Peter Berglar

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Peter Berglar (also Hans-Peter Breda Berglar-Schröer ; born February 8, 1919 in Kassel , † November 10, 1989 in Cologne ) was a German doctor and historian .

Life

Peter Berglar was born as the son of the journalist and writer Paul Berglar (also Paul Heinrich Berglar-Schröer) and his wife Gertrud, b. Müller. After graduating from high school in 1937 at the humanistic Ludwig-Georgs-Gymnasium in Darmstadt , Berglar studied medicine at the Humboldt University in Berlin from 1939 . In 1944 he was at the Frankfurt Goethe University to Dr. med. PhD . From 1937 to 1946 he was a member of the Wehrmacht and during the Second World War he was a medical officer, also in front-line hospitals. In 1945 he was taken prisoner by the Americans in Italy. He began to write as a prisoner of war; after returning in 1946, he was editor for three years at the " Frankfurter Heften ", which were then edited by Walter Dirks and Eugen Kogon . He was also active as a lecturer at the Josef Knecht-Carolusdruckerei publishing house and was co-editor of the monthly magazine “The Pronunciation” (Mainz). From 1953 to 1966 he worked as a resident internist in Cologne, but continued to work as a writer of novels, essays and press articles.

In 1966, Berglar began studying history (with Theodor Schieder , among others ), German and Ibero-Latin American history. In 1969 he was at the University of Cologne with a dissertation on Walther Rathenau . His time, his work, his personality to become Dr. phil. PhD. After his habilitation in 1970, Berglar became an adjunct professor for Medieval and Modern History at the University of Cologne in 1971 .

He was married to Vera Zerelda, b. Merck (1927-2014); the marriage has four children. He was buried in the Melaten cemetery in Cologne .

Act

Peter Berglar became known as a writer and publicist, but also with many reviews and articles in magazines and newspapers. He published numerous works of fiction, essays and articles in scientific journals as well as biographies, etc. a. published by rowohlts monographs volumes "Annette von Droste-Hulshoff" (1967), "Matthias Claudius" (1972) and "Maria Theresia" (1980). Berglar conducted in-depth correspondence with the historians Carl Jacob Burckhardt and Golo Mann on current politics and the social problems of the young Federal Republic.

He was involved in numerous social projects in the Holy Land and was a member of the German Association of the Holy Land . In 1980 he was appointed Knight of the Order of the Knights of the Holy Sepulcher by Cardinal Grand Master Maximilien de Fürstenberg and invested in St. Paulus Cathedral in Münster on May 10, 1980 by Franz Hengsbach , Grand Prior of the Order . Most recently he was an officer in the Papal Lay Order.

Berglar was a representative of Christian conservatism and only converted to the Roman Catholic Church in 1942 due to his wartime experiences. He was one of the first German members of the Catholic lay organization Opus Dei . He had been in contact with Opus Dei since 1974 and in 1983 published a biography of the founder Josemaría Escrivá , canonized in 2002 , but whom he had never met personally.

For his biography of Thomas More he was honored by Pope John Paul II with the knighthood of the Order of St. Gregory the Great .

Fonts

  • Terra Nova . Poems. Publishing house Josef Knecht, Frankfurt am Main 1947.
  • Proteus. A seal . Frankfurter Hefte publishing house, Frankfurt am Main 1948.
  • The salt of the earth . Verlag der Buchgemeinde, Bonn 1955.
  • Return to Reims . Verlag der Buchgemeinde, Bonn 1957.
  • My Johanna . Verlag der Buchgemeinde, Bonn 1958.
  • Schiller or the heroic error. Verlag der Buchgemeinde, Bonn 1959.
  • World and impact: thoughts about people, Christians, Germans. Bibliotheca Christiana, Bonn 1961.
  • Doom and Promise: Pope Hadrian VI. - The "Jesuit State" in Paraguay. Bibliotheca Christiana, Bonn 1963.
  • Karl Wolfskehl. Symbolic figure of the German-Jewish tragedy . Darmstadt Goethe Society, Darmstadt 1964.
  • The social evolution of mankind. Bibliotheca Christiana, Bonn 1965.
  • People and stations in Germany, Europe and the world between 1789 and today. Bibliotheca Christiana, Bonn 1966.
  • Monsieur Sans Gene. A charlatan's novel . Cura Verlag, Vienna 1966.
  • Progress towards the origin: towards the historical neurosis of modern man. Otto Müller, Salzburg 1978, ISBN 3-7013-0571-4 .
  • History as tradition - history as progress. In: Archive for Hessian History and Archeology. Vol. 47 (1989), pp. 401 f.

In particular, he wrote numerous biographies:

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b c Peter Berglar: Metternich: coachman of Europe, doctor of the revolutions. Musterschmidt, Göttingen 1973, p. 4.
  2. ↑ a b c Peter Berglar , biography and estate in the portal rheinische-literaturnachlaesse.de
  3. ↑ a b c Historical Archive of the City of Cologne: Peter Berglar , Neue Digitale Bibliothek, accessed on February 15, 2016
  4. ^ Obituary notice Vera Berglar , FAZ , June 28, 2014, accessed on February 14, 2016
  5. ^ Tomb in the Find a Grave database . Retrieved June 1, 2020.
  6. ^ Peter Berglar , Rowohlt Verlag, accessed on February 14, 2016
  7. ^ "Passionately about the world" , Die Tagespost, Würzburg, May 27, 2010
  8. ↑ “Do You Believe that God is Lord of History?” June 26, 2007, accessed February 14, 2016
  9. ↑ “Opus Dei. Vida y obra del Fundador " , Ediciones Rialp SA, accessed on February 14, 2016 (Spanish)
personal data
SURNAME Berglar, Peter
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Berglar-Schröer, Hans-Peter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian
DATE OF BIRTH February 8, 1919
PLACE OF BIRTH kassel
DATE OF DEATH November 10, 1989
Place of death Cologne