Tungsten from the stones

Wolfram von den Steinen (born November 23, 1892 in Colonie Alsen , today Berlin , † November 20, 1967 in Basel ) was a German - Swiss historian .

The son of the medical doctor and explorer Karl von den Steinen studied classical philology , history and art history at the universities of Lausanne , Heidelberg , Leipzig , Berlin and Marburg . He received his doctorate in 1921 under Friedrich Wolters in Marburg. In 1928 he received his habilitation at the University of Basel , where he was appointed associate professor for medieval source studies and general history of the Middle Ages in 1938. He was close to the George circle and its ideas without having been in personal contact with Stefan George . As a historian, he portrayed great people of the Middle Ages. In 1954 he was awarded the Lake Constance Literature Prize of the city of Überlingen. At the same time, he was the first prize winner.

Fonts (selection)

• The empire of Frederick the Second. According to the views of his state letters. de Gruyter, Berlin et al. 1922.
• Emperor Henry the Second, the Holy. Bamberger Tagblatt, Bamberg 1924.
• From the Holy Spirit of the Middle Ages. Anselm of Canterbury, Bernhard of Clairvaux. Shepherd, Breslau 1926.
• Saints and heroes of the Middle Ages. Hirt, Breslau 1926–1928;
  • Francis and Dominic. Life and writings. 1926;
  • Bernard of Clairvaux. Life and letters. 1926;
  • Dante Alighieri. The monarchy. 1926;
  • Charlemagne. Life and letters. 1928;
  • Otto the Great. 1928.
• Theodoric and Clovis. A chapter of German world history. Mohr, Tübingen 1933.
• To the Palatinate. A Basel ghost dance . Von den Steinen, Basel 1938.
• Luck and misfortune in world history. Burg-Verlag, Basel 1943.
• Millennial hymns (= Kentaur-Druck. 6, ZDB -ID 2519438-0 ). Transferred, initiated and provided with scholia. Pantheon, Friborg et al. 1944.
• Notker the poet and his spiritual world. Francke, Bern 1948.
• The age of Goethe. Francke, Bern 1949.
• Kitsch and Truth in History. (= History and politics. 7, ZDB -ID 532466-X ). Steiner, Laupheim 1953.
• The futile in world history (= history and politics. 9). Steiner, Laupheim 1954.
• Canossa. Heinrich IV. And the Church (= Janus Books. 5, ISSN  0447-3485 ). Oldenbourg, Munich 1957.
• The cosmos of the Middle Ages. From Charlemagne to Bernhard von Clairvaux . Francke, Bern 1959.
• Over time . Angelus print, Bern 1962.
• Homo caelestis. The word of art in the Middle Ages. Francke, Bern 1965.
• People in the Middle Ages - Collected research, considerations, images . Bern, Munich: Francke 1967

literature

• Bernhard Böschenstein , Jürgen Egyptien , Bertram Schefold , Wolfgang Graf Vitzthum (eds.): Scientists in the George circle. The world of the poet and the profession of science. de Gruyter, Berlin et al. Berlin 2005, ISBN 3-11-018304-8 .
• Jan Keupp :  Wolfram von den Steinen. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 25, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2013, ISBN 978-3-428-11206-7 , p. 176 f. ( Digitized version ).

Web links

• Literature by and about Wolfram von den Steinen in the catalog of the German National Library
• David Marc Hoffmann: Wolfram von den Steinen. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
• Wolfram von den Steinen in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely available)
• Wolfram von den Steinen estate in the Basel University Library
• Wolfram von den Steinen in the Basel Literary Archive of the Basel University Library