p. 315 f.
  • Werner Paravicini: Ernst Schubert May 23, 1941 to March 18, 2006. In: Communications of the Residences Commission of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen. Volume 16 (2006), No. 1 ( online ).
  • Frank Rexroth : You soon have a nice opportunity to develop theories. And then this rogue scholar came along and provided counter-evidence from the sources: On the death of the Göttingen historian Ernst Schubert. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , March 22, 2006, No. 69, p. 39.
  • Frank Rexroth: Obituary Ernst Schubert May 23, 1941 - March 18, 2006. In: Yearbook of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen 2006, Göttingen 2007, pp. 331–335.
  • Thomas Vogtherr: Obituary for Ernst Schubert. In: Niedersächsisches Jahrbuch für Landesgeschichte 79, 2007, pp. 1–10.
  • Gerhard Streich:  Schubert, Ernst. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 23, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-428-11204-3 , pp. 607-609 ( digitized version ). (In the print edition the date of death is incorrectly stated as March 23rd [corrected in the online version]).

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Remarks

  1. ↑ Studentenkurier , issue 3/1999, p. 24.
personal data
SURNAME Schubert, Ernst
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian
DATE OF BIRTH May 23, 1941
PLACE OF BIRTH Bemerode
DATE OF DEATH March 18, 2006
Place of death Hanover