Friedrich Hermann Schubert

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Friedrich Hermann Schubert (born August 26, 1925 in Dresden , † June 30, 1973 in Frankfurt am Main ) was a German historian .

Life

Schubert was born in 1925 as the son of the Dresden architecture professor and architect Otto Schubert and the teacher Veronika geb. Strüver born, whose parents were well anchored in the upscale Dresden society; this applies in particular to his grandfather, who as a lawyer was a model for him. His paternal grandfather is the sculptor Hermann Schubert . Schubert attended the Vitzthum-Gymnasium Dresden , which he graduated from high school in February 1944. He escaped entry into the Wehrmacht because of an illness that occupied him for two years. In 1946, however, he began studying history and economics at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich . In 1952, he was a study on Ludwig Camerarius at Franz Schnabel for Dr. phil. PhD. With Ludwig Camerarius, who was born in Nuremberg but worked in the Palatinate and Swedish service, the work presented a picture of life that still revealed intellectual horizons even during the Thirty Years' War.

Schubert, who worked since 1952 for the historical commission of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences, began after the printing of his dissertation a larger study about the older German Reichstag in the picture of the journalism between 1495 and 1648. With this work, which like the dissertation completely opened up new, extraordinarily broad horizons, he completed his habilitation in 1959 at the University of Munich. It was heavily revised and supplemented by him in the following years until it was published in 1966.

In 1962, Schubert became a dietician in Munich, where he also deputized for the chair of his great patron Franz Schnabel. Only one year later he became a professor for Medieval and Modern History at the Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel , this time inspired by Carl Dietrich Erdmann . After the rejection of a call to the University of Hamburg, he took over the Chair of Medieval and Modern History at the University of Frankfurt am Main held by Otto Vossler in 1968 . From 1952 to 1963 he was also editor of the Neue Deutsche Biographie . His academic students included a. Sigrid Jahns , Johannes Kunisch and Volker Press . Gerhard Menk began his doctorate at Schubert.

Schubert was one of the rediscoverers of the older German Reichstag as a weighty institution in the European environment and also of the work of the Calvinist state theorist Johannes Althusius . Like Franz Schnabel, Schubert was a representative of neo-humanism , which had a strong impact in Munich in the immediate post-war period. Schubert not only had a western and liberal understanding of history, but also played a key role in placing the older German constitutional institutions at the center of the general European intellectual tradition throughout the early modern period. A large-scale work on the history of the European monarchy has unfortunately been lost.

Schubert was a member of the Association of Freedom of Science . During the student unrest in the 1960s , he was exposed to protests from left-wing students who wrongly identified him as an exponent of a highly conservative educational ideal and professorialism. He successfully fought them off in court, but was unable to convince them of his fundamentally liberal views.

In the summer of 1973 Schubert chose suicide as the dean of the department at the time .

Memberships

Fonts (selection)

  • Ludwig Camerarius (1573-1651) - a biography. The Palatinate government in exile in the Thirty Years War. A contribution to the history of political Protestantism. With contributions on the life and work of the author . Edited by Anton Schindling with the collaboration of Markus Gerstmeier. Aschendorff, Münster 2013, ISBN 978-3-402-13018-6 .
  • The German Reichstag in the state doctrine of the early modern period. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 1966. Digitized in Das Digi20 project of the Bavarian State Library

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personal data
SURNAME Schubert, Friedrich Hermann
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian
DATE OF BIRTH August 26, 1925
PLACE OF BIRTH Dresden
DATE OF DEATH June 30, 1973
Place of death Frankfurt am Main