Rudolf Kötzschke

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Rudolf Kötzschke (8 July 1867 – 3 August 1949) was a German historian who founded the Seminar for Regional History and Settlement Studies in Leipzig, the first regional history institution at a German university.

Life and career

Rudolf Kötzschke gravesite at the Südfriedhof in Leipzig

Born in

University of Leipzig, majoring in Latin and history and minoring in German, geography, Sanskrit and Ancient Greek; in the summer of 1887, he studied for a semester at the University of Tübingen. In Leipzig, he became a member of the Leipziger Universitäts-Sängerschaft zu St. Pauli in Mainz [de] (now in the Deutsche Sängerschaft).[1] In 1889, he was awarded a doctorate in Leipzig with a thesis on Ruprecht von der Pfalz und das Konzil zu Pisa, the following year he passed the Staatsexamen. Subsequently, Kötzschke initially worked as a teacher at a Dresden and a Leipzig grammar school until the historian Karl Lamprecht
brought him to Leipzig in 1894. In 1896, Kötzschke became an assistant at the Königlich Sächsischen Kommission für Geschichte.

In 1899, Kötzschke habilitated in Leipzig for "middle and modern history, in particular for Saxon regional history", the subject of the habilitation was Studien zu Verwaltungsgeschichte der Grundherrschaft Werden. Besides Lamprecht,

Machtergreifung by the Nazis as a landmark in German history.[4] In November 1933 he signed the Vow of allegiance of the Professors of the German Universities and High-Schools to Adolf Hitler and the National Socialistic State
.

He became an emeritus professor in 1935. In the same year, he became a member of the

Sächsische Akademie der Wissenschaften. His successor in Leipzig was the Austrian Adolf Helbok in 1935. As an academic teacher, Kötzschke supervised over 100 doctoral theses from 1906 until his retirement.[5] Important academic students were Karlheinz Blaschke [de], Heinz Quirin [de], Herbert Helbig [de] and Walter Schlesinger. In 1942, Kötzschke was admitted as a corresponding member of the Prussian Academy of Sciences.[6]
After World War II, Kötzschke was again entrusted with the direction of the Institute for German Regional and Folk History from 1946 to 1949, which was reopened on 7 October 1946. Kötzschke continued to teach at the University of Leipzig until shortly before his death on 3 August 1949 and endeavoured to rebuild the destroyed seminar library.

Kötzschke became the founder of regional historical research as a scientific discipline. He is considered an expert on medieval economic history, especially agricultural and settlement history. His publications such as the Economic History of the Middle Ages, the Saxon History up to the Reformation Period and the Rural Settlement and Agrarianism in Saxony are the culmination of his research. The Rudolf Kötzschke Society was founded in 1994. Kötzschke's work during the Nazi period was first discussed in detail in a volume published in 1999.[7]

Kötzschke died in Leipzig at the age of 82.

Publications

Further reading

References

  1. ^ Walter Seidel, Willmar Sichler: Verzeichnis der Mitglieder des Verbandes der Alten Pauliner in Leipzig. Nach dem Stande vom 1. Mai 1937. Verband der Alten Pauliner, Leipzig, 1937, p. 26.
  2. ISBN 978-3-631-63542-1
    , p. 181.
  3. ^ Enno Bünz: Ein Landeshistoriker im 20. Jahrhundert. Rudolf Kötzschke (1867-1949) between methodological innovation and popular history. In Blätter für deutsche Landesgeschichte 141/142 (2005/2006), pp. 347–367, here p. 358.
  4. ^ Esther Ludwig: Rudolf Kötzschke - Das schwere Bemühen um die Bewahrung der "unantastbaren Reinheit des geschichtlichen Sinnes". In Wieland Held, Uwe Schirmer: (ed.): Rudolf Kötzschke und das Seminar für Landesgeschichte und Siedlungskunde an der Universität Leipzig. Home of Saxon Regional Studies. Beucha 1999, pp. 21–70, here p. 46 with note 83.
  5. ^ Enno Bünz: Ein Landeshistoriker im 20. Jahrhundert. Rudolf Kötzschke (1867-1949) between methodological innovation and popular history. In Blätter für deutsche Landesgeschichte 141/142 (2005/2006), pp. 347–367, here p. 366.
  6. ^ "Rudolf Kötzschke". Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften (in German). Retrieved 9 January 2021.
  7. ^ Wieland Held, Uwe Schirmer (ed.): Rudolf Kötzschke und das Seminar für Landesgeschichte und Siedlungskunde an der Universität Leipzig. Home of Saxon Regional Studies. Beucha 1999. Cf. the review by Enno Bünz [de] in the Zeitschrift des Vereins für Thüringische Geschichte vol. 55 (2001), pp. 426–430.
  8. ^ Deutsche und Slaven im mitteldeutschen Osten. Ausgewählte Aufsätze. on WorldCat

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