Jan Brankatschk

Jan Brankatschk ( Sorbian Jan Brankačk ; born September 25, 1930 in Räckelwitz ; † September 18, 1990 in Leipzig ) was a German historian of Sorbian nationality.

Jan Brankatschk attended elementary school and was an agricultural assistant in 1945. In 1946 he attended a course in which he learned the Sorbian language , which was forbidden during National Socialism . From 1947 he attended high school and passed his Abitur in 1951. In the same year he began studying history at the University of Leipzig .

After graduating in 1955 he became assistant lecturer of the Department of History at the Sorbian Institute of Leipzig University and moved into an unscheduled scientific postgraduate . In the same year he was also a member of the board of the Domowina . In 1956 he joined the SED . Brankatschk's doctorate took place in March 1962 with a thesis on the subject of studies of the economic and social history of the Western Slavs between the Elbe / Saale and the Oder from the 9th to the middle of the 13th century with František Graus and Ernst Werner .

In February 1969 he became a lecturer in Sorbian history at the history section of the Karl Marx University in Leipzig. The PhD B took place in December 1985 with a thesis on the subject of ownership of the means of production, class structure, feudal charges and the legal situation of the working rural population in the Lusatian manors (1374-1518). A study of the situation of the popular masses in developed feudalism and on the eve of the German Peasant War .

literature

• Peter Kunze: Prof. Dr. Jan Brankačk (September 25, 1930– September 18, 1990). In: Lětopis . B. 38, 1991, p. 1.
• Lothar Mertens : Lexicon of the GDR historians. Biographies and bibliographies on the historians from the German Democratic Republic. Saur, Munich 2006, ISBN 3-598-11673-X , pp. 152-153.