Hans-Dieter Loose

Hans-Dieter Loose (born March 18, 1937 in Hamburg ) is a German archivist and historian .

Hans-Dieter Loose studied history and German in Hamburg. He passed the first state examination in 1961. In 1962 he received his doctorate with a thesis on Hamburg-Danish relations during the Thirty Years' War . In the same year he started working at the Hamburg State Archives and was its director from 1975 to 2000. Since 1973 he has also worked as a lecturer and since 1981 as professor at the History Department of the University of Hamburg . Loose's research focus is the history of Hamburg. From 1975 to 2005 he was the first chairman of the Association for Hamburg History .

Fonts (selection)

Monographs

• Hamburg and Christian IV of Denmark during the Thirty Years War. A contribution to the history of Hamburg's imperial immediacy (= publications by the Association for Hamburg History. Volume 18). Christians, Hamburg 1963.

Editorships

• together with Werner Jochmann : Hamburg. History of the city and its inhabitants. Hoffmann and Campe, Hamburg 1982.
  • Vol. 1: From the beginnings to the founding of the Empire. Hoffmann and Campe, Hamburg 1982, ISBN 3-455-08709-4 .
  • Vol. 2: From the Empire to the present. Hoffmann and Campe, Hamburg 1982, ISBN 3-455-08255-6 .
• Barthold Heinrich Brockes. (1680-1747). Poet and councilor in Hamburg. New research on personality and impact (= contributions to the history of Hamburg. Volume 16). Christians, Hamburg 1980, ISBN 3-7672-0702-8 .
• Scholars in Hamburg in the 18th and 19th centuries (= contributions to the history of Hamburg. Volume 12). Hamburg 1976, ISBN 3-7672-0461-4 .

literature

• Hans Wilhelm Eckardt (Ed.): Preserving and reporting. Festschrift for Hans-Dieter Loose on the occasion of his 60th birthday (= magazine of the Association for Hamburg History. Volume 83/1). Verlag Verein für Hamburgische Geschichte, Hamburg 1997, ISSN  0083-5587

Web links

• Literature by and about Hans-Dieter Loose in the catalog of the German National Library