Richard Salomon

This article is about the German historian Richard Salomon . For the US poker player Richard "Rick" Allan Salomon see Rick Salomon .

Richard Salomon in World War I

Richard Georg Salomon (born April 22, 1884 in Berlin , † February 3, 1966 in Mount Vernon ) was a German historian and diplomat .

Life

Richard Georg Salomon, whose father was a general practitioner and private lecturer in Berlin, graduated from the Royal Friedrich-Wilhelm-Gymnasium in Berlin in 1902 and began studying history and its auxiliary sciences. Shortly before matriculation, the eighteen-year-old was baptized in the Evangelical Church of Jerusalem. This was “a pragmatic decision” given a career in college teaching; otherwise difficulties and harassment would have been expected.

In 1905, Salomon toured the archives of southern Italy for an investigation into Norman-Italian diplomacy and took numerous photos of documents, some of which had been lost or whose state of preservation had deteriorated. This material is available to science today at the German Historical Institute in Rome . In 1907 the dissertation was accepted at the Berlin University, although only part of it was printed, but this was followed by smaller publications on documents from the Mezzogiorno. From 1907 to 1914 he was an employee of the Constitutiones department of the Monumenta Germaniae Historica , and from 1960 until his death he was a corresponding member of the central management.

Hamburg

He was dismissed from the service of Monumenta on November 1, 1914 because he was appointed professor of Russian culture and history at the Colonial Institute in Hamburg, which was absorbed into the university in 1919. Because he was called up for military service (1914–1916), the seminar was only able to start operating in the winter semester of 1915/1916; Despite the war, writings could be actively exchanged with Russia, and Salomon was able to expand contacts on trips to Russia in 1925 and 1929. The lecture on Hamburg's trade relations with Russia , which he gave to the Association for Hamburg History in 1918, illustrates this development of his interests.

In 1926 he was able to recruit Fritz T. Epstein , who was called to Frankfurt in 1931 and, like Salomon, was later forced to emigrate to the USA by the National Socialists. In April 1933 the National Socialist German Student Union demanded that Salomon be dismissed. While the majority of faculty colleagues took a half-hearted position, 45 students signed a petition for Solomon's whereabouts. The combatant privilege temporarily protected him from being released . However, he lost his chair for the history of Eastern Europe in the summer of 1933 and only taught historical auxiliary sciences. In March 1934, Salomon was retired on June 30, 1934 on the basis of Section 6 of the Professional Civil Service Act .

After his forced retirement, Salomon edited the “Avignon files” of the trial of the Hanseatic City of Hamburg against the papal curia in the 14th century, which were stored in the State Archives. This edition project, limited to three years, was supported by the Hamburg Scientific Foundation . From 1934, Salomon tried to find work opportunities in the USA, but also in Canada, England and Latin America. From January to May 1936 Salomon stayed in the USA and gave lectures at various universities. He was only able to emigrate to the USA with his wife in September 1937. There he became a professor at Kenyon College in Gambier, Ohio, where he taught medieval history and church history.

The last edition

The Avignon files from the Hamburg State Archives were initially lost after the end of the World War. After her reappearance, Jürgen Bolland , the director of the State Archives and then chairman of the Association for Hamburg History , to which Salomon had belonged from 1916 until his expulsion in 1938, turned to Salomon and was able to convince him of the work by generously providing material in the USA at the edition that Salomon had started after his dismissal as professor. A few days before his death he was able to complete the manuscript for issuing the correspondence and files of the Hamburg curia procurators to the Popes in Avignon and send it to Hamburg.

Fonts (selection)

• Studies in Norman-Italian diplomacy. Part 1, chap. IV, 1: The duke deeds for Bari . Noske, Borna-Leipzig 1907 Phil. Diss. Berlin 1907.
• A Russian publication on papal diplomacy. In: New archive of the society for older German history. Volume 32 (1907), pp. 459-475.
• An invoice and travel diary from the court of Archbishop Boemund II of Trier, 1354–1357. In: New archive of the society for older German history. Volume 33 (1908), pp. 399-434.
• Iohannis Porta de Annoniaco Liber de coronatione Karoli IV. Imperatoris . Edidit Ricardus Salomon. Hahn, Hanover 1913 (Monumenta Germaniae Historica. Scriptores. 7, Scriptores rerum Germanicarum in usum scholarum; 35)
• Johannes Porta de Annoniaco and his book about the coronation of Emperor Charles IV. In: New archive of the society for older German history. 38 (1913), pp. 227-294.
• The pope biographies of Johannes Porta de Annoniaco. In: New archive of the society for older German history. Volume 45 (1924), pp. 112-119.
• The Avignon files of the Hamburg State Archives. A work report and instructions for further processing . Ackermann & Wulff, Hamburg 1937.
• Magnificent replicas in an American collection. In: Festschrift Edmund E. Stengel. Böhlau, Münster / Cologne 1952, pp. 81–89.
• A newly discovered manuscript of Opicinus de Canistris. A preliminary report In: Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes. Volume 16 (1953), pp. 45-57.
• From the Avignon files of the Hamburg State Archives. In: Journal of the Association for Hamburg History. Volume 50 (1964), pp. 29-40.
• The correspondence between the Hamburg council and its representatives at the papal curia in Avignon 1337-1359 . 1968.

See also

• History Seminar (University of Hamburg)

literature

• Fritz T. Epstein: Hamburg and Eastern Europe. In memory of Professor Richard Salomon (1884–1966). In: Yearbooks for the History of Eastern Europe NF 15 (1967), pp. 59–98.
• Rainer Nicolaysen : "Vitae, not vita". About the expulsion and exile of the Eastern European historian Richard Salomon (1884–1966). In: Rainer Hering, Rainer Nicolaysen (ed.): Living social history. Commemorative publication for Peter Borowsky . Wiesbaden 2003, pp. 633-659.
• Rainer Nicolaysen: Richard Salomon (1884–1966) - a German-American scholar's life. In: Joist Grolle, Matthias Schmoock (Hrsg.): Spätes Gedenken. A history association remembers its excluded Jewish members (Hamburgische Lebensbilder in representations and self-testimonies. Volume 21). Bremen 2009, ISBN 978-3-8378-2000-3 , pp. 159-196.
• Rainer Nicolaysen: Richard Salomon. In: Hamburg biography . Volume 2, ed. by Franklin Kopitzsch and Dirk Brietzke . Hamburg 2003, p. 358f.
• Joist Grolle , Ina Lorenz : The exclusion of Jewish members from the Association for Hamburg History. A long silent chapter of the Nazi era (with biographical appendix). In: Journal of the Association for Hamburg History. Volume 93 (2007), pp. 1-145.

Web links

• Literature by and about Richard Salomon in the catalog of the German National Library
• Books and articles by Richard Salomon in the Opac of the Regesta Imperii
• Employee of the Monumenta Germaniae Historica (MGH) Munich
• Inventory of the Salomon photo collection in the DHI Rome, PDF, 2 MB
• Digital copy of Richard Salomon's hand copy of the plan of a corpus of Greek documents from the Middle Ages and more recent times with corrections and additions to Marc's register.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Rainer Nicolaysen: Richard Salomon - a German-American scholarly life. In: Joist Grolle, Matthias Schmoock: Spätes Gedenken. Hamburg 2009, ISBN 978-3-8378-2000-3 , p. 161.
2. ^ Rainer Nicolaysen: Richard Salomon - a German-American scholarly life. In: Joist Grolle, Matthias Schmoock: Spätes Gedenken. Hamburg 2009, ISBN 978-3-8378-2000-3 , pp. 167-177.