Max Lehmann (historian)

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Max Lehmann (born May 19, 1845 in Berlin , † October 8, 1929 in Göttingen ) was a German historian and university professor .

Life

Lehmann studied first classical philology and then history in Königsberg , Bonn and Berlin . As a student of Leopold von Ranke, he is one of the Neorankians , similar to Max Lenz and Erich Marcks . In 1879 he taught at the Berlin Military Academy , and he also worked in the archive service. A year later he was appointed professor of history at the Philipps University in Marburg and, in 1892, full professor in Leipzig . In 1893 he became professor of medieval and modern history at the Georg-August University in Göttingen .

Lehmann dealt with Martin Luther in some studies . He opposed the creation of legends in historiography. He believed that politics and history have no more dangerous enemy than chauvinism . He was a critic of Wilhelmine imperialism and later an advocate of the Weimar constitution .

Lehmann was mostly polemical and was called a conservative hot spur. He had been a full member of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences since 1893 : after the election of Cardinal Kopp from Breslau in 1902 he resigned, but in 1914 he became a full member again. In 1887 he was accepted into the Prussian Academy of Sciences . The introduction of the first volumes of his edited work Prussia and the Catholic Church gave the Center Party cause for sharp criticism. Due to the intervention by Otto von Bismarck and Heinrich von Sybel , which made the series possible, he decided not to include an introduction in the following volumes.

For his work on Freiherr vom Stein , Lehmann received honorary doctorates from the law faculty of the University of Giessen and the theological faculty of the University of Berlin.

In 1889 he received the Verdun Prize .

In 1919 Lehmann was one of the six German-speaking first signatories of a pacifist declaration of independence of the spirit , alongside Albert Einstein , Hermann Hesse , Georg Friedrich Nicolai and Heinrich Mann and the initiator Wilhelm Herzog .

Fonts

  • The contingent for Otto II's military expedition to Italy. 1869.
  • The war from 1870 to the enclosure of Metz. 1873.
  • Knesebeck and Schön. Contributions to the history of the wars of freedom. 1875.
  • Stein, Scharnhorst and Schön. 1877.
  • Scharnhorst. 1886-1887.
  • Frederick the Great. 1894.
  • Freiherr vom Stein. 1902-1905.
  • Historical essays and speeches. 1911.
  • The survey of 1813. 1913.
as editor
  • Prussia and the Catholic Church since 1640. Until 1897 according to the acts of the secret state archive. Hirzel-Verlag, Leipzig 1893.

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Holger Krahnke: The members of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen 1751-2001 (= Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Philological-Historical Class. Volume 3, Vol. 246 = Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Mathematical-Physical Class. Episode 3, vol. 50). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2001, ISBN 3-525-82516-1 , p. 148.
  2. ↑ Literary Review , July 7, 2014
personal data
SURNAME Lehmann, Max
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Lehmann, Max Ludwig Eduard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH May 19, 1845
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH October 8, 1929
Place of death Goettingen