Gerhard Prause

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Gerhard Prause (born May 16, 1926 in Hamburg ; † December 2, 2004 ibid) was a German journalist , literary scholar and historian .

Life

Prause became known as the author of the time puzzle series Tratschke asks: Who was it? . The pseudonym Tratschke reminiscent of its last name of the Prussian House and Hofhistorikers Heinrich von Treitschke , of the educated middle class of the Empire and the Weimar period and also the early post-war period was very well known and whose name at that time literally for accurate historical factual knowledge (annual figures etc.) was standing.

Prause wrote numerous essays, television documentaries, and non-fiction books that have been translated into many languages. His 1966 work Nobody laughed at Columbus is one of the first to deal with the creation of legends in history (see also dictionary of errors ).

Publications

  • Nobody laughed at Columbus - corrected falsifications and legends of history. Düsseldorf and Vienna: Econ 1966; 7th, revised and expanded edition, ibid. 1988; so far last reprint there in 1996.
  • The big ones as nobody knows them. Econ, Munich 1967
  • Geniuses in school. Legend and truth. Berlin, Literatur-Verlag 2007. ISBN 978-3-8258-0105-2
  • The little world of Jesus Christ. What theologians, philologists, historians and archaeologists researched. Hoffmann and Campe, Hamburg 1981
  • Thirty short biographies, illustrated by Manfred Limmroth. Lübbe, Berg. Gladbach, 1983. ISBN 3-7857-0349-X
  • Forties short biographies, illustrated by Manfred Limmroth. Lübbe, Berg. Gladbach, 1983. ISBN 3-7857-0350-3
  • Fifties short biographies, illustrated by Manfred Limmroth. Lübbe, Berg. Gladbach, 1983. ISBN 3-7857-0351-1
  • Sixties short biographies, illustrated by Manfred Limmroth. Lübbe, Berg. Gladbach, 1983. ISBN 3-7857-0352-X
  • Seventies short biographies, illustrated by Manfred Limmroth. Lübbe, Berg. Gladbach, 1983. ISBN 3-7857-0353-8
  • Enjoy in private. Tratschke's current world stories. dtv, Munich 1997 ISBN 3-423-10623-9
  • Tratschke's lexicon for know-it-alls. Poetry and Truth in World History. dtv, Munich 1997
  • Herod the Great. King of the Jews. Heyne, Munich 1980 ISBN 3-453-55074-9
  • Sixty-six times who was it? Tratschke's personal puzzle from 'ZEIT'. DTV, Munich 1985
  • with Thomas von Randow: The devil in science. Woe if scholars are wrong: from the witch's madness to the dying forest. Knaur, Munich 1989 ISBN 3-426-03878-1
  • Fifty-five times who was it? Tratschke's personal puzzle from 'ZEIT'. DTV, Munich 1986
  • The golden gossip. The 125 most beautiful history puzzles. VMA Verlag, Wiesbaden 2008, ISBN 978-3-938586-00-6
  • Traces of history. With archaeologists on major excavations. Knaur, Munich 1991 ISBN 3-426-03998-2
  • Herod the Great. The correction of a legend. dtv, Munich 1992 ISBN 3-423-30337-9
  • Forty-four times who was it? Ullstein, Berlin 1994
  • Tratschke asks: Who was it? Heyne, Munich 1998
  • She only loved the emperor. Tratschke asks 75 times: who was it? C. H. Beck, Munich 2001
  • as co-author: Die ZEIT. World and cultural history, vol. 1: Beginnings of mankind and ancient Egypt. Zeitverlag, Hamburg 2006 ISBN 3-411-17591-5

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ https://portal.dnb.de/opac.htm?method=showSendResult&resultId=%22Prause%22+and+%22Kolumbus%22%26any
personal data
SURNAME Prause, Gerhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German literary scholar and historian
DATE OF BIRTH May 16, 1926
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH December 2, 2004
Place of death Hamburg