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Heinz Löwe (born May 21, 1913 in Spandau ; † October 7, 1991 in Tübingen ) was a German historian .

Heinz Löwe passed his Abitur in 1931 and studied history, French and English in Berlin and Munich from 1931 to 1937 . Löwe received his doctorate in 1937 with a thesis on the foundation of the Carolingian Empire and the Southeast , which Robert Holtzmann took over after Erich Caspar's early death . On May 1, 1937, Löwe joined the NSDAP . From 1938 to 1939 he was a research associate at the Society for Rhenish History . The Second World War brought an interruption in scientific activity. Nothing is known about its denazification .

In 1947 he completed his habilitation in Cologne. After the death of Wilhelm Levison , he was assigned to the "Wattenbach", a reference work on historiographical sources named after the historian Wilhelm Wattenbach , the processing of Levison's "Vorzeit" and "Carolingian" sections. Working on the “Wattenbach” kept him busy for a lifetime. In 1990, the relevant source studies for the Carolingian era were completed with Book VI. From 1952 to 1953 he held a diet lecturer at the University of Cologne . In 1953 Lowe received a professorship in Erlangen . In 1961 he followed the call to the traditional chair of Johannes Haller at the University of Tübingen . In Tübingen he taught until 1978 as a professor for Middle and Modern History. One of his most important students was Tilman Struve . Löwe had been a member of the Central Management of the Monumenta Germaniae Historica since 1962 . Löwe was a proven expert on Frankish law and the early medieval empire. He died of a heart attack in October 1991.

Fonts

Monographs

  • Germany in the Frankish Empire. (= Handbook of German History . Volume 2), Munich 1999, ISBN 3-423-59040-8 .
  • Religiousness and Education in the Early Middle Ages. Selected essays. Böhlau, Weimar 1994, ISBN 3-7400-0920-9 .
  • (Ed.): Germany's historical sources in the Middle Ages / Wattenbach-Levison. Book VI: The Carolingians from the Treaty of Verdun to the rise of the rulers of the Saxon house. The East Franconian Empire. Hermann Böhlaus successor, Weimar 1990, ISBN 3-7400-0100-3 .
  • From Cassiodorus to Dante. Selected essays on historiography and political ideas of the Middle Ages. Berlin et al. 1973, ISBN 3-11-003739-4 .
  • From Theodoric the Great to Charlemagne. The emergence of the West in the history of the early Middle Ages. Darmstadt 1958 (special edition, unchanged photomechanical reprint of the 1956 edition).
  • A literary adversary of Boniface. Virgil von Salzburg and the cosmography of Aethicus Ister (= treatises of the Academy of Sciences and Literature. Humanities and social science class. Born 1951, Volume 11). Steiner, Wiesbaden 1952.

Editorships

literature

  • Karl Hauck , Hubert Mordek (Ed.): Historiography and intellectual life in the Middle Ages. Festschrift for Heinz Löwe on his 65th birthday. Böhlau, Cologne et al. 1978, ISBN 3-412-05178-0 .
  • Tilman Struve: Heinz Löwe. In: German Archive for Research into the Middle Ages . 48, 1992, pp. 415-416 ( digitized version ).
  • Tilman Struve: Heinz Löwe 1913–1991. In: Historical magazine . 255, 1992, pp. 509-511.
  • Tilman Struve: On the Reality of Ideas. In memory of the historian Heinz Löwe (1913–1991). With a bibliography. In: Building blocks for the history of Tübingen university. Vol. 6, 1992, ISSN  0721-2690 , pp. 127-144.
  • Maria Keipert (Red.): Biographical Handbook of the German Foreign Service 1871–1945. Published by the Foreign Office, Historical Service. Volume 3: Gerhard Keiper, Martin Kröger: L – R. Schöningh, Paderborn et al. 2008, ISBN 978-3-506-71842-6 , pp. 116-117.

Web links

Remarks

  1. ↑ Horst Fuhrmann : Monumenta Germaniae Historica. Report for 1991/1992. In: German Archive for Research into the Middle Ages. 48, 1992, pp. I – XIX, here: p. II ( online )
personal data
SURNAME Leo, Heinz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian
DATE OF BIRTH May 21, 1913
PLACE OF BIRTH Spandau
DATE OF DEATH October 7, 1991
Place of death Tübingen