Leo Loewenson

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Leo Loewenson (* 1884 ; † April 2, 1968 in London ) was a German-British historian.

Life

Loewenson, who came from Würzburg, grew up in Russia. Before the First World War he studied history and law in Berlin, St. Petersburg and Moscow . In 1911 he passed the Russian state examination in St. Petersburg. In 1912 he became a full member of the Archaeological Institute in Petersburg.

Loewenson had lived in Germany since 1914. From 1922 to 1924 Loewenson taught history and Latin at the school of the "Russian Academic Association" established by emigrants in Berlin.

In 1925 Loewenson got a position as an assistant at the seminar for Eastern European history at the Berlin Friedrich-Wilhelms University. He was employed there until 1933, working primarily with Otto Hoetzsch . During this time, Loweenson was instrumental in the expansion of what was then the most important library for Russian history in Germany. He also wrote various articles for specialist journals that dealt with the Russian cultural history of the 17th century and the introduction of new Soviet literature. Furthermore, since 1925 he was a permanent contributor to the annual reports for German history published by Albert Brackmann and Fritz Hartung , in which he informed German readers about research results of Soviet historiography.

After the National Socialists came to power in the spring of 1933, Loewenson was dismissed from civil service in accordance with the provisions of the law on the restoration of the civil service due to his - according to the National Socialist definition - Jewish descent. His position was instead taken over by Werner Philipp .

Loewenson then emigrated to Great Britain, where he worked as library director of the School of Slavonic and East European Studies in London until 1964.

After his emigration, Loewenson was classified as an enemy of the state by the National Socialist police. In the spring of 1940, the Reich Main Security Office in Berlin put him on the special wanted list GB , a list of people whom the Nazi surveillance apparatus considered particularly dangerous or important, which is why they would be removed from the occupation troops in the event of a successful invasion and occupation of the British Isles by the Wehrmacht Subsequent SS special commands were to be identified and arrested with special priority.

Fonts (selection)

  • Written newspapers from Russia. In: Journal of Eastern European History. Vol. 6 = NF Vol. 2, 1932, ZDB -ID 201416-6 , pp. 83-93, pp. 231-237, pp. 402-415, pp. 552-585.
  • The Moscow Rising of 1648. In: The Slavonic and East European Review. Vol. 27, No. 68, 1948, ISSN  0037-6795 , pp. 146-156, JSTOR 4204005 .
  • Karl Stählin: 1865–1939. A Chapter of German Historiography on Russia. In: The Slavonic and East European Review. Vol. 28, No. 70, 1949, pp. 152-160, JSTOR 4204101 .
  • The Death of Paul I (1801) and the Memoirs of Count Bennigsen. In: The Slavonic and East European Review. Vol. 29, No. 72, 1950, pp. 212-232, JSTOR 4204196 .
  • Otto Hoetzsch: A grade. In: The Slavonic and East European Review. Vol. 30, No. 75, 1952, pp. 549-551, JSTOR 4204351 .
  • Lady Rondeau's Letters from Russia (1728-1739). In: The Slavonic and East European Review. Vol. 35, No. 85, 1957, pp. 399-408, JSTOR 4204849 .
  • Some Details of Peter the Great's Stay in England in 1698: Neglected English Material. In: The Slavonic and East European Review. Vol. 40, No. 95, 1962, pp. 431-443, JSTOR 4205370 .
  • Escaped Russian Slaves in England in the 17th Century. In: The Slavonic and East European Review. Vol. 42, No. 99, 1964, pp. 427-429, JSTOR 4205571 .

literature

  • Petra Kleeb: Leo Loewenson (1884–1968) as a Russian historian. An obituary. In: Yearbooks for the History of Eastern Europe . NF 17, No. 2, 1969, pp. 259-268, JSTOR 41043805 .
  • Gerd Voigt: Otto Hoetzsch. 1876-1946. Science and politics in the life of a German historian (= sources and studies on the history of Eastern Europe. 21, ISSN  0079-9114 ). Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1978, p. 189 f.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ https://www.forces-war-records.co.uk/hitlers-black-book/person/157/leo-loewenson/
personal data
SURNAME Loewenson, Leo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-British historian
DATE OF BIRTH 1884
DATE OF DEATH April 2nd, 1968
Place of death London