Wilhelm Lenz (historian, 1939)

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Wilhelm Lenz (born July 11, 1939 in Riga ; † February 18, 2020 in Koblenz ) was a German historian and archivist of German Baltic origin.

Life

Wilhelm Lenz comes from a German-Baltic family. His parents were the historian Wilhelm Lenz and Ilse von Boetticher .

Lenz completed his schooling between 1946 and 1959 in Hechthausen and Stade . From 1959 to 1966 he studied history and Latin philology at the Universities of Marburg (where he became a member of the German-Baltic Corona Dorpatensis Association ), Göttingen and with Paul Johansen at the Department of History at the University of Hamburg . After completing the doctorate as Dr. phil. and the legal clerkship for the higher archival service, he worked at the State Archives Oldenburg and then on behalf ofGerman-British historians in London compiling a list of sources. Further professional positions were the Göttingen State Archive Camp , the Conseil International des Archives in Paris and the Koblenz Federal Archives . Lenz was 1973 Senior Archive 1991 Archive Director and 1999 Senior archive director . In 2004 he retired.

Lenz had been a corresponding member of the Johann Gottfried Herder Research Council since 1981 . Lenz has been a member of the Baltic Historical Commission since 1967, honorary member since 2016, board member since 1971 and treasurer since 1983. In addition, since 1977 he has been editor of the Carl Schirren Society's series of publications .

Publications (selection)

In addition to numerous treatises on Baltic history, Lenz u. a. the following works published:

  • Riga between the Roman Empire and Poland-Lithuania in the years 1558–1582. (= Scientific contributions to the history and regional studies of Eastern Central Europe. Volume 82), Marburg 1968 ( dissertation )
  • Archival sources on German history since 1500 in Great Britain. (= Publications of the German Historical Institute in London , Volume 1), Boppard 1975
  • with Paul Kaegbein : Four decades of Baltic historical research. Goettingen 1987
  • with Paul Kaegbein: Fifty Years of Baltic Historical Research 1947–1996. Mare Balticum, Cologne 1997

literature

  • Bastian Filaretow: Lexicon of German Baltic Scientists. A biographical-bibliographical handbook. Cologne 1994
  • Paul Kaegbein, Wilhelm Lenz: Four decades of Baltic historical research. Goettingen 1987
  • Paul Kaegbein, Wilhelm Lenz: Fifty Years of Baltic Historical Research 1947–1996. Mare Balticum, Cologne 1997
  • Alfred Schönfeldt : Corona Dorpatensis Marburg. Album fratrum 1947-1967. [Marburg 1967]
personal data
SURNAME Lenz, Wilhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian and archivist of German Baltic origin
DATE OF BIRTH July 11, 1939
PLACE OF BIRTH Riga
DATE OF DEATH February 18, 2020
Place of death Koblenz