Helmut Plechl
Helmut Plechl (born November 6, 1920 in Berlin ) is a German historian and archivist .
Life
Helmut Plechl was born in Berlin. After attending school, he studied history. On 18 December 1947 he received his doctorate in Berlin to Dr. phil. The subject of his dissertation was The date per manus formula. On the question of their distribution and importance . After he had received a lectureship at the Humboldt University in Berlin as the successor to Eugen Meyer in 1949 , he also taught at the Institute for Archive Studies in Potsdam from 1950 . Because of his non-Marxist attitude , he was dismissed from teaching at the end of the summer semester 1951 and then left the German Democratic Republic and settled in Freiburg im Breisgau . On January 17, 1952, he completed his habilitation in a very short time at the University of Freiburg under Gerd Tellenbach with his habilitation thesis on the subject of studies for the Italian diplomas of Ludwig II and Charles III. Both of his theses did not appear in print.
Helmut Plechl worked as a lecturer in historical auxiliary sciences at the University of Freiburg. His main focus was the teaching of Middle Latin . He received a call to the University of Bochum . At the Ruhr University in Bochum he became a professor for historical auxiliary sciences. As a full professor, he was the doctoral supervisor of numerous doctoral students.
His main work was the multi-volume revised large edition of Orbis Latinus published in 1972 . Lexicon of Latin geographical names of the Middle Ages and modern times by Graesse and Friedrich Benedict, which he edited and edited with the collaboration of Sophie-Charlotte Plechl.
He also participated in the Monumenta Germaniae Historica . With the help of Werner Bergmann , he was able to publish the Tegernsee letter collection from the 12th century in 2002 after long previous preparatory work .
Web links
- Literature by and about Helmut Plechl in the catalog of the German National Library
- Plechl, Helmut . Publications in the bibliographic database of the Regesta Imperii .
- Entry in the German Digital Library
Individual evidence
- ↑ In the shadow of the Third Reich. Medieval Research in the Federal Republic , 2005, p. 242.
- ↑ Personnel matters Dr. Helmut Plechl - files in the university archive of the Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Plechl, Helmut |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German historian and archivist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 6, 1920 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Berlin |