Hans Schmidt (historian)

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Hans Schmidt (born November 15, 1930 in Ludwigshafen am Rhein , † March 8, 1998 in Munich ) was a German historian .

Life

Hans Schmidt was born as the son of a medium-sized entrepreneur in Ludwigshafen am Rhein. After graduating from secondary school in Neustadt, he studied history, American cultural history and English at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich , the Albert Ludwig University in Freiburg and the Sorbonne in Paris. In 1959 he received the Munich University Prize. It was in 1960 when Franz Schnabel at the Philosophical Faculty of the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich with a thesis Elector Karl Philipp von der Pfalz as an imperial prince to Dr. phil. (summa cum laude) doctorate. In 1961/62 he received a scholarship at the Roman Institute of the Görres Society . Then he was assistant to Friedrich Georg Friedmann at the Munich Institute for American Studies. In 1967 he received a research grant from the DFG through the mediation of Fritz Wagner . 1970 followed the habilitation in Middle and Modern History about the house Pfalz-Neuburg in the 17th century. From 1970 until his retirement in 1993 he was first private lecturer and then professor for modern history at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich. His main research interests were the history of the empire and European history of the 17th century as well as the war and military history of the early modern period, the 19th and 20th centuries. He was one of those early modern researchers who turned intensively to the military. His academic students included a. Marcus Junkelmann , Alexander Koller , Wolfgang Meighörner , Harald Potempa , Bernd Roeck , Josef Johannes Schmid , Dieter Storz , Markus Völkel and Frank Wernitz ; He also had a strong influence on Martin Rink and Thomas Müller .

Schmidt was a member of the faculty for history and art, a long-time member of the Görres Society , a member of the scientific advisory board of the Bavarian Army Museum and was involved in the Association of Friends of the Palatinate . He was also a lecturer in military history at the University of the Federal Armed Forces in Munich .

His estate is in the university archive of the LMU Munich. In 1998, the Bavarian Main State Archives in Munich acquired the researcher's library, which is oriented towards the history of military and art and which is kept in Department IV (War Archives).

Fonts (selection)

  • Elector Karl Philipp of the Palatinate as Imperial Prince (= research on the history of Mannheim and the Palatinate . NF Bd. 2). Bibliographical Institute, Mannheim 1963.
  • Philipp Wilhelm von Pfalz-Neuburg (1615–1690). As a figure in German and European politics in the 17th century . Volume 1: 1615-1658 . Pedagogical Verlag Schwann, Düsseldorf 1973, ISBN 3-508-00224-1 .
  • Personality, Politics and Confession in Europe of the Ancien Régime. Essays and lectures on the history of the early modern period (= contributions to German and European history . Vol. 13). Krämer, Hamburg 1995, ISBN 3-926952-99-7 .

literature

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ralf Pröve : Lebenswelten. Military milieus in modern times. Collected treatises (= rule and social systems in the early modern period . Volume 11). Lit, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-643-10768-8 , p. 107.
  2. ^ Legacies , University Archives , accessed on February 14, 2016.
  3. ↑ Sarah Awesu: Library of Prof. Hans Schmidt opened . In: News from the Bavarian State Archives , No. 70, July 2016, p. 42 f.
personal data
SURNAME Schmidt, Hans
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian
DATE OF BIRTH November 15, 1930
PLACE OF BIRTH Ludwigshafen am Rhein
DATE OF DEATH March 8, 1998
Place of death Munich