Heinrich Günter

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Heinrich Günter (born February 15, 1870 in Schelklingen near Ulm , † May 13, 1951 in Munich ) was a German historian .

Heinrich Günter as a student in Tübingen, 1889–1893
Heinrich Günter attended the grammar school and Konvikt in Ehingen (Danube) from 1885 to 1889
Heinrich Günter as a professor at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich , before his retirement in 1935

Live and act

Heinrich Günter was born as the son of the baker Adolf Günter and his wife Helena Scheitenberger, the daughter of the municipal school of Schelklingen Philipp Scheitenberger , and had nine siblings. After attending grammar schools in Riedlingen and Ehingen , he studied Catholic theology at the Wilhelmsstift Theologenkonvikt from 1889 , and later history at the University of Tübingen . As early as 1890 he solved the award task of the philosophical faculty of the University of Tübingen and received the award of the Speyer's Foundation for the work The Roman Coronation Silk of the German Emperors in 1891. His academic teachers included Walter Goetz , Johannes Haller and Dietrich Schäfer , who also received his doctorate as Dr. phil. (1893) supervised. The seminary Rottenburg he left before the consecration . From 1894 he was a research assistant at the Württemberg Commission for Regional History and created the archive regulations for the city archive in Rottweil, and in the winter semester of 1895/96 he carried out additional studies at the Institute for Austrian Historical Research in Vienna. In 1897 he qualified as a professor at the Philosophical Faculty of the University of Tübingen in medieval history and historical auxiliary sciences . He then was a private lecturer in Tübingen before becoming an associate professor there in 1902.

After the publication of his book Legenden-Studien (1906), the Rottenburg bishop Paul Wilhelm von Keppler asked him through the director of the Wilhelmsstift, Franz Xaver Reck, to refrain from the critical treatment of the legends of the saints in an announced lecture until the anticipated excitement about the Book would have laid. Günter complied with this request, but announced another lecture on Heiligenleben for the winter semester 1907/08. A conversation with the Konviktdirektor prompted him to cancel the lecture again. The "Günter case" was presented by the press as an interference with the freedom of research and teaching. He wanted to leave the denominational professorship, but was encouraged to stay by a letter from Keppler. In 1923 he accepted a call as a full professor of history at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich , where he worked until his retirement in 1935. His students included Philipp Funk , Hermann Hefele and Michael Seidlmayer .

Günter worked in the field of Swabian national history and the medieval imperial era, but also on the Reformation , Counter-Reformation and hagiography . He was a member of the historical commission at the Bavarian Academy of Sciences , the Württemberg commission for regional history (1894-1934), the connection KStV Alamannia Tübingen (KV) and the Görres Society . In 1950 he received an honorary doctorate from Dr. theol. hc from the University of Munich. He was also an honorary citizen of his hometown Schelklingen since 1923 .

Günter was married twice: on September 10, 1898, in Bad Mergentheim , he married Maria Magdalena Anna Schell from there, daughter of the businessman Johann Schell from his second marriage to Hulda Brogli, who died in Munich in 1936 after 38 years of marriage and a long illness. She was buried in the Schelklingen cemetery. His second wife Valeria Maria Mayer, (born September 19, 1897 in Stuttgart) as the daughter of the local glassware merchant Rupert Mayer (1849-1927) and his wife Emilie Karoline Wehrle (1855-1947), who he met in Munich on December 22nd Married in 1936, was the youngest sister of the Jesuit father Rupert Mayer SJ ; she succumbed to kidney disease in Munich on March 23, 1941. Both marriages were childless. After his death, he was transferred to Stuttgart according to his last will and buried by their side in the Mayers' family grave in the Prague cemetery.

