Helmut Georg Koenigsberger

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Helmut Georg Koenigsberger , also Königsberger (born October 24, 1918 in Berlin ; † March 8, 2014 , in London ) was a British historian who devoted himself to the history of the early modern period (16th and 17th centuries), especially in the Netherlands .

Life

Helmut Georg Koenigsberger, the son of the architect Georg Felix Königsberger (1873–1932) and Käthe Born (1884–1953, sister of Max Born ), fled to England in 1934 due to the racist persecution of Jews by the National Socialists. He studied at Cambridge University (Gonville and Caius College), where he received his bachelor's degree in 1940, his master's degree in 1944 and his doctorate in 1948. From 1941 to 1944 he was a teacher in Essex and Bedford. From 1948 to 1951 he was a lecturer at Queen's University Belfast . He taught at the University of Manchester , at the University of Nottingham (Professor of Modern History 1960-1966), at the Cornell University (Professor of European History 1966-1973) and as a Fellow and professor at King's College of the University of London . In 1984/1985 Koenigsberger received a scholarship at the Historisches Kolleg in Munich.

Koenigsberger researched in particular "the different varieties of old European, primarily urban and small-state republicanism". From 1955 he was Secretary General of the International Commission for the History of Representative and Parliamentary Institutions , from 1980 to 1985 he was its President. He wrote articles for The New Cambridge Modern History . In the late 1960s he founded the Cambridge Studies in Early Modern History series with John Elliott and was its editor.

Koenigsberger was recognized by the British Academy and the Royal Historical Society .

Koenigsberger was married to the historian Dorothy M. Romano since 1938 and has twin daughters. His hobbies were sailing and chamber music.

Fonts

Monographs

  • (with George L. Mosse ): Europe in the sixteenth century . Holt, Rinehart and Winston, New York 1968.
  • The Practice of Empire. The Government of Sicily under Philip II of Spain . Cornell University Press 1969.
  • The Habsburgs and Europe, 1516-1660 . Cornell University Press 1971.
  • Estates and revolutions. Essays in early modern European history . Cornell University Press 1971.
  • Politicians and virtuosos. Essays in early modern history . Hambledon Press, London 1986. ISBN 0-907628-65-6 .
  • in the History of Europe series , edited with Asa Briggs :
  • Monarchies, States Generals and Parliaments. The Netherlands in the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries . Cambridge University Press 2001. ISBN 0-521-80330-6 .

Publications as editor

  • Luther. A profile . Macmillan 1973.
  • Republics and Republicanism in Early Modern Europe . (= Writings of the Historical College. Colloquia, Vol. 11) Oldenbourg, Munich 1988. ISBN 3-486-54341-5 ( digitized version ).

Articles (selection)

  • The organization of revolutionary parties in France and the Netherlands during the sixteenth century . In: Journal of Modern History, Volume 27, 1955, pp. 335-351.
  • Western Europe and the Power of Spain . In: Richard Bruce Wernham (ed.): Counter Reformation and Price Revolution (1559-1610) . (= The New Cambridge Modern History, Vol. 3) Cambridge University Press 1968, pp. 234-318.
  • The 17th century crisis . In: Journal for historical research, Volume 9, 1982, pp. 143-165
  • Prince and States General: Maximilian I in the Netherlands (1477–1493) . In: Historische Zeitschrift, Volume 242, 1986, pp. 557-579.
  • Prince and Estates General. Maximilian I in the Netherlands (1477–1493) (= Writings of the Historical College . Lectures, Volume 12). Munich 1987 ( digitized version ).
  • The empire of Charles V in Europe . In: Geoffrey Rudolph Elton (Ed.): The Reformation 1520-1559 . (= The New Cambridge Modern History, Vol. 2) Cambridge University Press 1990, pp. 339-376.
  • “Riksdag”, “Parliament” and States General in the 16th and 17th centuries . In: Journal for historical research, Volume 17, 1990, pp. 305-325.
  • Composite States, Representative Assemblies, and the American War of Independence . In: Journal for historical research, Volume 18, 1991, pp. 399-423.
  • Parliaments and Estates . In: RW Davis: The Origins of modern freedom in the West. Stanford University Press 1995, pp. 135-177.
  • The powers of deputies in sixteenth century assemblies . In: Helen Maud Cam album , University of Leuven, 1961, pp. 211–243.

literature

  • Phyllis Mack, Margaret Jacob (eds.): Politics and Culture in Early Modern Europe. Essays in Honor of HG Koenigsberger . Cambridge University Press 1987 (with a list of publications).
  • MJ Rodríguez-Salgado: Helmut Georg Koenigsberger, 1918–2014 . In: Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the British Academy . tape XIV , 2015, p. 301-333 ( thebritishacademy.ac.uk [PDF]).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Hans-Christof Kraus : earlier European republicanism. The fame came in exile: On the death of the modern historian Helmut G. Koenigsberger . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, March 12, 2014, p. 13.
personal data
SURNAME Koenigsberger, Helmut Georg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-British historian
DATE OF BIRTH October 24, 1918
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH March 8, 2014
Place of death London