Manfred Hellmann (historian)

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Manfred Hellmann (born June 24, 1912 in Riga , † June 12, 1992 in Munich ) was a German historian .

Manfred Hellmann graduated from high school in Riga in 1930. From 1930 to 1938 he studied history, German and folklore at the universities in Riga and Königsberg . Hellmann did not become a member of the NSDAP . In 1938 he received his doctorate in Königsberg with a thesis on the Prussian rule Tauroggen in Lithuania (1690-1793) by Heinrich Harmjanz and Gunther Ipsen .

From 1945 to 1947 Hellmann was a lecturer and assistant at the Slavonic Seminar at Leipzig University and also in Leipzig from 1947 to 1949 as an assistant at the Institute for German National and Folk History. In 1952 he completed his habilitation at the University of Freiburg i. Br. Hellmann taught from 1956 to 1959 at the Westphalian Wilhelms University in Münster . From 1964 to 1978 he was a full professor for Middle and Modern History with a special focus on Eastern Europe at the University of Münster.

His research interests were the high and late medieval imperial and constitutional history, the history of the Baltic States, the history of the Teutonic Order , the history of Russia and the history of Venice . Hellmann was a corresponding member of the Herder Research Council in Marburg from 1959 and a full member from 1961 . Hellmann was a corresponding member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences (since 1976), a member of the Constance Working Group for Medieval History (since 1976) and the Baltic Historical Commission .

Fonts

A list of publications appeared in: Carsten Goehrke : Ostliches Europa. Mirror of history. Festschrift for Manfred Hellmann for his 65th birthday (= sources and studies on the history of Eastern Europe. Vol. 9). Steiner, Wiesbaden 1977, ISBN 3-515-02658-4 , pp. 259-267.

Monographs

  • Outlines of the history of Lithuania and the Lithuanian people. 4th, compared to the 3rd unchanged edition. Scientific Book Society, Darmstadt 1990, ISBN 3-534-00724-7 .
  • Outlines of the history of Venice. 3rd, compared to the 2nd unchanged edition. Scientific Book Society, Darmstadt 1989, ISBN 3-534-03909-2 .
  • Contributions to the history of Eastern Europe in the Middle Ages. Collected Essays. Hakkert, Amsterdam 1988, ISBN 90-256-0908-2 .
  • Dates of Polish history. Deutscher Taschenbuch-Verlag, Munich 1985, ISBN 3-423-03268-5 .
  • Ivan IV the Terrible. Moscow on the threshold of modern times (= personality and history. Vol. 35). Musterschmidt, Göttingen 1966.
  • The Lettenland in the Middle Ages. Studies on the East Baltic early times and Latvian tribal history, especially Latgale (= contributions to the history of Eastern Europe. Vol. 1). Böhlau, Münster et al. 1954.
  • The Prussian rule Tauroggen in Lithuania (1690–1793) (= folk research. Vol. 1). Ahnenerbe-Stiftung-Verlag, Berlin-Dahlem 1940 (also: Königsberg, dissertation).

Editorships

  • Studies on the beginnings of the mission in Livonia (= lectures and research. Vol. 37). Thorbecke, Sigmaringen 1989, ISBN 3-7995-6697-X .
  • The Russian Revolution in 1917. From the abdication of the Tsar to the coup d'état of the Bolsheviks (= German vol. 2903). 6th edition. Deutscher Taschenbuch-Verlag, Munich 1987, ISBN 3-423-02903-X .

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Remarks

  1. ^ Anne Christine Nagel: In the shadow of the Third Reich. Medieval research in the Federal Republic of Germany 1945–1970. Göttingen 2005, p. 38.
personal data
SURNAME Hellmann, Manfred
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian
DATE OF BIRTH June 24, 1912
PLACE OF BIRTH Riga
DATE OF DEATH June 12, 1992
Place of death Munich