Works

  • About medieval empire. Dissertation, Tübingen 1893.
  • Document book of the city of Rottweil. Volume 1 (= Württemberg historical sources, Volume 3), Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 1896.
  • The coinage in the county of Württemberg. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 1897 (habilitation thesis).
  • The edict of restitution of 1629 and the Catholic restoration of Altwirtembergs. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 1901.
  • The tolerance of history (= popular science lectures, Volume 29). German Volksblatt, Stuttgart 1903.
  • Emperor Heinrich II the Holy (= Collection of Illustrated Holy Lives, Volume 1). Kösel, Kempten and Munich 1904.
  • Legends Studies. Bachem, Cologne 1906.
  • The Habsburg League 1625–1635. Letters and files from the General Archive of Simancas (= Ebering's Historical Studies, Volume 62). Ebering, Berlin 1908; Reprint: Kraus Reprint, Vaduz 1965.
  • The Christian Legend of the West (= Library of Religious Studies , Volume 2). Winter, Heidelberg 1910.
  • Gerwig Blarer , Abbot of Weingarten 1520–1567. Letters and files. Volume 1: 1518–1547 (= Württembergische Geschichtsquellen, Volume 16), Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 1914.
  • The Roman coronation silk of the German emperors (= Small Texts for Lectures and Exercises, Volume 132). Marcus and Weber, Bonn 1915; Reprint: de Gruyter, Berlin 1931.
  • Gerwig Blarer, Abbot of Weingarten and Ochsenhausen. Volume 2: 1547–1567 (= Württembergische Geschichtsquellen, Volume 17), Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 1921.
  • Buddha in occidental legend? Leipzig 1922.
  • The centenary celebration of the transfer of the University of Landshut to Munich November 26th and 27th 1926. Wolf, Munich 1928.
  • German culture in its development. Quelle & Meyer, Leipzig 1932.
  • The medieval empire (= Munich University Speeches, Volume 27). Hueber, Munich 1933.
  • The nascent Germany and Rome. From Einhard to Widukind von Korvey (= Munich historical treatises, volume 1.6). Beck, Munich 1934.
  • The German Middle Ages. Volume 1, Herder, Freiburg im Breisgau 1936; Volume 2, 1939 (= history of the leading peoples, volumes 12 and 13); 2nd edition, 1943.
  • History of the city of Schelklingen until 1806. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart and Berlin 1939.
  • Emperor Otto the Great . Kohlhammer, Stuttgart and Berlin 1941; 2nd edition 1943.
  • Development and Providence in History. Echter-Verlag, Würzburg 1949.
  • Legend psychology. Studies on a Scientific History of Saints. Herder, Freiburg 1949.
  • 1926–1929 publisher of the historical yearbook of the Görres Society

