Winfried Dotzauer

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Winfried Dotzauer (* 1936 ; † November 27, 2016 ) was a German historian .

Winfried Dotzauer studied German, history and law. He received his doctorate in Mainz in 1962 with a thesis on the county of Sponheim . He was a scholarship holder at the Institute for European History in Mainz . In 1966 he became a research assistant. His habilitation from 1973 was devoted to the Freemason Societies on the Rhine. In 1976 he held a substitute professorship at Saarland University . From 1977 to 2001 he was scientific advisor and professor at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz . In 1978 he was awarded the German Freemasons ' Culture Prize.

His main research and work areas were the history of Enlightenment societies , source studies, the imperial districts and the territorial history of Rheinhessen , Hunsrück and Moselle . In 1996 he presented a source study on German history in the late Middle Ages . In 1998 Dotzauer published a work on the German imperial circles from 1383 to 1806.

Fonts

  • History of the Nahe-Hunsrück area from the beginning to the French Revolution. Steiner, Stuttgart 2001, ISBN 3-515-07878-9 .
  • The German Imperial Circles (1383–1806). History and file edition. Steiner, Stuttgart 1998, ISBN 3-515-07146-6 .
  • Source studies on German history in the late Middle Ages (1350–1500). Scientific Book Society, Darmstadt 1996, ISBN 3-534-10970-8 .
  • The historical area of ​​the federal state of Rhineland-Palatinate from 1500–1815. The princely politics for empire and country, their crises and collapses (= European university publications. Vol. 538). Lang, Frankfurt am Main et al. 1993, ISBN 3-631-45607-7 .
  • Masonic societies on the Rhine. Enlightened law firms on the left bank of the Rhine from the exit of the Ancien Régime to the end of Napoleonic rule (= historical regional studies. Publications of the Institute for Historical Regional Studies at the University of Mainz. Vol. 16). Steiner, Wiesbaden 1977, ISBN 3-515-02517-0 .
  • The front county of Sponheim as a Palatinate-Baden condominium 1437–1707 / 08. The development to the Kurpfälzischen Oberamt Kreuznach with special consideration of the Baden condominium factor. Raab, Bad Kreuznach 1963.

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Remarks

  1. ↑ See the review by Pierre Monnet in: Revue de l'Institut français d'histoire en Allemagne 1998 ( online )
  2. ↑ See the discussions by Harm Klueting in: Historische Zeitschrift 270 (2000), pp. 696f .; Thomas Schuld in: Geschichte in Köln 29 (1991), pp. 172-173.
personal data
SURNAME Dotzauer, Winfried
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian
DATE OF BIRTH 1936
DATE OF DEATH November 27, 2016