Franz Dumont

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Franz Dumont (born January 22, 1945 in Waldbröl ; † November 3, 2012 in Mainz ) was a German historian .

Franz Dumont lived in Mainz from 1954 and graduated from the Rabanus-Maurus-Gymnasium in Mainz in 1964 . During his school days, he had already dealt with the history of Mainz in the late 18th century on the advice of his history teacher. From 1964 to 1970 he studied history, classical philology, philosophy, geography and political science in Bonn and Mainz . From 1971 to 1977 he was a research assistant at the University of Mainz and received his doctorate in 1978 under Hermann Weber with a thesis on the Republic of Mainz from 1792/93. From 1978 to 1979 he was a research assistant at the Archive for Christian Democratic Politics in St. Augustin near Bonn. From 1979 until his death in 2012, Dumont was a research associate at the Academy of Sciences and Literature in Mainz . In December 2008 he received the Roman Imperial Medallion from the city of Mainz .

His main research interests were the life and work of the anatomist and natural scientist Samuel Thomas von Soemmerring and the explorer Georg Forster , the Enlightenment in Catholic Germany, Germany and the French Revolution , especially the Republic of Mainz and the history of the left bank of the Rhine in 1792 and from 1798 to 1814 as well the medical and city ​​history of Mainz . In 2007 he published the history of his 450-year-old high school with Ferdinand Scherf and Meike Hensel-Grobe. With Ferdinand Scherf and Friedrich Schütz (1998) and with Ferdinand Scherf (2010) he was the editor of two standard works on the history of the city of Mainz. Dumont died on November 3, 2012 at the age of 67. On November 9, 2012, he was buried in the Mainz-Hechtsheim cemetery.

Fonts (selection)

A complete compilation can be found in Susanne Speth: Directory of the writings of Franz Dumont. In: Mainz magazine . Vol. 108, 2013, pp. IX-XVII.

Monographs

  • The Republic of Mainz from 1792/93. Studies on the revolution in Rheinhessen and the Palatinate (= Alzeyer history sheets. Special issue. 19). Verlag der Rheinhessische Druckwerkstätte, Alzey 1982, ISBN 3-87854-035-3 (At the same time: Mainz, University, dissertation, 1978; 2nd, expanded edition, ibid 1993, ISBN 3-87854-090-6 ).

Editorships

  • Samuel Thomas Soemmerring : Works. Founded by Gunter Mann. Edited by Jost Benedum and Werner Friedrich Kümmel.
    • Volume 18: Correspondence 1761/65 - October 1784. Fischer, Stuttgart et al. 1996, ISBN 3-437-11702-5 ;
    • Volume 19: Correspondence 1784–1792. Part 1: November 1784 - December 1786. Fischer, Stuttgart et al. 1997, ISBN 3-437-25366-2 ;
    • Volume 19: Correspondence 1784–1792. Part 2: January 1787 - October 1792. Fischer, Stuttgart et al. 1998, ISBN 3-437-25368-9 ;
    • Volume 20: Correspondence. November 1792 - April 1805. Schwabe, Basel 2001, ISBN 3-7965-1738-2 ;
    • Volume 23: Diaries. 1804 / 05-1812. Part 1: Frankfurt am Main, January - March 1804, Munich, April 1805 - December 1808. Schwabe, Basel 2004, ISBN 3-7965-1932-6 .
  • with Ferdinand Scherf and Friedrich Schütz : Mainz. The history of the city. Philipp von Zabern, Mainz 1998, ISBN 3-8053-2000-0 .
  • with Ferdinand Scherf: Mainz - people, buildings, events. A city story. Philipp von Zabern, Mainz 2010, ISBN 978-3-8053-4247-6 .

literature

  • Ferdinand Scherf : In Memoriam Dr. Franz Dumont. In: Mainz magazine. Vol. 108, 2013, pp. VII – VIII.
  • Ferdinand Scherf: Dr. Franz Dumont. A researcher's life for the Republic of Mainz. In: Franz Dumont: The Mainzer Republic 1792/93. French export of revolution and German attempt at democracy (= series of publications by the Landtag Rhineland-Palatinate. Vol. 55). Edited by Stefan Dumont and Ferdinand Scherf. President of the Rhineland-Palatinate State Parliament, Mainz 2013, ISBN 978-3-9811001-3-6 , pp. 123–129 ( online ).

Web links

Remarks

  1. ↑ Ferdinand Scherf: Dr. Franz Dumont. A researcher's life for the Republic of Mainz. In: Franz Dumont: The Mainzer Republic 1792/93. French export of revolution and German attempt at democracy. Mainz 2013, pp. 123–129, here: p. 124 ( online ).
  2. ↑ Ferdinand Scherf: "Moguntia aurea keeps me tied up". Dr. Franz Dumont awarded the Roman Imperial Medallion. In: Mainz. Quarterly books for culture, politics, economy, history 29, 2009, pp. 70–71.
personal data
SURNAME Dumont, Franz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian
DATE OF BIRTH January 22, 1945
PLACE OF BIRTH Waldbröl
DATE OF DEATH November 3, 2012
Place of death Mainz