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Waldemar Kampf (born July 5, 1913 in Königsberg i. Pr. , † 1988 ) was a German historian and literary historian.
Life
Kampf studied history, literary history and art history at the Albertus University in Königsberg and the Friedrich Wilhelms University in Berlin . After the state examination, he wrote his doctoral thesis with Walther Ziesemer . In 1941 he was promoted to Dr. phil. PhD. In the post-war period in Germany he was a lecturer at the Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg . In 1962 he moved to the new Karlsruhe University of Education , which appointed him professor in 1968. In 1964 he wrote an extensive article about George Frederick I (Brandenburg-Ansbach-Kulmbach) , who after 1578 had brought order to the confused conditions of the Duchy of Prussia . Committed to the life and work of Ferdinand Gregorovius , Kampf saw his magnum opus in a historical-critical edition of his preserved correspondence. The plan failed.
Web links
- Hans Wollschläger : Review of Kampf's new edition of the history of the city of Rome in the Middle Ages (1978)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Dominik Fugger : Ferdinand Gregorovius - Letters to Königsberg 1852-1891 . CH Beck, Munich 2013
- ↑ Birthday according to the personal file of the PH Karlsruhe
- ↑ Dissertation: Prussia, Poland and the Empire in the 16th Century .
- ^ Robert Albinus: Königsberg Lexicon . Würzburg 2002, p. 147 f.
- ^ New German Biography , Vol. VI.
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|---|---|
| SURNAME | Fight, Waldemar |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German historian and literary historian, Gregorovius expert |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 5, 1913 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Königsberg (Prussia) |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1988 |