Ernst Walter Zeeden

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Ernst Walter Zeeden (born May 14, 1916 in Berlin ; † September 5, 2011 ) was a German historian of Middle and Modern History .

Life

Ernst Walter Zeeden was born in Berlin as the son of the district court director Konrad Zeeden (1879–1925) and his wife Marianne. After graduating from high school at Berlin's Bismarck High School , Zeeden studied history, German and Latin from 1934 to 1939 at the universities of Leipzig , Heidelberg , Munich and Freiburg. At the University of Leipzig he became a member of the Corps Saxonia Leipzig . With the work Hardenberg and the idea of popular representation in Prussia 1807-1812 he was in 1939 when Gerhard Ritter at the Albert-Ludwigs-University of Freiburg Dr. phil. PhD . On November 4, 1948, he married Pauline Dubbert in Freiburg, with whom he had five children.

He completed his habilitation in 1947 at the University of Freiburg and became an adjunct professor there in 1954. In 1957 he was offered a professorship at the Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen . In 1984 he retired . Zeeden came from a Protestant family, but converted to the Roman Catholic Church and was invested in the Order of the Knights of the Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem on May 9, 1954 in Freiburg im Breisgau . However, his wife and children remained Protestants. Zeeden was buried in the Bergfriedhof (Tübingen) .

Act

Zeeden built one of the first in Tübingen Humanities Collaborative Research Centers of the German Research Foundation (DFG) on "Late Middle Ages and Reformation" together with the historian Josef Engel and theologians Heiko Oberman on. Zeeden's life's work encompasses the epochs of the Reformation and the confessional age, to whose re-evaluation in German and European history he made decisive contributions. If today the emergence of denominations, denominational formation and denominationalization as well as the cultural history of the early modern period are central topics and the older centering of the Reformation historiography on the figure of Martin Luther and the early years of the Reformation have been expanded through a longer-term perspective, Zeeden has great importance Proportion of. His writings and his cross-denominational comparative approach as well as his cultural-historical thesis of the Catholic traditions in older Lutheranism of the 16th and 17th centuries were also received outside of Germany.

With his books on the "Origin of Denominations", "Martin Luther" or the volume "Hegemonic Wars and Faith Struggles" in the history of the Propylaea , Zeeden was able to initiate completely new directions of research. His scientific legacy is administered in the Ulm City Archives and comprises eleven linear meters.

Zeeden supervised seventy doctorates and trained over ten later university lecturers . His academic students include Johannes Burkhardt , Helga Schnabel-Schüle and Wolfram Siemann . He himself was a student of Gerhard Ritter and a relative of Max Weber .

Fonts (selection)

  • Hardenberg and the idea of ​​parliament in Prussia 1807–1812. Ebering, Berlin 1940 (at the same time: phil. Diss., University of Freiburg, 1939).
  • Martin Luther and the Reformation in the judgment of German Lutheranism. 2 vols., Herder, Freiburg 1950/52.
  • Catholic traditions in the Lutheran church orders of the 16th century. Aschendorff, Münster 1959.
  • The origin of the denominations. Oldenbourg, Munich 1965.
  • The age of religious struggles. Deutscher Taschenbuch-Verlag, Munich 1973 (paperback edition of the 9th, revised edition of Gebhardt. Handbuch der deutschen Geschichte ).
  • Propylaea history of Europe. Vol. 2: Hegemonic wars and religious struggles , Propylaeen Verlag, Berlin 1977, ISBN 3-549-15792-4 .
  • Europe in the age of absolutism and the enlightenment. Klett-Cotta, Stuttgart 1981, ISBN 3-12-915660-7 .
  • Europe in transition. From 1776 until the Congress of Vienna. Klett-Cotta, Stuttgart 1982, ISBN 3-12-915670-4 .
  • Confession formation. Studies on the Reformation, Counter-Reformation and Catholic Reform. Klett-Cotta, Stuttgart 1985, ISBN 978-3-608-91166-4 .

literature

  • Horst Rabe (ed.): Festgabe for Ernst Walter Zeeden. For his 60th birthday on May 14, 1976. Aschendorff, Münster 1976, ISBN 3-402-03759-9 .
  • Markus Gerstmeier and Anton Schindling (eds.): Ernst Walter Zeeden (1916–2011) as historians of the Reformation, denominational formation and “German culture”. Re-readings of a historical scholarly pioneer (= Catholic life and church reform in the age of religious schism. Vol. 76). Aschendorff, Münster 2016, ISBN 978-3-402-11095-9 .

Web links

Remarks

  1. ↑ em. Prof. Dr. Ernst Walter Zeeden died ( Memento from November 25, 2015 in the Internet Archive ), News, Modern History, University of Tübingen, accessed on September 15, 2011.
  2. ^ The historian Ernst Walter Zeeden turns 85 ( Memento from February 27, 2002 in the Internet Archive )
  3. ↑ His mother was a daughter of Alwine Müller, the youngest daughter of Carl David Weber , the uncle of Max Weber.
personal data
SURNAME Zeeden, Ernst Walter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH May 14, 1916
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH September 5, 2011