Marcel Beck

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Marcel Beck (born April 16, 1908 in Bogotá , † February 17, 1986 in Winterthur ) was a Swiss historian .

The Colombian- born son of a foreign merchant graduated from high school in Winterthur and then studied general history, church history and Latin in Zurich , Geneva and Munich . In 1932 he received his doctorate under Karl Meyer on the patronage of the oldest country churches in the archdeaconate Zurichgau . From 1933 onwards, he was an apprentice and student: until 1935 at the Monumenta Germaniae Historica in Berlin as an employee of Paul Fridolin Kehr and from 1935 to 1937 at the Alemannic Institute in Freiburg im Breisgau , where he was an employee of Theodor Mayer . The two research stays were reflected in a study of Switzerland in the political power play of the Merovingian , Carolingian and Ottonian empires, which made him known as a historian in the professional world. In the era of National Socialism Beck in 1937 went to Switzerland. In Bern, he worked at the regional library . Without a habilitation , he was appointed to the University of Zurich in 1947, where he succeeded Karl Meyer as professor for the history of the Middle Ages. Beck pointed new ways in the research of the early history of the Swiss Confederation and criticized the Swiss historical myths . Since 1948 he was also a full member of the central management of the Monumenta Germaniae Historica.

In addition to his academic career, Beck pursued a career as a politician in the Democratic Party . From 1955 to 1963 he was a member of the Cantonal Council of Zurich and from 1964 to 1967 of the National Council . From 1963 to 1965 he headed the Zurich Cantonal Democratic Party. In the National Council elections in 1967 , Beck, who was now non-attached, stood on his own "list for free speech in parliament", but did not manage to be re-elected.

Fonts

  • The patronage of the oldest regional churches in the archdeaconate Zürichgau. Zurich 1933.
  • Anatolia. Thoughts and observations from trips to the Levant. Zurich 1956.
  • Koenigsfelden. History, buildings, glass paintings, art treasures. Olten 1970, ISBN 3-530-46501-1 .
  • Legend, Myth and History. Switzerland and the European Middle Ages. [Collected writings.] Frauenfeld 1978. ISBN 3-7193-0596-1 . (with list of publications, pp. 295–341.)
  • Wilhelm Tell: legend or history? In: German Archive for Research into the Middle Ages , Vol. 36, 1980, pp. 1–24.

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Remarks

  1. ^ Franz Quarthal: The Alemannic Institute from its foundation to the end of the Second World War. In: The Alemannic Institute. 75 Years of Cross-Border Communication and Research (1931–2006) , ed. from the Alemannic Institute Freiburg i. Br. E. V. (Publication by the Alemannisches Institut Freiburg i.Br. 75), Freiburg / Munich 2007, pp. 47–96, here: p. 63.
  2. ↑ Bundesblatt 1967, p. 1066, available at http://www.amtsdruckschriften.bar.admin.ch/
personal data
SURNAME Beck, Marcel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss historian
DATE OF BIRTH April 16, 1908
PLACE OF BIRTH Bogotá
DATE OF DEATH February 17, 1986
Place of death Winterthur