Hans Baron (historian)

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Hans Baron (born June 22, 1900 in Berlin ; † November 26, 1988 in Urbana , Illinois , USA ) was a German-American historian and Renaissance researcher.

Life

Hans Baron came from a Berlin Jewish family; his father was the medical councilor Theodor Baron. He studied a. a. History, philosophy and German studies in Leipzig and Berlin . Among his teachers were Walter Goetz , Friedrich Meinecke and the cultural theorist Ernst Troeltsch , whose writings he later published in several anthologies. After the transfer of power to the National Socialists , he was dismissed from the service of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences . He emigrated to the USA via stations in Italy and Great Britain, where he stayed from 1936 to 1938. There he taught and researched a. a. in Princeton, Chicago and New York. In 1964 he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences . In 1972 he was elected a corresponding member of the British Academy .

meaning

Due to the forced flight from the German Reich in 1933, Baron's academic career and continued work took place in the USA. He left as a researcher of the Italian Renaissance humanism a deep impression, and introduced the concept of " civil humanism " (Civic Humanism) on. His propensity for theory has often been attacked, and his entire concept has been called into question. Baron mainly worked through Leonardo Bruni .

Fonts (selection)

  • Calvin's Politics and the Denominational Age . Berlin 1924.
  • (Ed.): Leonardo Bruni Aretino. Humanistic-philosophical writings . Leipzig 1928.
  • The Crisis of the Early Italian Renaissance. Civic Humanism and Republican Liberty in an Age of Classicism and Tyranny . Princeton 1955, 2nd ed. 1966.
  • Humanistic and Political Literature in Florence and Venice at the Beginning of the Quattrocento. Studies in Criticism and Chronology . Harvard University Press , Cambridge 1955, again 1968.
  • From Petrarch to Bruni. Studies in Humanistic and Political Literature . Chicago 1968.
  • Petrarch's "Secretum". Its making and its meaning . Medieval Academy of America, Cambridge (Massachusetts) 1985.
  • In Search of Florentine Civic Humanism. Essays on the Transition from Medieval to Modern Thought , 2 Vols. Princeton 1988.
  • Citizenship and Humanism in Renaissance Florence. Berlin 1992.

literature

  • Wallace K. Ferguson: The Interpretation of Italian Humanism: the Contribution of Hans Baron , in: Journal of the History of Ideas 19 (1958), pp. 14-25.
  • Renaissance. Studies in Honor of Hans Baron . Edited by Anthony Molho, John A. Tedeschi. Sansoni, Firenze 1971 (= Biblioteca storica Sansoni. Nuova serie , 49).
  • Werner Röder, Herbert A. Strauss (Eds.): International Biographical Dictionary of Central European Emigrés 1933–1945. Vol. 2, 1. Saur, Munich 1983, ISBN 3-598-10089-2 , p. 53 f.
  • Alison Brown: Hans Baron's Renaissance , in: Historical Journal 33 (1990), pp. 441-448.
  • Riccardo Fubini: Renaissance Historian: the Career of Hans Baron , in: Journal of Modern History 64 (1992), pp. 541-574.
  • Kay Schiller: Scholarly Counterworlds. About humanistic models in the 20th century . Frankfurt 2000.
  • Friedrich Wilhelm Graf : daydream of citizen humanism. “For love of the fatherland”. The historical images of the German Jew Hans Baron , in: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , June 24, 2000.
  • Klaus Große Kracht : "Citizen Humanism" or "Reason of State". Hans Baron and the Republican Intelligence of the Quattrocento , in: Leviathan - Berliner Zeitschrift für Sozialwissenschaft 29, 2001, pp. 355-370.
  • Martial Dust: Bourgeoisie in Exile. Bernhard Groethuysen and Hans Baron , in: Hartmut Lehmann , Otto Gerhard Oexle (eds.): National Socialism in the Cultural Studies. Göttingen 2004, pp. 351–374.
  • Perdita Ladwig: The Renaissance picture of German historians 1898-1933 . Frankfurt 2004.
  • Friedrich Meinecke. Academic teacher and emigrated student. Letters and notes 1910–1977 . Edited by Gerhard A. Ritter , Munich 2006, pp. 61–65 (with portrait).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Deceased Fellows. British Academy, accessed May 1, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Baron, Hans
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-American historian and Renaissance researcher
DATE OF BIRTH June 22, 1900
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH November 26, 1988
Place of death Urbana , Illinois , USA