Helmut Koenigsberger

Helmut Georg Koenigsberger, even Königsberg ( born October 24, 1918 in Berlin, † March 8, 2014, in London ) was a British historian, the history of the early modern period ( 16th and 17th centuries ) dedicated himself, especially in the Netherlands.

Life

Helmut Georg Koenigsberger, the son of the architect Georg Felix Konigsberg (1873 - 1932) and by Käthe Born (1884 - 1953, sister of Max Born), fled in 1934 as a Jew from Nazi persecution to England. He studied at Cambridge University ( Gonville and Caius College), where he in 1940 with a BA in 1944 and received his master's degree in 1948 received his doctorate. 1941 to 1944 he was a teacher in Essex and Bedford. From 1948 to 1951 he was a lecturer at Queen's University Belfast. He taught at the University of Manchester, at the University of Nottingham (Professor of Modern History 1960-1966 ), Cornell University ( Professor of European History 1966-1973 ) and as a fellow and professor at King's College, University of London.

Koenigsberger explored in particular " the different varieties of old European, primarily urban and small government Republicanism ". Since 1955 he was Secretary General of the International Commission for the History of Representative and Parliamentary Institutions, 1980 to 1985, he served as its president. He wrote articles for The New Cambridge Modern History. In the late 1960s he founded with John Elliott, the series Cambridge Studies in Early Modern History and was its editor.

Koenigsberger was married to the historian Dorothy M. Romano since 1938 and has twin daughters. His hobbies were sailing and chamber music.

Writings

Monographs

  • ( with George L. Mosse ): Europe in the sixteenth century. Holt, Rinehart and Winston, New York 1968.
  • The Practice of Empire. The Government of Sicily under Philip II of Spain. Cornell University Press 1969.
  • The Habsburgs and Europe, 1516-1660. Cornell University Press 1971.
  • Estates and revolutions. Essays in early modern European history. Cornell University Press 1971.
  • Politicians and virtuosi. Essays in early modern history. Hambledon Press, London 1986. ISBN 0-907628-65-6.
  • In the series History of Europe, edited together with Asa Briggs: Medieval Europe: 400-1500. Longman, Harlow 1987. ISBN 0-582-49403-6.
  • Early Modern Europe: 1500-1789. Longman, Harlow 1987. ISBN 0-582-49402-8.

Publications as editor

  • Luther. A profile. Macmillan 1973.
  • ( with Elisabeth Müller- Luckner ): Republics and republicanism in early modern Europe. Oldenbourg, München 1988. ISBN 3-486-54341-5.

Papers (selection)

  • The organization of revolutionary parties in France and the Netherlands falling on the sixteenth century. In: Journal of Modern History, Volume 27, 1955, pp. 335-351.
  • Western Europe and the Power of Spain. In: Richard Bruce Wernham (ed.): Counter -Reformation and Price Revolution ( 1559-1610 ). ( = The New Cambridge Modern History, Vol 3) Cambridge University Press 1968, pp. 234-318.
  • The crisis of the 17th century. In: Journal of Historical Research, Volume 9, 1982, p 143-165
  • Prince and the States General: Maximilian I in the Netherlands ( 1477-1493 ). In: Historical Journal, Volume 242, 1986, pp. 557-579.
  • The empire of Charles V in Europe. In: Geoffrey Rudolph Elton (ed.): The Reformation 1520-1559. ( = The New Cambridge Modern History, Vol 2) Cambridge University Press, 1990, pp. 339-376.
  • " Riksdag ", " Parliament" and the States-General in the 16th and 17th centuries. In: Journal of Historical Research, Volume 17, 1990, pp. 305-325.
  • Compound states, representative assemblies and the American War of Independence. In: Journal of Historical Research, Volume 18, 1991, pp. 399-423.
  • Parliaments and Estates. In: RW Davis, The Origins of modern freedom in the West, Stanford University Press, 1995, pp. 135-177.
  • The powers of Deputies in sixteenth century assemblies. In: Album Helen Maud Cam, University of Leuven, 1961, pp. 211-243.
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