Otto Brandt (historian)

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Otto Brandt (born August 26, 1892 in Heidelberg , † January 16, 1935 in Erlangen ) was a German historian.

Life

Brandt's father Samuel (1848–1938) was a classical philologist, teacher and Privy Councilor in Heidelberg. Brandt studied at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich , the Sorbonne , the Friedrich Wilhelms University in Berlin and the Ruprecht Karls University in Heidelberg . In 1916 he was promoted to Dr. phil. PhD. His teachers included Max Lenz and Hermann Oncken . After receiving his doctorate, he was a teacher at a secondary school and a grammar school in Heidelberg until 1919. In 1919 he completed his habilitation at the Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel through August Wilhelm Schlegel . His habilitation thesis also appeared as a book. In 1920 he became a private lecturer in Kiel and from 1924 was given a teaching position for Western European history. Brandt mainly dealt with the history of Schleswig-Holstein in the 18th century. He wrote biographies of Caspar von Saldern and Heinrich Rantzau . Its history in Schleswig-Holstein was reissued into the 1980s.

In 1928 he became a planned associate professor at the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen for middle and modern history. With his colleague Bernhard Schmeidler (Professor of Medieval and Modern History), Friedrich Maurer (Professor of German Studies) and Robert Gradmann (Professor of Geography), he founded the Institute for Franconian Research at the University of Erlangen on April 1, 1933 . In 1934 he took over the newly established professorship for modern history. Since May 1, 1933, a member of the National Socialist German Workers' Party , Brandt was appointed deputy dean of the Philosophical Faculty by Johannes Reinmöller , the leader of the University of Erlangen, after the restructuring of higher education by the NSDAP .

In 1931 Brandt was accepted into the Royal Danish Academy of Patriotic History and Language. He also wrote school books and founded the Handbook of German History , which was continued by Leo Just and Arnold Oskar Meyer . He died at the age of 43.

Fonts

  • History of Schleswig-Holstein. Ein Grundriss , Kiel, Mühlau, 1925, 2nd edition 1926, 1935, 4th edition Mühlau, Kiel 1949, 7th edition 1976 (with contribution by Herbert Jankuhn, edited and expanded by Wilhelm Klüver ), 1981.
  • Spiritual life and politics in Schleswig-Holstein at the turn of the 18th century . DVA, Stuttgart 1924, 2nd edition. Mühlau, Kiel 1927, Reprint Mühlau, 1981.
2nd edition digitized , Bayerische Staatsbibliothek
  • Heinrich Rantzau and his relations to the Danish kings . R. Oldenbourg Verlag 1927.
  • Caspar von Saldern and Northern European Politics in the Age of Catherine II. Erlangen, and Mühlau, Kiel, 1932.
  • Sweden's struggle for freedom under Gustav Wasa . H. Beyer, Langensalza 1931.
  • On the prehistory of the Schleswig-Holstein elevation . 1927.
  • August Wilhelm Schlegel . German publishing company 1919.
  • Schleswig-Holstein's history and life in maps and pictures. A Nordmark Atlas . Altona 1928.

Talk

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  • Personnel file in the University Archives Erlangen

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Dissertation: England and Napoleonic World Policy 1801–1803 .
  2. ^ Athenaion, Berlin, 1935, 2nd edition from 1957
personal data
SURNAME Brandt, Otto
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian
DATE OF BIRTH August 26, 1892
PLACE OF BIRTH Heidelberg
DATE OF DEATH January 16, 1935
Place of death gain