Hans Rosenberg (historian)

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Hans Willibald Rosenberg (born February 26, 1904 in Hanover , † June 26, 1988 in Kirchzarten ) was a German historian .

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Hans Rosenberg was born the son of a merchant of Jewish descent. Since 1910 he grew up in Cologne and was raised Protestant. From 1922 he studied history and philosophy in Cologne , Freiburg and Berlin with Friedrich Meinecke and Johannes Ziekursch . Before 1933 he dealt with work on the political world of ideas of the German Vormärz , including the much-acclaimed essay Theological Rationalism and vormärzlicher Vulgar Liberalism. In 1927 he received his doctorate at the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Berlin under Meinecke on the youth history of Rudolf Hayms . Rosenberg completed his habilitation in 1932 at the University of Cologne under Ziekursch on Rudolf Haym and the beginnings of classical liberalism. His inaugural lecture took place in January 1933, just before the National Socialists came to power.

An academic career in National Socialist Germany was impossible for Rosenberg as a “ half-Jew ”. Therefore he had to give up his academic activity in Germany in 1933 and emigrated to the USA in 1935 via England, Canada and Cuba. In 1936 he found employment at the Liberal Arts College in Jacksonville , where he worked for two years. This was followed by 21 years of teaching at Brooklyn College in New York . There he taught European social and economic history since the High Middle Ages as well as modern German history and wrote Bureaucracy, aristocracy, and autocracy. The Prussian experience, 1660-1815 (1958) another of his influential major works. A return to Germany failed, although there were talks about an appointment at the University of Cologne at the end of the 1940s. In 1959 he was appointed to the University of California at Berkeley and took over the Shepard Professorship in History. In 1972 he retired.

In post-war Germany, Rosenberg helped young German historians and political scientists to catch up with the latest international research and to take part in the interdisciplinary discussion of methods. He made a decisive contribution to opening up German history to the questions, methods and models of the systematic social sciences in history. In 1977 Hans Rosenberg finally returned to Germany. In the same year he was made an honorary doctorate from the University of Bielefeld and an honorary professor at the University of Freiburg . His essay Pseudo-Democratization of the Manor Owners Class, first published in 1958, became the guiding text for research on the East Elbe Junkers .

Since 2004, the Friedrich Ebert Foundation has awarded the “Hans Rosenberg Memorial Prize” endowed with 5,000 euros every two years to a young scientist for exceptional research (most recently in 2016 with 4,000 euros). The winners are Stephan Malinowski (2004), Christian Nottmeier (2006), Norbert Götz (2008), Sebastian Ullrich (2010), Christiane Reinecke (2013) and Birgit Hofmann (2016).

The Central European History Society (CEHS) annually awards the "Hans Rosenberg Book Prize" for the best English-language book on European history in North America and the "Hans Rosenberg Article Prize".

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Monographs

  • The youth story of Rudolf Hayms. Noske, Leipzig-Borna 1928 (Berlin, University, PhD thesis, May 22, 1928, partial print).
  • Rudolf Haym and the beginnings of classical liberalism (= historical magazine. Supplement. Vol. 31, ISSN  0342-5363 ). Oldenbourg, Munich et al. 1933.
  • The world economic crisis from 1857-1859 (= quarterly journal for social and economic history. Supplements. Vol. 30, ISSN  0341-0846 ). Kohlhammer, Stuttgart et al. 1934 (2nd edition under the title: Die Weltwirtschaftskrise 1857-1859. With a preliminary report (= Kleine Vandenhoeck series 1396). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 1974, ISBN 3-525-33359-5 ).
  • Bureaucracy, aristocracy, and autocracy. The Prussian experience 1660-1815 (= Harvard Historical Monographs. Vol. 34, ZDB -ID 255018-0 ). Harvard University Press, Cambridge MA 1958.
  • Great Depression and Bismarckian Age. Economic flow, society and politics in Central Europe (= publications of the Historical Commission in Berlin at the Friedrich-Meinecke-Institut of the Free University of Berlin. Vol. 24, ISSN  0440-9663 = publications on the history of industrialization. Vol. 2). de Gruyter, Berlin 1967.
  • Problems of German social history (= Edition Suhrkamp. Es 340, ISSN  0422-5821 ). Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 1969.
  • Political currents of thought in the German Vormärz (= critical studies on historical science . Vol. 3). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 1972, ISBN 3-525-35953-5 .
  • Power elites and economic booms. Studies on recent German social and economic history (= critical studies on historical science. Vol. 31). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 1978, ISBN 3-525-35985-3 .

Editorships

  • Rudolf Haym: Hegel and his time. Lectures on the origin and development, nature and value of the Hegelian philosophy. 2nd edition increased by unknown documents, Heims, Leipzig 1927.
  • Selected correspondence by Rudolf Haym (= German historical sources of the 19th century. Vol. 27, ZDB -ID 17901-2 ). Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, Stuttgart et al. 1930.
  • The national political journalism of Germany. From the beginning of the New Era in Prussia to the outbreak of the German War. A critical bibliography (= publications of the Historical Reich Commission ). 2 volumes. Oldenbourg, Munich et al. 1935.

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Remarks

  1. ↑ In addition: Ewald Grothe : Hans Rosenberg and the history of German liberalism. His unpublished inaugural lecture from January 1933. In: Vierteljahrshefte für Zeitgeschichte . Vol. 62, 2014, pp. 109-138.
  2. ↑ Hans Rosenberg: The pseudo-democratization of the manor owner class. In: Hans Rosenberg: Power elites and economic booms. Studies on recent German social and economic history. Göttingen 1978, pp. 83-101 (first in: Wilhelm Berges, Carl Hinrichs (Hrsg.): Festgabe für Hans Herzfeld. Berlin 1958, pp. 459-486). Cf. Patrick Wagner : farmers, junkers and civil servants. Local rule and participation in East Elbe in the 19th century. Göttingen 2005, p. 12.
  3. ↑ Awarded the Hans Rosenberg Memorial Prize on March 22, 2010. Prize goes to historian Dr. Sebastian Ullrich .
  4. ^ Friedrich Ebert Foundation: Awarding of the Hans Rosenberg Memorial Prize , January 29, 2016.
  5. ^ Website of the Central European History Society .
personal data
SURNAME Rosenberg, Hans
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Rosenberg, Hans Willibald (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian
DATE OF BIRTH February 26, 1904
PLACE OF BIRTH Hanover
DATE OF DEATH June 26, 1988
Place of death Kirchzarten