Fritz Hartung
German historian of modern age
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Fritz Hartung was a political and constitutional historian of Germany. Life Fritz Hartung was born in Saarmund, a short distance to the west of Potsdam. His father worked in the Prussian government service. However, he attended secondary school far to the west in Freiburg , and then in Berlin where he passed his school final exams . He went on to study history at Heidelberg and Berlin, with a particular focus on constitutional and legal history. He was taught by a number of the leading historians of the time including Gustav Schmoller, Heinrich Brunner and Otto Hintze. It was Hintze who supervised him at Berlin for his doctorate, received in 1905, for a dissertation on Hardenburg and the Prussian administration of Ansbach-Bayreuth between 1792 and 1806. After receiving his doctorate Hartung obtained a post as a research assistant at the Centre for Franconian History, based in Würzburg. During this period he was encouraged by the historian Richard Fester to focus on the history of the so-called Franconian Circle, and his work on this theme, supervised by Fester, provided the basis for his habilitation, awarded in 1910. Fester was associated with various universities through the years, but in 1908 he had become a full professor at Halle, and it was from Halle that Hartung received this higher degree for a work adapted and published shortly afterwards as "The History of the Franconian Circle 1521–1559". In 1914 his book on constitutional history during the previous 4 centuries appeared. It became a much revisited core textbook: the seventh edition was published, posthumously, in 1969, and it enabled Hartung to be identified as one of the most important and influential German constitutional historians of the twentieth century.
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