Peter Honigmann

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Peter Honigmann (* 1952 as Peter Obermann ) is a German archivist. From 1991 to 2016 he was the director of the Heidelberg Central Archives for research into the history of Jews in Germany .

His father is the historian Karl Obermann . His maternal grandfather is the classical philologist and philosopher Rudolf Schottlaender . He is married to the writer and painter Barbara Honigmann .

He lived in East Berlin until 1984, studied physics there at the Humboldt University and in 1977 received his doctorate from Hellmut Baumgärtel on "Limitation methods in scattering theory" of quantum mechanics at the Academy of Sciences . In 1982 he switched to the history of science and worked at the Alexander von Humboldt Research Center until he emigrated. In 1984 he went to Strasbourg with his family and began studying the Talmud at the Yechiva des Étudiants.

Publications

  • Limitation Methods in Scattering Theory, Ph.D. Thesis, Academy of Sciences of the GDR (1977).
  • Abel Wave Operators. I. General Theory, with M. Wollenberg, Mathematische Nachrichten Volume 85, Issue 1, Pages 141-159 (1978).
  • Abel wave operators. II. Wave operators for functions of operators, with M. Wollenberg, Journal of Functional Analysis Volume 30, Issue 1, Pages 48-59 (1978).
  • Adiabatic switching in abstract scattering theory, Mathematische Nachrichten Volume 105, Issue 1, Pages 7-25 (1982).
  • Formation and fate of Humboldt's Magnetic Association (1829–1834) in connection with his trip to Russia. In: Annals of Science. 1984, 41: 57-86.
  • Leaving the Berlin Jewish Community 1873-1941. Statistical analysis and historical interpretation. Lang, Frankfurt am Main / Bern / New York / Paris 1987, ISBN 3-8204-1113-5
  • Alexander von Humboldt's relationship to Jews. In: Bulletin of the Leo Baeck Institute. 1987, 76: 3-34.
  • (as ed.) with Frank M. Bischoff: Jüdisches Archivwesen. Contributions to the colloquium on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the founding of the General Archives of German Jews, at the same time the 10th archivological colloquium of the Marburg Archive School, September 13-15, 2005. [Marburg Archive School], Marburg 2007 (contributions partly German, partly Engl.), ISBN 978-3-923833-10-8
  • Albert Einstein's Jewish attitude. In: grandstand. 25 (1986) 98, 95-116.
  • with Siegfried Theodor Arndt, Helmut Eschwege and Lothar Mertens : Jews in the GDR - History - Problems - Perspectives. Working materials on intellectual history. Cologne 1988
  • Exits from Judaism in Vienna 1868–1944. In: Contemporary History. 15 (1988) 11/12, 452-466.
  • On the border between anthropological interest and racism. Alexander von Humboldt's discussion of Joseph Arthur Comte de Gobineau. In: Soemmering research. 1990, 6: 427-435.
  • The influence of Moses Mendelssohn on the education of the Humboldt brothers. In: Mendelssohn Studies. 7: 39-76 (1990).
  • The Talmudist group around Salman Baruch Rabinkow. In: Jewish life in Heidelberg. Edited by Giovannini, J. Bauer, H.-M. Guts. Heidelberg 1992, 265-272.
  • The development of the Jewish population in the Rhine Province. A demographic overview. In: Guide through the Jewish Rhineland. Edited by Ludger Heid and Julius H.Schoeps in connection with Marina Sassenberg. Berlin 1992, 314-323.
  • Documentation of Jewish grave inscriptions in the Federal Republic of Germany. In: Ashkenaz. Journal of the History and Culture of the Jews. 3: 267-273 (1993).
  • A century of Jewish archives in Germany. In: Archives and Society . Lectures of the 66th German Archive Day 1995 in Hamburg (= The Archivist, Supplement 1) Siegburg 1996, 129-142.
  • About the difference between Alexander and Wilhelm von Humboldt in their relationship to Jews and Judaism. In: Confrontation and Coexistence. On the history of German Jewry (= Campus Judaica vol. 7). Edited by Renate Heuer and Ralph-Rainer Wuthenow. Frankfurt / New York 1996, 46–81.
  • Strasbourg - An urban community [= Brief history of the Jews in Strasbourg]. In: German-Jewish Passages. European cityscapes from Berlin to Prague. Edited by Willi Jasper u. Julius H. Schoeps. Hamburg 1996, 299-316. 
  • Friedrich Wilhelm IV's Jewish policy in the judgment of Alexander von Humboldt. In: Acta Historica Leopoldina. 1997, 27: 21-30
  • Talmudic prints in post-war Germany. In: Survived and on the way. Jewish Displaced Persons in post-war Germany [= 1997 yearbook on the history and effects of the Holocaust]. Edited by Fritz Bauer Institute. Frankfurt / New York: Campus Verlag, 1997, 249–266.
  • The Strasbourg Student Yeshiva - A Way to Recapture the Torah and Mitzvot in Modern Times. In: Judaism and Modernism in France and Italy [= Romania Judaica. Vol. 2]. Edited by Christoph Miething. Tübingen 1998, 45-57.
  • The acts of exile. Reflections on more than a hundred years of efforts to take inventory of sources on the history of Jews in Germany. In: The archivist. 54 (2001) 1, 23-31.
  • History of the Jewish archives in Germany. In: The archivist. 55 (2002) 3, 223-230.
  • Rabbi Dr. Bernhard Brilling on the establishment of a central Jewish archive in post-war Germany. In: Klaus Hödl (ed.): Historical consciousness in the Jewish context. Strategies, aspects, discourses. Innsbruck. 2004, 223-241
  • Complete archive of German Jews. In: Dan Diner (Ed.): Encyclopedia of Jewish History and Culture (EJGK). Volume 2: Co-Ha. Metzler, Stuttgart / Weimar 2012, ISBN 978-3-476-02502-9 , 434–437.
  • in addition, numerous articles

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ German-German literary exile: Writers from the GDR in the Federal Republic (p. 625)
  2. ↑ Central archive for research into the history of Jews in Germany: MITARBEITER
  3. ^ Mathematics Genealogy Project, Peter Obermann
  4. ↑ https://vzopc4.gbv.de/DB=38/LNG=EN/CLK?IKT=12&TRM=215713834
  5. ↑ https://doi.org/10.1002/mana.19780850111
  6. ↑ https://doi.org/10.1016/0022-1236(78)90054-X
  7. ↑ https://doi.org/10.1002/mana.19821050102
  8. ↑ Publications. In: Bibliography of publications by employees of the central archive on archive work and documentation activities. ( Memento of the original from June 29, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.zentralarchiv.uni-hd.de
personal data
SURNAME Honigmann, Peter
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Obermann, Peter (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German archivist and head of the central archive for research into the history of Jews in Germany
DATE OF BIRTH 1952