Ernst Kantorowicz

A Life

Robert E. Lerner (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

424 Seiten

2018
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-0-691-18302-2 (ISBN)

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This is the first complete biography of Ernst Kantorowicz (1895-1963), an influential German-American medieval historian whose colorful life intersected with many of the great events and thinkers of his time. Born into a wealthy Prussian-Jewish family, he fought in World War I--earning an Iron Cross and an Iron Crescent--before being sent home following an affair with a general's mistress. Though he was an ardent German nationalist during the Weimar period, after the Nazis came to power he bravely spoke out against the regime before an overflowing crowd in Frankfurt. He narrowly avoided arrest after Kristallnacht, fleeing 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 "loyalty oath." From there, he "fell up the ladder" to Princeton's Institute for Advanced Study, where he wrote his masterwork, The King's Two Bodies.
Drawing on many new sources, including numerous interviews and unpublished letters, Robert E. Lerner tells the story of a major intellectual whose life and times were as fascinating as his work.

Robert E. Lerner is professor emeritus of history at Northwestern University, where he taught medieval history for more than forty years.

List of Figures ix

Acknowledgments xi

Abbreviations xiii

Introduction 1

1. Old Posen and Young Ernst 8

2. "With Rifle and Gun" 23

3. Fine Fever 41

4. Heidelberg 55

5. St. George 68

6. The Castle Hill 84

7. Frederick II 101

8. Center of Attention 117

9. Becoming a Professional 133

10. Frankfurt 145

11. Year of Drama 158

12. Oxford 172

13. "Leisure with Dignity" 184

14. Flight 201

15. "Displaced Foreign Scholar" 214

16. "Without Any Desire for Europe" 225

17. Laudes Regiae 240

18. Fight for Employment 252

19. "Hyperborean Fields" 268

20. "Scarcely Wants to Go to Germany" 284

21. "Land of Lotus-Eaters"
294

22. The Fundamental Issue 312

23. Advanced Study 329

24. The King's Two Bodies 344

25. "Eka Is Sick of Eka" 358

26. Last Years 376

Afterword 386

Index 389

Erscheinungsdatum	22.09.2018
Zusatzinfo	28 b/w illus.
Verlagsort	New Jersey
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 235 mm
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Makrosoziologie
ISBN-10	0-691-18302-3 / 0691183023
ISBN-13	978-0-691-18302-2 / 9780691183022
Zustand	Neuware