Oskar Koehler

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Oskar Köhler (born June 23, 1909 in Karlsruhe ; † September 16, 1996 there ) was a German Catholic historian, particularly interested in the Middle Ages.

Life

After studying in Freiburg (Brsg.), He received his doctorate in 1935 under the "Reform Catholic" Philipp Funk on The Image of the Spiritual Prince in the Vites of the 10th, 11th and 12th centuries . As belonging to any political party, he was in the DC circuit of the press successor of the chief editor of the Black Forest messenger (Rottweil), but after a year due to lack of "political reliability" was released. Köhler was a member of the " Freiburg Circle " around Karl Färber and the Federation of New Germany . As for many others, a satisfactory advancement in the learned profession was now impossible. He became an insurance agent in Ulm. During the Second World War he was employed in Mittensee near Posen as a personnel manager at the armaments company Deutsche Waffen- und Munitionsfabriken (DWM), a very difficult position given the circumstances with a majority of Polish employees.

After the end of the Second World War he headed the Catholic Education Center in Ulm. From 1948 he worked at the Freiburg publishing house Herder as a history editor. In 1951 he became editor-in-chief for the humanities, in 1957 director of the publishing house's lexicographical institute, as which he was able to implement important projects (including the second edition of the Lexicon for Theology and Church (LThK 2 ), Handbuch der Kirchengeschichte , Saeculum-Weltgeschichte ). In 1963 he was appointed honorary professor for universal history by the University of Freiburg im Breisgau.

In addition to the large number of his publications as monographs, in journals and encyclopedias, the founding of the magazine Saeculum (1950), the "Research Center for World Civilizations" (1960 together with the political scientist Arnold Bergstraesser ) and the "Institute for Historical Anthropology" (1975 in connection with the magazine Saeculum and the Saeculum world history ) as special achievements.

Publications (selection)

  • [published under the pseudonym Thomas Urban]: Herder's little world history: The way of mankind. Herder, Freiburg i. Br./ Basel / Vienna 1957.
  • Disturbances in consciousness in Catholicism. Knecht, Frankfurt a. M. 1972, ISBN 3-7820-0248-3 .
  • Little story of faith. Christianity in the changing times of the world. Herder, Freiburg i. Br. U. a. 1982, ISBN 3-451-07987-9 .
  • The sense and nonsense of history. Herder, Freiburg i. Br. 1985. ( Christian Faith in Modern Society Part 34 = Quellenbd. 4)
  • Attempt at a “historical anthropology”. In: Saeculum. 25, 1974, pp. 129-246.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Cf. Gunnar Anger:  Köhler, Oskar. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 25, Bautz, Nordhausen 2005, ISBN 3-88309-332-7 , Sp. 698-707.
  2. ↑ Cf. Gunnar Anger:  Köhler, Oskar. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 25, Bautz, Nordhausen 2005, ISBN 3-88309-332-7 , Sp. 698-707.
  3. ↑ See Jochen Martin: Köhler, Oskar. In: LThK 3 vol. 6, p. 170.
  4. ↑ Cf. Jochen Martin: The Institute for Historical Anthropology . (PDF; 916 kB)
  5. ↑ Cf. Gunnar Anger:  Köhler, Oskar. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 25, Bautz, Nordhausen 2005, ISBN 3-88309-332-7 , Sp. 698-707.
personal data
SURNAME Koehler, Oskar
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Urban, Thomas (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian
DATE OF BIRTH June 23, 1909
PLACE OF BIRTH Karlsruhe
DATE OF DEATH September 16, 1996
Place of death Karlsruhe