Klaus-Detlev Grothusen

Klaus-Detlev Grothusen (born October 29, 1928 near Bad Nauheim , † July 16, 1994 ) was a German historian .

Klaus-Detlev Grothusen studied history and Slavic studies in Göttingen and Kiel from 1948 to 1954. He received his doctorate in 1954 from the University of Kiel on the historical school of law in Russia in the 19th century. Grothusen completed training as a scientific librarian. He wrote his thesis on the development of Yugoslavia's academic libraries. In 1965 he completed his habilitation on medieval Zagreb in Gießen.

Since 1969 Grothusen has taught as a professor for Eastern European history at the University of Hamburg . From 1975 until his death he edited the series Südosteuropa-Handbuch , a series of eight geographical handbooks on the development of the individual states of Southeast Europe since 1945. In 1989 he was awarded an honorary doctorate from the University of Sofia . In 1992 he took early retirement due to a serious illness. In Leipzig he accepted a teaching position. In 1994 Frank Golczewski succeeded him as Professor of Eastern European History in Hamburg. Grothusen put the focus of his research on Southeast Europe. Grothusen shaped the later chair holders Holm Sundhaussen , Bernd Bonwetsch , Wolfgang Höpken and Karl-Heinz Schlarp .

Fonts

Monographs

• Origin and history of Zagreb up to the end of the 14th century. A contribution to the urban system of Southeast Europe in the Middle Ages. Wiesbaden 1967
• The historical school of law in Russia. A contribution to Russian intellectual history in the second half of the 19th century. Giessen 1962.
• The development of Yugoslavia's academic libraries since 1945. Cologne 1958.

Editorships

• Albania past and present. Munich 1990, ISBN 3-925450-24-6 .
• 110 years of reestablishment of the Bulgarian state 1878–1988. Munich 1990, ISBN 3-925450-16-5 .
• Ethnogenesis and State Building in Southeastern Europe. Göttingen 1974, ISBN 3-525-27313-4 .

literature

• Rainer Nicolaysen , Axel Schildt (Hrsg.): 100 years of historical science in Hamburg (= Hamburg contributions to the history of science. Vol. 18). Reimer, Berlin et al. 2011, ISBN 978-3-496-02838-3 , pp. 78-81, 303, 305, 311, 315.
• In memory of Klaus-Detlev Grothusen and Günter Moltmann. Hamburg 1997.

Web links

• Literature by and about Klaus-Detlev Grothusen in the catalog of the German National Library
• Works by and about Klaus-Detlev Grothusen  in the German Digital Library