Peter Baumgart

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Peter Baumgart (born September 7, 1931 in Berlin ) is a German historian .

Peter Baumgart went to the Clausewitz School and later to the Schillergymnasium in Berlin, before studying history , English , philosophy and Latin at the Free University of Berlin from 1949 . He received his doctorate from the Free University of Berlin in 1956 with a thesis on Zinzendorf's historical thinking , supervised by Carl Hinrichs . He was Hinrichs' scientific assistant at the Friedrich Meinecke Institute and completed his habilitation in 1964 at the former Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel University of Helmstedt . The habilitation thesis remained unpublished. In 1964 he became a private lecturer, later a university lecturer at the Philosophical Faculty of the Free University of Berlin. From 1967, until his retirement, Baumgart taught as a full professor of modern history at the University of Würzburg . He became chairman of the commission for the history of the Bavarian Julius Maximilians University and head of the university archive .

His main research interests are the educational and university history of the early modern period and the history of Prussia and its provinces. He is considered an expert on (Brandenburg-) Prussian statehood and culture. He wrote a portrait of the " Soldier King " in the anthology about Prussia's rulers.

On the occasion of his 75th birthday, the numerous contributions on the history of universities in the denominational age that were published between 1961 and 1994 were published collectively.

He is a member of the executive board of the Prussian Historical Commission and the Historical Commission for Silesia .

Fonts (selection)

Monographs

  • Zinzendorf as a pioneer of historical thinking (= historical studies . H. 381). Matthiesen, Lübeck et al. 1960. (also dissertation under the title Spiritualism and Pietism near Zinzendorf as pioneers of historical thought , FU Berlin)
  • Universities in the Denominational Age. Collected Posts. Aschendorff, Münster 2006, ISBN 978-3-402-03817-8 .
  • Brandenburg-Prussia under the Ancien Régime. Selected treatises. Edited by Frank-Lothar Kroll , Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2009, ISBN 978-3-428-12827-3 .

Editorships

  • Education policy in Prussia at the time of the empire (= Prussia in history . Vol. 1). Klett-Cotta, Stuttgart 1980, ISBN 3-12-914110-3 .
  • Four hundred years of the University of Würzburg. A Festschrift (= sources and contributions to the history of the University of Würzburg . Vol. 6). Commissioned by the Bavarian Julius Maximilians University, Degener, Neustadt an der Aisch 1982, ISBN 3-7686-9062-8 .
  • Classes and state formation in Brandenburg-Prussia. Results of an international conference (= Studies presented to the International Commission for the History of Representative and Parliamentary Institutions . 66). With an introduction by Otto Büsch, de Gruyter, Berlin et al. 1983, ISBN 3-11-009517-3 .
  • Expansion and integration. For the integration of newly acquired territories into the Prussian state (= New Research on Brandenburg-Prussian History . Vol. 5). Böhlau, Cologne et al. 1984, ISBN 3-412-06683-4 .
  • Continuity and change. Silesia between Austria and Prussia. Results of a symposium in Würzburg from October 29th to 31st, 1987 (= Schlesische Forschungen . Vol. 4). Thorbecke, Sigmaringen 1990, ISBN 3-7995-5854-3 .
  • Life pictures of important Würzburg professors (= sources and contributions to the history of the University of Würzburg . Vol. 8). Degener, Neustadt an der Aisch 1995, ISBN 3-7686-9137-3 .
  • Michael Ignaz Schmidt (1736–1794) in his time. The enlightened theologian, educational reformer and "historian of the Germans" from Franconia in a new perspective. Contributions to a symposium from October 27 to 29, 1994 in Würzburg (= sources and contributions to the history of the University of Würzburg . Vol. 9). Degener, Neustadt an der Aisch 1996, ISBN 3-7686-9143-8 .
  • The University of Würzburg in the crises of the first half of the 20th century. Biographical-systematic studies on their history between the First World War and the new beginning in 1945 (= sources and research on the history of the diocese and bishopric of Würzburg . Vol. 58). On behalf of the Commission for the History of the Bavarian Julius Maximilians University of Würzburg, Schöningh, Würzburg 2002, ISBN 3-87717-064-1 .
  • with Bernhard R. Kroener , Heinz Stübig : The Prussian Army between the Ancién Regime and the founding of an empire. Schöningh, Paderborn et al. 2008, ISBN 978-3-506-75660-2 .
  • Political correspondence of Frederick the Great . For the Prussian Historical Commission. Multi-volume, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1879 ff.

literature

  • Peter Herde , Anton Schindling (Ed.): Contributions to the history of education. Dedicated to Peter Baumgart on the occasion of his 65th birthday (= sources and research on the history of the diocese and bishopric of Würzburg . Vol. 53). Schöningh, Würzburg 1998, ISBN 3-87717-057-9 .
  • Baumgart, Peter , in: Friedhelm Golücke : Author's lexicon for student and university history. SH-Verlag, Cologne 2004, ISBN 3-89498-130-X . Pp. 28-30.

Web links

Remarks

  1. ↑ Peter Baumgart: Friedrich Wilhelm I. (1713-1740). In: Frank-Lothar Kroll (Ed.): Prussia's rulers. From the first Hohenzollern to Wilhelm II. Munich 2000, pp. 134–159.
  2. ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20141211000257/http://www.hiko-schlesien.de/?q=de/node/1
personal data
SURNAME Baumgart, Peter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian
DATE OF BIRTH September 7, 1931
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin