Hans Jänichen

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Hans Jänichen (born December 4, 1909 in Gebweiler ; † November 27, 1976 in Tübingen ) was a German historian .

Life

Jänichen studied history, German and English at the universities in Tübingen, Vienna and Munich. He was particularly interested in the early Middle Ages . In 1935 he wrote his dissertation on The Vikings in the Vistula and Oderland . His habilitation thesis Scripture and Symbol in the Eurasian Area of ​​the Middle Ages burned in Cottbus during World War II. After being a prisoner of war, he came to Reutlingen in 1947 , where he found work in 1954 in the State Description Department of the State Statistical Office. In 1964 he became head of the department for the description of the country in the archives department in Stuttgart. He was a member of the commission for historical regional studies in Baden-Wuerttemberg , advisory board of the Wuerttemberg historical and antiquity association, on the board of the Alemannic Institute and a member of the German Archaeological Institute in Berlin. In addition, he took a teaching position at the University of Tübingen since 1966.

On November 27, 1976, a few days before he would turn 67, Hans Jänichen succumbed to a long, serious illness. Through the volumes of the district descriptions of Balingen, Tübingen and Ulm that he edited, he has become known to the general public far beyond the specialist community.

Publications (selection)

  • The Vikings in the Vistula and Oder region , Leipzig, Kabitzsch, 1938
  • Pictorial sign of the Royal Highness of the Iranian Peoples , Bonn, Habelt, 1956
  • On the history of the sawmills in the Middle Ages , in: Alemannisches Jahrbuch 1961, pp. 317–329
  • Dominant and territorial relationships around Tübingen and Rottenburg in the 11th and 12th centuries , Volume 1 (The Free Lords), Müller & Gräff, Stuttgart 1964 (Writings on Southwest German Regional Studies, Volume 2).
  • Contributions to the economic history of the Swabian village , Kohlhammer Stuttgart, 1970, ISBN 978-3170701236
  • The development of the Oberamts and district descriptions in Baden-Württemberg , in: Journal for Württembergische Landesgeschichte, 33rd year, Kohlhammer, 1974
  • The Alemannic princes Nebi and Berthold and their relationships with the monasteries of St. Gallen and Reichenau , in: Blätter für deutsche Landesgeschichte (1976), pp. 30–40 ( [1] )
  • Place names book of the district of Böblingen , Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 1978 (Publications of the Commission for Historical Regional Studies in Baden-Württemberg. Series B, Research, Volume 94), ISBN 3-17-004781-7 .

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SURNAME Jänichen, Hans
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian
DATE OF BIRTH 4th December 1909
PLACE OF BIRTH Gebweiler
DATE OF DEATH November 27, 1976
Place of death Tübingen