Ernst Schubert (art historian)

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Ernst Schubert (born June 17, 1927 in Halle (Saale) ; † August 4, 2012 in Kreischa ) was a German art historian , historian and epigraphist .

Live and act

Ernst Schubert studied ancient languages and history. In March 1952 he received his doctorate with studies on the Einhard question , in 1954 he went to the department for art history at the German Academy of Sciences in Berlin. There he was mainly busy with the German inscriptions project. Between 1959 and 1968 he published four volumes, including the inscriptions of the cathedral cities of Naumburg and Merseburg, with which the processing of the inscriptions in Central Germany began. In July 1965 he completed his habilitation with a thesis on the donor figures in the Naumburg West Choir ( The West Choir of the Naumburg Cathedral. A contribution to the dating and understanding of the statues ). In 1971 he moved to the Central Institute for Ancient History and Archeology at the Academy of Sciences of the GDR .

Schubert was involved in numerous important excavations, for example in the women's collegiate church of St. Servatius Quedlinburg, in the cathedrals in Magdeburg, Halberstadt, Naumburg (Saale) and Meißen. The results of these investigations have been published in several monographs and articles, some together with other authors. The main research interests of Schubert were the history of art and the history of Central Germany.

Since 1977 Ernst Schubert has been a member of the cathedral chapter of the United Cathedral Founders of Merseburg, Naumburg and the Zeitz Collegiate Foundation , from 1984 to 2003 as dean . After German reunification in 1990, he made special contributions to the reorganization of the United Cathedral Donors.

Schubert had been a full member of the Saxon Academy of Sciences in Leipzig since 1991 . In addition, he was the first chairman of the Historical Commission for Saxony-Anhalt, which was re-established in 1990, and was its honorary chairman until his death. He belonged to numerous other scientific societies and bodies.

Ernst Schubert received an honorary doctorate from the University of Friborg (Switzerland) , was awarded the Federal Cross of Merit 1st Class in 2002 and was awarded the Order of Merit of the State of Saxony-Anhalt in 2010 .

Ernst Schubert was married and had a daughter.

Fonts (selection)

  • Guide through the Naumburg Cathedral. Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1964.
  • The west choir of the Naumburg Cathedral. A contribution to the dating and understanding of the statues (= treatises of the German Academy of Sciences in Berlin. Class for Languages, Literature and Art. 1964, 1, ZDB -ID 210007-1 ). Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1964, (2nd, unchanged edition. Ibid. 1965; also: Berlin, Humboldt University, habilitation paper, 1965).
  • The Naumburg Cathedral. With photos by Fritz Hege . Union, Berlin 1968.
  • with Peter Ramm: The inscriptions of the city of Merseburg (= The German inscriptions , vol. 11), Berlin 1968.
  • with Johanna Flemming and Edgar Lehmann : Cathedral and Cathedral Treasury in Halberstadt. Recordings by Klaus Günter Beyer. Böhlau, Vienna 1972, ISBN 3-205-00513-9 (several editions).
  • with Gerhard Leopold: The early Romanesque predecessor buildings of the Naumburg Cathedral (= corpus of Romanesque art in the Saxon-Thuringian area. Series A: Architecture. Vol. 4, ZDB -ID 192193-9 ). With contributions by Hans Grimm u. a. Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1972.
  • The Magdeburg Cathedral. Recordings by Klaus G. Beyer. Union, Berlin 1974, (several editions).
  • Naumburg. Cathedral and old town. Union, Berlin 1978, (improved edition. Koehler and Amelang, Leipzig 1983; and more often).
  • with Gerhard Leopold: Halberstadt Cathedral. Until the new Gothic building. With contributions by Friedrich Bellmann, Paul Grimm , Friederike Happach, Edgar Lehmann and Ulrich Sieblist as well as a foreword by Hans Berger. Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1984.
  • with Friedrich Möbius (Ed.): Sculpture of the Middle Ages. Function and shape. Böhlau, Weimar 1987, ISBN 3-7400-0053-8 .
  • with Edgar Lehmann: Cathedral and Severikirche in Erfurt. Photos by Klaus G. Beyer and Constantin Beyer. Koehler & Amelang, Leipzig 1988, ISBN 3-7338-0041-9 .
  • The Naumburg Cathedral. The history of the foundation (= large architectural monuments. 410, ISSN  2365-1849 ). Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich a. a. 1990.
  • Sites of Saxon emperors. Quedlinburg, Memleben, Magdeburg, Hildesheim, Merseburg, Goslar, Königslutter, Meissen. Recordings by Klaus G. Beyer. Urania, Leipzig a. a. 1990, ISBN 3-332-00336-4 .
  • Research into the sculptures of the Naumburg master (= session reports of the Saxon Academy of Sciences in Leipzig. Philological-historical class. 133, 4). Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1994, ISBN 3-05-002571-9 .
  • The Naumburg Cathedral. With photographs by János Stekovics. Stekovics, Halle an der Saale 1997, ISBN 3-929330-92-X .
  • This diem docet. Selected essays on medieval art and history in Central Germany. Ceremony for the 75th birthday (= sources and research on the history of Saxony-Anhalt. Vol. 3). Published by Hans-Joachim Krause. Böhlau, Cologne a. a. 2003, ISBN 3-412-04502-0 .
  • And everything flows into oblivion. Experiences in the Third Reich, in the GDR and in the united Federal Republic. Stekovics, Dößel 2009, ISBN 978-3-89923-222-6 .

literature

  • Lothar Mertens : Lexicon of the GDR historians. Biographies and bibliographies on the historians from the German Democratic Republic. Saur, Munich 2006, ISBN 3-598-11673-X , p. 554.
  • Bruno Klein: Ernst Schubert (June 17, 1927 - August 4, 2012). In: Saxon Academy of Sciences in Leipzig. Yearbook. 2011-2012, ISSN  0080-5262 , pp. 115-117.

Web links

Remarks

  1. ↑ Membership site of the Saxon Academy of Sciences in Leipzig
personal data
SURNAME Schubert, Ernst
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German art historian and historian
DATE OF BIRTH June 17, 1927
PLACE OF BIRTH Halle (Saale)
DATE OF DEATH 4th August 2012
Place of death Kreischa