Manfred Neuhaus

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Manfred Neuhaus (born November 16, 1946 in Michelsdorf ) is a German historian who is best known as an edition philologist at the Marx-Engels Complete Edition (MEGA).

Life

After attending the polytechnic high school in Lehnin , Neuhaus attended the “ Thomas Müntzer ” advanced high school in Ziesar from 1961 to 1965 and, at the same time, completed a skilled worker training to become an agricultural machinery tractor fitter.

From 1965 to 1969 Neuhaus studied history and philosophy ( Marxism-Leninism ) at the Karl Marx University Leipzig (KMU ). After completing his studies, he took up a position as a research assistant in the history of the German labor movement and the German people. There he graduated as a teacher for Marxism-Leninism in 1970 . In the SED district management of the SMEs he was head of department from 1973 before he became senior scientific assistant at the history section in 1976 and took over the management of the editing project for the Marx-Engels Complete Edition . On the subject of the social and political background for Marx's first public statement on communism and Proudhon's contribution to the development of social thought at the beginning of the 1840s , he received his doctorate in 1982 . His PhD B to Dr. sc. phil. he graduated in 1986 on the topic of results and methods of historical-critical Marx-Engels-Edition and the application of computer-aided information processing (shown in MEGA volume I / 13) .

In 1987 Neuhaus was appointed full professor for the history of the German labor movement and edition science at the Franz-Mehring-Institut der KMU. In 1989 he campaigned for Helmut Hirsch to be awarded a doctorate , which he received on January 31, 1989. On October 7, 1989, he took part in an attempt by five Leipzig professors to prevent violence against the Leipzig Monday demonstrations . After reunification , he briefly held the professorship for edition science, which was dissolved in 1992 without replacement.

After an intermezzo as a research assistant in the coordination and development initiative for research in the states of Berlin, Brandenburg, Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, Saxony, Saxony-Anhalt and Thuringia (KAI), he started working on the edition of the writings of Karl Marx and Friedrich in 1995 Engels again. At first he became a research assistant and in 1998 he was head of the department at the compilation of the Marx-Engels Complete Edition, now at the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences . He has been retired since 2011.

Neuhaus was a founding member of the Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung Sachsen , which he chaired from 1992 to 1998. He has been a member of the Foundation's Scientific Advisory Board since 2003. Since 1998 he has been a member of the Leibniz Society for Sciences in Berlin and since 2000 secretary of the International Marx-Engels Foundation in Amsterdam .

Honors

Publications (selection)

