Rudolf von Heckel

Rudolf von Heckel (born May 3, 1880 in Munich ; † March 29, 1947 there ) was a German historian .

His father was an architect. He attended the Maximiliansgymnasium in Munich from 1890 to 1899 . He then studied history at the University of Munich for three semesters and from 1901 in Berlin. His academic teachers were Paul Scheffer-Boichorst , Kurt Breysig and Michael Tangl . At Tangl he received his doctorate in Berlin with the fundamental work The Papal and Sicilian Register System . In 1907 he became a research assistant at the chair for sociology at the Friedrich Wilhelms University in Berlin . In 1913, von Heckel became Henry Simonsfeld's successor as associate professor of history at the University of Munich. From 1931 he taught as a full professor for history and historical auxiliary sciences in Munich. In 1945 he was retired. He is counted among the few professors in Munich who did not make any fundamental concessions to the Nazi direction. His main research areas were the papal chancellery and papal diplomacy since Innocent III. and the registry.

Fonts

• The papal and Sicilian registers in a comparative representation. Cape. 3: The origin of the angiovinic registry. Berlin 1906.

literature

• Bernhard Bischoff : Obituary Rudolf von Heckel. In: German Archive for Research into the Middle Ages . Vol. 8 (1951), pp. 254f. ( Digitized version )
• Annekatrin Schaller: Michael Tangl (1861–1921) and his school. Research and teaching in the historical auxiliary sciences (= Pallas Athene. Contributions to the history of universities and science. Volume 7). Steiner Stuttgart 2002, ISBN 3-515-08214-X , p. 317.
• Johannes Spörl : Obituary Rudolf von Heckel. In: Historical yearbook . 69: 932-935 (1949).

Remarks

1. ↑ Peter Herde: Medieval Research in the Federal Republic of Germany 1945-1970. In: Maria Stuiber, Michele Spadaccini (ed.): Building blocks for German and Italian history. Festschrift for the 70th birthday of Horst Enzensberger. Bamberg 2014, pp. 175-218, here: p. 192 ( online ).