literature

  • Heidrun Alzheimer: Folklore in Bavaria. A bio-bibliographical lexicon of the forerunners, sponsors and others. Former specialist representative (= publications on folklore and cultural history, volume 50; bio-bibliographical lexicon on folklore. Preliminary work, volume 4). Bayer. Blätter für Volkskunde, Würzburg [ua] 1991, pp. 92–93.
  • Friedrich Bertkau and Gerhard Oestreich (editorial management): Kürschner's German Scholars Calendar. 7th edition, Gruyter, Berlin 1950, column 657.
  • Bibliography Heinrich Günter . In: Historical yearbook. Volume 60, Cologne 1940, pp. 312-313, reprint: Schmidt, Bad Feilnbach 1988.
  • Rüdiger vom Bruch : Günter, Heinrich. In: Karl Bosl (ed.): Bosls Bavarian biography. Pustet, Regensburg 1983, ISBN 3-7917-0792-2 , p. 282 ( digitized version ).
  • Kathrin Brüggenthies:  Günter, Heinrich. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 30, Bautz, Nordhausen 2009, ISBN 978-3-88309-478-6 , Sp. 531-536.  ( Article / beginning of article in Internet archive )
  • Herrmann AL Degener (Ed.): Who's it . 10th edition, Degener, Berlin 1935.
  • Roland Engelhardt: "We struck the new breach by fighting and sacrificing". Philipp Funk (1884-1937). Life and work (= European university publications. Series III: History and its auxiliary sciences, volume 695). Peter Lang, Frankfurt am Main [among other things] 1996, ISBN 3-63149982-5 , also: Dissertation review in: Rottenburger Jahrbuch für Kirchengeschichte 16 (1997) 290f.
  • Roland Engelhart: Between rebellion and obedience. On the discharge of the deacon Josef Heilig from the Rottenburg seminary (European University Series, Series III, Volume 728). Frankfurt a. M. 1997, pp. 32, 134.
  • J [osef] Requester: Prof. Dr. Heinrich Günter 80 years old. In: Alemanni leaves. Announcements of the house association of old Tübingen Alemanni. NF 1, Tübingen December 27, 1948, p. 41 ff.
  • Josef Forder: Alamannia Tübingen Catholic Student Union. Tubingen 1962.
  • Albert Gier : Günter, Heinrich. In: Kurt Ranke (ed.): Encyclopedia of fairy tales . Volume 6, Walter de Gruyter, Berlin and New York 1989, ISBN 3-11-011763-0 , pp. 302-305.
  • August Hagen: Reform Catholicism in the Diocese of Rottenburg (1902–1920). Schwabenverlag, Stuttgart 1962, pp. 43-50.
  • Karl Hausberger : Günter, Heinrich. In: Lexicon for Theology and Church. 3rd edition, Volume 4, Freiburg im Breisgau 1995, ISBN 3-451-22004-0 , Sp. 1275.
  • Matthias Ilg: Günter, Heinrich. In: Maria Magdalena Rückert (Ed.): Württembergische biographies including Hohenzollern personalities. Volume II. On behalf of the Commission for Historical Regional Studies in Baden-Württemberg. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 2011, ISBN 978-3-17-021530-6 , pp. 86-88.
  • Joachim Köhler: Heinrich Günter's studies of legends. A contribution to the study of historical method. In: Georg Schwaiger (ed.): Historical criticism in theology. Contributions to their history (studies on theology and intellectual history of the nineteenth century, volume 32), Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 1980, pp. 307–337 (with bibliography).
  • Wilhelm Kosch : Catholic Germany. Biographical-bibliographical lexicon. Volume 1, Haas & Grabherr, Augsburg 1933, column 1194 (with picture on the plate in front of column 1185).
  • Georg May: Professorships to be filled with Catholics at the University of Tübingen from 1817 to 1945 (Canonical Studies and Texts, Volume 28). Grüner, Amsterdam 1975, pp. 596-634 ( online ).
  • M. Miller: [Obituary] Heinrich Günter. In: Journal of Württemberg State History. Volume 12, Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 1954, pp. 330-331.
  • [Obituary] Prof. Dr. Heinrich Günter. In: Catholic Sunday Gazette. 99, Stuttgart 1951, 339.
  • Rudolf Reinhardt: On the disputes about "modernism" at the University of Tübingen. In: Rudolf Reinhardt (ed.): Tübingen theologians and their theology. Sources and research on the history of the Catholic-Theological Faculty of Tübingen (= Contubernium. Contributions to the history of the Eberhard-Karls-Universität-Tübingen, Volume 16), Tübingen 1977, pp. 271–352, especially pp. 294–296.
  • Heinz Seewald: The representation of history at the University of Tübingen in the second half of the 19th century. 1837-1907. Dissertation, Tübingen 1950, pp. 221-226.
  • Max Spindler : Obituary Heinrich Günter. In: Journal for Bavarian State History. Volume 16, 1951/52, pp. 405-406.
  • Johannes Spörl : Heinrich Günter. An obituary. In: Historical yearbook. Volume 70, Verlag Karl Alber, Munich and Freiburg 1951, pp. 3–14 (with picture in front of p. 1).
  • Johannes Spörl: Günter, Heinrich. In: Lexicon for Theology and Church . 2nd edition, Volume 4, 1960, Col. 1275.
  • Rudolf Vierhaus (Ed.): German Biographical Encyclopedia . 2nd edition, Volume 4, Saur, Munich 2006, ISBN 3-598-25034-7 , ISBN 978-3-598-25034-7 , p. 238.
  • Wolfgang Weber : Biographical lexicon for historical studies in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. The chair holders for history from the beginnings of the subject to 1970. Lang, Frankfurt am Main [et al.] 1984, ISBN 3-8204-8005-6 , p. 191; 2nd edition, Lang, Frankfurt am Main [et al.] 1987.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The biographical information from the Bad Mergentheim registry office, family register, p. 286f u. City archive Stuttgart, registry office Stuttgart-Mitte, family register, vol. 41, page 64b. A half-brother of Maria Schell from the first marriage of the father Johann Schell was the merchant and Mergentheimer "honorary" Sebastian Schell (1867–1948). About him Christoph Bittel and Reinhold Pfannkuch, Bad Mergentheim in old photographs . Erfurt: Sutton, 2002, p. 125.
personal data
SURNAME Günter, Heinrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian
DATE OF BIRTH February 15, 1870
PLACE OF BIRTH Rogue blades
DATE OF DEATH May 13, 1951
Place of death Munich