Max Albert Wilhelm Lenz ( German: Max Albert Wilhelm Lenz ; June 13, 1850 , Greifswald - April 6, 1932 , Berlin ) is a German historian , professor of history at the University of Marburg .
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Born into a religious Lutheran family, his father was a lawyer who was a member of the Young Hegelians, and was forced to suspend his professional activities after the revolutionary events of 1848-1849. Lenz received his school education in his hometown, then studied classical philology and history in Bonn. In 1870 he participated in the Pomeranian volunteer battalion in the Franco-Prussian war . After the war, he continued his studies in the humanities in Greifswald and Berlin, in 1874 he received a degree. In 1875, thanks to the help of his former teacher, he was appointed director of the Prussian State Archives, gaining access to the secret state archives of Marburg. Since that time he became a privat-docent at the University of Marburg, in 1881 he was promoted to extraordinary, and in 1885 - to an ordinary professor at this educational institution.
In 1888, he temporarily headed the department of modern history in Breslau. In 1896 he became a member of the Prussian Academy of Sciences ; from 1914 to 1925 he was its honorary member, but in 1925 he restored full membership. In the spring of 1900 he became a professor of modern history in Berlin. In 1911 he was the head of the Department of History, from 1911 to 1912 - rector of the Friedrich Wilhelm University in Berlin. In 1914 he went to work at the Hamburg Colonial Institute . In 1922 he retired and returned to Berlin, where he lived until the end of his life.
Major works: "König Sigismund und Heinrich V von England" (1874); "Drei Tractate aus dem Schriftencyclus des Constanzer Concils" (1876); Die Schlacht bei Mühlberg (1879); "Briefwechsel Landgraf Philipps d. Grossmüthigen von Hessen mit Bucer "(1880-1887); "Martin Luther" (1883). One of Lenz's main scientific interests was the biography of Martin Luther.
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- ↑ 1 2 3 4 German National Library , Berlin State Library , Bavarian State Library , etc. Record # 118779508 // General regulatory control (GND) - 2012—2016.
- ↑ 1 2 BNF identifier : Open Data Platform 2011.
- ↑ 1 2 Marburger Professorenkatalog - 2016.