Fedor Schneider

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Fedor Heinrich Gustav Hermann Schneider (born July 24, 1879 in Hausdorf , † February 27, 1932 in Frankfurt am Main ) was a German historian .

The son of a factory owner was of Silesian origin. From Easter 1892 he attended grammar school in Schweidnitz . There he passed his Abitur in 1898. He then studied history, classical philology, philosophy and economics in Munich, Freiburg and Berlin. His academic teachers included Paul Scheffer-Boichorst , Heinrich Finke , Max Lenz and above all Michael Tangl . He received his doctorate from Tangl on the late medieval historian Johann von Viktring . After receiving his doctorate, he became an employee of the Monumenta Germaniae Historica and worked on the edition of Johanns Liber certarum historiarum , which he published in 1909. In July 1904 he became an assistant at the Prussian Historical Institute in Rome and stayed there until 1914. Georg Küntzel brought him to Frankfurt. He completed his habilitation in June 1914 at the University of Frankfurt am Main and became a private lecturer in the same year. Four years later he became an associate professor in Frankfurt. From 1923 he was the successor to Fritz Kern professor for medieval history. He turned down an appointment to Freiburg in 1930. Manfred Krebs was one of his academic students . Schneider died in 1932 at the age of 52. His successor in Frankfurt was Ernst Kantorowicz , who was forced to retire in 1934.

Schneider's focus was the history of Italy in the Middle Ages and above all Tuscany . His research took him to all the important archives and libraries in central and northern Italy and thus enabled him to have an intimate knowledge of the printed and unprinted records of Italy's medieval history. The Regesta Chartarum Italiae was initiated in cooperation with the Prussian Institute and the Istituto Storico Italiano . As part of this series published Schneider during his time as an assistant in Rome in 1907, the Regestum Volaterranum that Regesten of certificates of Volterra (778-1303) and 1911 the first volume of Regestum Senense ( Regesten of certificates of Siena ). With his study Die Reichsverwaltung in Toscana. From the founding of the Longobard Empire to the end of the Staufer , he presented a fundamental work on the historical geography, constitutional, administrative and social history of Italy. His study, The Origin of Castle and Rural Community in Italy , published in 1924, provided numerous studies on the historical geography, constitutional and social history of Italy. In his last years he devoted himself to intellectual history studies and published Rome and Rome Thought in the Middle Ages . With his death, German research into Tuscany came to a standstill, with a few exceptions. It was not until the sixties of the 20th century that new research approaches were initiated at the German Historical Institute in Rome.

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Editions

  • Johannes von Viktring / Iohannisabbatis Victoriensis: Liber certarum historiarum (= Monumenta Germaniae Historica, Scriptores rerum Germanicarum in usum scholarum separatim editi. Vol. 36). 2 vols., Hanover / Leipzig 1909–1910.

Monographs

  • The imperial administration in Toscana. From the foundation of the Longobard Empire to the exit of the Staufer (568–1268). Minerva-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1966 (unmodified reprint of the Rome 1914 edition).
  • Rome and the idea of ​​Rome in the Middle Ages. The spiritual foundations of the Renaissance. Drei Masken Verlag, Munich 1926.
  • The creation of the castle and the rural community in Italy. Studies on historical geography, constitutional and social history (= Treatises on Middle and Modern History. Vol. 68). Rothschild, Berlin-Grunewald 1924.

Essays

  • Selected essays on the history and diplomacy of the Middle Ages. Mainly in Italy. With an introduction by Gerd Tellenbach. Scientia Verlag, Aalen 1974, ISBN 3-511-10045-3 .

literature

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Remarks

  1. ^ Gerd Tellenbach : Introduction. In: Fedor Schneider: Selected essays on the history and diplomacy of the Middle Ages. Mainly in Italy. With an introduction by Gerd Tellenbach. Aalen 1974, pp. 5–10, here: p. 7.
  2. ^ Gerd Tellenbach: Introduction. In: Fedor Schneider: Selected essays on the history and diplomacy of the Middle Ages. Mainly in Italy. With an introduction by Gerd Tellenbach. Aalen 1974, pp. 5–10, here: p. 10.
personal data
SURNAME Schneider, Fedor
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schneider, Fedor Heinrich Gustav Hermann
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian
DATE OF BIRTH July 24, 1879
PLACE OF BIRTH House village
DATE OF DEATH February 27, 1932
Place of death Frankfurt am Main