Peter Hoffmann (historian, 1924)

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Peter Hoffmann (2016)

Peter Hoffmann (born November 9, 1924 in Berlin ) is a German historian.

Life

From 1942 until the end of the war Hoffmann was with the Waffen-SS , from 1945 to 1947 he was an American prisoner of war. During this time his rethinking began - he had broken away from the racial doctrine of the Nazi era, he was irritated by the racism prevailing in the US Army and the "renazification" that began early in the western zones. In 1947 he returned to East Berlin and became a heavy current fitter. Experiences in captivity justified his rejection of the German policy of the Western powers. 1949 was a year of rethinking for him. From 1949 to 1953 he studied history and Slavic studies at the Humboldt University in Berlin with Eduard Winter , then he was an assistant and aspirant at the Institute for the History of the Peoples of the USSR at this university. From 1958 he was a research assistant at the historical institute of the German Academy of Sciences in Berlin. During this time he mainly researched Russian history and German-Russian relations of the 18th century as well as questions of the Enlightenment and absolutism. In 1959 he received his doctorate with a thesis on Gerhard Friedrich Müller . He was head of the “Working Group on the History of the Slavic Peoples” at the Institute for History of the German Academy of Sciences , Berlin.

In 1981 his dissertation B ( habilitation ) took place at the Academy of Sciences of the GDR. The work was entitled Russia in the Age of Absolutism and was published in a revised form in 1988. He has been a member of the Pirckheimer Society since 1986 .

In 1989 he retired. After a period of crisis, Hoffmann turned back to scientific work and published studies on topics that he had researched intensively during his professional life. He has published source editions, monographs, anthologies and a large number of essays and translations. In 2006 his autobiography was published in the back row . Today he lives in Nassenheide .

Publications

  • Gerhard Friedrich Müller. The significance of his geographical work for the image of Russia in the 18th century. 1959, (Berlin, Humboldt University, dissertation, March 18, 1959, typed).
  • as editor with Adol'f P. Juškevič and Eduard Winter : The Berlin and Petersburg Academy of Sciences in Leonhard Euler's correspondence (= sources and studies on the history of Eastern Europe. Vol. 3, 1-3, ISSN  0079-9114 ). 3 volumes. Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1959–1976;
    • Volume 1: L. Euler's correspondence with GF Müller 1735–1767. 1959;
    • Volume 2: L. Euler's correspondence with Nartov, Razumovskij, Schumacher, Teplov and the Petersburg Academy 1730–1763. 1961;
    • Volume 3: Scientific and organizational correspondence, 1726–1774. 1976.
  • as editor with Adolf P. Juškevič and Eduard Winter: Leonhard Euler and Christian Goldbach. Correspondence 1729–1764 (= treatises of the German Academy of Sciences in Berlin. Class for Philosophy, History, Politics, Law and Economics. Born 1965, No. 1, ZDB -ID 210006-x ). Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1965.
  • as co-editor: Освободительная война 1813 года против Наполеоновского господства. Наука, Москва 1965, (In German: Der Befreiungskrieg 1813 (= Writings of the German Section of the Commission of Historians of the GDR and the USSR. Vol. 4, ZDB -ID 504271-9 ). Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1967).
  • as editor with Heinz Lemke: Genesis and Development of Capitalism in Russia. Studies and contributions (= sources and studies on the history of Eastern Europe. Vol. 17). Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1973.
  • Russia in the age of absolutism. 3 volumes. 1981, (Berlin, Academy of Sciences of the German Democratic Republic, Dissertation B, 1981).
  • Alexander Suvorov. The undefeated general. Military publishing house of the German Democratic Republic, Berlin 1986, ISBN 3-327-00026-3 -
  • Peter the Great. Tsar and Reformer (= illustrated historical booklets . 49). Deutscher Verlag der Wissenschaften, Berlin 1988, ISBN 3-326-00403-6 .
  • Russia in the age of absolutism (= sources and studies on the history of Eastern Europe. NF Vol. 28). Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1988, ISBN 3-05-000562-9 .
  • as editor with Valerij Ivanovič Osipov: Geography, History and Education in Russia and Germany in the 18th Century. Correspondence between Anton Friedrich Büsching and Gerhard Friedrich Müller 1751 to 1783 (= sources and studies on the history of Eastern Europe. Vol. 33). Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1995, ISBN 3-05-002251-5 .
  • Anton Friedrich Büsching. (1724-1793). A life in the Age of Enlightenment. Berlin-Verlag Spitz, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-8305-0022-X .
  • St. Petersburg. City and port in the 18th century. BWV - Berliner Wissenschafts-Verlag, Berlin 2003, ISBN 3-8305-0395-4 .
  • Introduction to literature, sources and resources (= Handbook of the History of Russia. Vol. 6). Hiersemann, Stuttgart 2004, ISBN 3-7772-0408-0 .
  • Gerhard Friedrich Müller. (1705-1783). Historian, geographer, archivist in the service of Russia. Lang, Frankfurt am Main et al. 2005, ISBN 3-631-54586-X .
  • In the back row. From the life of an Eastern European historian in the GDR. NoRa, Berlin 2006, ISBN 978-3-86557-095-6 .
  • Peter the Great as a military reformer and general. Lang, Frankfurt am Main et al. 2010, ISBN 978-3-631-60114-3 .
  • Michail Vasil'evič Lomonosov (1711-1765). An Encyclopedist in the Age of Enlightenment. Lang, Frankfurt am Main et al. 2011, ISBN 978-3-631-61797-7 .
  • Eastern Siberia and the North Pacific in the second half of the 18th century. The discussion about the expansion of Asia. PL Academic Research, Frankfurt am Main 2013, ISBN 978-363-16273-4-1 .
  • Aleksandr Nikolaevič Radiščev. (1749-1802). Life and work. Long edition, Frankfurt am Main 2015, ISBN 978-3-631-65896-3 .
  • Lomonosov studies. Essays from five decades. NoRa, Berlin 2015, ISBN 978-3-86557-374-2 .
  • Studies on the history of culture and science as well as on German-Russian relations in the 18th and 19th centuries. Collected articles on the occasion of the 90th birthday. Edited by Lothar Kölm and Michael Schippan. Long edition, Frankfurt am Main 2015, ISBN 978-3-631-66574-9 .
  • As editor: Peter Brüne: Johann Gotthilf Vockerodt and his influence on the image of Russia by Frederick the Great and Voltaire , NoRaVerlagsgemeinschaft, Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-86557-438-1 .
  • In the back row. From the life of an Eastern European historian in the GDR and afterwards. Second, revised and continued edition, NoRa Berlin 2018. ISBN 978-3-86557-456-5 .
  • Frederick II and Russia. The first period of his government until the Peace of Hubertusburg in 1763. NoRa Berlin 2019. ISBN 978-3-86557-482-4 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Austrian Osthefte . 46th year, Vienna 2004, p. 239.
  2. ↑ Hoffmann, Peter . In: Collegium Politicum of the University of Hamburg (Ed.): Historians in Central Germany . Ferd. Dümmlers Verlag, Bonn 1965, p. 45.
  3. ↑ Renate Günther: Bibliography of university publications on economic history (PDF; 3.1 MB) . Yearbook for Economic History 1983 / I
  4. ^ Members and collectors directory of the Pirckheimer Society eV (2007), p. 21.
personal data
SURNAME Hoffmann, Peter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian
DATE OF BIRTH November 9, 1924
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin