Gottfried Opitz
Gottfried Opitz (born October 22, 1904 in Greiz ; † March 14, 1976 in Fürstenfeldbruck ) was a German historian .
The son of a businessman and factory owner passed his school leaving examination at the humanistic grammar school in Plauen in 1925 . He then studied history and German language and literature for ten semesters at the Universities of Heidelberg , Munich and Vienna . In 1936/37 he received his doctorate with the thesis of documents, council and chancellery of Frederick IV (the arguable) . He was appointed to the German Historical Institute in Rome by Wilhelm Engel . Here he devoted himself to the papal registers of the first half of the 14th century, especially those of Clement VI. , Innocent VI. , Urbans V. and Gregory XI. In April 1944 he was posted to archive and library protection in Italy and drafted into military service in November. From May 1945 to February 1946 he was a prisoner of war in France. On March 1, he joined the Monumenta Germaniae Historica (MGH) and took over the management of the institute from August 1949 to 1969.
Gottfried Opitz published neither an edition for the MGH nor any significant work after the end of the war. Rather, Opitz looked after MGH's publications and checked them for errors.
literature
- Hans Martin Schaller : Obituary Gottfried Opitz. In: German Archive for Research into the Middle Ages 32 (1976), pp. 328–329.
Web links
- Books and articles by Gottfried Opitz in the Opac of the Regesta Imperii
- Employee at the Monumenta Germaniae Historica (MGH) Munich
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Opitz, Gottfried |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German historian |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 22, 1904 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Greiz |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 14, 1976 |
| Place of death | Fürstenfeldbruck |