Ludwig Petry (b. 3 June 1908 in Alzey, d. 25 November 1991 in Mainz) was a German historian.
Petry was born into lawyer's family and grew up in
Darmstadt
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[Petry Ludwig]
After the
Matriculation examination
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he was studying Germans studies, history and history of arts at the
University of Freiburg
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Petry gained PhD in 1932. His thesis was titled ''Die Popplau. Eine Breslauer Kaufmannsfamilie des 15. und 16. Jahrhunderts''][Ludwig Petry]
in ''Gutenberg Biographics. Verzeichnis der Professorinnen und Professoren der Universität Mainz 1477–1973''. He passed his habilitation in 1937. The title of his thesis was ''Breslau und seine Oberherren aus dem Haus Habsburg 1526-1635. Ein Beitrag zur politischen Geschichte der Stadt Breslau''[ From 1950 to 1973 he was working at the ]University of 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 ...
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Petry was member of the Historische Kommission für Nassau and the ]Verein für schlesische Kirchengeschichte
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* ''Eingetragener Verein'' (e. V.), a registered voluntary association under German law
* Swiss Verein, a voluntary association under Sw ...
.[ He was editor-in-chief of Zeitschrift für Ostforschung (today Zeitschrift für Ostmitteleuropaforschung) from 1969 to 1991.][
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Publications
* Die Popplau. Eine schlesische Kaufmannsfamilie des 15. und 16. Jahrhunderts (= Historische Untersuchungen. Band 15). Marcus, Breslau 1935.
* Dem Osten zugewandt. Gesammelte Aufsätze zur schlesischen und ostdeutschen Geschichte. Festgabe zum 75. Geburtstag. Thorbecke, Sigmaringen 1983, .
* Breslau und seine ersten Oberherren aus dem Hause Habsburg 1526–1635. Ein Beitrag zur politischen Geschichte der Stadt. Scripta-Mercaturae, St. Katharinen 2000, .
Footnotes
References
Petry Ludwig
in ''Gutenberg Biographics. Verzeichnis der Professorinnen und Professoren der Universität Mainz 1477–1973''.
Further reading
*Fuchs Konrad: ''Ludwig Petry'', in: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon, Vol. 16 (1999), pp. 1218–1228.
External links
Materials
in the University of Wrocław Archive
20th-century German historians
1908 births
1991 deaths
Recipients of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany
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