Ernst Kantorowicz (eBook)

A Life

Robert E. Lerner (Autor)

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2017
424 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4008-8292-2 (ISBN)

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Robert E. Lerner is professor emeritus of history at Northwestern University, where he taught medieval history for more than forty years. The author of many books, he is a fellow of the Medieval Academy of America and the American Academy in Rome, and a former member of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton.

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The first complete biography of an influential historian whose dramatic life intersected with many great events and thinkers of the twentieth centuryThis is the first complete biography of Ernst Kantorowicz (1895-1963), an influential and controversial German-American intellectual whose colorful and dramatic life intersected with many of the great events and thinkers of his time. A medieval historian whose ideas exerted an influence far beyond his field, he is most famous for two books-a notoriously nationalistic 1927 biography of the Holy Roman Emperor Frederick II and The King's Two Bodies (1957), a classic study of medieval politics.Born into a wealthy Prussian-Jewish family, Kantorowicz fought on the Western Front in World War I, was wounded at Verdun, and earned an Iron Cross; later, he earned an Iron Crescent for service in Anatolia before an affair with a general's mistress led to Kantorowicz being sent home. After the war, he fought against Poles in his native Posen, Spartacists in Berlin, and communists in Munich. An ardent German nationalist during the Weimar period, Kantorowicz became a member of the elitist Stefan George circle, which nurtured a cult of the "e;Secret Germany."e; Yet as a professor in Frankfurt after the Nazis came to power, Kantorowicz bravely spoke out against the regime before an overflowing crowd. Narrowly avoiding arrest after Kristallnacht, he fled to England and then the United States, where he joined the faculty at Berkeley, only to be fired in 1950 for refusing to sign an anticommunist "e;loyalty oath."e; From there, he "e;fell up the ladder"e; to Princeton's Institute for Advanced Study, where he stayed until his death.Drawing on many new sources, including numerous interviews and unpublished letters, Robert E. Lerner tells the story of a major intellectual whose life and times were as fascinating as his work.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 3.1.2017
• Zusatzinfo: 25 halftones.
• Verlagsort: Princeton
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Romane / Erzählungen
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Mittelalter
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Makrosoziologie
• Schlagworte: Abelard • Academic year • acclamation • Adam von Trott zu Solz • Adolf Hitler • Aevum • aging • Albert Brackmann • Allusion • Anglophile • Army • Art History • Arthur Salz • Battle of Verdun • Berkeley • Biography • book review • Bouillabaisse • burgundians • Career • Carmel • Castle Hill • Catholic Church • chairman • Charles Homer Haskins • Charles the Bold • Charlottenburg • Classroom • communism • Conradin • credential • cultural figures • Death • Denazification • dignity • doctorate • Dumbarton Oaks • Dwight Eisenhower • Early Life • Economics • EKA • Emigration • emperor Frederick II • Employment • enlistment • Erich Kahler • Ernst Kantorowicz • Ernst Robert Curtius • erudition • Erwin Panofsky • Essays • Family • Felix Frankfurter • Fellowship • Festschrift • Fine Sobotka • flexner • Frankfurt • Freikorps • Friedrich Gundolf • Fritz Saxl • Funeral • Gardening • Georg Simmel • German–American intellectual • German Literature • german nationalist • German poets • Germans • Germany • Gestapo • Graf • Habilitation • Harvard • Heidelberg • historian • Historical Method • history professor • history professors • Hitler • Honorary degree • income • Iron Crescent • iron cross • Italian renaissance • Jewish professor • Jews • Jill (novel) • Josefine von Kahler • J. Robert Oppenheimer • Kaiser Friedrich der Zweite • Kurt Riezler • Lake Tahoe • Laudes Regiae • Lecture • lecturer • leftist politics • Legal Sources • Leisure • Leonardo Olschki • Literary criticism • Literature • liturgical book • lotus eaters • loyalty oath • Lucy von Wangenheim • Manfred Bukofzer • Manifesto • Marc Bloch • Maurice Bowra • meal • medieval historians • Medieval History • Memoir • Middle Ages • middle school • Mills College • modern history • Mommsen • Monumenta Germaniae Historica • Mr. • Mrs. • Nazi Germany • Nazis • Nazism • Neckar • newspaper • Nobility • norman cantor • Nuclear War • Oxford • Pamphlet • Parody • Percy Ernst Schramm • petrarch • Poetry • Poles • Political Theology • Political thought • Politics • Poznan • Princeton • Professorship • Pro forma • Prose • Province of Posen • prussia • Prussian–Jewish family • Publication • Quintilian • reclusiveness • Religion • religious ceremonies • Renaissance castle • research associate • rhetoric • Richard Nixon • Robert E. Lerner • Robert Sproul • Roman Empire • Royal Auguste-Viktoria Gymnasium • Ruler • salary • Secret Germany • Secularization • Seminar • smith college • Stefan George • Stefan George circle • Supervisor • Symbolist • Teaching • The King's Two Bodies • Theodor Mommsen • The Other Hand • Thucydides • Ulrich • United States • University of California • Walter Horn • Western Front • Woldemar von Uxkull • World War I • Writing • Yale • Youth
• ISBN-10: 1-4008-8292-3 / 1400882923
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4008-8292-2 / 9781400882922