Otto Hintze

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Otto Hintze speaks (Berlin, 1913)

Otto Hintze (August 27, 1861 – April 25, 1940) was a German

University of Berlin. Influenced by Ernst Troeltsch and Max Weber, he emphasized the continuity and rationality of Western institutions.[1]

Biography

Hintze was born in the small town of Pyritz (Pyrzyce) in the Province of Pomerania, the son of a civil servant. From 1878 to 1879, Hintze studied history, philosophy and philology in Greifswald. Here he joined the fraternity Germania.

Hintze came to

Hohenzollern dynasty for their ruling anniversary in 1915.[2] Hintze was retired from the university in 1920 due to health reasons.[3]

Hintze ceased publishing after the

Nazis
.

Legacy

Since the 1960s, there has been deeper research into Hintze's oeuvre, as signified by Gerhard Oestreich’s detailed new work on him. The historians Jürgen Kocka and Felix Gilbert agree that, in their opinion, he could possibly be the most significant German historian of the German Empire and of the Weimar Republic.[6]

Hintze is considered an influential figure in the state formation literature, particularly among advocates for "bellicist" state formation theories. Bellicist theories hold that war and preparation for war played a key causal role in the development of the modern European state.[7][3][8]

Works

  • Das Königtums Wilhelms von Holland, Leipzig 1885
  • Die Preußische Seidenindustrie im 18. Jahrhundert und ihre Begründung durch Friedrich den Großen, 3 Volumes, Berlin 1892
  • Einleitende Darstellung der Behördenorganisation und allgemeinen Verwaltung in Preußen beim Regierungsamt Friedrichs II., Berlin 1901
  • Staatsverfassung und Heeresverfassung. Vortrag gehalten in der Gehe-Stiftung zu Dresden am 17. Februar 1906, Dresden 1906
  • Historische und politische Aufsätze, 10 Volumes, Berlin 1908
  • Monarchisches Prinzip und konstitutionelle Verfassung, in: Preußische Jahrbücher, Volume 144 (1911)
  • Die englischen Weltherrschaftspläne und der gegenwärtige Krieg, Berlin 1914
  • Die Hohenzollern und ihr Werk, Verlag: A. Steiger, Solingen 1915
  • Deutschland und der Weltkrieg, 2 Volumes, Leipzig 1916
  • Wesen und Verbreitung des Feudalismus, in: Sitzungsberichte der Preußischen Akademie der Wissenschaften (1929)

In English

  • The Historical Essays of Otto Hintze, ed. Felix Gilbert. Oxford University Press, 1975, .
A person holding Otto Hintze’s book Die Hohenzollern und ihr Werk

References

Further reading

  • Gerhard, Dietrich. "Otto Hintze: His Work and His Significance in Historiography" Central European History (1970), Vol. 3 Issue 1/2, pp 17–48.

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