Helmut Neubauer (historian)

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Helmut Neubauer (* 12. March 1925 in Rodheim of heights ; † 29. May 2001 in Heidelberg ) was a German eastern Europe - modern historians .

Live and act

Neubauer passed his Abitur in Frankfurt am Main in 1943 and was then drafted into military service. From 1945 to 1949 he was a Soviet prisoner of war. From 1950 to 1955 he studied history and Slavic studies at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main and at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich and received his doctorate in 1955 . From 1955 he was a research assistant at the Eastern European Institute in Munich . In the same year he married the geographer Traute von Koppen (* 1936), with whom he had three children.

In 1962 he completed his habilitation at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich ; from the same year he was a private lecturer there. From 1964 he was associate professor, from 1966 full professor at Heidelberg University and there from 1967 to 1969 press spokesman for the rectorate. From January 8, 1970 to January 20, 1971 he was dean of the Philological-Historical Faculty of the University of Mannheim . From 1990 to 1997 he was a lecturer at the University of Mannheim. He wrote works on the history of Eastern Europe, mainly on the early modern period and on historiography .

Fonts

  • Tsar and Autocracy: Contributions to the History of the Autocracy in Russia. (= Publications of the Eastern European Institute Munich. 22). Harrassowitz. 1963. (Habilitation thesis)
  • Munich and Moscow 1918/1919: On the history of the council movement in Bavaria. (= Yearbooks on the history of Eastern Europe. Supplement 4). Munich 1958, DNB 458779733 .
  • The Abolition of Serfdom in Russia and the Contemporary Reports by the Cottas. In: Allgemeine Zeitung. 1955. (dissertation)

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Individual evidence

  1. Dagmar Drüll: Heidelberger Gelehrtenlexikon 1933–1986. Springer-Verlag, 2009, ISBN 978-3-540-88835-2 , p. 439. (books.google.de)