Historical-political journal
The historical-political magazine was published by Leopold von Ranke from 1832 to 1836. It is regarded as a precursor of modern scientific journals of historical science .
The historical-political magazine was founded by the then Prussian Foreign Minister Graf von Bernstorff at the suggestion of the politician and publisher Friedrich Christoph Perthes with the aim of creating an "organ to defend the politics of the enlightened Prussian bureaucracy against liberal criticism from the left". The historian Ranke was won as editor, who advocated examining the current political connections with the historical method in his journal. Ranke was responsible for the majority of the articles.
The profile of the paper fluctuated between that of a political propaganda organ and that of a literary-historical magazine. The focus of the historical-political journal was on contemporary-political articles. The magazine was clearly aimed at the political public, but on the other hand it was decisively shaped by the specialist historian Ranke. In the end, the historical-political journal was less of a mirror of contemporary historical or political science, but above all provided an insight into Ranke's research - and in particular its political location.
The historical-political magazine appeared in only two volumes: the first in 1832 in four issues by Friedrich Perthes in Hamburg, the second over a much longer period from 1833 to 1836 by Duncker and Humblot in Berlin. This short, moreover irregular publication rhythm restricted the function of the historical-political magazine as a specialist magazine. Nevertheless, the historical-political journal can be regarded as a forerunner of the later journal for historical science (1844-48) and above all the historical journal (since 1859), which were supposed to set methodological standards as scientific, general historical organs: The origin of both projects was characterized by a clearly personal influence by Ranke.
literature
- Conrad Varrentrapp : Rankes historical-political magazine and the Berliner Politische Wochenblatt. In: Historical magazine . Vol. 99 (1907), pp. 35-119 ( digitized from JSTOR ).
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Individual evidence
- ↑ Quotation from: Hans-Ulrich Wehler (Ed.): Deutsche Historiker. Volume I, Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 1971, p. 7.