Yearbooks of German History
The Year Books of German History are a series of publications by the Historical Commission of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences .
After Leopold von Ranke had published yearbooks of the German Empire under the Saxon house in three volumes from 1837 to 1840, the extended yearbooks became the first major project of the Historical Commission. They appeared from 1862, when Carl Friedrich Wilhelm Duncker was won as publisher . To this day, Duncker & Humblot in Berlin is the publisher of the series.
Most of the volumes, which, with the exception of the straggler volume (1931) on Albrecht I, cover the early and high Middle Ages from the Merovingian to the Staufer period, appeared in the 19th century. After a long break, a volume was presented again in 1998.
The yearbooks are “a kind of middle thing between manual, source study and regesta; strictly chronologically, based on medieval annals (hence: year books), all available news about the individual Frankish-German rulers (since the Carolingians) and their activities are compiled, from narrative as well as from documented sources; the sources are often quoted in full or paraphrased ”.
Because of their wealth of material, the yearbooks are still indispensable for German medieval research.
Most of the older volumes are digitized, especially in the context of Google Book Search , but mostly can only be used with a US proxy (listing on Wikisource, see below). However, almost all volumes can be downloaded as PDF files from the MGH website (see web links).
literature
- Friedrich Baethgen : The yearbooks of German history. In: The Historical Commission at the Bavarian Academy of Sciences 1858–1958. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 1958, pp. 70–81.
- Ulrich Muhlack : Leopold von Ranke and the justification of the historical science that is critical of sources. In: Jürgen Elvert , Susanne Krauss (ed.): Historical debates and controversies in the 19th and 20th centuries. Anniversary meeting of the Ranke Society in Essen, 2001 (= historical messages. HMRG-B. Supplement 46). Steiner, Stuttgart 2003, ISBN 3-515-08253-0 , pp. 23–33, here p. 24.
Web links
- Scans of the “Yearbooks of German History” on the MGH website
- Finding aid of the archive of the Historical Commission. Pp. 75–77, with reference to unrealized projects.
Remarks
- ↑ For the conception see his preface (at Wikisource) .
- ↑ http://www.histsem.uni-bonn.de/proseminar/lsma18.htm ( Memento from July 17, 2009 in the Internet Archive )