Peter Baumgart

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

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Life

Born in Berlin, Baumgart was promoted D. ph in 1956 in historical thinking at the Free University of Berlin with a work supervised by Carl Hinrichs on Zinzendorf. He was Hinrichs' research assistant at the Friedrich-Meinecke-Institut  [ de ] and habilitated in 1964 on the former Braunschweig-wolfenbüttelsche University of Helmstedt. The habilitation thesis remained unpublished. From 1967 until his retirement, Baumgart taught as full professor of modern history at the University of Würzburg.

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. [1] 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 Preußische Historische Kommission  [ de ] sowie der Historische Kommission für Schlesien  [ de ] [2]

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