Hans Liebeschütz

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Hans Liebeschütz (born December 3, 1893 in Hamburg , † October 28, 1978 in Crosby , England ) was a German historian .

Life

Hans Liebeschütz was born in Hamburg in 1893 as the son of the doctor Samuel Liebeschütz and his wife Lizzy Olga Liebeschütz (née Schönfeld). He first attended the learned school of the Johanneum in Hamburg and studied from 1912 at the University of Berlin . From 1914 to 1916 he was a soldier, was wounded on the French front and returned to Germany as a war disabled. From 1918 on he continued his studies in Heidelberg in the subject of medieval history and obtained his doctorate in 1920 under Karl Ludwig Hampe , the subject of his dissertation was: The Relations of Emperor Friedrich II. To England since 1235 .

Hamburg time

From 1920 he worked at various Hamburg secondary schools and in 1928 (according to other information 1929) switched to the Hamburg Lichtwarkschule , a reform pedagogical school , for which he worked until 1934, when he was dismissed from school service due to the law to restore the civil service.

In 1922 he was a co-founder of the B'nai B'rith -Loge Hamburg. In addition to his work as a teacher, he worked at the Warburg Library for Cultural Studies . There he met Fritz Saxl , who was later to help him emigrate to England. In 1929 Liebeschütz completed his habilitation with the text "The allegorical world view of St. Hildegard von Bingen ". After his forced discharge from civil service, he initially devoted himself to Jewish adult education and gave lectures at various Jewish educational institutions in Hamburg and Berlin . In 1938 his family emigrated to England, while Liebeschütz initially stayed in Hamburg. He was arrested during the November pogroms of 1938 and interned in Sachsenhausen concentration camp for four weeks . In March 1939, Liebeschütz decided to follow his family to England.

England

Liebeschütz spent half of 1940 as a so-called Enemy Alien on the Isle of Man . From 1942 he taught Latin at various schools in England. In 1946 he was appointed assistant lecturer at the University of Liverpool , and the following year he became a British citizen. From 1955 worked at the University of Liverpool as "principal lecturer" (equivalent to a "full professor"). In the same year he was involved in founding the Leo Baeck Institute . In 1957 he received the title of "Extraordinary Professor" from the University of Hamburg, whereupon he held regular guest lectures there from 1960 (the year he retired in Liverpool) to 1963.

In 1960 Liebeschütz became a corresponding member of the Monumenta Germaniae Historica , in 1969 in the Göttingen Academy of Sciences . Throughout his life he remained very close to the city of Hamburg, so in 1977 he gave a speech about Alfred Lichtwark in the auditorium of the former Lichtwark School.

family

In 1924 Liebeschütz married the Leipzig doctor Rahel Plaut (1894-1993), daughter of the doctor and bacteriologist Hugo Carl Plaut , with whom he had three children in the following years: Wolfgang (* 1927, ancient historian), Hugo (* 1929 ) and Elisabeth (* 1932). Plaut's father had been head of the mushroom research institute at the medical faculty from 1913 until his death in 1928; Rahel was the first woman to do her habilitation at the Medical Faculty in Hamburg.

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Liebeschütz's main research interests were on the one hand the life and work of the English theologian and Bishop John of Salisbury , on the other hand the history of Judaism. He published numerous papers on both subjects.

  • Fulgentius Metaforalis: A Contribution to History d. ancient mythology in the middle ages. - Leipzig: Teubner, 1926
  • The allegorical world view of Saint Hildegard von Bingen. - Leipzig: Teubner, 1930 (habilitation thesis)
  • John of Salisbury and Pseudo-Plutarch. - London: Warburg Institute, 1943
  • Judaism in German history from Hegel to Max Weber. - Tübingen: Mohr, 1967
  • From Georg Simmel to Franz Rosenzweig. - Tübingen: Mohr, 1970
  • Judaism in the German environment. - Tübingen: Mohr, 1977

A comprehensive catalog of works can be found in the BBKL , vol. 29 (see literature)

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Holger Krahnke: The members of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen 1751-2001 (= Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Philological-Historical Class. Volume 3, Vol. 246 = Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Mathematical-Physical Class. Episode 3, vol. 50). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2001, ISBN 3-525-82516-1 , p. 151.
  2. ^ Bundeswehr Leadership Academy: the history of the Carl von Clausewitz barracks ( memento of October 19, 2007 in the Internet Archive ). Before the expropriation by the National Socialists, part of today's barracks was the property of the Plaut family.
personal data
SURNAME Liebeschütz, Hans
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian
DATE OF BIRTH December 3, 1893
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH October 28, 1978
Place of death Crosby (Merseyside)