Walter Ullmann (historian)

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Walter Ullmann (born November 29, 1910 in Pulkau , Austria-Hungary , † January 18, 1983 in Cambridge ) was a British historian of Austrian origin.

Walter Ullmann was a son of the doctor Rudolf Ullmann and Leopoldine Apfelthaler. He attended the classical grammar school in Horn and after graduating from high school he began studying law in Vienna and Innsbruck. In 1934 he received his doctorate in Innsbruck. He then worked for several years at the court in Korneuburg. The Anschluss of Austria in early 1938 prevented his habilitation with the title The essence of punishable guilt . Since Ullmann's grandfather was Jewish, he fled to England in March 1938. He got a job teaching at a Catholic boarding school in Leicestershire. In 1940 he volunteered as a war volunteer. Ullmann was deployed in the pioneer troop, but three years later he was retired for health reasons. After the war he became a Lecturer in Leeds and at the University of Cambridge in 1949 and a Fellow of Trinity College since 1959 . In 1972 he became professor of medieval history at Cambridge. Ullmann's students were Antony J. Black , Alan B. Cobban , Charles Duggan , John Gilchrist , Peter Lineham , Janet L. Nelson , Brian Tierney , Rosamond McKitterick and Michael Wilks.

Ullmann dealt primarily with the medieval history of ideas and the history of the papacy in the Middle Ages. His most successful book was The Growth of Papal Government in the Middle Ages , which deals with the relationship between secular and ecclesiastical violence in the Middle Ages. The University of Innsbruck awarded him an honorary doctorate in political science. In 1968 he was elected a member of the British Academy . Since 1977 he has been a corresponding member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences .

Ullmann married Mary Finnemore Knapp in 1940, they had two sons.

Fonts (selection)

  • The Medieval Idea of ​​Law as Represented by Lucas de Penna: A Study in Fourteenth-Century Legal Scholarship. Methuen, London 1946
  • The Growth of Papal Government in the Middle Ages: A study in the ideological relation of clerical to lay power. Methuen, London 1955
    • The power of the papacy in the Middle Ages. Idea and story. Translation by Gerlinde Möser-Mersky. Styria, Graz 1960
  • A history of political thought. The middle ages (= Pelican books. Vol. 778). Penguin Books, Harmondsworth 1965.
  • The Carolingian Renaissance and the idea of ​​kingship. Methuen, London 1969, ISBN 0-416-11770-8 .
  • * Gelasius I (492-496). The papacy at the turn of late antiquity to the Middle Ages (= popes and papacy. Vol. 18). Hiersemann, Stuttgart 1981, ISBN 3-7772-8135-2 .

literature

  • Ullmann, Walter. In: Werner Röder; Herbert A. Strauss (Ed.): International Biographical Dictionary of Central European Emigrés 1933–1945 . Volume 2.2. Saur, Munich 1983 ISBN 3-598-10089-2 , p. 1182
  • Horst Fuhrmann : Walter Ullmann, teacher "with rod and love". In: Ders .: People and Merits. A personal portrait gallery. Beck, Munich 2001, pp. 231-236, ISBN 3-406-47221-4 .
  • Horst Fuhrmann: Walter Ullmann. In: Bavarian Academy of Sciences, Yearbook 1983, pp. 198–201 ( online ).
  • John A. Watt: Walter Ullmann 1910–1983 . In: Proceedings of the British Academy , Vol. 74, 1988, pp. 483-509.
  • Raoul C. Van Caenegem: Legal historians I have known: a personal memoir. In: Rechtsgeschichte, journal of the Max Planck Institute for European Legal History. Vol. 17 (2010), pp. 253-299.

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personal data
SURNAME Ullmann, Walter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British historian of Austrian origin
DATE OF BIRTH November 29, 1910
PLACE OF BIRTH Pulkau
DATE OF DEATH January 18, 1983
Place of death Cambridge