Lorenz Weinrich

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Lorenz Hubert Weinrich (born August 20, 1929 in Salzwedel , Altmark ) is a German historian .

Life

The son of the headmaster Alfons Maria Weinrich and his wife Margarete Weinrich (née Lawetzky) taught after graduating from high school in 1948 as a temporary worker at the school in Salzwedel. For political reasons he was not allowed to study in Leipzig and then studied history and classical philology at the Free University of Berlin from its founding semester in 1948/1949. It was in August 1954 on Wala - Count, monk and rebel. The biography of a Karolinger doctorate.

Weinrich taught religion at the Beethoven High School in Berlin-Lankwitz and subsequently at the Unter den Kastanien elementary school in Berlin-Lichterfelde . In April 1954 he became a teacher of history and Latin at the Beethoven high school. In the period between the first state examination in autumn 1955 and the second state examination in winter 1957, he taught Middle Latin at the Friedrich Meinecke Institute of the Free University of Berlin .

In April 1962 Lorenz Weinrich moved from teaching to the Friedrich Meinecke Institute of the Free University of Berlin, where he initially worked as an academic councilor . Here he devoted himself, among other things, as the editor of the bilingual edition of documents and narrative sources on German settlement in the east of the comparative state and settlement history. In the academic year 1967/1968 Weinrich worked as a visiting professor for Medieval Latin and German at the University of Chicago and completed his habilitation in 1971 at the Free University of Berlin in the subject of history. In 1973 and 1974 he lectured Gregorian chant and German liturgy at the Episcopal Church Music School in Berlin. In the 1980 summer semester he taught at Saarland University in Saarbrücken . From 1987 to 1989 he was dean of the history department at the Free University of Berlin.

In 1975 Lorenz Weinrich was invested in the Order of the Knights of the Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem . Since 1979 he has been Commander of the Knightly Order .

Since 1977 Lorenz Weinrich has been a member of the board of the Society for Christian-Jewish Cooperation in Berlin as a representative of the Catholic Church , of which he was deputy chairman from 1979 to 1980 and of which he was chairman from 1980 to 1992. In 1986 Lorenz Weinrich was elected to the board of the German Coordination Council of the Societies for Christian-Jewish Cooperation and was its chairman from 1987. In this capacity he presented Yehudi Menuhin with the Buber-Rosenzweig Medal of the Coordinating Council for Christian-Jewish Understanding and Cooperation in Bonn in 1989 .

From 1952 to 2002 Lorenz Weinrich was director of the choral school in the Catholic parish of Mater Dolorosa in Berlin-Lankwitz . He was for decades only member of the parish council and then to 2007, a member of the church council of the parish and in this capacity, co-founder of the Foundation Mater Dolorosa Berlin-Lankwitz . He was also chairman and is honorary chairman of the Association of Friends of the Parish Mater Dolorosa e. V.

In 2013 he was appointed Commander of the New Year's Eve with a star.

Lorenz Weinrich has been married since 1962 and has three children.

Fonts (selection)

Monographs

  • Wala - count, monk and rebel . Lübeck and Hamburg 1963 (Carolingian Studies Issue 386)
  • The Hungarian Pauline monastery of Santo Stefano Rotondo in Rome (1404–1579). Berlin historical studies. Volume 12, Order Studies, Berlin, Duncker and Humblot 1998. ISBN 3-428-09334-8 .

Editing and translations

  • together with Herbert Helbig: Documents and narrative sources on German settlement in the East in the Middle Ages . Darmstadt 1968.
  • Sources on German constitutional, economic and social history up to 1250 (= selected sources on German history in the Middle Ages . Volume 32). Scientific Book Society, Darmstadt 1977, ISBN 3-534-01958-X .
  • Tolerance and brotherhood: 30 years of the Society for Christian-Jewish Cooperation in Berlin. Berlin, Society for Christian-Jewish Cooperation 1979.
  • Sources on the constitutional history of the Roman-German Empire in the late Middle Ages (1250–1500). Freiherr vom Stein Memorial Edition 33, Darmstadt 1983, ISBN 3-534-06863-7 .
  • Parish church and parish Mater Dolorosa Berlin-Lankwitz 1912–1987 , Berlin 1987.
  • together with Jürgen Miethke : Sources on church reform in the age of the great councils of the 15th century. First part: The Councils of Pisa (1409) and Constance (1414–1418). (Selected sources on German history in the Middle Ages, Freiherr-vom-Stein-Gedächtnisausgabe 38a). Darmstadt 1995.
  • Sources on imperial reform in the late Middle Ages. Selected sources on German history in the Middle Ages. Volume 39.Scientific Book Society, Darmstadt 2001, ISBN 3-534-06877-7 .
  • Heiligenleben on German-Slavic history. Adalbert von Prag and Otto von Bamberg. Selected sources on German history in the Middle Ages. Volume 23 Scientific Book Society, Darmstadt 2005, ISBN 3-534-01422-7 .

Essays

  • Laurentius worship in Ottonian times. In: Yearbook for the History of Central and Eastern Germany , Volume 21. 1972.
  • The Slav uprising of 983 in the representation of Bishop Thietmar von Merseburg. In: Dieter Berg, Hans-Werner Goetz (Ed.): Historiographia Mediaevalis. Studies of historiography and source studies of the Middle Ages. Festschrift for Franz-Josef Schmale on his 65th birthday . Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, Darmstadt 1988, pp. 77-87.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Siegward Lönnendonker: The history sciences at the Free University of Berlin (2008), pp. 45–47.
  2. ↑ Board members since 1949 ( Memento of the original from December 30, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Society for Christian-Jewish Cooperation in Berlin V. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.gcjz-berlin.de
  3. ↑ Bonner General-Anzeiger , March 6, 1989.
  4. ^ Choralschola story Mater Dolorosa
  5. ^ Statutes of the Mater Dolorosa Foundation Berlin-Lankwitz (PDF; 51 kB)
  6. ^ Association of Friends of the Parish Mater Dolorosa e. V.
  7. ^ Krumpholz: High papal order for Berlin historian Weinrich . KNA press release, Archdiocese of Berlin, January 9, 2014. Accessed January 10, 2014.
  8. ↑ Lorenz Weinrich . Mater Dolorosa website , accessed January 10, 2014.

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personal data
SURNAME Weinrich, Lorenz
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Weinrich, Lorenz Hubert (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian
DATE OF BIRTH August 20, 1929
PLACE OF BIRTH Salzwedel , Altmark