Rudolf Palme (historian)

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Rudolf Palme (born March 19, 1942 in Berlin , † April 19, 2002 in Innsbruck ) was an Austrian historian .

Rudolf Palme was the oldest child of a physicist. After the war the family moved to Reutte in Tyrol . The father was given a leading position in metal processing at the Plansee works . He passed his school leaving examination in Reutte in 1963. He then joined the Wilten Premonstratensian Foundation for a year . Palme stated that monastery life was not for him, but the connection to the canons in Wilten remained. He studied history, German philology and philosophy at the University of Innsbruck from the winter semester 1964/65 . He continued his studies from the winter semester 1965/66 at the University of Vienna . There he received his doctorate in 1969 with a study on the election of abbot at Wilten Abbey, initiated by Hans Lentze and supervised by Heinrich Fichtenau . Palme completed the 52nd course at the Institute for Austrian Historical Research in Vienna. He also studied law in Vienna. In 1971 he passed the first (legal history) state examination with a thesis supervised by Erich Zöllner on the history of the saltworks and the Hall salt mine in Tyrol up to 1363. In July 1971 he became university assistant to Nikolaus Grass at the Institute for Austrian and German Legal History at the university Innsbruck. Palme completed his habilitation in 1982 at the University of Innsbruck. In 1982 he was granted the license to teach as a university lecturer for “Economic and Social History in Connection with Austrian Legal History”. In March 1987 he became an associate professor at the Innsbruck Institute for Austrian and German Legal History. He worked there until 2002. From 1989 to 1995 he was chairman of the Tyrolean History Association . Palme died shortly after his 60th birthday. He left behind his wife and son.

The focus of his work was mining, especially salt production. He researched the influence of salt production on the economic and social structure of Tyrol. From a legal historical point of view, he examined the Tyrolean mining law and the legal forms of real estate. Palme's work is characterized by a close connection between legal, economic and social history. Some of his work has also been published in Russian, Japanese, and Chinese. With Jean-Claude Hocquet , he led a research project on western and central European salt works. With him he founded the Commission Internationale d'Histoire du Sei (CIHS). He also dealt thematically with problems of the Austrian constitution and legal development, the legal position of the Jews and the Nazi era . He also wrote several articles on natural rights activist Karl Anton von Martini .

Fonts

  • The brass factory in Mühlau near Innsbruck. An attempt at innovation by Emperor Maximilian I. Shown from the sources. Berenkamp, ​​Hall in Tirol 2000, ISBN 3-85093-118-8 .
  • Legal, economic and social history of the inner-alpine salt works up to their monopoly (= legal history series. Vol. 25). Lang, Frankfurt am Main 1983, ISBN 3-8204-7133-2 .

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  1. ↑ Josef Riedmann: Rudolf Palme † In: Mitteilungen des Institut für Österreichische Geschichtsforschung 111 (2003), pp. 260–261, here: p. 260.
personal data
SURNAME Palme, Rudolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian historian
DATE OF BIRTH March 19, 1942
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH April 19, 2002
Place of death innsbruck