Peter Burian (historian)

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Peter Burian (born on August 7, 1931 in Mährisch-Ostrau - Witkowitz ) is a German historian. He was Professor of Middle and Modern History at the University of Cologne .

The catholic son of the engineer Walter Burian and his wife Felicitas geb. After attending high school, Arnold studied at the Universities of Cologne and Tübingen . Burian was established in 1960 at the University of Cologne to Dr. phil. PhD. The topic of his work was the nationality conflict in Cisleithanien using the example of the electoral reform in the course of the March Revolution . He then worked from 1961 to 1965 as a research assistant at the Herder Institute (Marburg) and then as a research assistant at the University of Cologne, where he was part of Theodor Schierer's research staff . In 1973 Burian became a private lecturer , an extraordinary professor in 1976 and a full professor in 1980 in Cologne.

Since 1970 he has been a member of the Historical Commission for the Bohemian Lands . His research interests are shaped by the area of ​​his dissertation, the nationalities of the Habsburg Monarchy , and expanded to include East Central Europe in the interwar period .

Fonts

A large part of the mainly dependent writings of Burian is recorded in the databases of the Marburg Herder Institute. In addition to many essays, Burian also published lexicon articles, for example for the Neue Deutsche Biographie .

  • The nationalities in "Cisleithanien" and the right to vote of the March Revolution 1848/49. On the problem of parliamentarism in old Austria (= publications of the Arbeitsgemeinschaft Ost. Volume 2). Böhlau, Graz, Vienna, Cologne 1962 (also dissertation, University of Cologne, 1960) ( full text search , reviews by Helmut Slapnicka and Józef Chlebowczyk ).
  • Karl Bosl (ed.): Current research problems around the First Czechoslovak Republic. With the collaboration of Peter Burian. Oldenbourg, Munich et al. 1969.
  • Theodor Schieder (ed.): Social structure and organization of European national movements (= studies on the history of the nineteenth century. Volume 3). With the collaboration of Peter Burian. Oldenbourg, Munich et al. 1971, ISBN 3-486-47261-5 .

literature

  • Sudeten German Archives : Messages from the Sudeten German Archives. Edition 1981, p. 25.
  • Karl Walter Neumann: East Silesian portraits. Biographical-bibliographical lexicon of Austrian East Silesia (= writings of the Upper Silesian House Foundation: Landeskundliche Reihe. Volume 2.1). Volume 1: A-D. Mann, Berlin 1991, ISBN 3-7861-1634-2 , pp. 104-106 (with list of publications).
  • Burian, Peter. In: Walter Habel (greeting): Who is who? The German Who's Who. Schmidt-Römhild, Lübeck 2004, p. 201.

Remarks

  1. ↑ Burian, Peter. In: Walter Habel (greeting): Who is who? The German Who's Who. Schmidt-Römhild, Lübeck 2004, p. 201.
  2. ↑ Leo Haupts: The University of Cologne in the transition from National Socialism to the Federal Republic (= studies on the history of the University of Cologne. Volume 18). Böhlau, Cologne, Weimar, Vienna 2007, ISBN 978-3-412-17806-2 , p. 276 f.
  3. ^ Sudetendeutsches Archiv : Mitteilungen des Sudetendeutsches Archiv. Edition 1981, p. 25.
  4. ↑ See the database queries on Burian at Litdok and Hebis .
  5. ^ Author Peter Burian at Deutsche-Biographie.de.
personal data
SURNAME Burian, Peter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian
DATE OF BIRTH August 7, 1931
PLACE OF BIRTH Moravian-Ostrau - Witkowitz