Martin Philippson

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Martin Emanuel Philippson (born June 27, 1846 in Magdeburg , † August 2, 1916 in Berlin ) was a German historian .

Life

Philippson was the son of the rabbi Ludwig Philippson and the brother of the geographer Alfred Philippson . After graduating from high school in his hometown, Philippson began to study history at the University of Bonn . He later switched to the same subject at the University of Berlin , where he completed his studies with a doctorate.

He then went back to Bonn as a private lecturer and was able to complete his habilitation there in 1871 at the age of 25. Four years later he was appointed associate professor. As a Jew, he was denied an appointment to a German professorship in Germany, so that in 1878 he accepted a position at the Free University of Brussels ( Université libre de Bruxelles ). There he taught as a full professor of history.

He contributed the two volumes Western Europe in the Age of Philip II, Elisabeth and Heinrich IV (1882) and The Age of Ludwig the Fourteenth (1879) to the renowned book series General History in Individual Representations published by the historian Wilhelm Oncken .

In 1890, Philippson was unanimously elected as rector of the Free University of Brussels by the general assembly of professors. Internal university and ideology-laden tensions caused him difficulties, especially with the student body, who rejected him as rector. For these democratic and liberal-progressive youth, Philippson was considered too conservative. After riots by the students, where individual anti-German sentences could be pronounced, he decided to give up his office voluntarily and also withdrew from his duties as a professor. 1891 Philippson settled in Berlin and worked from then on as a freelance academic writer.

In Berlin, Philippson helped found the Society for the Advancement of the Science of Judaism (1902). From 1896 to 1904 he was president of the German-Israelitic Association of Communities and promoted its recognition as a legal personality . He was a board member of the Association of Associations for Jewish History and Literature and was also elected to the board of the Association of German Jews in 1904 when it was founded .

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Philippson was married to Ida Ephraim (1855-1940). His grave is in the Jewish cemetery in Berlin-Weißensee .

Fonts

  • The age of Louis the Fourteenth. Grote, Berlin 1879 (= general history in individual representations ).
  • History of the Prussian state from the death of Frederick the Great to the Wars of Freedom. 2 vols. Leipzig 1880–1882.
  • Western Europe in the age of Philip II, Elisabeth and Heinrich IV. Grote, Berlin 1882 (= general history in individual representations ).
  • The Great Elector Friedrich Wilhelm of Brandenburg . 3 volumes. Cronbach, Berlin 1897–1903. New edition: Salzwasser Verlag, Paderborn 2012, ISBN 978-3-86382-637-6 .
  • Latest history of the Jewish people. 3 vols. Fock, Leipzig 1907–1911.
  • History of the Thirty Years War. (= Illustrated General World History , Volume XII). Historischer Verlag Baumgärtel, Berlin undated [1913].

literature

  • Johanna Philippson: "The Philippsons, a German-Jewish Family 1775-1933". In: Leo Baeck Institute Yearbook 7 (1962), pp. 95-118 (English).
  • German Literature Lexicon . 3. Edition. 1988. Volume 11, Col. 1258 f. (with detailed bibliography).
  • Astrid Mehmel:  Philippson, Martin Emanuel. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 20, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-428-00201-6 , p. 398 f. ( Digitized version ).
  • Philippson, Martin. In: Lexicon of German-Jewish Authors . Volume 18: Phil – Samu. Edited by the Bibliographia Judaica archive. De Gruyter, Berlin a. a. 2010, ISBN 978-3-598-22698-4 , pp. 27-34.
  • Geneviève Warland: The German-Jewish historian Martin Philippson (1846 to 1916). Science mediator between Germany and Belgium. In: Sebastian Bischoff, Christoph Jahr , Jens Thiel, Tatjana Mrowka (eds.): Belgica - terra incognita? Results and perspectives of historical Belgium research. (= Historical Belgium Research. Volume 1). Waxmann Verlag, Münster / New York 2016, ISBN 978-3-8309-3396-0 , pp. 56-67.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Geneviève Warland: The German-Jewish historian Martin Philippson (1846 to 1916). Science mediator between Germany and Belgium . In: Sebastian Bischoff, Christoph Jahr, Jens Thiel, Tatjana Mrowka (eds.): Belgica - terra incognita? Results and perspectives of historical research on Belgium (=  historical research on Belgium ). tape 1 . Waxmann Verlag, Münster / New York 2016, ISBN 978-3-8309-3396-0 , pp. 56-57 .
personal data
SURNAME Philippson, Martin
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Philippson, Martin Emanuel (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian
DATE OF BIRTH June 27, 1846
PLACE OF BIRTH Magdeburg
DATE OF DEATH August 2, 1916
Place of death Berlin