Wolfgang Küttler

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Wolfgang Küttler (2019)

Wolfgang Küttler (born April 8, 1936 in Altenburg ) is a German historian .

Life

Wolfgang Küttler was born as the son of the teacher Ilse Küttler, b. Burger and the director of studies Otto Küttler. He attended elementary school in Gotha from 1942 to 1950 and then the Arnoldi high school, where he passed his Abitur in 1954. From 1954 to 1958, he studied history and history at the Friedrich Schiller University (FSU) in Jena . a. with Irmgard Höß , Friedrich Schneider , Max Steinmetz and Erich Donnert and Philology ( Latin ). He wrote his diploma thesis The Pope Policy in Hungary and Bohemia in the 10th and 11th Centuries with Irmgard Höß and Erich Donnert. From 1958 to 1964, Küttler worked as a research assistant and senior assistant at the Institute for History at FSU. From 1964 to 1967 he taught and researched as an assistant and senior assistant at the Karl Marx University (KMU) in Leipzig at the Institute for the History of European People's Democracies . In 1966 he was on the SMEs with a dissertation on the subject of patricians, citizen opposition and popular movement in Riga in the second half of the 16th century. To Dr. phil. PhD . Reviewers were Erich Donnert and Max Steinmetz.

Küttler worked from 1967 to 1991 at the Institute for History of the German Academy of Sciences in Berlin (DAW). With the academy reform in 1972, it became the Academy of Sciences of the GDR (AdW) and the institute became the Central Institute for History at the AdW . Initially, Küttler worked in a "Department for the History of Russia" headed by Erich Donnert, from 1969 he was an employee, from 1974 as successor to Ernst Engelberg the head of the research center, later the department "Theory and Methodology of History" at the Central Institute for History the AdW. In 1976, Küttler's habilitation (doctorate B) to become Dr. sc. phil. with the work of Lenin's formation analysis of civil society in Russia before 1905 with Ernst Engelberg and Heinz Heitzer . In 1978 Wolfgang Küttler was appointed professor of history at the AdW. In 1990 he was elected a corresponding member by the learned society of the AdW. From 1980 to 1990 he held lectures on the theory and methodology of history as a visiting professor at the Humboldt University in Berlin (HUB). From 1974 to 1991, Küttler was head of the research department, later of the department “Theory and Methodology of History” at the Central Institute for History at the AdW.

From 1990 until the liquidation on December 31, 1991, Küttler was the last director of the Institute for German History at the AdW. From 1992 to 2001 he worked as a research assistant at the research area History of Science and Philosophy of Science of the Max Planck Society (MPG) and then until 2001 at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin in the department headed by Lorraine Daston .

Küttler's research and teaching activities include Eastern European history, especially in the early modern period (until the mid-1970s), comparative revolutionary history of the modern era (until 1989), methodology and history of historical studies and the theoretical history of Marxism.

Wolfgang Küttler, 2019

Küttler was a member of the Council for History of the GDR and the Council for Philosophy of the GDR. In 1989 he became a member of the Academia Europaea and a corresponding member of the learned society of the Academy of Sciences of the GDR . In 1993 he was one of the founding members of the Leibniz Society of Sciences in Berlin and became a member of its scientific advisory board. In 2012 he was awarded the Daniel Ernst Jablonski Medal by the Leibniz Society.

Küttler has been retired since 2001. He lives with his wife in Berlin.

Publications and editions (selection)

  • Patriciate, citizen opposition and popular movement in Riga in the second half of the 16th century. Karl Marx University Leipzig, Phil. Faculty, dissertation, Leipzig 1966.
  • Lenin's analysis of the formation of civil society in Russia before 1905. A contribution to the theory and method of historical research into social formations. Akademie Verlag, Berlin 1978; Topos-Verlag, Vaduz / Liechtenstein 1978, ISBN 978-3-289-00162-3 .
  • Heinz Heitzer ; Wolfgang Küttler: A revolution in historical thinking . Marx, Engels, Lenin and the science of history. Dietz Verlag, Berlin 1983.
  • Max Weber and History. Possibility and limits of late bourgeois historical perspectives. (= Report of the meeting of the Academy of Sciences of the GDR. Social sciences 1988 , No. 13). Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1989, ISBN 978-3-05-000683-3 .
  • Wolfgang Eichhorn ; Wolfgang Küttler: "... that reason is in history" - formation history and revolutionary awakening of mankind. Dietz Verlag, Berlin 1989, ISBN 978-3-320-01364-6 .
  • Herbert Hörz (ed.); Wolfgang Küttler; Karl-Heinz Nowack: Historiography history as methodology history - honorary colloquium on the occasion of the 80th birthday of academician Ernst Engelberg . Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1991, ISBN 978-3-05-001832-4 .
  • The social formation process as a dialectic of common and private property. In: formation theory and history. In: History Discourse. Volume 1: Basics and methods of historiography. Ed .: Wolfgang Küttler, Jörn Rüsen , Ernst Schulin . Fischer Taschenbuchverlag, Frankfurt (Main) 1992, ISBN 978-3-596-11475-7 .
  • Marxist history today. In: Ilko-Sascha Kowalczuk (Hrsg.): Paradigms of German History. Lecture series at the Humboldt University of Berlin, Berlin 1994, pp. 211–235.
  • History theory and methodology in the GDR. In: Zeitschrift für Geschichtswwissenschaft (ZfG) 42/1994, no. 1.
  • Formation theory and modernity. (= Meeting reports of the Leibniz-Sozietät , vol. 8, year 1996).
  • with Wolfgang Eichhorn : Thinking history in possible perspectives. Formation development in the 19th and 20th centuries. (= Meeting reports of the Leibniz Society , Volume 34, year 1999). trafo Verlag, Berlin 1999, ISBN 3-89626-214-9 .
  • The thought of formation in Karl Marx's late work and the perspectives of social change. (= Meeting reports of the Leibniz Society , Volume 37, year 2000).
  • with Wolfgang Eichhorn : What is history? - Current tendencies in the philosophy of history and the science of history. (= Treatises of the Leibniz-Sozietät , vol. 19, year 2008), ISBN 3-89626-626-8 .
  • Philosophy of history and science of history. (= Treatises of the Leibniz Society of Sciences in Berlin , vol. 19, year 2008).
  • History and transdisciplinarity. On the social responsibility of the historical sciences. In: Lifis online (April 24, 2010), www.leibniz-institut.de, ISSN  1864-6972 .
  • Formation, revolution and transformation. How is it possible to create a reasonable history? In: “… that reason is in history.” Honorary colloquium on the 85th birthday of Wolfgang Eichhorn (MLS). (= Meeting reports of the Leibniz-Sozietät , vol. 128), Berlin 2016, ISBN 978-3-86464-134-3 .

as editor (selection)

  • as ed. with Ernst Engelberg : Formation theory and history. Studies on the historical analysis of social formations in the work of Marx, Engels and Lenin. Berlin 1978.
  • as editor: The historical-scientific legacy of Karl Marx. Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1983; Topos-Verlag, Vaduz / Liechtenstein 1983, ISBN 978-3-289-00277-4 .
  • as publisher: social theory and historical-scientific explanation. Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1985; Topos-Verlag, Vaduz / Liechtenstein 1985, ISBN 978-3-289-00320-7 .
  • as publisher: Marxist typification and ideal-typical method in historical studies. Central Institute for History of the AdW, Berlin 1986.
  • as editor with Jörn Rüsen; Ernst Schulin: Discourse on history. 5 vols. Fischer Taschenbuchverlag, Frankfurt (Main) 1993–1999, ISBN 978-3-596-11475-7 ; 978-3-596-11476-4; 978-3-596-11477-1; 978-3-596-11478-8; 978-3-596-14075-6.
  • as editor with Wolfgang Fritz Haug ; Frigga Haug and Peter Jehle : Historical-Critical Dictionary of Marxism. Argument Verlag, Hamburg 1994 ff.
  • as ed. with Helmut Meier: Are there any settled questions about history? Contribution to a scientific colloquium on the occasion of Walter Schmidt's 65th birthday on July 1, 1995 in Berlin. trafo Wissenschaftsverlag, Berlin 1996, pp. 144–168.
  • as publisher: 300 years of the Academy. (= Meeting reports of the Leibniz Society of Sciences in Berlin , Volume 34, year 1999). trafo-Verlag Dr. Wolfgang Weist, Berlin 2000, ISBN 978-3-89626-214-1 .

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personal data
SURNAME Küttler, Wolfgang
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian
DATE OF BIRTH April 8, 1936
PLACE OF BIRTH Altenburg