Lothar von Heinemann (historian)

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Ernst Adolf Hermann Lothar von Heinemann (born February 19, 1859 in Bernburg , † February 23, 1901 in Tübingen ) was a German historian .

origin

His parents were the librarian and historian Otto von Heinemann (1824-1904) and his wife Helene von Brandenstein (1827-1902).

Life

His worked in Bernburg from 1853 to 1868. Heinemann studied at the University of Munich with Carl Adolph Cornelius and Felix Stieve , then a semester in Göttingen with Hermann Sauppe and finally in Leipzig with Karl von Noorden . In 1881 he passed the state examination for teaching in Braunschweig, in 1882 he received his doctorate in Leipzig with a dissertation on the Guelph territories. From 1882 to 1888 he worked for the Monumenta Germaniae Historica , mainly in Berlin for the Scriptores and Libelli de lite departments , but also for a year with Theodor von Sickel in Vienna, for whom he worked out the registers for the first volume of the Diplomata. In the autumn of 1888 he completed his habilitation with Theodor Lindner in Halle , where he taught for nine years as a private lecturer and associate professor. There he completed the first volume of his History of the Normans in Lower Italy and Sicily, which opened the series of essential publications on the history of the Norman Empire that appeared in Germany shortly before and after 1900. At the end of 1897 he received a call to Tübingen to succeed Bernhard Kugler and at Easter 1898 he started teaching, where he mainly dealt with German-Italian relations. Already in 1899 and 1900 several times ill, he died of a heart attack in February 1901. In his essays, he has often made use of manuscripts from the Wolfenbüttel library .

In recent years he has dealt with the history of the Normans in southern Italy. In addition to his presentation of history, of which only one volume has been published, which covers the period up to 1085, his edition of a selection of Norman rulers' documents can still be consulted. For the second volume of his History of the Normans he left an almost completed manuscript, which was deposited in the Charlottenburg State Archives.

family

He married Hedwig Ziervogel on October 6, 1891 (born April 22, 1870).

Fonts (selection)

  • History of the Normans in southern Italy and Sicily up to the extinction of the Norman royal family / Bd. 1. Until 1085 . Leipzig 1894 (reprinted Aalen 1969)
  • Norman duke and royal documents from Lower Italy and Sicily , In: Tübingen University Program of February 25, 1899, Tübingen 1899.

literature

  • Heinrich Hermelink , Heinemann, Lothar von . In: Biographisches Jahrbuch and Deutscher Nekrolog 6, 1904, pp. 230–232
  • Dieter Lent: Heinemann, Adolf Ernst Hermann Lothar von . In: Horst-Rüdiger Jarck and Günter Scheel (eds.), Braunschweigisches Biographisches Lexikon. 19th and 20th centuries , Hannover 1996, p. 256
  • Wolfgang Weber , Heinemann, Lothar von . In: Biographical Lexicon of History in Germany, Austria and Switzerland, 2nd edition 1987 p. 117
  • Gothaisches genealogisches Taschenbuch der Briefadeligen houses , 1908, second year, p.446

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ See the articles Erich Caspar , Karl Andreas Kehr , Richard Salomon
  2. ^ Ute Dietsch, Family Archives and Legacies in the Secret State Archives of Prussian Cultural Heritage. An inventory. Berlin 2008 p. 402 as PDF
personal data
SURNAME Heinemann, Lothar von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Heinemann, Ernst Adolf Hermann Lothar von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Medievalist
DATE OF BIRTH February 19, 1859
PLACE OF BIRTH Bernburg
DATE OF DEATH February 23, 1901
Place of death Tübingen