Hans-Peter Harstick

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Hans-Peter Harstick (born July 9, 1937 in Hildesheim ) is a German historian . He is professor emeritus for history at the Technical University of Braunschweig .

Life

After graduating from high school in 1957 at the Josephinum Hildesheim high school , Harstick studied history , German , philosophy and law and political science at the Westphalian Wilhelms University in Münster from 1957 to 1965 . From 1962 to 1965 he was a scientist. Employed at the Chair of Eastern European History. From 1966 to 1975 he was department head at the International Institute for Social History (IISG) in Amsterdam . It was in 1974 when Werner Hahlweg at the Faculty of Philosophy in Münster with the dissertation Comparative studies on the history of land ownership in the estate of Karl Marx to Dr. phil. doctorate, for which he received a faculty award. The East European historian Manfred Hellmann was responsible for the supervision of the work, which broke new ground in terms of source studies, the history of theory and editing.

In 1975 he succeeded Georg Eckert as a full professor for history and history didactics at the Lower Saxony University of Education and in 1978 at the history seminar of the Technical University of Braunschweig . His main areas of work are modern history with a special focus on social and constitutional history as well as Marx-Engels research and edition. With the support of the Internationaal Instituut voor Sociale Geschiedenis (Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen), Amsterdam, Harstick got involved in the process of the German-German science association in favor of a continuation of the outdated Marx-Engels Complete Edition (MEGA) as a historical-critical edition without any partisan politics Objectives.

From 1990 to 2012 he was chairman of the scientific advisory board of the International Marx-Engels-Foundation (IMES) in Amsterdam and at the same time belonged to the steering committee "Marx-Engels-Gesamtausgabe", which in 1992 after a positive evaluation of the MEGA by the science council of the newly founded Berlin Brandenburg Academy of Sciences (BBAW) was launched. From 1992 to 2008 he was commissioned by the Conference of the Academies of Science and, from 1994, by the BBAW, to take on the challenging task of project management for the Marx-Engels-Gesamtausgabe (MEGA) academy project and, until 1998, he was also responsible for the head office in the host countries of Berlin, Saxony and Saxony-Anhalt and Thuringia.

In Braunschweig, Harstick, as a curator, accompanied the "International Textbook Institute" founded by his predecessor in its lengthy efforts to become a member of the Leibniz Association and is still in charge of the association to this day. Hans-Peter Harstick is married to Annegret Harstick, b. Borchard, and has two children.

Fonts (selection)

  • Friedrich Engels . Marrow constitution of primeval times . In: Friedrich Engels 1820-1970. Papers discussions documents . Editor: Hans Pelger. Verlag für Literatur und Zeitgeschehen, Hannover 1971, pp. 261–290.
  • Ed .: Karl Marx on forms of pre-capitalist production. Comparative studies on the history of real estate 1879–80 (= sources and studies on social history, volume 1). Campus Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1977, ISBN 3-593-32136-X .
  • Maksim M. Kovalevskij : Obščinnoe zemlevladenie, pričiny, chod i posledstvija ego razloženija. Introduced by Hans-Peter Harstick. Campus-Verlag, Frankfurt / M., New York 1977, ISBN 3-593-32165-3 (The common land property - causes, course and consequences of its decay; first published in 1879; Russian).
  • Labor Movement and History. Festschrift for Shlomo Na'aman on his 70th birthday (= writings from the Karl-Marx-Haus , No. 29). Karl Marx House , Trier 1983.
  • Marxist view of history and national tradition. On the present situation of historical studies in the GDR . Lower Saxony State Center for Political Education , Hanover 1988.
  • Karl Marx Friedrich Engels Complete Edition (MEGA) . IV. Department. Excerpted notes marginalia. Advance publication for volume 32. The libraries of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels. Annotated list of the identified inventory , edited by Hans-Peter Harstick, Richard Sperl and Hanno Strauss. With the collaboration of Gerald Hubmann, Larisa Mis'kevič and Ninel 'Rumjanceva. Akademie Verlag, Berlin 1999 ISBN 3-05-003440-8
  • The cinematographer Paul Jacob Marperger (1656–1730) on poor relief and poor relief . In: Ursula Becker, Heiner M. Becker, Jaap Kloosterman (editor): No obituary! Articles about and for Götz Langkau . IISG, Amsterdam 2003, pp. 44-52.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ H.-P. Harstick: Georg Eckert (1912–1974) - pioneer of a new conception of history in science and teaching, in: Internationale Vererstandung. 25 years of the Georg Eckert Institute for international textbook research in Braunschweig, ed. by Ursula A. Becker and Rainer Riemenschneider, Hannover 2000, pp. 105–115.
  2. ^ Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences (formerly Prussian Academy of Sciences): Yearbook 1992/93, Akad. Verlag, Berlin 1994, pp. 224, 269-271.
personal data
SURNAME Harstick, Hans-Peter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian
DATE OF BIRTH July 9, 1937
PLACE OF BIRTH Hildesheim