Hermann-Joseph Busley

Hermann-Joseph "Hejo" Busley (born October 20, 1930 in Cologne ) is a German historian and archivist .

Life

Hejo Busley was born in 1930 as the fifth of six siblings and attended the Humanist Gymnasium in Cologne from 1941 to 1943 and then the Gymnasium in Koblenz. He graduated from high school there in 1950. He then took up studies in history , Catholic theology and Latin at the University of Bonn . In 1953 he moved to Munich . He would have liked to study architecture or medicine, but could not do so because of the mandatory unpaid internships, as he had to earn a living alongside his studies after the early death of his father. In 1954 he received half an assistant position at the history seminar of the University of Munich. In 1956 he received his doctorate in medieval history with a dissertation on “The history of the Freising Cathedral Chapter from its beginnings to the turn of the 14th and 15th centuries. Century ". In 1956/57 he worked at the institute of the Görres Society in Rome on the "History of the Papal State Secretariat ".

From 1957 to 1960 Hejo Busley completed his legal clerkship for the higher service at the archive school in Munich. He then joined the Bavarian Central State Archives , where he worked until his retirement in 1995. From 1973 to 1977 he was in charge of the “Secret State Archives”, then the “Newer Holdings” department; from 1981 as chief archive director.

Hejo Busley taught as a lecturer at the Archive School in Munich and at the Bavarian Civil Service College . In 1978 he was given a teaching position for Bavarian history at the Institute for Bavarian History at the LMU and, from 1988, an additional teaching position for source studies in Bavarian history at the Institute for Bavarian Folklore. In 1989, Hejo Busley was appointed honorary professor of Bavarian history by the University of Munich and participated in the training of regional historians.

Research activity

His personal research focus developed from the Middle Ages to modern history and contemporary history. In his research, Hejo Busley mainly deals with canon law in Germany (with special consideration of Bavaria ), contemporary history in Bavaria and the role of Bavaria in German unification in 1870/71.

In 1971 he was responsible for the conception and implementation of the exhibition “Bavaria and German Unification 1870/71”, which was the first to show secret original documents about money requests from Ludwig II to Otto von Bismarck .

From 1988 Hejo Busley was able to win over the administration of the district to publish a comprehensive "district book", on which numerous experts collaborated. It became the standard work on the district and exemplary for similar efforts in Bavaria. The comprehensively conceived series “Contributions to the Fürstenfeldbruck district. Nature-History-Culture ”came from the first volume“ Refugees and displaced persons in the Fürstenfeldbruck district. Aspects of their integration ”, which his student Angelika Schuster-Fox wrote.

Personal

In 1960 he married Edeltraud Illinger. Hejo Busley was active in the field of culture and school policy in the town of Eichenau and in the Fürstenfeldbruck district (1968 founder of the music school; long-standing parents' council in elementary schools and grammar schools; pioneer for a grammar school in Eichenau / Puchheim). In 1992 the story of the Fürstenfeldbruck district he had conceived was published (at the same time co-editor and co-author). In addition to various activities in the Catholic Church, he also wrote the church leader for the local community. For the 100th anniversary of the political community (2007) he developed the concept for the local history "In the shadow of a big city. Eichenau 1907-2007", on which he also worked as (co-) editor and author.

Hejo Busley was one of the co-founders of the "Christophorus Relief Foundation" in 1999, which u. a. supports medical projects in developing countries.

Fonts (selection)

Monographs

• The history of the Freising Cathedral Chapter from its beginnings to the turn of the 14th and 15th centuries. Century. Dissertation masch., Munich 1956.
• Bavaria and German unification in 1870/71. (= Exhibition catalogs of the Bavarian archives 6). Munich 1971.
• The traditions, documents and records of the Neustift monastery near Freising (= sources and discussions on Bavarian history. NF 19). Munich 1961.

Editing of regional history in the Fürstenfeldbruck district

• Hejo Busley et al. (Ed.): The district of Fürstenfeldbruck. Nature history - culture. Fürstenfeldbruck 1992.
• Hejo Busley et al. (Ed.): History in the shadow of a big city. Eichenau 1907-2007. Munich 2007.

Articles in encyclopedias

• Several articles on Italian dioceses. In: Lexicon for Theology and Church. Freiburg, 1957 ff,
• Archives (together with Raymund Kottje) In: Staatslexikon der Görres-Gesellschaft. 7th ed. Volume 1, Freiburg, 1985, Sp. 330-334.
• Concordat and Concordat Policy In: Historisches Lexikon Bayerns.

Historical maps

u. a. in: Max Spindler, Gertrud Diepolder (eds.), Bavarian History Atlas. Munich 1969.

Teaching works

• Mirror of Times, Volume 2, From the Franconian Empire to the Peace of Westphalia, Frankfurt / M. 1969. (With teacher's handout, learning objectives and learning steps, volume 2, 1975)
• Historical world studies. (together with Wolfgang Hug, Franz Bahl), 3 volumes, Frankfurt / M. 1975.
• Our history. (together with Hubert Glaser, Wolfgang Hug), 3 vols., Frankfurt / M. 1984.

literature

• Angelika Schuster-Fox: Professor Dr. Hejo Busley on his 80th birthday. Archivist, Honorary Professor for Bavarian History, Citoyen . In: Amperland , Volume 47, 2011, pp. 232–235 (with list of publications).

Web links

• Entries by Hermann – Joseph Busley in the Bavarian Historical Lexicon