Heinz Quirin

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Karl Heinz Quirin (born June 24, 1913 in Leipzig ; † October 22, 2000 in Preetz ) was a German historian . Quirin taught from 1965 to 1980 as a full professor of medieval history and historical regional studies at the Free University of Berlin .

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The son of a detective spent most of his childhood in the house of his maternal grandparents in the village of Machern, twenty kilometers from Leipzig . Quirin later admitted that his experiences in the rural world had a formative influence on his scientific interests. Quirin attended the Schillergymnasium in Leipzig from 1924 and received his school-leaving certificate there in March 1933. Starting in the summer semester of 1933, he studied history, geography and German at the University of Leipzig . He was particularly influenced by Rudolf Kötzschke . Quirin was a member of the NSDAP . From 1934 to 1935 he was used for river regulation work. From 1936 to 1937 he did military service. In August 1939 he was drafted into the Wehrmacht . Quirin became a British prisoner of war . He was released in August 1945.

Quirin continued his studies in the summer semester of 1946 at the University of Göttingen . There he became rulership and community in 1947 with the work supervised by Hermann Heimpel according to Central German sources from the 12th to 18th PhD in the 19th century . In the same year he passed the scientific examination for teaching at higher schools. Since 1947 Quirin was a research assistant at the Historical Commission at the Bavarian Academy of Sciences for the processing of Reichstag files from the time of Frederick III. In the same year he was also active in teaching in Göttingen. In 1950 he became head of the Diplomatic Apparatus, a teaching collection of original documents that had existed since 1802. A year later he received an MGH research grant and went to Italy for a research stay. In 1953 he made further research trips to Italy. Quirin has been teaching at the PH Osnabrück since 1954, initially as a lecturer and since 1955 as a lecturer in history didactics. In 1957 and 1958 he also had a teaching position in Osnabrück for the theory of documents and historical records. From his work in the 1950s on the Reichstag files from the time of Friedrich III. went the essay Kaiser Friedrich III. in Siena for the Festschrift of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences in 1958, an investigation into Margrave Albrecht Achilles von Brandenburg-Ansbach as a politician and his unpublished habilitation thesis. The habilitation took place in 1963 with the thesis studies on the imperial politics of King Friedrich III. from the Trier Treaties to the beginning of the South German City War (1445–1448) . After completing his habilitation in Berlin, he worked at the Friedrich Meinecke Institute of the Free University of Berlin from 1958/59 . There he was since November 1958 an unscheduled scientific advice in civil service for life, since December 1959 scientific advice in civil service for life and since 1963 academic advice . In 1965, the Free University of Berlin appointed him full professor for the history of the Middle Ages and historical regional studies. He remained in this position until his retirement in March 1980. He was succeeded by Gerd Heinrich . However, no school developed in the sense of a group of students with a common research area. As an academic teacher, Quirin only supervised four dissertations ( Günther Bradler , Felix Escher , Eberhard Bohm, Winfried Schich ). He spent his old age in Preetz near Kiel. Quirin was married to a doctorate in chemistry.

At the age of 24, Quirin published his first own scientific work in 1937 on Panitzsch . In 2001 this work appeared in the Leipziger Land series. Yearbook for historical regional studies and cultural area research as a reprint. In the opinion of the editors, he wrote “a highly descriptive local history”, “which is unparalleled in the Leipziger Land to this day”. The spatial focus of his research work was central Germany. He dealt in depth with the German-Slavic settlement history. Quirin published an Introduction to the Study of Medieval History in 1950, which became a standard work and was published in its fifth edition in 1991.

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A list of publications appeared in: Winfried Schich: Heinz Quirin (1913–2000). From Saxon local research to medieval history and historical regional studies. In: Enno Bünz : 100 Years of State History (1906–2006). Leipzig achievements, entanglements and effects (= writings on Saxon history and folklore. Vol. 38). Leipziger Universitäts-Verlag, Leipzig 2012, ISBN 978-3-86583-618-2 , pp. 317–341, here: pp. 339–341.

  • Introduction to the study of medieval history. Westermann, Braunschweig 1950. (5th edition. Steiner, Stuttgart 1991, ISBN 3-515-05867-2 .)
  • Rulership and church. According to central German sources from the 12th to the 18th century (= Göttingen building blocks for historical science. Vol. 2). Musterschmidt, Göttingen 1952.
  • Formation of rule and colonization in the Central German East (= news of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Philological-Historical Class. 1949.4). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 1949.

literature

  • Günther Bradler: Heinz Quirin (1913–2000) [obituary]. In: Blätter für deutsche Landesgeschichte 136 (2000), pp. VII – X ( digitized version ).
  • Felix Escher: Heinz Quirin - A Saxon Historian, 6/24/1913 - 10/22/2000. In: New Archive for Saxon History 72 (2001), pp. 295–297.
  • Winfried Schich: Heinz Quirin (1913–2000) - Medieval history, historical regional studies and settlement history of Central Germany in the tradition of the Leipzig Kötzschke School. In: Siedlungsforschung 19 (2001), pp. 341-350. ( online ).
  • Winfried Schich: Heinz Quirin (1913-2000). From Saxon local research to medieval history and historical regional studies. In: Enno Bünz: 100 Years of State History (1906–2006). Leipzig achievements, entanglements and effects (= writings on Saxon history and folklore. Vol. 38). Leipziger Universitäts-Verlag, Leipzig 2012, ISBN 978-3-86583-618-2 , pp. 317–341.

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Remarks

  1. ^ Winfried Schich: Heinz Quirin (1913-2000). From Saxon local research to medieval history and historical regional studies. In: Enno Bünz: 100 Years of State History (1906–2006). Leipzig achievements, entanglements and effects. Leipzig 2012, pp. 317–341, here: p. 318.
  2. ↑ Felix Escher: Heinz Quirin - A Saxon Historian, June 24, 1913 - October 22, 2000. In: Neues Archiv für Sächsische Geschichte 72 (2001), pp. 295–297, here: p. 295.
  3. ^ Anne Christine Nagel : In the shadow of the Third Reich. Medieval research in the Federal Republic of Germany 1945–1970. Göttingen 2005, p. 38, note 48.
  4. ↑ Heinz Quirin: King Friedrich III. in Siena (1452). In: From Diets of the 15th and 16th centuries. Festgabe presented to the historical commission at the Bavarian Academy of Sciences to celebrate its centenary. Göttingen 1958, pp. 24-79.
  5. ^ Heinz Quirin: Margrave Albrecht Achilles of Brandenburg-Ansbach as a politician. A contribution to the prehistory of the South German City War. In: Yearbook for Franconian State Research 31 (1971), pp. 261-308.
  6. ↑ Felix Escher: Heinz Quirin - A Saxon Historian, June 24, 1913 - October 22, 2000. In: New Archive for Saxon History 72 (2001), pp. 295–297, here: p. 297.
  7. ^ Lutz Heydick, Uwe Schirmer, Markus Cottin (eds.): On the history of churches and settlements in the Leipzig area. Beucha 2001, pp. 181–234, here: p. 181.
personal data
SURNAME Quirin, Heinz
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Quirin, Karl Heinz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian
DATE OF BIRTH June 24, 1913
PLACE OF BIRTH Leipzig
DATE OF DEATH October 22, 2000
Place of death Preetz