Hans Rosenberg

Hans Willibald Rosenberg ( born February 26, 1904 in Hannover, † June 26, 1988 in Kirchzarten ) was a German historian.

Life

Hans Rosenberg was born as the son of a merchant of Jewish origin. Since 1910, he grew up in Cologne and became Protestant upbringing. From 1922 he studied history and philosophy in Cologne, Freiburg and Berlin. Rosenberg was the academic student of Friedrich Meinecke and John Ziekursch. Prior to 1933, he occupied himself with work on the political world of ideas of the German pre-March period, including the much-publicized essay Theological rationalism and vormärzlicher vulgar liberalism. In 1927 he was at the Friedrich- Wilhelms- University of Berlin in Meinecke on History The youth Haym. doctorate. Rosenberg habilitated in 1932 at the University of Cologne in Ziekursch about Rudolf Haym, and the beginnings of classical liberalism.

An academic career in Nazi Germany was impossible for him as a " half-Jews ". Therefore, he had to his academic activities in 1933 to give up and emigrated via England, Canada and Cuba in 1935 in the United States. In 1936 he took a job at the Liberal Arts College in Jacksonville, where he was for two years. This was followed by 21 years teaching at Brooklyn College in New York. There he taught European social and economic history since the High Middle Ages, and modern German history and wrote Bureaucracy, aristocracy, and autocracy. The Prussian experience, 1660-1815 (1958), another of his major works. In 1959 he was appointed to the University of California at Berkeley and took over the Shepard Professor of History. He retired in 1972.

In postwar Germany, he helped young German historians and political scientists to the possibility of connecting to the latest state of research and to gain the interdisciplinary discussion of methods. He was instrumental in the opening of the German historical scholarship over the questions, methods and models of systematic social science in the science of history. 1977 Hans Rosenberg finally returned to Germany. It was founded in 1977 an honorary doctorate from the University of Bielefeld and Honorary Professor at the University of Freiburg. His first published 1958 essay pseudo democratization of the landed gentry class became the guiding texts for research on the East Elbe Junker.

From the Friedrich -Ebert -Stiftung biennial prize of 5000 € Hans -Rosenberg Memorial Prize is awarded to a young scientist for exceptional research performance. Previous winners are Stephen Malinowski (2004 ) and Christian Nottmeier (2006).

Writings

• Rudolf Haym Hegel and his time. Lectures on the origin and development, the nature and value of the Hegelian philosophy. 2 to unknown documents enlarged edition, edited by Hans Rosenberg. Home, Leipzig 1927.
• The youth history Haym. Noske, Leipzig- Borna 1928 (Berlin, University, phil. Dissertation, on 22 May 1928 partial pressure ).
• As editors: Selected correspondence Haym ( = German historical sources of the 19th century vol 27, ZDB - ID 17901-2. ). German publishing house, Stuttgart and Others 1930.
• Rudolf Haym, and the beginnings of classical liberalism ( = Historical Journal. Booklet. Vol 31, ISSN 0342-5363 ). Oldenbourg, Munich et al 1933.
• The Weltwirtschaftskrisis of 1857-1859 ( = quarterly magazine for social and economic history. Beihefte. Vol 30, ISSN 0341-0846 ). Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 1934, inter alia, (2nd edition under the title: The Great Depression from 1857 to 1859 with a preliminary report ( = Small Vandenhoeck - series 1396 ) Cambridge University Press, Göttingen 1974, ISBN 3-525-33359-5. . ).
• The national political journalism in Germany. From the entrance of the new era in Prussia until the outbreak of the German war. A critical bibliography ( = Publications of the Historical Commission Empire ). 2 vols. Oldenbourg, Munich et al 1935.
• Bureaucracy, aristocracy and autocracy. The Prussian experience 1660-1815 ( Harvard Historical Monographs =. Vol. 34, ZDB - ID 255018-0 ). Harvard University Press, Cambridge MA 1958.
• Great Depression and the Bismarck era. Economic process, society and politics in Central Europe ( = Publications of the Historical Commission to Berlin at the Friedrich -Meinecke -Institut of the Freie Universität Berlin. Vol 24, ISSN 0440-9663 = publications on the history of industrialization. Vol. 2). de Gruyter, Berlin 1967.
• Problems of the German Social History ( = Edition Suhrkamp. 340 it, ISSN 0422-5821 ). Suhrkamp, Frankfurt am Main 1969.
• Political currents of thought in the German pre-March period ( = critical studies of historical science. Vol. 3). Cambridge University Press, Göttingen 1972, ISBN 3-525-35953-5 ( ISBN formally wrong ).
• Power elites and economic conjunctures. Studies on new German Social and Economic History ( = Critical studies on historiography. Vol. 31). Cambridge University Press, Göttingen 1978, ISBN 3-525-35985-3.