Herman Gummerus

Herman Gregorius Gummerus

Herman Gregorius Gummerus (born December 24, 1877 in Saint Petersburg , † July 18, 1948 in Helsinki ) was a Finnish diplomat and historian.

Life

Gummerus, son of Herman Erik Gummerus and Olga Gummerus, studied in Finland; from 1901 he studied with Eduard Meyer at the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg and later in Rome. The authorities of Nicholas II punished his separatist efforts to separate the Grand Duchy of Finland from the Russian Empire in 1904 with imprisonment in the Peter and Paul Fortress .

Gummerus received his doctorate in philology from the University of Leipzig in 1906 with his work The Roman Estate as an Economic Organism based on the works of Cato, Varro and Columella . In 1910 he received his habilitation from the University of Helsinki. From 1911 to 1920 and again from 1926 to 1947 he held lectures at the University of Helsinki , initially as a lecturer and later as a professor of general history, primarily on Roman (economic) history. He published the magazine Framtid (future) and from 1915 he worked in the office of the national-patriotic activist movement, headed by the Finnish lawyer Friedrich Wetterhoff , who had migrated to Berlin . The Wetterhoff office (Finnish Chancellery, Finnish Office, Finnish Office) was a contact point for Finnish activists sponsored by the German authorities. From 1916 to 1918 he was head of the League of Foreign Peoples of Russia and representative of the Finnish separatists in Stockholm . From 1918 to 1920 after the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk was elected a Finnish Charge d'Affaires in Kiev used.

On November 21, 1919, he submitted his accreditation letter to Viktor Emanuel III. after the latter had recognized the Finnish government of Kaarlo Castrén on June 27, 1919 . Herman Gummerus stayed in Italy until 1925 , where the March on Rome took place in October 1922 .

On his return to Finland he became a member of the Lapua movement , but was not involved in the conspiracy of the latter, since he spoke the Swedish language , and was one of the founders of the subsequent Patriotic People's Movement on June 5, 1932 .

His sister, the painter Olga Elisabeth Ehrström-Gummerus (1876–1934), was married to the painter Eric Ehrström .

Fonts (selection)

• Industry and trade B. With the Romans. In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume IX, 2, Stuttgart 1916, Col. 1439-1535.
• The Roman farm, dissertation (1906)
• The Fund of the Columns, Habilitation (1908)
• Aktiva kampår (1925)
• Jägare och aktivister (1927)
• Editor of biographies a. a. about Pehr Evind Svinhufvud , the Finnish freedom fighter Konni Zilliacus (1855-1924) and Marshal Józef Piłsudski .

literature

• H. Gummerus: Sverige och Finland 1917/18. Stockholm: Holger Schildt, 1936.
• Journalister och publicister i svensk press i Finland under tvåhundra år: en matrikel . 1981, p. 71
• Encyclopedia of Ukraine . Volume 2 (1993), p. 102

Web links

• Literature by and about Herman Gummerus in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

1. ^ Max Weber , Jürgen Deininger , On the social and economic history of antiquity: Writings and speeches p. 780
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3. ^ Max Weber, Jürgen Deininger, On the social and economic history of antiquity: Writings and speeches p. 780

predecessor	Office	successor
	Finnish ambassador to Sweden 1916–1918
	Finnish ambassador to Italy 1919–1925	Rolf Thesleff