Heribert Raab

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Heribert Raab (born March 16, 1923 in Bell (Eifel) , † June 7, 1990 in Corminboeuf ) was a German historian . Raab is considered the most important Görres researcher after the Second World War . He made lasting contributions to the continuation of the Görres Complete Edition.

life and work

The son of an oven maker grew up in Muttigart in the Hunsrück . Raab attended the elementary school in Muttigart and then the secondary school in Simmern . After graduating from high school, he studied history, German and English at the University of Marburg an der Lahn from the summer semester of 1941 . Raab did military service, fought on the Eastern Front and was wounded several times. As an officer, he got into Wroclaw in Soviet captivity . At the end of 1947 he was released. In the summer semester of 1948 he continued his studies in history, philosophy and education at the University of Mainz . His academic teachers were Leo Just , Theodor Schieffer , Heinrich Büttner and Hans Ulrich Instinsky . In Mainz he passed the state examination and received his doctorate in 1953 with a thesis on the Concordata Nationis Germanicae in the canonical discussion of the 17th to 19th centuries.

In 1955 Raab went to the German Historical Institute in Rome as a scholarship holder of the Görres Society . In the years to come, he conducted in-depth source studies in the Vatican archives for the habilitation thesis . In Rome he mainly opened files on the Rhenish, southwest and southern German history of the 18th century. In the summer semester of 1960 he completed his habilitation at the University of Mainz with a thesis on the Wettin church prince Clemens Wenzeslaus of Saxony . From 1960 to 1963 he was Scientific Council in Mainz. From 1963 to 1965 he was a substitute professor for Franz Schnabel at the University of Munich for four semesters . Since 1965 he has been teaching again in Mainz as an adjunct professor for medieval and modern history.

In autumn 1967 he was appointed to the chair of modern history at the University of Friborg in Switzerland. There he taught first as an associate professor and from 1971 to 1990 as a full professor. Raab was dean at the University of Freiburg from 1975 to 1976 . Raab married in 1973. The marriage had two children. Although he did start a family in Freiburg, he never felt at home there. Raab tried in vain to get a chair in Germany.

His main research interests were the relationship between church and empire or state in the early 19th century, the problem of Catholicism and modernity, and Joseph Görres . In 1978 he not only published a biography of Görres ( A Life for Freedom and Law ) and numerous studies, but also gave two volumes of his "Gesammelte Schriften" ( Life and Works in the Judgment of His Time 1776–1876 , 1985; Writings from the Strasbourg exile in 1824 -1827 , 1987), out. Raab wrote the articles "The Fall of the Reich Church in the Great Secularization " and "State Churches and Enlightenment " for the Handbuch der Kirchengeschichte edited by Hubert Jedin .

Fonts

  • List of publications by Heribert Raab. In: Albert Portmann-Tinguely: Church, State and Catholic Science in Modern Times. Festschrift for Heribert Raab on his 65th birthday (= sources and research from the field of history. New series. Volume 12). Schöningh, Paderborn et al. 1988, ISBN 3-506-73262-5 , pp. 595-608.

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Remarks

  1. ↑ Heinz Duchhardt: "Römer" in Mainz. A double portrait from the early history of the “new” University of Mainz. In: Sources and research from Italian archives and libraries 94 (2014), pp. 292–310, here: p. 296 ( online )
  2. ↑ Helmut Mathy: The researcher of the imperial church in modern times and "Görres' representative on earth". Obituary for Heribert Raab (1923–1990). In: Archive for Middle Rhine Church History 43 (1991), pp. 485–501, here: p. 485.
  3. ↑ Helmut Mathy: The researcher of the imperial church in modern times and "Görres' representative on earth". Obituary for Heribert Raab (1923–1990). In: Archive for Middle Rhine Church History 43 (1991), pp. 485–501, here: p. 486.
  4. ^ Andreas Kraus: Heribert Raab † (1923–1990). In: Historisches Jahrbuch 111 (1990), pp. 328-332, here: p. 332.
  5. ↑ Heinz Duchhardt: "Römer" in Mainz. A double portrait from the early history of the “new” University of Mainz. In: Sources and research from Italian archives and libraries 94 (2014), pp. 292–310, here: p. 305 ( online )
  6. ↑ Hubert Jedin : (Ed.): Handbuch der Kirchengeschichte. Vol. 5, Freiburg 1985, pp. 508-523 and 533-554.
personal data
SURNAME Raab, Heribert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian
DATE OF BIRTH March 16, 1923
PLACE OF BIRTH Bell (Eifel)
DATE OF DEATH June 7, 1990
Place of death Corminboeuf