Peter Baumgart (born 7 September 1931) is a German historian.

Life

Born in Berlin, Baumgart was promoted D. ph in 1956 in historical thinking at the

Free University of Berlin The Free University of Berlin (, often abbreviated as FU Berlin or simply FU) is a public university, public research university in Berlin, Germany. It was founded in West Berlin in 1948 with American support during the early Cold War period a ...

with a work supervised by Carl Hinrichs on

Zinzendorf Nikolaus Ludwig, Reichsgraf von Zinzendorf und Pottendorf (26 May 1700 – 9 May 1760) was a German religious and social reformer, bishop of the Moravian Church, founder of the Herrnhuter Brüdergemeine, Christian mission pioneer and a major f ...

. He was Hinrichs' research assistant at the and habilitated in 1964 on the former Braunschweig-wolfenbüttelsche

University of Helmstedt The University of Helmstedt (; official Latin name: ''Academia Julia'', "Julius University") was a university in Helmstedt in the Duchy of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel that existed from 1576 until 1810. History Founded by and named after Duke Juli ...

. The

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thesis remained unpublished. From 1967 until his retirement, Baumgart taught as full professor of modern history at the

University of Würzburg The Julius Maximilian University of Würzburg (also referred to as the University of Würzburg, in German ''Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg'') is a public research university in Würzburg, Germany. Founded in 1402, it is one of the ol ...

. His main research interests are the history of education and universities in the early modern period and the history of Prussia and its provinces. He is considered an expert on (Brandenburg) Prussian statehood and culture. About the '' Soldier King'' Baumgart wrote a biography in the anthology about Prussia's ruler. On the occasion of his 75th birthday in 2006, the numerous articles on the history of universities in the confessional age published between 1961 and 1994 were collected and published. Baumgart is a member of the executive committee of the sowie der

Writings

Monographs * ''Zinzendorf als Wegbereiter historischen Denkens''. (''Historische Studien''. H. 381). Matthiesen, Lübeck among others 1960; (plus dissertation under the title ''Spiritualismus und Pietismus bei Zinzendorf als Wegbereiter historischen Denkens'', FU Berlin) * ''Universitäten im konfessionellen Zeitalter. Gesammelte Beiträge.'' Aschendorff, Münster 2006, . * ''Brandenburg-Preußen unter dem Ancien Régime. Ausgewählte Abhandlungen.'' Edited by Frank-Lothar Kroll, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2009, . Editions * ''Bildungspolitik in Preussen zur Zeit des Kaiserreichs''.(''Preussen in der Geschichte''. Vol. 1). Klett-Cotta, Stuttgart 1980, . * ''Vierhundert Jahre Universität Würzburg. Eine Festschrift''.(''Quellen und Beiträge zur Geschichte der Universität Würzburg''. Vol 6). Im Auftrag der Bayrischen Julius-Maximilians-Universität, Degener,

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1982, . * ''Ständetum und Staatsbildung in Brandenburg-Preussen. Ergebnisse einer internationalen Fachtagung'' (''Studies presented to the International Commission for the History of Representative and Parliamentary Institutions''. 66). Mit einem Geleitwort von Otto Büsch,

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, Berlin among others 1983, . * ''Expansion und Integration. Zur Eingliederung neugewonnener Gebiete in den preussischen Staat'' (''Neue Forschungen zur brandenburg-preußischen Geschichte''. Bd. 5). Böhlau, Cologne among others. 1984, . * ''Kontinuität und Wandel. Schlesien zwischen Österreich und Preussen. Ergebnisse eines Symposions in Würzburg vom 29. bis 31. Oktober 1987'' (''Schlesische Forschungen''. Vol. 4). Thorbecke, Sigmaringen 1990, . * ''Lebensbilder bedeutender Würzburger Professoren'' (''Quellen und Beiträge zur Geschichte der Universität Würzburg''. Vol. 8). Degener, Neustadt an der Aisch 1995, . * ''Michael Ignaz Schmidt (1736–1794) in seiner Zeit. Der aufgeklärte Theologe, Bildungsreformer und "Historiker der Deutschen" aus Franken in neuer Sicht. Beiträge zu einem Symposion vom 27. bis 29. Oktober 1994 in Würzburg'' (''Quellen und Beiträge zur Geschichte der Universität Würzburg''. Vol. 9). Degener, Neustadt an der Aisch 1996, . * ''Die Universität Würzburg in den Krisen der ersten Hälfte des 20. Jahrhunderts. Biographisch-systematische Studien zu ihrer Geschichte zwischen dem Ersten Weltkrieg und dem Neubeginn 1945'' (''Quellen und Forschungen zur Geschichte des Bistums und Hochstifts Würzburg''. Vol. 58). Im Auftrag der Kommission für die Geschichte der Bayerischen Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg, Schöningh, Würzburg 2002, . * with Bernhard R. Kroener, Heinz Stübig: ''Die preußische Armee zwischen Ancien Régime und Reichsgründung.'' Schöningh, Paderborn among others 2008, . * ''Politische Correspondenz Friedrichs des Großen''. Für die Preußische Historische Kommission. Mehrbändig, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1879 ff.

Literature

Peter Herde Peter Herde (born 5 February 1933) is a German historian. His research activities range from fundamental work on papal diplomatics of the Middle Ages to the history of the country up to the Second World War. Life Herd was born in 1933 in Racibó ...

Anton Schindling Anton Schindling (20 January 1947 in Frankfurt - 4 January 2020 in Tübingen) was a German historian. He held chairs at the Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt (1985–1987), the University of Osnabrück (1987–1995) and the University of ...

(ed.): ''Beiträge zur Bildungsgeschichte. Gewidmet Peter Baumgart anläßlich seines 65. Geburtstages''.''Beiträge zur Bildungsgeschichte. Gewidmet Peter Baumgart anläßlich seines 65. Geburtstages''
on WorldCat (''Quellen und Forschungen zur Geschichte des Bistums und Hochstifts Würzburg''. Vol. 53). Schöningh, Würzburg 1998, .

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Baumgart, Peter 1931 births Living people Writers from Berlin 20th-century German historians Academic staff of the University of Würzburg