Johannes Spörl

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Johannes Spörl 1975
Right of resistance. Darmstadt 1972

Johannes Spörl (born September 5, 1904 in Munich ; † April 19, 1977 there ) was a German historian and long-time editor of the historical yearbook of the Görres Society .

Johannes Spörl studied history at the universities of Munich and Bonn . He completed his habilitation at the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg with Philipp Funk . From 1934 to 1940 he was a private lecturer there. During the Second World War he did military service and was taken prisoner of war . Spörl was editor of the historical yearbook of the Görres Society (1937–1977, interruption during World War II). Since 1934 was a member of the SA and in 1940 became a member of the NSDAP . But in the historical yearbook he published and discontinued in 1944, “the existence of National Socialism was barely noticeable”. In August 1941, shortly after the attack on the Soviet Union began , a treatise by Spörl appeared in the White Papers on Friedrich Barbarossa's eighteen-year struggle for power with the papacy .

From 1947 he taught as a professor for medieval history in Munich. In 1950 he was appointed honorary professor in Freiburg . From 1953 to 1954 and from 1969 to 1970 he was Dean of the Philosophical Faculty in Munich. Within the Görres Society he was head of the historical section from 1949 and vice-president from 1952. He was a close friend of Romano Guardini , belonged to the Freiburg circle around Karl Färber and was a member of the Quickborn movement . Spörl was awarded the Bavarian Order of Merit in 1964 .

Fonts

Monographs

  • Basic forms of a high medieval view of history. Studies on the worldview of the historians of the 12th century. Hueber, Munich 1935 (2nd, unchanged edition. Reprographic reprint of the 1st edition, Munich 1935. Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, Darmstadt 1968).

Editorships

  • Between science and politics. Festschrift for Georg Schreiber. Alber, Munich et al. 1953.

literature

  • Clemens Bauer , Laetitia Boehm and Max Müller (eds.): Speculum historiale. History in the mirror of historiography and the interpretation of history. Alber, Freiburg i.Br. 1965.
  • Walter Fröhlich, Albrecht Liess, Helmut Wolff (eds.): Liber ad Magistrum. Ceremony for the university professor Dr. Johannes Spörl presented by his students on his 60th birthday. Self-published, Munich 1964.
  • Karl Schnith: Festiva Lanx. Studies on Medieval Spiritual Life. Johannes Spörl offered on the occasion of his sixtieth birthday. Salesianische Offizin, Munich 1966.
  • Laetitia Boehm: Johannes Spörl † (1904–1977). In mutabilitate temporum initium conversationis. In memory of the editor of the historical yearbook. In: Historisches Jahrbuch Vol. 97/98 (1978), pp. 1-54.
  • Laetitia Boehm: Johannes Spörl (September 5, 1904– April 19, 1977). In: Historisches Jahrbuch Vol. 96 (1976), p. 518.
  • Max Müller: Confrontation as Reconciliation A conversation about a life with philosophy = Polemos kai eirēnē. Published by Wilhelm Vossenkuhl . Akademie Verlag, Berlin 1994, pp. 117–118; 142; 152-155, 248; 347.

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Remarks

  1. ^ Anne Christine Nagel: In the shadow of the Third Reich. Medieval research in the Federal Republic of Germany 1945–1970. Göttingen 2005, p. 27.
  2. ↑ Ursula Wiggershaus-Müller: National Socialism and History. The history of the historical journal and the historical yearbook 1933–1945. Hamburg 1998, p. 263.
  3. ↑ Johannes Spörl: The high time of the medieval empire. In: Weiße Blätter 1941, pp. 141–150.
personal data
SURNAME Spörl, Johannes
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian
DATE OF BIRTH September 5, 1904
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich
DATE OF DEATH April 19, 1977
Place of death Munich