Manfred Straube

Manfred Straube (born May 26, 1930 in Halle (Saale) ) is a German historian .

After graduating from high school in 1949, Straube studied general history, art history, German and pedagogy at the Friedrich Schiller University in Jena until 1950 and at the Ernst Moritz Arndt University in Greifswald from 1950 to 1953 . In 1953 he passed the diploma examination for history. From 1954 to 1961 he worked as a research assistant at the Historical Institute of the University of Greifswald . In 1963 he received his doctorate under Johannes Schildhauer and Max Steinmetz on the efforts to reform the empire in the years 1437–1439 and the demands of the so-called Sigismundi Reformation to reorganize the empire .

From 1962 to 1972 Straube was senior research assistant at the Pedagogical Institute in Leipzig . In 1967 he took over the management of the German History Department at the Department of History there. In 1969 he received the Facultas Docendi for German history of the Middle Ages and the early modern period. From 1972 to 1985 he was a lecturer in history in Leipzig. In July 1981 he received his PhD B with a thesis on the supra-regional and regional movement of goods in the Thuringian-Saxon area, primarily in the first half of the 16th century . In 1985, Straube became a full professor for the history of the Middle Ages and the early modern period at the University of Education in Leipzig. After the transfer of the University of Education to the University of Leipzig , he held the chair there from 1992 to 1995. At the same time he was a professor for the regional history of Saxony-Anhalt at the Martin Luther University in Halle-Wittenberg . In 1995 he retired.

Straube's main research interests are the commercial, economic and social history of the late Middle Ages and the early modern period as well as the history of German universities and colleges. He is chairman of the jury for the award of the original Krostitzer annual ring .

literature

• Lothar Mertens : Lexicon of the GDR historians. Biographies and bibliographies on the historians from the German Democratic Republic. Saur, Munich 2006, ISBN 3-598-11673-X , pp. 586-587.
• Hartmut Zwahr (Ed.): Leipzig, Central Germany and Europe. Festival ceremony for Manfred Staube and Manfred Unger on their 70th birthday , Sax-Verlag, Beucha 2000

Web links

• Literature by and about Manfred Straube in the catalog of the German National Library
• Literature by and about Manfred Straube in the Saxon Bibliography