Lothar Rathmann

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Lothar Rathmann (born February 16, 1927 in Werdau ) is a German historian and Arabist .

Live and act

Lothar Rathmann attended elementary school in Werdau and then a commercial school . After serving in the Wehrmacht and being imprisoned by the Soviets, he worked as a new teacher .

From 1948 to 1952 he studied history and geography at the Pedagogical Faculty of the University of Leipzig . He then worked as an aspirant and research assistant at the Institute for General History of the Modern Age. In 1956, with his work The Grain Customs Policy of German Large Landowners in the second half of the seventies of the 19th century, with special consideration of the North American agricultural competition, he became the Dr. phil. PhD . From 1958 he was a lecturer, 1961 he was with the work of the Near East expansion of German imperialism by the end of the 19th century to the end of World War habilitation . In 1963 he became professor with a teaching assignment, in 1966 professor with a full teaching assignment and in 1968 full professor for the history of the Arab countries.

Lothar Rathmann became head of the Oriental Institute at Leipzig University in 1964. He founded the Leipzig School of Oriental Studies , whose main works include the seven-volume History of the Arabs . One of his students was Gerhard Höpp .

Rathmann was Dean of the Philosophical Faculty from 1965 to 1967 and Director of the African and Middle Eastern Studies Section at Leipzig University from 1973 to 1975. From 1975 to 1987 he was rector of the university.

Honors and memberships

Fonts

Lothar Rathmann wrote around 150 publications, some of which were also published in Arab countries.

  • March storms 1920. Construction, Berlin 1954.
  • Arabs stand up. Publishing house of the Ministry for National Defense, Berlin 1960.
  • Berlin - Baghdad. The imperialist Middle East policy of imperial Germany. Dietz, Berlin 1962.
  • Focus on the Middle East 1914–1918. On the expansion policy of German imperialism in World War I. Rütten & Loening, Berlin 1963.
  • New aspects of the ʿĀrābī revolt in Egypt from 1879 to 1882. Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1968. (Meeting reports of the German Academy of Sciences in Berlin, class for philosophy, history, political, legal and economic sciences. 1968, no. 10.)
  • The causes and character of the Israeli aggression and world peace. National Council of the National Front of Democratic Germany, Berlin 1969.
  • with Holger Preißler : Tradition in motion. Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1986, ISBN 3-05-000057-0 ( Meeting reports of the Academy of Sciences of the GDR: Social Sciences. No. 3, 1986).

editor

  • History of the Arabs. 7 volumes. Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1971–1983.
  • with Siegfried Hoyer (Ed.): Alma mater Lipsiensis. History of the Karl Marx University Leipzig. Edition Leipzig, Leipzig 1984.
  • Colonialism, neocolonialism, and Africa's path to a peaceful future. Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1985.
  • Arabic states. Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1988, ISBN 3-05-000244-1 .

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hans-Joachim Spanger, Lothar Brock: The two German states in the third world. VS, Wiesbaden 2013, ISBN 978-3-322-83626-7 , p. 72 ( Google books)
personal data
SURNAME Rathmann, Lothar
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian and Arabist
DATE OF BIRTH February 16, 1927
PLACE OF BIRTH Werdau