Ernst Schulin

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Ernst Schulin (born October 12, 1929 in Kassel ; † February 13, 2017 in Freiburg im Breisgau ) was a German historian .

Schulin taught from 1974 to 1995 at the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg as a professor of modern history. In addition to questions of universal history, he dealt with the history of England , the early modern period and the history of historical science . He also gained recognition in history as the editor of the Walther-Rathenau complete edition.

Live and act

Schulin's ancestors on his father's side were Hessian lawyers and East Prussian merchants. His mother's ancestors were Silesian tenants and artisans. His father Adolf Schulin was Vice President at the Hessian Administrative Court . Schulin grew up in Kassel. He studied history, German and religious studies from 1949 to 1955 in Göttingen and for one semester in Tübingen . In 1952 he went to Spain for five months. In 1954 he attended courses at the Institut d'études politiques de Paris for four months . Among his academic teachers, he was particularly influenced by the orientalist and religious historian Hans Heinrich Schaeder . In 1956 he received his doctorate from Percy Ernst Schramm in Göttingen with the work The World History of the Orient by Hegel and Ranke . From 1958 to 1965 he was a research assistant, first with Martin Göhring at the Institute for European History in Mainz , then at the University of Giessen . The habilitation took place there with the history of ideas work commercial state England. The Nation's Political Interest in Foreign Trade from the 16th to the Early 18th Century . He gave his inaugural lecture in Gießen in 1965 on Leopold von Ranke's first book.

In 1966 Schulin taught first as a deputy professor at the Free University of Berlin , then as a professor of modern history at the Technical University of Berlin (1967–1974) and subsequently as successor to Erich Hassinger at the chair for modern and contemporary history at the Albert-Ludwigs- University of Freiburg (1974–1995). In Freiburg, he was dean of the Philosophical Faculty IV in 1978/1979 . During his teaching in Freiburg, Schulin had stays abroad in Great Britain (at St Antony's College in Oxford in 1976), Spain, Australia (Sydney) and Israel (Institute for German History, Tel Aviv, 1980 ). Schulin received a scholarship from the Historical College in Munich in 1985/86 . The colloquium held in September 1986 was devoted to the topic of "German History after the Second World War (1945–1965)". Together with Wolfgang Reinhard , he has been the editor of the Rombach Wissenschaft series Historiae since 1992 . After the end of the winter semester 1995 he retired. Gangolf Huebinger , Christoph Marx , Erich Pelzer , Martin Sabrow , Benedikt Stuchtey and Jürgen Osterhammel were among his academic students .

Schulin's main research interests were the history of history in the 19th and 20th centuries as well as Jewish, English and French history. Schulin is counted among the leading international representatives and best experts in the history of historiography. He conducted research on contemporary historiography in the 19th century and German historiography after 1945. In 1974, he published an extensive volume on universal history, which, however, was only received with hesitation in the professional world.

Schulin did extensive research on Walther Rathenau . He became a member of the Walther Rathenau Society. From 1977 he was co-editor of a multi-volume Walther Rathenau complete edition. He published a biography of Rathenau in 1979. His Rathenau research led him to the history of German Jewry. Schulin was also a connoisseur of Hannah Arendt's thought . With Bernd Martin he organized the Freiburg lecture series (1980/81) on the "Jews as a minority" from antiquity to the extermination under the National Socialist dictatorship. Historians such as François-Georges Dreyfus , Jacob Goldberg and František Graus could be won over for this. The Rathenau research also led Schulin to the history of the Jewish Mannheim family of the factory owner and banker Bernhard Kahn . Schulin and his wife had announced a reconstruction of the family history through a biography. This plan could no longer be implemented.

His connection to Freiburg was shown in the History of the Evangelical Church Community from 1807 to 1982 , published in 1983. Schulin dealt with the major changes in world history, 1517, 1789 or 1917. He understood the Reformation and the French Revolution as international insurrection stories and upheavals. In 1988, on the occasion of the bicentenary, he published a report on the French Revolution that has been published several times to this day. In 1999 he published a depiction of Charles V. The work did not portray the emperor biographically, but rather in his sphere of activity.

From 1968 to 1995 he was a member of the Historical Commission in Berlin . Schulin was a member from 1969 to 1995 and from 1992 chairman of the British-German Historians Circle, whose efforts led to the establishment of the German Historical Institute in London . For many years he was a member of the advisory board of Storia della Storiografia magazine . In 1981 Schulin became a full member of the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences . In 1999 he was awarded the Federal Cross of Merit on ribbon. Schulin became a Knight of the Legion of Honor in 2005 and thus received the highest French Order of Merit.

Schulin married in 1957. The marriage had three children. Schulin died on February 13, 2017 in Freiburg im Breisgau at the age of 87.

Fonts (selection)

A list of publications appeared in: Gangolf Huebinger, Jürgen Osterhammel, Erich Pelzer (eds.): Universalgeschichte und Nationalgeschichten. Ernst Schulin on his 65th birthday. Rombach, Freiburg 1994, ISBN 3-7930-9120-1 , pp. 345-361.

