Julius von Pflugk-Harttung

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Julius von Pflugk-Harttung

Julius Albert Georg Harttung , from 1876 from Pflugk-Harttung , Prussian nobility recognition 1893 (born November 8, 1848 in Wernikow ; † November 5, 1919 in Berlin ) was a German historian , diplomat and archivist .

Life

family

Julius was the son of the landowner Friedrich Harttung and his second wife Elise. After his father's death in 1870, his maternal grandfather, Georg Bernhard von Pflugk from Hamm near Hamburg, adopted him in 1876 .

In 1888 Julius von Pflugk-Harttung married Margarethe born in Berlin. Rading (* 1868). The marriage resulted in three sons and two daughters, including Horst von Pflugk-Harttung (captain at sea, 1889–1967) and Heinz von Pflugk-Harttung (captain; 1890–1920), both of whom were involved in the murder of Karl Liebknecht , as well as the writer Elfriede von Pflugk-Harttung (1892–?).

career

Von Pflugk-Harttung attended secondary school in Hamburg and began a commercial apprenticeship, which also took him to the USA. He served as a soldier in the Franco-Prussian War and caught up with the school leaving examination. He then studied history and philology at the universities of Bonn , Berlin and Göttingen . In 1876 he received his doctorate in Bonn, a year later he completed his habilitation and became an associate professor at the University of Tübingen .

In 1886 he was appointed to succeed Jacob Burckhardt at the University of Basel . In 1889 he was forced to resign after having taken an anonymous position in a Hamburg newspaper in a German-Swiss dispute over customs and asylum policy against the Confederation. Recognized as an author, he was increasingly boycotted by the students.

In 1892 he became an archivist at the Secret State Archives in Berlin and remained so until the end of his life.

plant

Von Pflugk-Harttung was known for his extraordinary breadth of research from antiquity to the wars of liberation .

He is considered a researcher of the older papal document system (until 1198). Here he endeavored to create a new system. He received the approval of Paul Fridolin Kehr for his editions and archive reports , but entered into major controversies with Wilhelm Diekamp , Theodor Sickel and Harry Bresslau . The core of the expert dispute was the question of how best to facsimile documents , which then expanded into a fundamental methodological dispute in diplomacy and was never resolved. Most of the papal documents between 1046 and 1198 can only be found in his editions.

During his time as an archivist, he mainly carried out research on the Wars of Liberation. Here he published several works in which Hans Dechend worked as a co-author.

Pflugk-Harttung was a member of the historical societies and associations of London, Paris, Rome, Turin and Palermo.

Fonts (selection)

  • Studies on the history of Konrad II. Diss. Bonn, print: Neusser, Bonn 1876. ( digitized version )
  • Norway and the German seaside cities until the end of the thirteenth century. Hertz, Berlin 1877. ( digitized version )
  • Diplomatic-historical research. Perthes, Gotha 1879. ( digitized version )
  • Iter italicum. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 1883. ( digitized version )
  • Reinald von Köln, a "Reich Chancellor" of the Middle Ages. Westermann, Braunschweig 1885. ( digitized version )
  • The oldest cultures. Schottlaender, Breslau 1888. ( digitized version )
  • History contemplations. Perthes, Gotha 1890. ( digitized version )
  • The Order of St. John and the Teutonic Order in the Battle of Ludwig of Bavaria with the Curia , Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1900 ( digitized by: Monumenta Germaniae Historica )
  • The bulls of the popes: until the end of the 12th century. Gotha 1901, reprint. Hildesheim-New York: Olms 1976. ISBN 978-3-487-06110-8
  • German memorial hall. Pictures from patriotic history. "Vaterland" publishing house, Leipzig and Berlin 1907
  • Frame of German book titles in the 16th century. Lehmann, Stuttgart 1909.
  • The struggle for the freedom of the seas. Trafalgar, Skagerrak. Elsenschmidt, Berlin 1917. ( digitized version )

editor

Von Pflugk-Harttung stands above all for historical journalism and the publication of world history in Berlin's Ullstein Verlag (1909).

literature

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personal data
SURNAME Pflugk-Harttung, Julius von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Harttung, Julius von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian, diplomat and archivist
DATE OF BIRTH November 8, 1848
PLACE OF BIRTH Vernikov
DATE OF DEATH November 5, 1919
Place of death Berlin