Karl-Ludwig Ay

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Karl-Ludwig Ay (* 1940 in Reichenbach in Vogtland ) is a German historian . From 1982 until his retirement at the end of 2004, the long-time employee of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences was the general editor of the Max Weber Complete Edition, which was edited at three Academies of Sciences .

Life

Ay received her doctorate at the University of Munich with a thesis on the prehistory of the November Revolution in Bavaria in 1918 , supervised by Karl Bosl , after Bosl had called for a reassessment of the event in an article in 1965. In 1968 he started working for the Bavarian Academy of Sciences, initially in the Commission for Bavarian State History . He worked on parts of the Historical Atlas of Bavaria and the Historical Atlas of Bavarian Swabia (see here ) and the documents on the history of the state and society in Bavaria . From 1982 on he headed the editorial work on the Max Weber Complete Edition and developed into an expert on Max Weber's work, but continued to publish on the Bavarian national history . Ay was a member of the editorial board of the professional journal Max Weber Studies, edited by Sam Whimster , and has worked on Bosl's Bavarian biography and other biographical reference works. Ay retired at the end of 2004.

Works (selection)

  • The making of a revolution. The popular mood in Bavaria during the First World War (= contributions to a historical structural analysis of Bavaria in the industrial age. Volume 1). Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1968, also dissertation, University of Munich, 1968 (discussion) .
  • The question and answer book of the Darmstadt officer Friedrich Wilhelm Schulz . In Zeitschrift für Bavarian State History , Vol. 35 (1972), publ. Of the Commission for Bavarian State History, Munich pp. 728–770. Online here. [1]
  • The German Revolution 1914–1948. Comments on social change and the concept of epochs. In: Journal for Bavarian State History. Volume 36, 1973, pp. 877-896 (digitized version ) .
  • Documents on the history of the state and society in Bavaria. Section I: Old Bavaria from the early Middle Ages to 1800. Arranged by Karl-Ludwig Ay. Beck, Munich, ISBN 3-7696-9953-X . Volume 1: Altbayern to 1180. 1974; Volume 2: Old Bavaria from 1180 to 1550. 1977.
  • Country and prince in old Bavaria. 16.-18. Century. Pustet, Regensburg 1988, ISBN 3-7917-1152-0 .
  • Edited with Joachim Jahn and Lorenz Maier : Die Welfen. Regional historical aspects of their rule (= Forum Suevicum. Contributions to the history of East Swabia and the neighboring regions. Volume 2). UVK, Konstanz 1998, ISBN 3-87940-598-0 (review) .
  • Max Weber. A German Intellectual and the Question of War Guilt after the Great War. In: Sam Whimster (Ed.): Max Weber and the Culture of Anarchy. Macmillan, Basingstoke 1998, ISBN 0-333-68227-0 , pp. 110-128.
  • Max Weber's concept of nation. In: Uta Gerhardt (Ed.): Zeitperspektiven. Studies on culture and society. Franz Steiner, Stuttgart 2003, ISBN 3-515-08229-8 , pp. 80-103 ( preview on Google books).
  • Edited with Knut Borchardt : Das Faszinosum Max Weber. The history of its validity. KVK, Konstanz 2006, ISBN 3-89669-605-X ( book ad at Sowiport ).

literature

  • Knut Borchardt : Goodbye. Karl-Ludwig Ay. In: Bavarian Academy of Sciences, Akademie Aktuell. Issue 1, 2005, p. 52. Online here. [2]

Web links

  • Bibliography in MGH-Opac and RI-Opac (with links to enrichments and digitized data).

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Robert Eben Sackett: Popular Entertainment, Class, and Politics in Munich, 1900-1923. Harvard University Press, Cambridge MA 1982, p. 172.
personal data
SURNAME Ay, Karl-Ludwig
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian
DATE OF BIRTH 1940
PLACE OF BIRTH Reichenbach in Vogtland