Gilbert Trausch

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Gilbert Trausch (born September 20, 1931 in Luxembourg ; † June 3, 2018 ) was a Luxembourg historian . He was considered one of the most renowned historians in Luxembourg of the 20th century.

Life

Gilbert Trausch attended the boys' college on Limpertsberg and studied history at the University of Paris and the University of Exeter . He then became a teacher of history and French at the city's boys' school. From 1963 he was a corresponding member of the historical section of the Institut Grand-Ducal .

From 1968 to 1995 he was a professor at the Center universitaire de Luxembourg . From 1972 to 1984 he was the head of the national library . He was then professor at the University of Liège and at the College of Europe in Bruges. Between 1984 and 1990 he was director of the Center universitaire de Luxembourg . He was also the first director of the Center d'études et de recherches européennes Robert Schuman (CERE) from 1990 and was appointed to the government.

The historian Trausch is considered a state thinker in Luxembourg who has replaced the traditional myth of blood and soil with a new official state history, which in the political discourse was understood less as a science of history than as a new patriotic narrative for the purpose of historical legitimization of a young nation.

Denis Scuto sees the merit of Trausch in the fact that in the 80s - when the “nouvelle histoire” in France had already turned to other topics - he wrote a history of socio-structural changes based on the principles of the French historian Marc Bloch (murdered 1944) Luxemburgs, but did not lose sight of the life stories of individual people.

Publications (selection)

  • Structures and problems agraires du passé ; A series of 15 articles published in the history magazine Hémecht between 1967 and 1972 .
  • The Luxembourg peasant revolts of 1798. The 'lace war', its interpretation and its afterlife in the history of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg ; in: Rheinische Vierteljahrsblätter , 1984, pp. 161-237.
  • You particularisme à la nation - Essais sur l'histoire du Luxembourg de la fin de l'Ancien Régime à la Seconde Guerre mondiale . Saint-Paul, Luxembourg, 1988
  • Le Luxembourg - Émergence d'un État et d'une nation . Fonds Mercator, Antwerp & Brussels, 1989. Revised & expanded new edition, Éditions Schortgen & Fonds Mercator, Luxembourg, 2007, ISBN 978-2-87953-047-5
  • Histoire du Luxembourg (= Nations d'Europe). Hatier, Paris, 1992, ISBN 2-218-03855-2 . Portuguese translation: História do Luxemburgo , 2012.
  • La croissance demographique du Luxembourg du début du XIXe siècle à nos jours . Luxembourg, 1972.
  • Le Luxembourg sous l'Ancien Régime . Bourg-Bourger, Luxembourg, 1977
  • (Editor & co-author) Histoire du Luxembourg: Le destin européen d'un petit pays ; Toulouse (éditions Privat), 2003, ISBN 2-7089-4773-7
  • Le Luxembourg à l'époque contemporaine, du partage de 1839 à nos jours . Editions Bourg-Bourger, Luxembourg, 1975

literature

Single receipts

  1. ↑ a b Pol Schock: Gilbert Trausch is dead. In: Tageblatt.lu . June 4, 2018, Retrieved June 5, 2018 .
  2. ^ Family advertisement in Luxemburger Wort , edition of June 5, 2018, p. 38.
  3. ^ Center Robert Schuman. Website of the Center d'études et de recherches européennes Robert Schuman (CERE), March 8, 2012, archived from the original on March 31, 2012 ; accessed on June 5, 2018 (French).
  4. ↑ Jerome Quiqueret: Dans l'air du temps. In: Le Jeudi. January 5, 2012, archived from the original on January 14, 2012 ; accessed on June 5, 2018 (French).
  5. ↑ Conversation Denis Scuto with Jean Rhein: “L'histoire est devenu un métier” . In: Le Quotidien , January 2, 2012, p. 2f.
personal data
SURNAME Trausch, Gilbert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Luxembourg historian
DATE OF BIRTH September 20, 1931
PLACE OF BIRTH Luxembourg City
DATE OF DEATH June 2, 2018 or June 3, 2018
Place of death Luxembourg