Karl Jordan (historian)

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Karl Jordan (born July 26, 1907 in Cottbus , † February 27, 1984 in Kiel ) was a German historian . Jordan taught from 1943 to 1975 as a full professor for Middle and Modern History at the University of Kiel . He mainly researched Henry the Lion .

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The son of a senior public prosecutor spent the First World War in Berlin. From 1917 to 1926 he attended high school in Stargard , where his father had been transferred. He then studied history, German and classical philology at the universities of Tübingen , Erlangen , Berlin and Göttingen . During his studies he became a member of the associations of German students in Tübingen and Göttingen ; In 1949 he also became old man of the VDSt Kiel , of which he was chairman of the old gentlemen's association from 1957 to 1975; he later published in this context as a student historian . Influenced by Johannes Haller's lecture , he decided to become a historian. However, his academic teachers were Karl Brandi and Percy Ernst Schramm . Jordan in 1930 in Göttingen at Brandi on the subject The penetration of feudalism in the legal life of the Roman Curia to Dr. phil. PhD . In 1931 he passed the teaching examination. After completing his doctorate, Jordan was a research assistant at the history seminar in Göttingen for two years . In the years 1932 to 1939 he was an employee of the Monumenta Germaniae Historica (MGH, since 1935 "Reich Institute for Older German History") in Berlin, where he received the documents of Charles III. and Arnulfs of Carinthia . For a short time he was a member of the SS . In 1935/36 he received a scholarship from the German Research Foundation . In 1936 he was entrusted with collecting, editing and issuing the documents of Duke Heinrich the Lion . The documents of Heinrich the Lion could appear after several delays from 1941 to 1949. For this purpose, a number of lay prince and dynasty documents from the imperial era were newly established at the Monumenta Germaniae Historica . The company was sponsored by Heinrich Himmler .

Jordan completed his habilitation in 1938 at the Philosophical Faculty of the University of Halle with a thesis on the establishment of a diocese of Heinrich the Lion. In 1939 he became a lecturer in Halle. Jordan was a member of the National Socialist Altherrenbund and official administrator in the National Socialist People's Welfare (NSV) . He joined the NSDAP on April 1, 1940, membership number 7,986,744. He was not called up for military service because he was unable to walk due to polio . Jordan was an associate professor from 1941 and a full professor for Medieval and Modern History at Kiel University from 1943 . In 1943, Jordan also took over a professorship for Otto Vehse , who died in the war in Hamburg .

In the denazification process , Jordan was classified as exonerated. Since 1948 he was a corresponding member of the central management of the MGH. In 1965 he took over the editing of a representation of the 300-year history of the University of Kiel. Since 1971 he has been an honorary member of the Association for Lübeck History and Archeology . Jordan taught at Kiel University until his retirement in 1975. The constitutional foundations of the Duchy of Saxony and the relationship between royalty and empire were worked on in numerous own studies and the work of his students suggested by him. As an academic teacher, he suggested and supervised 35 dissertations and four post-doctoral theses. Important academic students were Horst Fuhrmann , Wolfgang Prange and Erich Hoffmann . However, no school developed in the sense of a group of students with a common research area.

Jordan's research focus was on the history of the Middle Ages, especially the Staufer period . He worked on overarching presentations such as the Gebhardt, Handbuch der deutschen Geschichte as editor of the 4th volume Investiture Controversy and the Early Staufer Period . The monograph on Friedrich Barbarossa saw several editions. Jordan was a member of the German commission for the processing of the Regesta Imperii . In the 1930s and 1940s his research focus was the colonization policy of Henry the Lion. Even after the Second World War , he continued researching Henry the Lion. In 1979 Jordan presented him with a biography that had been the reference work for decades. However, it brought hardly any new knowledge and remained stuck to the pre-war interpretation patterns.

When the Heinrich-der-Löwe ​​monument was erected in Lübeck in 1975, he worked as a scientific advisor.

Fonts (selection)

Collection of articles

  • Selected essays on the history of the Middle Ages (= Kiel historical studies. Vol. 29). Klett-Cotta, Stuttgart 1980, ISBN 3-12-912050-5 .

