Peter Wörster

Peter Wörster (born October 30, 1950 in Siegen ) is a German historian and archivist .

Life

Peter Wörster studied history , Slavic studies and education at the University of Marburg . In 1976 he passed the state examination for high school teachers . 1993 was followed by the promotion of Dr. phil. In 1976/77 he worked at the Institute for Slavic Philology at the University of Marburg and then from 1977 until his retirement at the end of February 2016 at the Herder Institute in Marburg. There he was in charge of the document collection, the largest archive on Baltic history in Germany. His main areas of work are the past and present of Königsberg and Kaliningrad , the period of humanism (15th / 16th century) in Olomouc and Moravia (with connections to Silesia , Poland , Austria and Hungary ) and the history of the Baltic States .

The archive managed by him and Dorothee M. Goeze received the Hessian Archive Prize in 2009 .

Fonts

• The Jews in the Bohemian countries after 1945. Materials on their history (= Documentation East Central Europe , Volume 8, Issue 5/6). Johann Gottfried Herder Institute, Marburg 1982, pp. 235-344.
• "To the true Germany and the true Russia" - Arthur Luther on the 50th anniversary of his death . Yearbook of the Baltic Germans, Vol. 52 (2005), pp. 153–167.

literature

• Four decades in the service of East Central European research. A personal bibliography. Peter Wörster on his 65th birthday. Edited and edited on behalf of friends by Dorothee M. Goeze . Marburg / Lahn 2015.

Web links

• Literature by and about Peter Wörster in the catalog of the German National Library
• Peter Wörster on the website of the Herder Institute ( Memento from April 2, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
• The archive of the month , website of the Herder Institute

Individual evidence

1. ^ Vademecum of the historical sciences. 1994/95, p. 498.
2. ↑ Dissertation: Description of the country, city praise and historiography in the first half of the 16th century .
3. ^ Hessian Archive Prize 2009 to the document collection of the Herder Institute in Marburg , website of the Herder Institute, accessed on March 24, 2015.