Gerhard Brendler

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Gerhard Brendler (born January 20, 1932 in Voigtsbach ; † May 31, 2020 in Berlin ) was a German historian .

Life

Gerhard Brendler attended elementary school and from 1946 to 1949 did an apprenticeship as a timber merchant. From 1949 to 1951 he attended the workers and farmers faculties in Dresden and Leipzig . In 1951 he passed his Abitur, joined the SED and was delegated to study abroad. He began studying medicine at the Sanitary-Hygienic Mechnikov Institute in Leningrad and in 1952 switched to studying history at the Zhdanov University in Leningrad , which he finished in 1957 as a graduate historian. Back in the GDR, Brendler became a political teacher at the SED district party school "Fritz Heckert" in Ottendorf . In 1958 he became a research assistant at the Historical Institute of the Friedrich Schiller University in Jena , and in 1960 he moved to the Karl Marx University in Leipzig in the same position . The doctorate took place in 1965 with Max Steinmetz and Ernst Werner with a thesis on the subject of the Anabaptist uprising in Münster 1534/35. The judgment of the Anabaptist empire in historiography and its position in the early bourgeois revolution in Germany . Then Brendler became head of one of the scientific departments at the Central Institute for History at the Academy of Sciences of the GDR . In 1987 he became a professor there, which he remained until it was liquidated in 1991. In 1992 he was appointed to a professorship at the European University Viadrina in Frankfurt (Oder) , where he retired in 1996.

Between 1977 and 1989 Brendler was a member of the editorial board of the Yearbook for the History of Feudalism and towards the end of the GDR was a member of the board of the GDR Historians' Society . He mainly dealt with the Reformation and the German Peasants' War .

Gerhard Brendler died in Berlin at the age of 88.

Fonts

  • The German Peasants' War 1524/25. History, Traditions, Teachings (Ed. With Adolf Laube), Academy, Berlin 1977
  • With morning star and rainbow flag. ( Illustrated historical booklets : Booklet 9), Deutscher Verlag der Wissenschaften, Berlin 1978, DNB 780289528 .
  • Martin Luther. Theology and Revolution , DVW, Berlin 1983
    • Licensed edition for the Federal Republic: Martin Luther. Theology and revolution. A Marxist representation , Pahl-Rugenstein, Cologne 1983 ISBN 3-7609-0842-X
    • English language edition: Martin Luther. Theology and revolution , Oxford University Press, New York-Oxford 1991 ISBN 0-19-505112-2
  • Martin Luther and the Bible , Reclam, Leipzig 1983 (also: Röderberg, Frankfurt / Main 1983 ISBN 3-87682-313-7 )
    • Licensed edition for the Federal Republic: Martin Luther and the Bible , Röderberg, Frankfurt / Main 1983 ISBN 3-87682-313-7
  • Thomas Müntzer. Geist and Faust , DVW, Berlin 1989 ISBN 3-326-00475-3
  • The Lutheran Müntzer. First report on his appearance in Jüterbog , Verlag der Nation, Berlin 1989 ISBN 3-373-00401-2

literature

  • Lothar Mertens : Lexicon of the GDR historians. Biographies and bibliographies on the historians from the German Democratic Republic. Saur, Munich 2006, ISBN 3-598-11673-X , p. 154.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Obituary notice in the " Berliner Zeitung " from June 20, 2020, p. 12.
personal data
SURNAME Brendler, Gerhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian
DATE OF BIRTH January 20, 1932
PLACE OF BIRTH Voigtsbach
DATE OF DEATH May 31, 2020
Place of death Berlin