Monographs

  • The penetration of feudalism into the legal life of the Roman Curia. In: Archive for document research. Vol. 12, 1932, ZDB -ID 212111-6 , pp. 13–110 (At the same time: Göttingen, Universität, Dissertation, 1931), (reviewed reprographic reprint, with a supplement to the reprint. (= Libelli 325). Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, Darmstadt 1971, ISBN 3-534-05700-7 ).
  • The Origin of the Roman Curia. One try. In: Journal of the Savigny Foundation for Legal History. Vol. 59 = Canonical Department. Vol. 28, 1939, ISSN  0323-4142 , pp. 97–152 (Unchanged reprographic reprint, with addendum to the reprint. (= Libelli 91). Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, Darmstadt 1973, ISBN 3-534-01574-6 ).
  • The founding of the diocese of Henry the Lion. Studies on the history of East German colonization (= writings of the Reich Institute for Older German History (Monumenta Germaniae Historica). Vol. 3, ISSN  0080-6951 ). Hiersemann, Leipzig 1939 (at the same time: Halle, University, habilitation paper, 1938), (3rd reprint. Hiersemann, Stuttgart 1979, ISBN 3-7772-5207-7 ).
  • The documents of Henry the Lion, Duke of Saxony and Bavaria (= Monumenta Germaniae Historica. Diplomata 5: lay princes and dynasty documents of the imperial era , 1–2). 2 volumes (Vol. 1: Document texts. Vol. 2: Introduction and register. ). Hiersemann, Leipzig 1941–1949 ( full text in MGH ).
  • German Empire and Empire. Beginnings and advancement up to the beginning of the investiture dispute 911-1056 (= Handbook of German History. Vol. 1: German history up to the end of the Middle Ages. Section 3). Academic Publishing Society Athenaion, Konstanz 1956.
  • Friedrich Barbarossa. Emperor of the Christian West (= personality and history. Vol. 13, ZDB -ID 528992-0 ). Musterschmidt-Verlag, Göttingen et al. 1959.
  • The Christian Albrechts University, Kiel 1665–1965. Wachholtz, Neumünster 1965.
  • Henry the Lion. A biography. Beck, Munich 1979, ISBN 3-406-04033-0 .

literature

Web links

Remarks

  1. ^ Horst Fuhrmann : Laudation to Karl Jordan. In: Werner Paravicini (Hrsg.): North and South in the German history of the Middle Ages. Sigmaringen 1990, pp. 11-16, here: p. 12.
  2. ↑ Jordan, Karl , in: Friedhelm Golücke : Author's Lexicon for Student and University History. SH-Verlag, Cologne 2004, ISBN 3-89498-130-X . P. 162.
  3. ↑ Louis Lange (Ed.): Kyffhäuser Association of German Student Associations. Address book 1931. Berlin 1931, p. 103.
  4. ↑ Jordan, Karl , in: Friedhelm Golücke : Author's Lexicon for Student and University History. SH-Verlag, Cologne 2004, ISBN 3-89498-130-X . P. 162.
  5. ^ Anne Christine Nagel : In the shadow of the Third Reich. Medieval research in the Federal Republic of Germany 1945–1970. Göttingen 2005, p. 27.
  6. ^ Horst Fuhrmann: Laudation to Karl Jordan. In: Werner Paravicini (Hrsg.): North and South in the German history of the Middle Ages. Sigmaringen 1990, pp. 11-16, here: p. 15.
  7. ^ Manfred RW Garzmann: Karl Jordan to the memory. In: Blätter für deutsche Landesgeschichte Vol. 120, 1984, pp. 461–467, here: pp. 465–467 ( digitized version ).
  8. ^ Manfred RW Garzmann: Karl Jordan to the memory. In: Blätter für deutsche Landesgeschichte Vol. 120, 1984, pp. 461–467, here: p. 462 ( digitized version ).
  9. ↑ Oliver Auge, Martin Göllnitz: Landesgeschichtliche Zeitschriften und University Landesgeschichte: The example of Schleswig-Holstein (1924-2008). In: Thomas Küster (Ed.): Media of limited space. National and regional historical journals in the 19th and 20th centuries. Paderborn 2013, pp. 69–125, here: p. 91 f.
  10. ↑ See the judgment: Johannes Fried : The lion as an object. What writers, historians and politicians made of Henry the Lion. In: Historical magazine . Vol. 262, 1996, pp. 673-693, here: p. 689.
personal data
SURNAME Jordan, Karl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian
DATE OF BIRTH July 26, 1907
PLACE OF BIRTH cottbus
DATE OF DEATH February 27, 1984
Place of death Kiel