Günter Barudio

Günter Barudio (born April 5, 1942 in Dahn ) is a German historian and author.

Barudio is the son of a farmer from the Palatinate and grew up in Fischbach . He completed a mining apprenticeship, worked as an oil drill, was a locksmith and machine fitter and, after graduating from high school, studied law, philosophy, Scandinavian studies, Slavic studies and Eastern European history in Frankfurt am Main in 1965 . In 1969 he was on a research stay in Uppsala and in 1973 he received his doctorate in Frankfurt. As a historian, he is a freelance writer. He lives in Frankfurt am Main.

He wrote an overall account of the time of absolutism and the Enlightenment in the world history of Fischer , a biography of Gustav II Adolf , books about the French Revolution, the history of oil and the Thirty Years War.

At the end of the 1970s he founded the publishing house Barudio und Hess and published a satirical magazine (Franco Furto), which only existed in 1979/80. In 1979 he published the book Deutscher Herbst by Stig Dagerman, which he had translated from Swedish .

Fonts

• The well-proportioned regiment. Conceptual and case studies on the “Swedish Constitution” between 1633 and 1693 with special attention to the category of the just. 1973 (Frankfurt am Main, University, dissertation, 1973; abbreviated as: Absolutism. Destruction of the “libertarian constitution”. Studies on the “Carolinian violence” in Sweden between 1680 and 1693 (= Frankfurt historical treatises. Vol. 13). Steiner, Wiesbaden 1976, ISBN 3-515-02362-3 ).
• The age of absolutism and the enlightenment. 1648–1779 (= Fischer Weltgeschichte . Vol. 25). Fischer-Taschenbuch-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1981, ISBN 3-596-60025-1 .
• Gustav Adolf - the great. A political biography. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 1982, ISBN 3-10-004205-0 .
• The German war. 1618-1648. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 1985, ISBN 3-10-004206-9 .
• Paris in a frenzy. The Revolution in France 1789–1795. Bertelsmann-Lexikon-Verlag, Gütersloh et al. 1989, ISBN 3-570-02995-6 .
• Politics as culture. A lexicon from the occident to the future. Metzler, Stuttgart et al. 1994, ISBN 3-476-00993-9 .
• Madame de Staël and Benjamin Constant. Play with the fire. Rowohlt Berlin, Berlin 1996, ISBN 3-87134-245-9 .
• Tears of the devil. A world history of petroleum. Klett-Cotta, Stuttgart 2001, ISBN 3-608-91680-6 .
• Fleas of thought. Aphorisms. Forum Verlag Leipzig, Leipzig 2007, ISBN 978-3-931801-60-1 .

Cooperation

• Klaus Zernack among other things: Handbook of the history of Russia. Hiersemann, Stuttgart.
• Iring Fetscher among other things: Piper's manual of political ideas. Piper, Munich.
• Student Duden story .

Fiction

• The grain king. Novel from a different kind. Gollenstein, Blieskastel 2005, ISBN 3-935731-93-0 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Günter Barudio in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

1. ^ Biographical data, among other things, according to the information in his book Absolutism and Enlightenment , Fischer Weltgeschichte.