Robert Holtzmann

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Robert Holtzmann (born October 17, 1873 in Heidelberg , † June 27, 1946 in Halle ) was a German historian of medieval history.

Robert Holtzmann was the son of the university professor Heinrich Holtzmann ; the women's rights activist and politician Adelheid Steinmann and the hygienist Friedrich Holtzmann were his siblings. He attended the humanistic high school in Strasbourg . After graduation in 1892, he did military service as a volunteer in an infantry regiment. He then studied history at the Universities of Strasbourg and Berlin . His academic teachers were Harry Bresslau and Paul Scheffer-Boichorst . In 1897 Holtzmann received his doctorate on the subject of Wilhelm von Nogaret, Councilor and Great Seal Keeper of Philip the Beautiful of France . In the same year he became an employee at the Institut Monumenta Germaniae Historica . In 1902 he qualified as a professor for Middle and Modern History at the University of Strasbourg with the work of Emperor Maximilian II until his accession to the throne 1527–1564 . He was appointed to the University of Gießen in 1913, where he succeeded Johannes Haller . During the First World War he fought on the Western Front from 1914 to 1916, where he was seriously wounded off Verdun in 1916. After his recovery he was professor in Breslau (1916), in Halle (1923) and finally in 1930 in Berlin. There he retired in 1939. Holtzmann was the first chairman of the Historical Commission for Silesia . From 1928 to 1930 he was chairman of the German Association of Historians .

His main research interests were above all the relations of the German medieval empire to its neighbors, the Franco-German relations at the end of the Middle Ages, the colonization in the east and the sources of the Saxon imperial period. In 1930 Holtzmann reissued Gebhardt's Handbook of German History . He wrote the new edition of Thietmar von Merseburg (1935). Since 1938 edited he Watt Bach of Germany historical sources in the Middle Ages . He is best known for his work History of the Saxon Imperial Era 900-1024 (1941), which was regarded as the standard work long after the war.

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Monographs

  • History of the Saxon Imperial Era (900-1024). 6th edition, Munich 1979, ISBN 3-7667-0478-8 .
  • French Constitutional History from the Mid-Ninth Century to the Revolution. Unchanged reprint of the 1st edition, Munich 1965.
  • Essays on German history in the Middle Elbe region. Darmstadt 1962.
  • Emperor Otto the Great. Berlin 1936.
  • Wilhelm of Nogaret. Councilor and keeper of the great seal of Philip the Fair of France. Freiburg i.Br. u. a. 1898.

Editorships and editions

  • Chronicle / Thietmar von Merseburg. Reprint of the 1957 edition, Berlin 1962.
  • Wilhelm Wattenbach: Germany's historical sources in the Middle Ages. u. a. 1943.

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Remarks

  1. ↑ In the specialist literature, the year 1877 is also given cf. for example: Walther Holtzmann: Obituary Robert Holtzmann. In: German Archive for Research into the Middle Ages . Volume 8, 1951, p. 256 f.
  2. ^ Matthias Werner : Between political limitation and methodological openness. Paths and stations of German regional historical research in the 20th century. In: Peter Moraw , Rudolf Schieffer (Ed.): The German-speaking Medieval Studies in the 20th Century. Ostfildern 2005, pp. 251–364, here: p. 282 ( digitized version ).
personal data
SURNAME Holtzmann, Robert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Medievalist
DATE OF BIRTH October 17, 1873
PLACE OF BIRTH Heidelberg
DATE OF DEATH June 27, 1946
Place of death Halle (Saale)