Gertraud Zaepernick

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Gertraud Zaepernick (born November 10, 1915 in Berlin ; † July 17, 2005 there ) was a German historian .

After the state examination in history and German studies in 1954, Zaepernick became the assistant to the historian Carl Hinrichs . Since he taught at the Free University in West Berlin, but she lived in East Berlin , she had to keep the connection a secret. Her considerable contribution to his posthumously published work Preussentum und Pietismus (1971) could not be mentioned in the book published in the West. Cut off from her employer after the construction of the Berlin Wall in 1961, she had to forego a scientific career because she did not want to leave East Berlin because of her sick mother, but neither did she want to compromise with the GDR ideology. She worked in various occupations, including a. as a postman, and researched as much as possible as a private scholar . As a member of the Historical Commission for the Study of Pietism, she participated in the publication of the articles on August Hermann Francke's 1963 anniversary . In addition to Pietism , her main interest was the mystical spiritualism of the early modern period; she was the best expert on the relevant sources in the Gotha Research Library and in the library and archive of the Francke Foundations . In 1993 she was not re-elected when the Historical Commission for the Study of Pietism was reconstituted, but was able to give lectures all over Europe (e.g. at the invitation of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences ).

Fonts

  • Neuruppiner picture sheets from the Gustav Kühn company. Seemann, Leipzig 1972.
  • World and people with Sebastian Franck . In: Pietismus und Neuzeit 1, 1974, pp. 9-25.
  • Johann Georg Gichtels and his successors exchanged letters with the Pietists in Halle, especially with AM Francke. In:Pietismus und Neuzeit 8, 1982, pp. 74–118.
  • An unwilling separatist: Paul Friedrich Lehmann . In: Pietismus und Neuzeit 21, 1996, pp. 241–273.
  • The beginnings of the Enlightenment in the Duchy of Saxony-Gotha-Altenburg and Cyprian's position on it . In: Ernst Koch, Johannes Wallmann (eds.): Ernst Salomon Cyprian (1673-1745) between Orthodoxy, Pietism and the Early Enlightenment. Lectures at the International Colloquium from September 14 to 16, 1995 in the Gotha Research and State Library, Schloss Friedenstein. (Publications of the Research and State Library Gotha 34), Gotha 1996, pp. 202–216.
  • Short report from the Pädagogium Regium 1695-1784 . In: Paul Raabe (Ed.): Schools make history. 300 years of education in the Francke Foundations in Halle . Halle: Franckesche Foundations 1997, pp. 67–82.
  • Religious courts in the 18th century . In: Pietismus und Neuzeit 32, 2006, pp. 213–219.

literature

  • RGG 4 register. 2007. Col. 444.
  • Johannes Wallmann : On the edition of the letters of Philipp Jakob Spener . In: Pietismus und Neuzeit 38, 2012, pp. 10–58, here 51–58.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ August Hermann Francke: Word and Action. Speeches and lectures for the 300th anniversary of his birthday . With a foreword by Johannes Jänicke and with the assistance of Gertraud Zaepernick, edited by Dietrich Jungklaus. Berlin: Evangelical Publishing House 1966
personal data
SURNAME Zaepernick, Gertraud
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian
DATE OF BIRTH November 10, 1915
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH July 17, 2005
Place of death Berlin