Jörg K. Hoensch

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Jörg Konrad Hoensch (born September 8, 1935 in Freudenthal , Czechoslovakia , † February 24, 2001 in Saarbrücken ) was a German historian .

Jörg Hoensch first grew up in Moravian-Silesia , his father came from the Spiš . After World War II the family was in the American zone of Germany expelled . After graduating from high school in Ludwigsburg , Hoensch studied German, history, English and Slavic studies at the universities of Marburg , Vienna , Bristol and Tübingen from 1955 . In 1959 he passed the first state examination in Tübingen. After a long study visit at the University of California , where he obtained a Master of Arts , he returned to Tübingen. In 1963 Hoensch received his doctorate from Werner Markert with a thesis on Slovakia and Adolf Hitler's Ostpolitik . He then worked for eight years as a research assistant at the Tübingen Institute for Eastern European History and Regional Studies. From 1972 until his retirement, Hoensch headed the chair for Eastern European history at Saarland University . On February 15, 2001, Hoensch ended his teaching activities with his farewell lecture held together with Reinhard Schneider , at the same time the chair was dissolved. From 1995 to 2001 Hoensch was co-editor of the journal for East Central Europe research . Hoensch was a member of the German-Czech and German-Slovak historians' commission .

Hoensch was considered one of the most important modern Eastern European experts and published numerous papers in Germany, Hungary, Slovakia and the Czech Republic. In 1996, Hoensch presented a standard work with his biography on the Roman-German Emperor Sigismund . In 2000 he published a relevant overview of the late medieval ruling dynasty of the Luxembourgers .

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Monographs

  • The Luxembourgers. A late medieval dynasty of pan-European importance 1308–1437 (= Kohlhammer-Urban pocket books. Volume 407). Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 2000, ISBN 3-17-015159-2 .
    • Czech: Lucemburkové. Pozdně středověká dynasty celoevropského významu 1308-1437. Argo, Praha 2003, ISBN 80-7203-518-5 .
  • Matthias Corvinus. Diplomat, general and patron. Verlag Styria, Graz et al. 1998, ISBN 3-222-12640-2 .
  • Emperor Sigismund. Ruler on the threshold of modern times. 1368-1437. Beck, Munich 1996, ISBN 3-406-41119-3 .
  • Přemysl Otakar II of Bohemia. The golden king. Verlag Styria, Graz et al. 1989, ISBN 3-222-11910-4 .
  • History of Bohemia. From the Slavic conquest to the 20th century. Beck, Munich 1987, ISBN 3-406-32312-X (4th edition on the basis of the 3rd, updated and supplemented edition as: History of Bohemia. From the Slavic conquest to the present. Ibid 2013, ISBN 978-3-406 -65015-4 ).
  • History of Hungary 1867–1983. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart et al. 1984, ISBN 3-17-008578-6 .
    • English: A history of modern Hungary, 1867–1986. Longman, London et al. 1988, ISBN 0-582-01484-0 .
  • History of Poland (= UTB 1251). Ulmer, Stuttgart 1983, ISBN 3-8001-2510-2 (3rd, revised and expanded edition, ibid 1998, ISBN 3-8001-2723-7 ).
  • Soviet Eastern Europe Policy. 1945–1975 (= Athenaeum Droste Pocket Books 7204 History ). Athenäum-Verlag et al., Kronberg im Taunus et al. 1977, ISBN 3-7610-7204-X .
  • Social Constitution and Political Reform. Poland in the pre-revolutionary age (= contributions to the history of Eastern Europe. Volume 9). Böhlau, Cologne et al. 1973, ISBN 3-412-85573-1 (Habililation Universität Tübingen, Universität 1972).
  • Hungarian revisionism and the smashing of Czechoslovakia (= Tübingen Studies on History and Politics. No. 23, ISSN  0564-4267 ). Mohr (Siebeck), Tübingen 1967.
  • History of the Czechoslovak Republic 1918–1965. (= Urban books. Vol. 96, ZDB -ID 995319-x ). Kohlhammer, Stuttgart et al. 1966, (3rd, improved and expanded edition as: History of Czechoslovakia. Ibid 1992, ISBN 3-17-011725-4 ).
  • Slovakia and Hitler's Ostpolitik. Hlinkas Slovak People's Party between Autonomy and Separation 1938/1939 (= contributions to the history of Eastern Europe. Vol. 4). Böhlau, Cologne et al. 1965 (also Tübingen, university, dissertation from December 23, 1965).
    • Slovak: Slovensko a Hitlerova východná politika. Hlinkova slovenská ľudová strana medzi autonómiou a separatizmom 1938–1939. Veda - Vydavateľstvo Slovenskej akadémie vied, Bratislava 2001, ISBN 80-224-0693-7 .

Editorships

  • with Stanislav Biman and L'ubomír Lipták: Jewish emancipation - anti-Semitism - persecution in Germany, Austria-Hungary, the Bohemian countries and in Slovakia (= publications by the German-Czech and German-Slovak historians' commission. Vol. 6 = publications by the Institute for Culture and History of the Germans in Eastern Europe. Vol. 13). Klartext, Essen 1999, ISBN 3-88474-732-0 .

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SURNAME Hoensch, Jörg K.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hoensch, Jörg Konrad
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian
DATE OF BIRTH September 8, 1935
PLACE OF BIRTH Freudenthal
DATE OF DEATH February 24, 2001
Place of death Saarbrücken