  • Manfred Neuhaus, Giesela Neuhaus: Notes on the history of the impact of the " New York Tribune " journalism by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels. In: Contributions to Marx-Engels research. 3, Berlin 1978, pp. 45-55. (Digitized version)
  • Giesela Neuhaus, Manfred Neuhaus, Klaus-Dieter Neumann: Were the years 1854 to 1856 lost years for the history of Marxist political economy? (Thoughts on the profile and the conceptual problems of working on the MEGA 2 - Volume I / 13). In: Hallesche worksheets on Marx-Engels research. Issue 9. Halle, 1979, pp. 19–35.
  • Conceptual problems and reserves of effectiveness in the editing of the New York Daily Tribune journalism by Marx and Engels. In: Contributions to Marx-Engels research. 6, Berlin 1980, pp. 121-126. (Digitized version)
  • To the contribution of the historical-critical Marx-Engels-Gesamtausgabe (MEGA) for research into the history of the social sciences. In: Scientific journal Karl Marx University Leipzig. Social and Linguistic Series, Vol. 29, 1980, Issue 3, pp. 369-375.
  • Giesela Neuhaus, Manfred Neuhaus: Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels as foreign correspondents for the most influential progressive bourgeois newspaper on the eve of the North American civil war. On the history of the collaboration of the classics of Marxism in the "New York Tribune". In: Marx-Engels research reports. Issue 1. Leipzig 1981, pp. 12-67.
  • (Ed.): Marx-Engels research reports . Issue 1–6. Karl Marx University. Leipzig 1981–1990.
  • The social and political background for Marx's first public statement on communism and Proudhon's contribution to the development of social thought in the early 1840s . Leipzig 1981.
  • Proudhon, Pierre-Joseph. In: Erhard Lange , Dietrich Alexander (Hrsg.): Philosophenlexikon. Dietz Verlag, Berlin 1982, pp. 769-773.
  • Hans-Jürgen Bochinski, Manfred Neuhaus: Marx and Engels and the "New-York Tribune". On the creation and character of the newspaper as well as on the collaboration of Marx and Engels 1853. In: Marx-Engels-Jahrbuch . 5. Dietz Verlag, Berlin 1982, pp. 215-256.
  • Manfred Neuhaus, Karl-Frieder Grube: An unknown work by Karl Marx from the "New-York Tribune". The ninth article in the series "Revolutionary Spain". In: Contributions to the history of the labor movement. Dietz Verlag, Berlin 26th year 1984, issue 4, pp. 478-490. ISSN  0005-8068
  • Karl Marx Friedrich Engels Complete Edition (MEGA) First section. Works article designs . Volume 13. Karl Marx Friedrich Engels. Works article drafts January to December 1854 . Editing of the volume Manfred Neuhaus (head). Dietz Verlag, Berlin 1985, ISBN 3-05-003357-6 .
  • Karl-Frieder Grube, Giesela and Manfred Neuhaus, Klaus-Dieter Neumann: Karl Marx 'studies on the history of diplomacy, the oriental question and the bourgeois revolutionary cycle in Spain. Structure, content and main problems of the editorial work on MEGA volume IV / 12 (theses). In: Contributions to Marx-Engels research. 22, Berlin 1987, pp. 218-224.
  • Results and methods of the historical-critical Marx-Engels edition and the application of computer-aided information processing (shown in MEGA volume I / 13) . Leipzig 1988.
  • A key to the treasury of our theory and worldview. For the publication of volumes 1-10 of the Marx-Engels-Jahrbuch. In: Contributions to Marx-Engels research. 25. Berlin 1988, pp. 284-295.
  • Robert Anthony Fenn. In: MEGA Studies 1994/1. Dietz Verlag, Berlin 1994, ISBN 3-320-01826-4 , pp. 178-179.
  • "If someone consciously put his head out ..." Contributions to the work and work of Walter Markov . Edited by Manfred Neuhaus and Helmut Seidel in conjunction with Gerald Diesener and Matthias Middell. Rosa Luxemburg Association, Leipzig 1995.
  • Günter Reimann , Herbert Wehner , Between Two Epochs. Letters 1946 . Edited by Claus Baumgart and Manfred Neuhaus. With a foreword by Hermann Weber . Gustav Kiepenheuer Verlag, Leipzig 1998, ISBN 3-378-01029-0 .
  • Karl Marx Friedrich Engels Complete Edition (MEGA) First section. Works article designs . Volume 14. Edited by the International Marx-Engels Foundation, Amsterdam. Karl Marx Friedrich Engels. Works article drafts January to December 1855 . Text edited by Hans-Jürgen Bochinski and Martin Hundt . With the participation of Ute Emmrich and Manfred Neuhaus. Akademie Verlag, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-05-003610-9 .
  • Gerald Hubmann , Herfried Münkler , Manfred Neuhaus: "... it depends on changing them". For the resumption of the Marx-Engels Complete Edition (MEGA). In: German magazine for philosophy . 49 (2001), No. 2, pp. 299-311.
  • Jürgen Herres , Manfred Neuhaus (ed.): Political networks through letter communication. Letter culture of the political opposition movements and early labor movements in the 19th century. (= Reports and treatises. Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences. Special volume). Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 2002, ISBN 3-05-003688-5 .
  • Greetings. In: In Memoriam Wolfgang Jahn . Argument, Hamburg 2002, ISBN 3-88619-649-6 , p. 6. (digitized version)
  • Manfred Neuhaus, Helmut Seidel (ed.): University on the move - Leipzig 1945–1956. Contributions to the Seventh Walter Markov Colloquium . Rosa Luxemburg Foundation Saxony, Leipzig 2002, ISBN 3-89819-102-8 .
  • Ships and fortresses. Friedrich Engels as a military theorist. In: On the arduous search and the happy finding / Colloquium on the occasion of the 75th birthday of Prof. Dr. Heinrich Gemkow on June 28, 2003 in Berlin . Helle Panke, Berlin 2003. Issue 1, pp. 40–45.
  • Hans-Peter Harstick , Manfred Neuhaus: Clausewitz and Marx. An archival review. In: Helmut Bleiber (Hrsg.): Revolution and Reform in Germany in the 19th and 20th centuries. For Walter Schmidt's 75th birthday. Volume 2. Trafo-Verlag, Berlin 2005, ISBN 3-89626-532-6 , pp. 129-150.
  • Karl Marx Friedrich Engels Complete Edition (MEGA) Fourth section. Excerpts, notes, marginalia . Volume 12.Excerpts and Notes, September 1853 to January 1855 . Edited by Manfred Neuhaus and Claudia Reichel. With the participation of Karl-Frieder Grube. Akademie Verlag, Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-05-003488-1 .
  • Giesela Neuhaus, Manfred Neuhaus (Red.): In Memoriam Helmut Seidel. Leipzig 2008.
  • Classics among classics - history, edition-philological principles and perspectives of the Marx-Engels Complete Edition (MEGA). In: German Philosophy and its Documents and Texts. Beijing 2009, pp. 54-63.
  • Karl Marx Friedrich Engels Complete Edition (MEGA) Fourth section. Excerpts, notes, marginalia . Volume 26. Karl Marx Excerpts and Notes on Geology, Mineralogy and Agricultural Chemistry. March to September 1878 . Edited by Anneliese Griese, Peter Krüger and Richard Sperl . With the participation of Peter Jäckel, Daniel Neuhaus, Manfred Neuhaus and Gerd Pawelzig. Akademie Verlag, Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-05-004673-0 .
  • Marx as the European correspondent of the “New York Tribune”. Testimonials and topics. In: Z. Zeitschrift Marxistische Renewal . Frankfurt am Main 2011, pp. 129-136. ISSN  0940-0648
  • The sky-strikers from the Seine. The Paris Commune was proclaimed 140 years ago. Spontaneous government of the people by the people. In: Rainer Holze (Hrsg.): Basic democracy and workers' movement. Günter Benser on his 80th birthday. Karl Dietz Verlag, 2012, ISBN 978-3-320-02272-3 , pp. 81-83.
  • On the status of work on the Marx-Engels Complete Edition (lecture Leibniz Sozietät 2012 online)
  • “Terrible Missile” and “Triumph of German Science” - comments on the history of the impact of the first “Capital” volume. In: Dieter Janke, Jürgen Leibiger, Manfred Neuhaus (eds.): Marx's “Capital” in the 21st century. Contributions to the colloquium on May 6, 2017 in Leipzig . Rosa Luxemburg Foundation Saxony, Leipzig 2017, ISBN 978-3-947176-01-4 , pp. 21–34.
  • “… Finally portrayed once with coarse Rembrandt colors”: Marx's life and work in biography - attempt to take stock of the bicentenary. In: Communications sponsorship group archives and libraries on the history of the labor movement. No. 56 September 2019, Berlin 2019, pp. 36–51. ISSN  1869-3709

