Ludo (Ludwig) Moritz Hartmann (2 March 1865,

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– 14 November 1924) was an

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historian,

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and Social Democrat politician. He advocated an anti-metaphysical and materialist approach to history.

Early life

He was the son of the poet

Moritz Hartmann Moritz Hartmann (15 October 1821 – 13 May 1872) was a Bohemian-Austrians, Austrian poet, politician and author. Biography Hartmann was born of Jewish parentage at Duschnik (now Trhové Dušníky) in Bohemia. His maternal grandfather, Isaac Sp ...

and his wife Bertha, daughter of Achilles Roediger, a

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n headmaster and bourgeois liberal educators. From 1872, when Ludwig was seven, his father suffered a long term illness and was often bed-ridden. One consequence of this was that he not only spent a lot of time with his father, but also met a variety of bankers, writers, scientists, doctors, artists and university professors who came to visit his father. These included the politician

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, the surgeon Theodor Billroth , the philosopher of history, Theodor Gomperz, the legal historian Adolf Exner and the historian

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. After his father's death, his mother prioritised his education with support from Bamberger. He subsequently attended

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and went on to study history, legal history and political economy at the Universities of

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and

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. Among his teachers were Otto Hirschfeld, Lujo Brentano and particularly

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Popular education

He was an advocate of popular education, establishing a 'popular university course at the People's College. There is a biennial Ludo Hartmann prize awarded by the ''Verband Österreichischer Volkshochschulen''. The Ludo-Hartmann-Platz in

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, Vienna, is named after him.

Works

In English

* (1949) ''The early mediaeval state; Byzantium, Italy and the West'' London: The Historical Association

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Hartmann, Ludo Moritz 1865 births 1924 deaths Politicians from Stuttgart People from the Kingdom of Württemberg Social Democratic Party of Austria politicians Members of the Constituent National Assembly (Austria) Members of the National Council (Austria) 20th-century Austrian historians 19th-century Austrian historians German emigrants to Austria-Hungary