Hanns von Krannhals
Hanns Detlef Karsten von Krannhals (born September 8, 1911 in Riga , Latvia , Russian Empire , † March 24, 1970 in Lüneburg ) was a German historian , translator , author and graphic artist .
Life
Hanns von Krannhals was born the son of an officer and worked as a painter and graphic artist for a short time after graduating from a high school . He then studied Eastern European History at the Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel , the Albertus-Universität Königsberg , the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg and finally at the Technical University in Gdansk , where he did his dissertation in Gdansk and the Vistula trade in its heyday PhD from the 16th to the 17th century . There he became an assistant to Walther Recke and later head of a research center before he was drafted.
In 1953 he became a lecturer at the East Academy in Lüneburg. In the years that followed, his work on Eastern European subjects and his translations from Polish, English and French made him famous. His book The Warsaw Uprising 1944 from 1962 has appeared in several new editions.
Publications
- Gdansk and the Vistula trade in its heyday from the 16th to the 17th century , dissertation, 1942.
- The emergency bridge. Narrative. Drei-Säulen-Verlag, Bad Wörishofen 1948.
- as co-editor: We from the Vistula and Warta . Academic joint publishing house, Salzburg 1950.
- West Prussia and the Vistula . Holzner, Kitzingen am Main 1954.
- The Warsaw Uprising of 1944 . Bernard & Graefe, Verlag für Wehrwesen, Frankfurt am Main 1962. (Reprint: Ars Una, Neuried 2000, ISBN 3-89391-931-7 )
- as translator
- TE Lawrence : Mosaic of my Life . Selected from letters, works and other documents and with an introduction by David Garnett . List, Munich 1952.
- Bertrand Russell : Science changes life. List, Munich 1953.
- TE Lawrence: Under the die . List, Munich 1953.
- Louis Pauwels : Gurdjew , the magician . List, Munich 1956. (New edition: Scherz, Bern / Munich 1974, ISBN 3-502-13564-9 ; Goldmann Taschenbuch, Munich 1981, ISBN 3-442-11718-6 )
Radio plays
- 1958: Umgehungsstraße - Director: Heinrich Koch , with Walter A. Kreye , Ruth Bunkenburg , Hildegard Simons , Bernd Wiegmann , Klaus Herbert Kosky , Hinnerk Gronau ( RB )
- 1960: De Plättmaschin - Director: Bernd Wiegmann, with Gesa Clasen , Hans Robert Helms , Erika Rumsfeld , Ruth Bunkenburg, Hermann Menschel , Otto Lüthje (RB)
literature
- Carola L. Gottzmann / Petra Hörner: Lexicon of the German-language literature of the Baltic States and St. Petersburg . 3 volumes; Verlag Walter de Gruyter, Berlin 2007. ISBN 978-3-11-019338-1 . Volume 2, pp. 752-754
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Research on Eastern European History . On commission from Otto Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden, 2000. p. 312.
- ↑ spiegel.de
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Krannhals, Hanns von |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Krannhals, Hans Detlef Karsten von |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German Eastern European historian, translator and author |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 8, 1911 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Riga , Latvia , Russian Empire |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 24, 1970 |
| Place of death | Luneburg |