Karl Zeumer
Karl Zeumer (born July 31, 1849 in Hanover , † April 18, 1914 in Heidelberg ) was a German historian of medieval history.
The son of a master furrier studied classical and German philology in Göttingen and Leipzig from 1870 . From 1873 he dealt exclusively with classical philology and then studied history. From 1875 onwards, Zeumer played a key role in the edition of the Formulas (1882/86) as an employee of the Monumenta Germaniae Historica (MGH) . In 1877 he did his doctorate in Göttingen under Julius Weizsäcker on German city taxes in the High Middle Ages. He was the editor of the collection of sources on German constitutional history , which is still important for medieval legal history today. In 1886 Zeumer was made an honorary doctorate from the law faculty of Heidelberg University, where he taught as a private lecturer from 1887. In April 1889 he was appointed associate professor in Berlin and honorary professor in 1910 for German legal history. In 1897 Zeumer became a member of the central management of the MGH. In 1905 he founded the series of sources and studies on the constitutional history of the German Empire in the Middle Ages and modern times . In the same year, Zeumer finally went almost completely blind. In 1906 he was elected a corresponding member of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences and the Bavarian Academy of Sciences . His last work on the right of resistance in the Sachsenspiegel was published by Fritz Kern . Zeumer died of a heart condition.
Fonts (selection)
- Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation: A Study of the Imperial Title. Weimar 1910. Wikisource
- The golden bull of Emperor Karl IV. Böhlau, Weimar 1908.
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Collection of sources on the history of the German imperial constitution in the Middle Ages and modern times. Leipzig 1907; 2nd increased edition Tübingen 1913.
- Sources on German constitutional history from Otto II to Ludwig the Bavarian. Selection from Karl Zeumer, collection of sources on the history of the German imperial constitution. 2nd edition 1913, compiled by Adalbert Erler , Mainz 1947.
literature
- Adalbert Erler: Zeumer, Karl. In: Concise Dictionary of German Legal History (HRG) 5 (1998) Sp. 1697–1699.
- Historical essays. Karl Zeumer for his 60th birthday presented as a festive offering by friends and students . Böhlau, Weimar 1910 ( Internet Archive ). Reprinted by Keip, Frankfurt / Main 1987.
- Fritz Kern: Karl Zeumer †. Obituary . In: Historische Zeitschrift Vol. 113, 1914, p. 540.
- Hiram Kümper: Karl Zeumer. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 23, Bautz, Nordhausen 2004, ISBN 3-88309-155-3 , Sp. 1593-1595.
- Zeumer, Karl. In: Deutsche Biographische Enzyklopädie 2nd, revised and expanded edition, Vol. 10, Munich 2008, pp. 833f.
Web links
- Literature by and about Karl Zeumer in the catalog of the German National Library
- Employee site at Monumenta Germaniae Historica
Remarks
- ↑ Holger Krahnke: The members of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen 1751-2001 (= Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Philological-Historical Class. Volume 3, Vol. 246 = Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Mathematical-Physical Class. Episode 3, vol. 50). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2001, ISBN 3-525-82516-1 , p. 266.
- ^ Karl Zeumer obituary in the 1915 yearbook of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences (PDF file).
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Zeumer, Karl |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German historian for medieval history |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 31, 1849 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Hanover |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 18, 1914 |
| Place of death | Heidelberg |