Johannes Kühn (historian)

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Johannes Kühn (born January 24, 1887 in Bogschütz , Silesia ; † February 24, 1973 in Heidelberg ) was a German historian .

Life

Johannes Kühn was 1911 at the University of Leipzig with a thesis on the story of the agrarian doctorate . During his studies he became a member of the Association of German Students in Leipzig . After working as a research assistant and his military service in World War I, he was at the University of Leipzig in 1923 habilitation . He became a private lecturer and in 1927 an associate professor there.

From 1928 to 1945 he was a full professor of history at the Technical University of Dresden . His main research interests were the history of the early modern period, in particular the Holy Roman Empire in the 16th century, as well as the intellectual and cultural history of Protestantism . He was a collaborator of the German Reichstag files from the time of Emperor Charles V. He served himself - for a time - to the Nazi dictatorship by submitting his historiography to the Nazi language. He described Friedrich II as "a Nordic-Germanic person". A compilation of his lectures On the Meaning of the Present War (1940) in the series Writings on Geopolitics (Volume 18) reads similarly . Since 1943 he was a full and since 1949 corresponding member of the Saxon Academy of Sciences .

In 1947 he became a full professor of history at the University of Leipzig. From 1949 to 1955 he was a full professor of modern history at the University of Heidelberg , where he was also the doctoral supervisor of Horst Boog , Dieter Groh and Reinhart Koselleck .

Fonts

  • The old manor's estate. A study on the history of the decline of the manorial system and the development of the agricultural constitution in southwest Germany . Quelle & Meyer, Leipzig 1912.
  • as editor: Luther and the Worms Reichstag 1521. Pieces of files and letters . Voigtländer, Leipzig 1914.
  • Tolerance and revelation. An investigation of the motives and motive forms of tolerance in Revelation-believing Protestantism. At the same time an attempt at the more recent religious and intellectual history . Meiner, Leipzig 1923.
  • The history of the Speyer Reichstag 1529 . M. Heinsius Nachf., Leipzig 1929.
  • as editor: German Reichstag files under Emperor Charles V , Vol. 7 for the years 1527–1529, 2 volumes. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen / Oldenbourg, Munich 1935.
  • About the meaning of the present war . Vowinckel, Heidelberg 1940.
  • The truth of the story and the shape of the true story . Kompass-Verlag, Oberursel 1947.
  • The age of the church. A world-historical consideration . Barth, Leipzig 1949.

literature

  • Obituary for Johannes Kühn by Hermann Heimpel . In: Saxon Academy of Sciences in Leipzig. 1973–1974 yearbook . Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1976, pp. 439-440.
  • Herbert Grundmann : Historical research on a small and large scale. Johannes Kühn on his 80th birthday . In: Ruperto-Carola , Vol. 41 (1967), pp. 77-81.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Dorit Petschel : 175 years of TU Dresden. Volume 3: The professors of the TU Dresden 1828–2003. Edited on behalf of the Society of Friends and Supporters of the TU Dresden e. V. von Reiner Pommerin , Böhlau, Cologne a. a. 2003, ISBN 3-412-02503-8 , pp. 511 f. ( limited preview in Google Book search).
  2. ↑ Louis Lange (Ed.): Kyffhäuser Association of German Student Associations. Address book 1931. Berlin 1931, p. 125.
  3. ^ Dresdner Latest News , August 16, 1936, article on the 150th anniversary of Friedrich's death. II, quoted in: Victor Klemperer : I want to bear witness to the last. Diaries 1933–1941 . Aufbau-Verlag, Berlin 1995, p. 296 (diary entry from August 16, 1936).
  4. ^ Members of the SAW: Johannes Kühn. Saxon Academy of Sciences, accessed on November 5, 2016 .
  5. ^ Lothar Mertens : Priest of the Klio or court chronicler of the party? Collective biographical analyzes of the GDR historians. V&R unipress, Göttingen 2006, ISBN 978-3-89971-307-7 ( reports and studies by the Hannah Arendt Institute for Research on Totalitarianism. No. 52), p. 32 ( online ).
personal data
SURNAME Kühn, Johannes
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian
DATE OF BIRTH January 24, 1887
PLACE OF BIRTH Bogschütz
DATE OF DEATH February 24, 1973
Place of death Heidelberg