Begriffe der Moderne: Richard Koebner als Wegbereiter der Historischen Semantik

Tietze, P. (2024)

Doctoral Thesis

The early history and development of the historiographical method and theory of “conceptual history” resp. “Historical Semantics”—the latter being the overarching term that includes the specifically German version of conceptual history (= Begriffsgeschichte)—is still widely unknown. One of the first central protagonists of the beginnings of this now widely appraised historiographical approach was the German-Jewish historian Richard Koebner (1885-1958). As a transnational actor, Koebner was not only part of the specifically German beginnings of Begriffsgeschichte during the Weimar Republic, but he was also—after his forced emigration to Jerusalem and during his retirement-years in London—influential for the development of Historical Semantics in Israel and England.

• Begriffsgeschichte
• History of Concepts
• Historical Semantics
• German-Jewish History 20th Century
• History of Historiography
• Theory of History

• All authors: Tietze, P.
• Supervisor: Paul, H.J.; Rieger, B.
• Committee: Cramsey, S.A.; Dutt, C.; Götz, N.; Wallet, B.
• Qualification: Doctor (dr.)
• Awarding Institution: Leiden University Institute for History, Faculty of Humanities, Leiden University
• Date: 2024-03-28