Walter Lipgens

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Walter Lipgens (born June 12, 1925 in Düsseldorf , † April 29, 1984 ) was a German historian .

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Walter Lipgens attended the Schiller High School in Münster. During this time he lived at Melchersstrasse 60. After graduating from high school, he did military service and studied history, philosophy and German and Latin philology at the University of Tübingen from 1943/44 . There he received his doctorate in 1948 under Rudolf Stadelmann with a thesis on Johannes Gropper . During his studies he was heavily influenced by Romano Guardini . After completing his doctorate, Lipgens initially worked as Kurt von Raumer's assistant at the University of Münster . In 1951 he received a postdoctoral fellowship from the German Research Foundation , and in 1955 a position as a research assistant at the research institute of the German Society for Foreign Policy in Bonn. In 1960, Lipgens completed his habilitation at the University of Heidelberg with a paper on Ferdinand August von Spiegel that was supervised by Werner Conze . In 1967 he was appointed Professor of Modern History at the University of Saarland as successor to Heinrich Lutz and stayed in Saarbrücken until his death. In 1968, Lipgens was elected a corresponding member of the Historical Commission for Westphalia . After completing his academic qualifications in the field of Catholicism research, Lipgens made a name for himself in particular as a historian of the European unification process . His most famous student is Wilfried Loth .

Fonts (selection)

  • Cardinal Johannes Gropper (1503-1559) and the beginnings of the Catholic reform in Germany. Aschendorff, Münster 1951.
  • Ferdinand August Graf Spiegel and the relationship between church and state 1789–1835. The turn from the state church to church freedom. Two volumes. Aschendorff, Münster 1965.
  • Europe federation plans of the resistance movements 1940–1945. A documentation (series of publications by the Research Institute of the German Society for Foreign Policy, Volume 26). Oldenbourg, Munich 1968.
  • The beginnings of European unification policy. Klett, Stuttgart 1977.

literature

  • Elisabeth Fehrenbach : Nekrolog Walter Lipgens. June 12, 1925-29. 4. 1984. In: Historische Zeitschrift 239 (1984), pp. 757-759.
  • Wilfried Loth: Walter Lipgens (1925-1984). In: Heinz Duchhardt et al. (Hrsg.): Europa-Historiker. A biographical manual. Volume 1 Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2006, pp. 317–336.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Population register of the provincial capital Münster 1941/42. P. 181.
  2. ^ Wilfried Loth: Walter Lipgens (1925-1984). In: Heinz Duchhardt et al. (Hrsg.): Europa-Historiker. A biographical manual. Volume 1 , Göttingen 2006, pp. 317–336, here: p. 317.
  3. ^ Wilfried Loth: Walter Lipgens (1925-1984). In: Heinz Duchhardt et al. (Hrsg.): Europa-Historiker. A biographical manual. Volume 1 , Göttingen 2006, pp. 317–336, here: p. 320.
personal data
SURNAME Lipgens, Walter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian
DATE OF BIRTH June 12, 1925
PLACE OF BIRTH Dusseldorf
DATE OF DEATH April 29, 1984