Erich Marcks (historian)

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Portrait of Erich Marcks by Leopold Graf von Kalckreuth

Erich Marcks (17 November 1861 – 22 November 1938) was a German historian.

Life and career

Born in

Social War (91-87 BC). Under the influence of Hermann Baumgarten and Heinrich von Treitschke, he oriented himself towards modern and contemporary history and habilitated in 1887 in Berlin with the latter on Gaspard II de Coligny and the Assassination of Francis, Duke of Guise
, supplemented by the essays he had submitted up to that time.

In 1892, the

Berlin, where he taught until his retirement
in 1928.

From his time in Leipzig, Marcks was a member of the

Saxon Academy of Sciences from 1898.[1] From 1898, he was a corresponding member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities[2] and, in addition, from 1923, president of the Historical Commission at the Bavarian Academy of Sciences. From 1922, he was a full member of the Prussian Academy of Sciences,[3] In 1936, he became a member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences. From 1902 to 1903, he was chairman of the Verband der Historiker und Historikerinnen Deutschlands [de]. In 1900, he received the Knight's Cross 1st Class of the Civil Order of Saxony, in 1903 the Knight's Cross 1st Class with Oak Leaves of the Order of the Zähringer Lion
of Baden.

From 1910, Marcks was co-editor of the Historische Zeitschrift alongside his friend Friedrich Meinecke, together with whom he was also appointed Historiographer of the Prussian State [de] in 1922.

Although Marcks, as a Neo-Rankean, was an avowed follower of

Reich Chancellor as the consummator of German history and with which Marcks showed himself to be a herald of the authoritarian power state. [4]

The

Third Reich regarded Marcks as a contemporary re-establishment of the Bismarck Empire, and so in 1935 he became an honorary member of Walter Frank's National Socialist Reichsinstitut für Geschichte des neuen Deutschlands [de]. In addition, in 1936 he was honoured with the Adlerschild des Deutschen Reiches, the highest civilian award of the German Reich instituted by the Weimar Republic..[5]

Marcks' marriage to Friederike von Sellin (born 1865) in 1889 produced three sons, Albert, who died in the First World War in 1914, Erich, later a general, and Otto. The daughter Gertrud (Gerta) married Marcks' pupil Willy Andreas [de]. A cousin of Erich Marcks was the sculptor and graphic artist Gerhard Marcks.[6]

Marcks died, just a few days after his 77th birthday, on 22 November 1938 in Berlin. His grave at the

Berlin-Westend (Field-8B-35/36) was cleared after 2005.[7]

Publications

  • Die Überlieferung des Bundesgenossenkrieges 91–89 v. Chr. Elwert, Marburg 1884 (Dissertation University of Straßburg 1884, 92 pages).
  • Gaspard von Coligny. Sein Leben und das Frankreich seiner Zeit.[8] Stuttgart 1892.
  • Kaiser Wilhelm I. Leipzig 1897, 9th edition 1943.
  • Königin Elisabeth von England und ihre Zeit. Bielefeld 1897.
  • Die Zusammenkunft von Bayonne. Das französische Staatsleben und Spanien in den Jahren 1563–1567. Straßburg 1898.
  • Bismarck. Eine Biographie. First volume: Bismarcks Jugend 1815–1848. Stuttgart 1909.
  • Männer und Zeiten. Aufsätze und Reden zur neueren Geschichte. 2 volumes. Leipzig 1911, 7th edition 1941.
  • Otto von Bismarck – ein Lebensbild. Stuttgart 1915, 28th edition 1935.
  • Geschichte und Gegenwart. 5 Historisch-politische Reden. Stuttgart 1925.
  • (contribution) Das Zeitalter der religiösen Umwälzung. Reformation und Gegenreformation. 1550–1660 (= Propyläen Weltgeschichte. Volume 5), Berlin 1930.
  • Der Aufstieg des Reiches. Deutsche Geschichte von 1807–1871/78. 2 volumes. Volume 1: Die Vorstufen. Volume 2: Bismarck. Deutsche Verlagsanstalt, Stuttgart 1936.
  • Bismarck und die deutsche Revolution 1848–1851. Edited from the estate and introduced by Willy Andreas. Deutsche Verlagsanstalt, Stuttgart 1939.
  • Englands Machtpolitik. Vorträge und Studien. New ed. and introduced by Willy Andreas. Deutsche Verlagsanstalt, Stuttgart 1940.

Further reading

  • Willy Andreas: "Erich Marcks. Eine Würdigung zu seinem 100. Geburtstag." In Archiv für Kulturgeschichte [de] 44, 1962, p. 27-33.
  • Dagmar Drüll: Heidelberger Gelehrtenlexikon 1803–1932. Springer, Berlin / Heidelberg 1986,
    ISBN 3-540-15856-1
    , p. 171.
  • Peter Fuchs (1990), "Marcks, Erich", Neue Deutsche Biographie (in German), vol. 16, Berlin: Duncker & Humblot, pp. 122–125; (full text online)
  • Otto Jacobsen: Erich Marcks. Soldat und Gelehrter. Musterschmidt, Göttingen/Frankfurt 1971,
    ISBN 3-7881-1653-6
    .
  • Hans-Heinz Krill: Die Rankerenaissance. Max Lenz und Erich Marcks. Ein Beitrag zum historisch-politischen Denken in Deutschland 1880–1935 (Veröffentlichungen der Berliner Historischen Kommission beim Friedrich-Meinecke-Institut der Freien Universität Berlin, 3). De Gruyter, Berlin 1962.
  • Jens Nordalm: Historismus und moderne Welt. Erich Marcks (1861–1938) in der deutschen Geschichtswissenschaft (Historische Forschungen, 76). Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2003,
    ISBN 3-428-10999-6
    .
  • Karl Stählin [de]: "Erich Marcks zum Gedächtnis." In Historische Zeitschrift, 160, 1939, pp. 496–533.
  • ISBN 3-8204-8005-6
    , pp. 363–364.

References

  1. ^ Member Directory of the Academy.
  2. ^ Member Directory of the Academy Archived 2016-12-03 at the Wayback Machine.
  3. ^ Erich Marcks on Berlin Akademie der Wissenschaften
  4. ^ Alexander Schmid-Gernig: Historians' Gallery of the Institute of Historical Studies: Erich Marcks (1861-1938). Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, 10 November 1997.
  5. ^ Erich Marcks’ Medaille trug den Text: "em verdienten deutschen Geschichtsschreiber". Wolfgang Steguweit
  6. ^ Herrmann A. L. Degener (ed.): Who is who? [de] Our contemporaries. 10th edition 1935.
  7. ISBN 978-3-86514-206-1
    , p. 491.
  8. ^ Gaspard von Coligny. Sein Leben und das Frankreich seiner Zeit on WorldCat

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