Heinrich Sproemberg

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Heinrich Friedrich Adolf Emanuel Sproemberg (born November 25, 1889 in Berlin , † June 19, 1966 in East Berlin ) was a German historian who primarily researched the transition from the Middle Ages to the early modern period . He made a particular contribution to the history of the Hanseatic League , the Netherlands and Belgium .

Life

Heinrich Sproemberg grew up after the early death of his father with his grandfather, the legal scholar Heinrich Dernburg . He attended the Kaiserin-Augusta-Gymnasium in Berlin, where he graduated from high school in 1909. He then began studying history, economics and law at the University of Berlin . There he was in February 1914 with a doctoral thesis at Dietrich Schaefer and Michael Tangl to Dr. phil. PhD . He took part in the First World War from 1914 to 1919 , first as a nurse, then in the intelligence office of the Supreme Army Command . After the war he worked as a private scholar , and since 1933 as a visiting professor at Belgian and Dutch universities.

After the Second World War , Sproemberg initially worked for the provincial administration of Saxony-Anhalt . From 1945 to 1946 he was a lecturer in Medieval and Modern History at the University of Halle , and from 1946 to 1950 full professor for Medieval and Modern History at the University of Rostock . Since 1950 he has taught at the University of Leipzig as a full professor for general history of the Middle Ages and modern history at the Institute for General History.

In 1955, Sproemberg founded the Hanseatic Working Group in the GDR. In 1958 Sproemberg retired . In 1965 he was awarded an honorary doctorate from the University of Rostock . With Hellmut Kretzschmar , he published the research series on medieval history .

Sproembergs estate is in the archive of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences .

Fonts (selection)

  • Contributions to Franco-Flemish history . Ebering, Berlin 1931
  • The creation of the county of Flanders . Ebering, Berlin 1935
  • Contributions to Belgian-Dutch history . Berlin 1959 ( Research on Medieval History , Vol. 3)
  • Middle Ages and Democratic Historiography. Selected treatises . Berlin 1971 ( Research on Medieval History , Vol. 18)

literature

  • Hellmut Kretzschmar (Ed.): From the Middle Ages to the Modern Age. For Heinrich Sproemberg's 65th birthday. Rütten & Loening, Berlin 1956 ( Research on Medieval History. Vol. 1, ISSN  0071-7673 ).
  • Gerhard Heitz , Manfred Unger (ed.): Hansic studies. Heinrich Sproemberg on his 70th birthday. Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1961 ( research on medieval history. Vol. 8).
  • Gerhard Heitz, Manfred Unger (Eds.): Liber memorialis Heinrich Sproemberg. Études présentées à la Commission internationale pour l'histoire des assemblées d'états et du parlamentarisme. University of Rostock, Rostock 1966 ( Scientific journal of the University of Rostock. Social and linguistic series. Jg. H. 1, 17, 1968, ISSN  0323-4630 ).
  • Veit Didzuneit, Manfred Unger, Matthias Middell (Hrsg.): History in Leipzig. Heinrich Sproemberg. Leipziger Universitäts-Verlag, Leipzig 1994, ISBN 3-929031-33-7 ( Leipzig contributions to the history of science and science policy ).
  • Lothar Mertens : Lexicon of the GDR historians. Biographies and bibliographies on the historians from the German Democratic Republic. Saur, Munich 2006, ISBN 3-598-11673-X , p. 575.
  • Matthias Middell:  Sproemberg, Heinrich. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 24, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-428-11205-0 , p. 765 f. ( Digitized version ).
  • Manfred Unger: Heinrich Sproemberg and history at the Leipzig University in the 1950s. In: Sächsische Heimatblätter 56 (2010), ISSN  0486-8234 , pp. 20-29.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Dissertation: The Bishops of Liège in the eleventh century .
  2. ^ Hansischer Geschichtsverein der DDR ( Memento from October 19, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
  3. ^ Research on medieval history ( Memento from October 20, 2013 in the Internet Archive ).
personal data
SURNAME Sproemberg, Heinrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Sproemberg, Heinrich Friedrich Adolf Emanuel (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian
DATE OF BIRTH November 25, 1889
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH June 19, 1966
Place of death Berlin