Franz Dumont (22 January 1945 – 3 November 2012) was a German historian.
Life
Born in
Waldbröl
Waldbröl is a town in the southern part of the Oberbergischer Kreis (upper Berg county), in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.
Geography Location
The town is located on the slopes of the Nutscheid range of hills and is part of the Bergisches Land ...
, Dumont lived in Mainz from 1954 onwards and took his Abitur at the
Rabanus-Maurus-Gymnasium in Mainz in 1964. During his school years, he had already studied the history of Mainz in the late 18th century on the advice of his history teacher. He studied history, classical philology, philosophy, geography and political science at the
Bonn University
The Rhenish Friedrich Wilhelm University of Bonn (german: Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn) is a public research university located in Bonn, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It was founded in its present form as the ( en, Rhine U ...
and the
Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz
The Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (german: Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz) is a public research university in Mainz, Rhineland Palatinate, Germany, named after the printer Johannes Gutenberg since 1946. With approximately 32,000 stud ...
from 1964 to 1970. From 1971 to 1977, he was a research assistant at the University of Mainz and received his doctorate in 1978 under
Hermann Weber
Hermann Weber (23 August 1928 – 29 December 2014) was a German historian and political scientist. He has been described as "the man who knew everything about the German Democratic Republic".
Life
Early years
Hermann Weber was born into a ...
with a thesis on the
Republic of Mainz of 1792/93. From 1978 to 1979, Dumont was a research assistant at the
Archive for Christian Democratic Policy in St. Augustin near Bonn. From 1979 until his death in 2012 at the age of 67, Dumont was a
research assistant
A research assistant (RA) is a researcher employed, often on a temporary contract, by a university, a research institute or a privately held organization, for the purpose of assisting in academic or private research. Research assistants are not in ...
at the
Academy of Sciences and Literature. In December 2008, he was awarded the
Archive for Christian Democratic Policy by the city of Mainz
Römisches Kaisermedaillon
The Römische Kaisermedaillon is an award presented by the city of Mainz.
As part of the award, a replica of the , probably made in 297 AD, is being presented, with the oldest known pictorial representation of the lead medallion found in Ancient ...
.
His main areas of research were the life and work of the anatomist and naturalist
Samuel Thomas von Soemmerring
Samuel ''Šəmūʾēl'', Tiberian: ''Šămūʾēl''; ar, شموئيل or صموئيل '; el, Σαμουήλ ''Samouḗl''; la, Samūēl is a figure who, in the narratives of the Hebrew Bible, plays a key role in the transition from the bi ...
and the explorer
Georg Forster
Johann George Adam Forster, also known as Georg Forster (, 27 November 1754 – 10 January 1794), was a German naturalist, ethnologist, travel writer, journalist and revolutionary. At an early age, he accompanied his father, Johann Reinhold F ...
, the Enlightenment in Catholic Germany, Germany and the
French Revolution
The French Revolution ( ) was a period of radical political and societal change in France that began with the Estates General of 1789 and ended with the formation of the French Consulate in November 1799. Many of its ideas are conside ...
, especially the Mainz Republic and the history of the left bank of the Rhine in 1792 and from 1798 to
1814
Events January
* January 1 – War of the Sixth Coalition – The Royal Prussian Army led by Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher crosses the Rhine.
* January 3
** War of the Sixth Coalition – Siege of Cattaro: French garriso ...
as well as Mainz's medical and
history of Mainz's city. In 2007, he published the history of his 450-year-old grammar school with
Ferdinand Scherf and Meike Hensel-Grobe. Together with Ferdinand Scherf and Friedrich Schütz (1998) and with Ferdinand Scherf (2010) he was the editor of two standard works on the history of Mainz. Dumont died on 3 November 2012 at the age of 67. On 9 November 2012 he was buried at the cemetery.
Publications
A complete compilation can be found at Susanne Speth's ''Verzeichnis der Schriften von Franz Dumont.'' In ''
Mainzer Zeitschrift Mainzer is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
*Amy Mainzer (born 1974), American astronomer
*Ferdinand Mainzer (1871–1943), German-Jewish gynaecologist and historical author
*Klaus Mainzer (born 1947), German scholar and philosop ...
.'' Vol. 108, 2013, .
Monographs
* ''Die Mainzer Republik von 1792/93. Studien zur Revolutionierung in Rheinhessen und der Pfalz'' (''Alzeyer Geschichtsblätter. Sonderheft.'' 19). Publisher of the Rheinhessische Druckwerkstätte, Alzey 1982, (Zugleich: Mainz, Universität, Dissertation, 1978; 2nd, extended edition. ibid 1993, ).
Publisher
*
Samuel Thomas Soemmerring
Samuel ''Šəmūʾēl'', Tiberian: ''Šămūʾēl''; ar, شموئيل or صموئيل '; el, Σαμουήλ ''Samouḗl''; la, Samūēl is a figure who, in the narratives of the Hebrew Bible, plays a key role in the transition from the bibl ...
: ''Werke.'' Founded by Gunter Mann. Edited by
Jost Benedum
Jost Benedum (16 January 1937 – 23 December 2003) was a German historian of medecine.
Life
Benedum was born in Merzig. After the Abitur at the grammar school of St. Ingbert, Benedum studied Classical Philology at the University of Saarland ...
and Werner Friedrich Kümmel.
** Vol. 18: ''Briefwechsel 1761/65 – October 1784.'' Fischer, Stuttgart among others 1996, ;
** Vol. 19: ''Briefwechsel 1784–1792.'' Part 1: ''November 1784 – December 1786.'' Fischer, Stuttgart among others 1997, ;
** Vol. 19: ''Briefwechsel 1784–1792.'' Part 2: ''January 1787 – Oktober 1792.'' Fischer, Stuttgart among others 1998, ;
** Vol. 20: ''Briefwechsel. November 1792 – April 1805.'' Schwabe, Basel 2001, ;
** Vol. 23: ''Tagebücher. 1804/05–1812.'' Part 1: ''Frankfurt, Januar – März 1804, Munich, April 1805 – December 1808.'' Schwabe, Basel 2004, .
* with Ferdinand Scherf and
Friedrich Schütz: ''Mainz. Die Geschichte der Stadt.'' Philipp von Zabern, Mainz 1998, .
* with Ferdinand Scherf: ''Mainz – Menschen, Bauten, Ereignisse. Eine Stadtgeschichte.'' Philipp von Zabern, Mainz 2010, .
Veröffentlichungen von Franz Dumont
in the date base of the Jahresberichte für deutsche Geschichte
Further reading
* Ferdinand Scherf: ''In Memoriam Dr. Franz Dumont.'' In ''Mainzer Zeitschrift.'' Vol. 108, 2013, pp. VII–VIII.
* Ferdinand Scherf: ''Dr. Franz Dumont. Ein Forscherleben für die Mainzer Republik.'' In: Franz Dumont: ''Die Mainzer Republik 1792/93. Französischer Revolutionsexport und deutscher Demokratieversuch'' (''Schriftenreihe des Landtags Rheinland-Pfalz.'' Vol. 55). Bearbeitet von Stefan Dumont und Ferdinand Scherf. Präsident des Landtags Rheinland-Pfalz, Mainz 2013, ,
online
).
References
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20th-century German historians
Urban historians
1945 births
2012 deaths
People from Oberbergischer Kreis
21st-century German historians