literature

  • Herfried Münkler : Commission Marx-Engels Complete Edition. In: Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences. Yearbook 2010. Akademie Verlag, Berlin 2011, pp. 443–448. Partly digitized

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ “The historic year 1989 began at the Karl Marx University in Leipzig with an academic bang, which was also noticed in the other German state. On January 31, the doctoral certificate was presented to a doctoral student for the first time in German intellectual history, 56 years late. […] In an interview that appeared almost three years later in Neues Deutschland, Hirsch described the honor, which the Leipzig history professors Hans Jürgen Friederici and Manfred Neuhaus had designed with great diplomatic skill, as' a very moving, unforgettable situation, a highlight of my life and especially my return migration '. “( Volker Külow : History made.' Zeitgeist, I have no great respect for you '. An obituary for the historian Helmut Hirsch, who died in January. In: Junge Welt. February 2, 2009. (ag-friedensforschung.de) )
  2. ↑ Volker Külow: Awarding of the doctoral certificate to Prof. Dr. Helmut Hirsch. In: Marx-Engels research reports. (6), Leipzig 1990, pp. 181-183. (Digitized version)
  3. ↑ "Five professors, the philosopher Okun, the historian Manfred Neuhaus, the sociologist Kurt Starke and the two economists Peter Hofmann and Peter Held, went to the SED district secretary Roland Wötzel that morning and informed him that no one was behind at the university a use of state power against the demonstration would stand. The scientists were ready to face the restless spirits for a dialogue. ”In: No God saves us Spiegel editor Ariane Barth about the Leipzig University. In: Der Spiegel . 50/89 of December 11, 1989
  4. ↑ Halfway through the MEGA: Balance and Perspectives , in: Journal Marxistische Erneuerung No. 85, March 2011.
  5. ↑ Doctorate to Dr. phil. 1981 in History of the German Labor Movement at the Karl Marx University in Leipzig.
  6. ↑ Doctorate to Dr. sc. phil. in the history of the German labor movement at the Karl Marx University in Leipzig.
personal data
SURNAME Neuhaus, Manfred
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian
DATE OF BIRTH November 16, 1946
PLACE OF BIRTH Michelsdorf