Friedrich Baethgen

Friedrich Jürgen Baethgen ( born July 30, 1890 in Greifswald, † June 18, 1972 in Munich) was a German historian and medievalist.

Friedrich Baethgen came from a family of scholars. His father was a professor of theology, Friedrich Baethgen. In Heidelberg he passed the Abitur. Subsequently, he studied history in Berlin and Heidelberg. It was in 1913 when Karl Hampe about the reign of Pope Innocent III. doctorate in the Kingdom of Sicily. With his supervisor he remained closely connected to his death also by supervised the German imperial history in the time of the Salian and Hohenstaufen and revised. In World War I he was a medical orderly. 1920 Baethgen habilitation with a thesis on the claim of the Popes to the kingdom Vicariate. From 1920 to 1923 he was a permanent employee of the Monumenta Historica Germaniae and took on the edition of the Chronicle of John of Winterthur. Baethgen worked as a lecturer and associate professor in Heidelberg. His research focus was the history of the papacy; In 1927, he was Second Secretary of the German Historical Institute in Rome. He was also an honorary professor in Berlin. In the Weimar Republic, he was temporarily on the DNVP.

Nine years after his habilitation Baethgen 1929 as the successor to Erich Caspar Professor of History at Königsberg was. Numerous promising method had failed. From 1939 to 1948, taught Baethgen in Berlin. There he became in 1942 a member of the Wednesday Club. Baetghen was not a member of the Nazi Party, SS or SA. He joined in 1935 only the NSA and the VDA on. From 1948 to 1959 Baethgen President of the Monumenta Historica Germaniae, the resident of Munich were under his aegis in 1949, where he simultaneously took an honorary professorship. He was awarded by the University of Rome, an honorary doctorate. In 1950 he became a member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences. From 1956 to 1964 he was also its president. Since 1948 he was a member of the Historical Commission of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences, whose department " yearbooks of the German history," he directed from 1948 to 1960. In 1959, the Bavarian Order of Merit he was awarded. 1964, the Federal Cross of Merit he was awarded with Star and Sash. Baethgen remained unmarried.

Writings

  • Mediaevalia. Essays, obituaries, meetings ( writings of the Monumenta Historica Germaniae, Volume 17 ). Hiersemann, Stuttgart 1960.
  • The reign of Pope Innocent III. in the Kingdom of Sicily. Heidelberg 1914.
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