Gustav Wolf (historian)

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Paul Theodor Gustav Wolf (born June 13, 1865 in Zwickau ; † April 19, 1940 ) was a German historian and professor of modern history .

Life

Gustav Wolf studied history in Leipzig and Berlin and received his doctorate in Leipzig in 1888 with his thesis "On the history of German Protestantism 1555-1559" under Wilhelm Maurenbrecher . After his doctorate , Wolf worked in archives in Karlsruhe , Dresden , Berlin and Vienna .

With his two-volume work “German History in the Age of the Counter Reformation” he qualified as a professor for modern history in Freiburg in 1899 and continued to work there as a private lecturer. From July 1916 he was initially an associate professor in Freiburg , and from 1917 a full professor of modern history.

In 1933 he was convicted of a "Jewish heritage" because of the Nazi occupation Civil Service Act in the retirement staggered. Exceptions did not apply to Wolf. He did not become civil servant before August 1, 1914 and was also not one of the "front fighters". The last possible exception, in which the authorities would have considered an “excellent probation”, were prevented by the then rector Martin Heidegger ( NSDAP ) in Freiburg. The presented dryly states: "[It] was impossible to talk with Dr Wolf that he had proven itself in excellent manner while working as a civil servant." The Council of State Paul Schmitthenner recommended him because of his "14 years with the DNVP “Not to withdraw his teaching license or to grant him“ at least ongoing appropriate remuneration ”, but the Baden Ministry of Education agreed with Heidegger's opinion and canceled the teaching assignment.

Fonts

  • On the history of German Protestantism 1555-1559. Leipzig 1888.
  • German History in the Age of the Counter Reformation. Oswald Seehagen's Verlag, 1899.
  • From Kurköln in the 16th century. Published by E. Ebering, GmbH, Berlin 1905.
  • Introduction to the Study of Modern History. Berlin 1910.
  • Source studies of German Reformation history 1: Pre-Reformation and general Reformation history. 2. Reprint of the Gotha 1915 edition. - Hildesheim: Olms, 1988; 2/3: Church Reformation history, part 1 and 2, name and subject index. 2. Reprint of the Gotha edition 1916 to 1923. - Hildesheim: Olms, 1988.

Web links

Wikisource: Gustav Wolf  - Sources and full texts

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Detlef Döring, catalog of the manuscripts of the Leipzig University Library: New series , Otto Harrassowitz Verlag 2005, p. 160.
  2. ↑ Mario Todte, Wilhelm Maurenbrecher as a Reformation historian: a disciplinary historical assessment, Leipziger Universitätsverlag 2002, p. 82.
  3. ↑ a b Bernd Grün: The rector as a leader? The University of Freiburg i.Br. from 1933 to 1945, Freiburg / Munich, 2010, p. 211.
personal data
SURNAME Wolf, Gustav
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wolf, Paul Theodor Gustav (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian and professor of modern history
DATE OF BIRTH June 13, 1865
PLACE OF BIRTH Zwickau
DATE OF DEATH April 19, 1940