Mathias Bernath

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Mathias Bernath (born October 11, 1920 in Segenthau , Romania ; died October 10, 2013 in Dießen am Ammersee ) was a German Southeast European historian.

Life

Mathias Bernath was born in the German population of the Banat . He spoke German, Romanian, Hungarian and Serbian. He graduated from high school in 1939 at the Moise Nicoară Lyceum in Arad . In 1942 he studied history and Romance languages ​​in Berlin. After the end of the Second World War he came to the French Zone as a displaced person and studied history at the University of Mainz , where he received his doctorate in 1951 on the subject of "Nassau's foreign policy 1805-1812". He worked for the Agence France-Presse in Bonn and had been a scholarship holder and then as an assistant to the old Russian historian Werner Philipp at the Free University of Berlin since 1953 .

In 1960, as the successor to the late Fritz Valjavec, Bernath became director of the Southeast Institute and editor of the publications of the Institute for Research on German Ethnicity in the South and Southeast in Munich and the Institute for East Bavarian Homeland Research in Passau. The periodicals Südost-Forschungen and Südosteuropa were also published by him until 1990.

In 1971, Bernath was appointed to the newly established professorship for Southeast European History at the Free University of Berlin and held the chair until 1986 in addition to his obligations in Munich. Bernath died at his place of residence on the Ammersee .

Fonts (selection)

  • Nassau's foreign policy 1805–1812 . In: Nassauische Annalen 63, 1952, pp. 106–191 (= dissertation from 1951, University of Mainz).
  • Biographical lexicon on the history of Southeast Europe . 4 volumes. Oldenbourg, Munich 1974–1981 ( online version )
  • Historical book studies of Southeast Europe. Middle Ages. Byzantium, Bulgaria, Serbia, Albanians, Slovenes, Hungarians, Croatia, Ragusa, Bosnia, Romania. Volume 1 . Oldenbourg, Munich 1978-2002, ISBN 3-486-48591-1 (part 1)
  • Habsburg and the beginnings of the Romanian nation building . EJ Brill, Leiden 1972 (habilitation thesis)

literature

  • Karl Nehring: Southeast Institute Munich: 1930–1990. Mathias Bernath on his 70th birthday . Oldenbourg, Munich 1990

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Stefan Troebst : Southeast European history as a separate discipline (PDF; 162 kB), in: Südosteuropean Hefte 1 (2) 2011, pp. 19–23
  2. ^ Parte in the Süddeutsche Zeitung, October 26, 2013, p. 18
personal data
SURNAME Bernath, Mathias
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Southeast European historian
DATE OF BIRTH October 11, 1920
PLACE OF BIRTH Segenthau , Romania
DATE OF DEATH October 10th, 2013
Place of death Dießen am Ammersee