Franz Dumont (22 January 1945 – 3 November 2012) was a German historian.

Life

Born in

Waldbröl Waldbröl is a town in the southern part of the Oberbergischer Kreis (upper Berg county), in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. Geography Location The town is located on the slopes of the Nutscheid range of hills and is part of the Bergisches Land ...

, Dumont lived in Mainz from 1954 onwards and took his Abitur at the

Rabanus-Maurus-Gymnasium The Rabanus-Maurus-Gymnasium is a classical '' gymnasium'' school in the Neustadt district of Mainz. Subjects The Rabanus-Maurus-Gymnasium is a classical school. The first foreign language taught is Latin and the second is English. Later, three ...

in Mainz in 1964. During his school years, he had already studied the history of Mainz in the late 18th century on the advice of his history teacher. He studied history, classical philology, philosophy, geography and political science at the Bonn University and the

Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz The Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (german: Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz) is a public research university in Mainz, Rhineland Palatinate, Germany, named after the printer Johannes Gutenberg since 1946. With approximately 32,000 stu ...

from 1964 to 1970. From 1971 to 1977, he was a research assistant at the University of Mainz and received his doctorate in 1978 under

Hermann Weber Hermann Weber (23 August 1928 – 29 December 2014) was a German historian and political scientist. He has been described as "the man who knew everything about the German Democratic Republic". Life Early years Hermann Weber was born into a ...

with a thesis on the

Republic of Mainz The Republic of Mainz was the first democratic state in the current German territoryThe short-lived republic is often ignored in identifying the "first German democracy", in favour of the Weimar Republic; e.g. "the failure of the first Germa ...

of 1792/93. From 1978 to 1979, Dumont was a research assistant at the

Archive for Christian Democratic Policy The Archive for Christian Democratic Policy (ACDP) at the Konrad Adenauer Foundation, established in 1976 on the initiative of Heinrich Krone, Bruno Heck and Helmut Kohl, is the central archive of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) of Germany ...

in St. Augustin near Bonn. From 1979 until his death in 2012 at the age of 67, Dumont was a

research assistant A research assistant (RA) is a researcher employed, often on a temporary contract, by a university, a research institute or a privately held organization, for the purpose of assisting in academic or private research. Research assistants are not in ...

at the

Academy of Sciences and Literature The Academy of Sciences and Literature (german: Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur Mainz, AdW Mainz) is a scientific academy in Mainz, Germany. It was established in 1949 on an initiative of Alfred Döblin. The academy's goal is to su ...

. In December 2008, he was awarded the

by the city of Mainz Römisches Kaisermedaillon. His main areas of research were the life and work of the anatomist and naturalist

Samuel Thomas von Soemmerring Samuel ''Šəmūʾēl'', Tiberian: ''Šămūʾēl''; ar, شموئيل or صموئيل '; el, Σαμουήλ ''Samouḗl''; la, Samūēl is a figure who, in the narratives of the Hebrew Bible, plays a key role in the transition from the bib ...

and the explorer

Georg Forster Johann George Adam Forster, also known as Georg Forster (, 27 November 1754 – 10 January 1794), was a German naturalist, ethnologist, travel writer, journalist and revolutionary. At an early age, he accompanied his father, Johann Reinhold F ...

, the Enlightenment in Catholic Germany, Germany and the

French Revolution The French Revolution ( ) was a period of radical political and societal change in France that began with the Estates General of 1789 and ended with the formation of the French Consulate in November 1799. Many of its ideas are considere ...

, especially the Mainz Republic and the history of the left bank of the Rhine in 1792 and from 1798 to 1814 as well as Mainz's medical and history of Mainz's city. In 2007, he published the history of his 450-year-old grammar school with

Ferdinand Scherf Ferdinand Scherf (born in 1943 in Mayen), is a German professor and historian. From 1970 to 2007 he was a teacher at the Rabanus-Maurus-Gymnasium in Mainz and editor of local historical works. Life After studying history and German language and ...

and Meike Hensel-Grobe. Together with Ferdinand Scherf and Friedrich Schütz (1998) and with Ferdinand Scherf (2010) he was the editor of two standard works on the history of Mainz. Dumont died on 3 November 2012 at the age of 67. On 9 November 2012 he was buried at the cemetery.

Publications

A complete compilation can be found at Susanne Speth's ''Verzeichnis der Schriften von Franz Dumont.'' In ''

Mainzer Zeitschrift Mainzer is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: *Amy Mainzer (born 1974), American astronomer *Ferdinand Mainzer (1871–1943), German-Jewish gynaecologist and historical author *Klaus Mainzer (born 1947), German scholar and philosop ...

.'' Vol. 108, 2013, . Monographs * ''Die Mainzer Republik von 1792/93. Studien zur Revolutionierung in Rheinhessen und der Pfalz'' (''Alzeyer Geschichtsblätter. Sonderheft.'' 19). Publisher of the Rheinhessische Druckwerkstätte, Alzey 1982, (Zugleich: Mainz, Universität, Dissertation, 1978; 2nd, extended edition. ibid 1993, ). Publisher *

Samuel Thomas Soemmerring Samuel ''Šəmūʾēl'', Tiberian: ''Šămūʾēl''; ar, شموئيل or صموئيل '; el, Σαμουήλ ''Samouḗl''; la, Samūēl is a figure who, in the narratives of the Hebrew Bible, plays a key role in the transition from the bib ...

: ''Werke.'' Founded by Gunter Mann. Edited by

Jost Benedum Jost Benedum (16 January 1937 – 23 December 2003) was a German historian of medecine. Life Benedum was born in Merzig. After the Abitur at the grammar school of St. Ingbert, Benedum studied Classical Philology at the University of Saarland ...

and Werner Friedrich Kümmel. ** Vol. 18: ''Briefwechsel 1761/65 – October 1784.'' Fischer, Stuttgart among others 1996, ; ** Vol. 19: ''Briefwechsel 1784–1792.'' Part 1: ''November 1784 – December 1786.'' Fischer, Stuttgart among others 1997, ; ** Vol. 19: ''Briefwechsel 1784–1792.'' Part 2: ''January 1787 – Oktober 1792.'' Fischer, Stuttgart among others 1998, ; ** Vol. 20: ''Briefwechsel. November 1792 – April 1805.'' Schwabe, Basel 2001, ; ** Vol. 23: ''Tagebücher. 1804/05–1812.'' Part 1: ''Frankfurt, Januar – März 1804, Munich, April 1805 – December 1808.'' Schwabe, Basel 2004, . * with Ferdinand Scherf and Friedrich Schütz: ''Mainz. Die Geschichte der Stadt.'' Philipp von Zabern, Mainz 1998, . * with Ferdinand Scherf: ''Mainz – Menschen, Bauten, Ereignisse. Eine Stadtgeschichte.'' Philipp von Zabern, Mainz 2010, .Veröffentlichungen von Franz Dumont
in the date base of the Jahresberichte für deutsche Geschichte

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Dumont, Franz 20th-century German historians Urban historians 1945 births 2012 deaths People from Oberbergischer Kreis 21st-century German historians

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