Richard Nürnberger

Richard Nürnberger (born June 9, 1912 in Eisleben , † September 29, 1999 in Göttingen ) was a German historian .

The son of a student councilor studied from 1931 to 1937 at the universities of Heidelberg , Berlin , Halle and Freiburg i. Br. History, German studies, art history and philosophy. His academic teacher was Gerhard Ritter . In 1936 he received his doctorate under Ritter in Freiburg with the thesis Church and Secular Authority at Melanchthon . Subsequently, he received a research grant from Nuremberg at the University of Freiburg. An appointment as a lecturer did not materialize because Nürnberger refused to give the Hitler salute at the beginning of his lectures. From February 1940 he did military service for more than three years. In May 1944 he completed his habilitation with Ritter in Freiburg i. Br. With a thesis on the politicization of French Protestantism. After the end of the war, Nürnberger worked as a lecturer and research assistant at the University of Freiburg. From 1949 Nürnberger was an associate professor at the University of Bonn . Since 1955, Nürnberger taught as the successor to Siegfried A. Kaehler as a full professor of modern history at the University of Göttingen . He declined an interim appointment to the University of Hamburg . In 1980 he retired in Göttingen. Nürnberger's most important students were Thomas Nipperdey and Eike Wolgast .

Since 1956 he was a member of the Max Planck Institute for History in Göttingen and since 1963 a member of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen . Nürnberger was a founding member of the Prussian Historical Commission and was active in the Working Group for Modern Social History , in the Scientific Working Group for Central Germany, in the Association for Research into Modern History. From 1991 to 1997 Nuremberg was deputy chairman of the Göttingen working group .

His main research interests were the history of the Reformation in the 16th century and the history of the 19th and 20th centuries. Dissertation and habilitation dealt with important topics of the 16th century. In addition, Nürnberger dealt particularly with the European world of states and the history of the French Revolution and its idea. As part of the " Propylaea World History " he wrote for the eighth volume The Age of the French Revolution and Napoleon (1960). The treatise The Doctrine of Politics at the University of Göttingen during the French Revolution , published in 1971, is in this thematic context . In connection with the history of the Reformation, he published Philipp Melanchthon 's humanistic writings in 1961 . He also devoted himself to Prussian history and, above all, to the time of Frederick the Great . In 1986, Nürnberger published the small book Friedrich the Great as a statesman . Further treatises on Prussian history were Rauch's Friedrich-Denkmal historically and politically seen (1970), the division of labor in the Prussian general land law (1975) and municipal self-government and social change in the kingdom and in the province of Hanover during the 19th century (1985).

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Monographs

• The politicization of French Protestantism. Calvin and the beginnings of Protestant radicalism. Mohr, Tübingen 1984 (at the same time: Freiburg i. Br., University, habilitation paper, 1944).
• Church and secular authorities at Melanchthon. Triltsch, Würzburg (Freiburg i. Br., University, dissertation, 1936).

Editorships

• Festschrift for Gerhard Ritter on his 60th birthday. Mohr, Tübingen 1950.

literature

• Eike Wolgast: Obituary for Richard Nürnberger. In: Research on Brandenburg and Prussian History NF 10 (2000), pp. 277–282.
• Richard Nürnberger. In: German Biographical Encyclopedia . Edited by Rudolf Vierhaus . Volume 7, 2nd edition, Munich 2007, p. 516.
• Fidel Rädle : Richard Nürnberger, 1912–1999. In: Karl Arndt, Gerhard Gottschalk , Rudolf Smend (Hrsg.): Göttinger Gelehre. The Academy of Sciences in Göttingen in portraits and awards 1751–2001. Volume 1, Wallstein-Verlag, Göttingen 2001, ISBN 3-89244-485-4 , p. 636.
• Fidel Rädle: Richard Nürnberger Obituary June 9, 1912 - September 29, 1999. In: Yearbook of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences 2004. Göttingen 2004, pp. 364–366.

Web links

• Literature by and about Richard Nürnberger in the catalog of the German National Library

Remarks

1. ↑ Eike Wolgast: Obituary for Richard Nürnberger. In: Research on Brandenburg and Prussian History NF 10 (2000), pp. 277–282, here: p. 277.
2. ^ Richard Nürnberger: The Age of the French Revolution and Napoleon. In: Propylaen-Weltgeschichte , Vol. 8 (1960), pp. 59-191.
3. ^ Richard Nürnberger: Rauch's Friedrich-Denkmal historically and politically seen. A contribution to the history of the Prussian tradition in the 19th century. In: Jahrbuch Prussischer Kulturbesitz 8 (1970), pp. 115–124.
4. ^ Richard Nürnberger: Class division of labor in the Prussian general land law. In: Günter Schmölders (Hrsg.): Social behavior in humans and animals. Berlin 1975, pp. 103-114.