Hans Martin Klinkenberg

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Hans Martin Klinkenberg (born April 1, 1921 in Cologne ; † February 20, 2002 ibid) was a German historian whose research focus was medieval history .

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Hans Martin Klinkenberg, son of school teacher and historian Johannes Klinkenberg , studied after graduating from high school in 1939 due to the Second World War until 1945 at the Universities of Cologne and Bonn initially history , classical philology and German literature and later law , art history and philosophy . In 1950, Klinkenberg received a doctorate from Gerhard Kallen in Cologne with a dissertation on the subject: Pope Leo the Great , Roman primacy and imperial canon law for Dr. phil. PhD . As a research assistant at Cologne University , he completed his habilitation there in 1953 with a thesis on the subject: Rather von Verona and the 10th century . This was followed by a year abroad at the German Historical Institute in Rome . In 1954 Klinkenberg returned to the University of Cologne, where he initially worked as a private lecturer and later as an adjunct professor .

In 1964 he accepted a call to RWTH Aachen University , where he took over the chair for medieval history and was appointed director of the historical institute. Immediately after taking office, Klinkenberg campaigned for the establishment and development of a philosophical faculty at the TH Aachen, which was then officially opened a year later on the basis of his initiative. Klinkenberg was the first dean of this newly established faculty from 1965 to 1967 . He was then elected Vice-Rector of RWTH Aachen University for the period 1968/69 .

In the years of preparation for the 100th anniversary of RWTH Aachen University (1970), Klinkenberg was entrusted with processing the history of the university for the celebrations. After sifting, sorting and cataloging of the numerous, but in the various institutes of the University of scattered documents and records since the founding days of the TH in 1870, he sat down decisively to ensure that effective March 9, 1967, the founding decision of the Senate to Establishment of the central university archive of RWTH Aachen University came about. In addition, Klinkenberg was the official delegate of RWTH Aachen University in the Charlemagne Prize Board of the City of Aachen in the 1970s .

Gravesite of the Klinkenberg family

In 1986 Klinkenberg retired. On February 8, 1990, “... in recognition of his great services in founding and building up the Philosophical Faculty, for his tireless commitment to linking cultural studies with the university's natural and engineering focus, for his contributions to the publication and design of the Festschrift on the 100th anniversary of the university and for his work as prorector of the Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule "his appointment as honorary senator of the RWTH Aachen.

Klinkenberg died in 2002 at the age of 80. He was buried in the family grave in the Melaten cemetery in Cologne (hall 39).

Fonts (selection)

  • Pope Leo the Great. Roman primacy and imperial canon law . Dissertation University of Cologne 1952.
  • About Carolingian prince mirrors . In: History in Science and Education 7, 1956, pp. 82–98.
  • Experiments and investigations into the autobiography with Rather von Verona . In: Archiv für Kulturgeschichte 38, 1956, pp. 265-314.
  • with Josef Engel (Ed.): Middle Ages and Modern Times. Gerhard Kallen for his 70th birthday presented by colleagues, friends and students . Hanstein, Bonn 1957.
  • Between liberalism and nationalism. In the second empire (1870–1918) . In: Monumenta Judaica. 2000 years of history and culture of the Jews on the Rhine. An exhibition in the Cologne City Museum, Oct. 15, 1963 - Feb. 15, 1964 . On behalf of the city of Cologne, ed. by Konrad Schilling. [Vol. 1:] manual. Cologne 1963, pp. 309-384, pp. 791-793.
  • The theory of the changeability of the law in the early and high Middle Ages , in: Paul Wilpert (Ed.): Lex et sacramentum in the Middle Ages . Walter de Gruyter, Berlin 1969, pp. 157-188.
  • (Ed.): Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule Aachen 1870–1970 . O. Bek Verlag, Stuttgart 1970.
  • Homo faber mentalis. About the connection between technology, art, organization and science (= supplement to the Archive for Cultural History No. 37). Böhlau, Cologne 1995.

literature

  • Ulrich S. Soénius, Jürgen Wilhelm (Ed.): Kölner Personen-Lexikon . Greven, Cologne 2008, ISBN 978-3-7743-0400-0 , p. 287.

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