Monographs

  • The French revolution. 5th edition, Beck, Munich 2013, ISBN 978-3-406-65877-8 (first edition 1988).
  • Emperor Karl V history of an oversized sphere of activity. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart a. a. 1999, ISBN 3-17-015695-0 .
  • Work on the story. Stages of historicization on the way to modernity (= Edition Pandora. Vol. 35). Campus-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main u. a. 1992, ISBN 3-593-35854-9 .
  • History in our century. Problems and outlines of a history of history (= writings of the historical college. Lectures. Vol. 16). Munich 1988 ( digitized version ).
  • Walther Rathenau. Representative, critic and victim of his time (= personality and history. Biographical series. Vol. 104 / 104a). Musterschmidt, Göttingen 1979, ISBN 3-7881-0104-0 .
  • Criticism of tradition and attempt at reconstruction. Studies on the development of history and historical thinking. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 1979, ISBN 3-525-36173-4 .
  • Trading state England. The nation's political interest in foreign trade from the 16th to the early 18th century (= publications by the Institute for European History, Mainz. Vol. 50). Steiner, Wiesbaden 1968.

Editorships

  • German history after the Second World War (1945–1965) (= writings of the Historisches Kolleg. Vol. 14). Oldenbourg, Munich 1989, ISBN 3-486-54831-X . ( online ).
  • with Bernd Martin : The Jews as a minority in history. dtv, Munich 1981, ISBN 3-423-01745-7 .
  • Commemorative publication Martin Göhring. Studies on European history (= publications by the Institute for European History, Mainz. Vol. 52). Steiner, Wiesbaden 1969.

literature

  • Inaugural address by Ernst Schulin at the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences on July 17, 1982. In: Yearbook of the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences for 1982 , Heidelberg 1983, pp. 81–83.
  • Patrick Bahners : Ernst Schulin. Think far. World history out of criticism. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , October 12, 2009, No. 236, p. 34.
  • Gangolf Huebinger, Jürgen Osterhammel, Erich Pelzer (eds.): Universal history and national stories. Ernst Schulin on his 65th birthday. Rombach, Freiburg 1994, ISBN 3-7930-9120-1 .
  • Schulin, Ernst. In: Kürschner's German Scholars Calendar. Bio-bibliographical directory of contemporary German-speaking scientists. Volume 3: M-SD. 26th edition. de Gruyter, Berlin et al. 2014, ISBN 978-3-11-030256-1 , p. 3370.
  • Jürgen Osterhammel: About active thinking. Humanist: On the death of the historian Ernst Schulin. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , February 15, 2017, No. 39, p. 12.
  • Wulf Rüskamp: A universal historian ahead of time. Ernst Schulin, professor emeritus for modern history at the University of Freiburg, died at the age of 87. In: Badische Zeitung , February 15, 2017 ( online ).
  • Wolfgang Reinhard : Ernst Schulin (October 12, 1929 - February 13, 2017). In: Yearbook of the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences for 2017. Heidelberg 2018, pp. 367–369 ( online ).
  • Gottfried Schramm : Ernst Schulin 70 years old. In: Freiburger Universitätsblätter , Vol. 38 (1999), pp. 160-161.
  • Gustav Seibt : Obituary. Unheard of events. Ernst Schulin wrote authoritative works on German, English and French history - and was a great thinker of history. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung , February 15, 2017, ( online ).
  • Benedikt Stuchtey: Ernst Schulin (1929–2017). In: Historical magazine . Volume 305 (2017) pp. 100-112.
  • Who is who? The German Who's Who. L. Edition 2011/2012, p. 1074.

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Remarks

  1. ↑ Inaugural address by Ernst Schulin at the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences on July 17, 1982. In: Yearbook of the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences for 1982 , Heidelberg 1983, pp. 81–83, here: p. 81.
  2. ^ Inaugural address by Ernst Schulin at the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences on July 17, 1982. In: Yearbook of the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences for 1982 , Heidelberg 1983, pp. 81–83, here: p. 82.
  3. ↑ Ernst Schulin: Rankes first book. In: Historische Zeitschrift 203, 1966, pp. 581–609.
  4. ^ Benedikt Stuchtey: Ernst Schulin (1929–2017). In: Historical magazine. Volume 305 (2017) pp. 100–112, here: p. 102.
  5. ^ Benedikt Stuchtey: Ernst Schulin (1929–2017). In: Historical magazine. Volume 305 (2017) pp. 100–112, here: p. 103.
  6. ↑ Ernst Schulin (ed.): Universal history. Cologne 1974.
  7. ↑ Ernst Schulin: Hannah Arendt as historians. In: Yearbook of the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences for 1991. Heidelberg 1992, pp. 49–58.
  8. ↑ Bernd Martin, Ernst Schulin (ed.): The Jews as a minority in history. Munich 1981.
  9. ^ Benedikt Stuchtey: Ernst Schulin (1929–2017). In: Historical magazine. Volume 305 (2017) pp. 100–112, here: p. 105.
  10. ^ Ernst Schulin: The Mannheim family Kahn and their cultural-economic expansion. A contribution to German-Jewish history in the 19th and 20th centuries. In: Mannheimer Geschichtsblätter 26, 2013, pp. 41–51, here: p. 51.
  11. ^ Ernst Schulin: The History of the Evangelical Church Community Freiburg 1807-1982. Freiburg im Breisgau 1983.
  12. ↑ Ernst Schulin: Luther and the Reformation. Historizations and updates over the centuries. In: Ernst Schulin: work on history. Stages of historicization on the way to modernity. Frankfurt am Main et al. 1997, pp. 13-61. Compare with Benedikt Stuchtey: Ernst Schulin (1929–2017). In: Historical magazine. Volume 305 (2017) pp. 100–112, here: p. 103.
  13. ^ Ernst Schulin: Emperor Karl V history of an oversized sphere of activity. Stuttgart 1999.
personal data
SURNAME Schulin, Ernst
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian
DATE OF BIRTH October 12, 1929
PLACE OF BIRTH kassel
DATE OF DEATH February 13, 2017
Place of death Freiburg in Breisgau