Richard Du Moulin-Eckart
Richard Maria Ferdinand Graf Du Moulin-Eckart[1] (27 November 1864 – 1 April 1938) was a German historian.
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Biography
Richard was born in Leipzig, the second son of Eduard Gustav Du Moulin-Eckart (1834–1902) and his wife Karoline, née Meyer (1838–1895). Richard Wagner was his godfather. He attended what was to become the Erasmus Gymnasium in Amberg. After graduating from high school, he began studying German and history at the University of Würzburg and the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich. He became a member of the fraternities Corps Bavaria Würzburg (1886) and the Corps Suevia Munich (1887). As an inactive he went to Leipzig University and the Silesian Friedrich Wilhelm University. Temporary study visits took him to the Friedrich-Wilhelms University of Berlin, the Sorbonne, and the Kaiser-Wilhelms University of Strasbourg. In 1890 he received his doctorate in Breslau.
On September 25, 1894, he married Bertha Berger (1866–1949). The marriage produced daughters Aimée Bertha Karoline Eugenie (1895–1956) and Eva Margarethe Therese (1897–1961) and a son, the politician and SA leader Karl Leon Du Moulin-Eckart (1900–1991).
In 1895 he habilitated in Heidelberg. In 1897, he became full professor in history there. The following year he went to the Technical University of Munich still as a.o. professor, which appointed him as o. professor in 1900. He opposed the "war guilt lie" after World War I and was chairman of the conservative German Combat League against the War Guilt Lie.
Du Moulin-Eckart stood by the Greater Germany Solution, but (as a Bavarian) was enthusiastic about the (Prussian) German Empire. He stood out above all for his biographies of Otto von Bismarck, Hans von Bülow and Cosima Wagner. However, he had not succumbed to Wilhelminism. Already in 1913 — not only after the war — he promoted the fusion of the Austrian corps with the imperial German counterparts. He referred to the "necessity of völkisch cooperation with German Austria" recognized by Alois von Brinz. He recalled the time after Suevia's foundation when "belonging to the corps was a test of courage and a sacrifice":
On his 60th birthday, the entire student body of the Technical University of Munich gave him a grand celebration. Emeritus in 1930 after 30 years, he retired to Bertoldsheim Castle as a major. He died in his 74th year and was buried in the cemetery of Rottach.
Works
- Luitpold von Bayern: Ein historischer Rückblick (1901)
- Die Suevia zu Landshut und München: 1803–1903 (1903)
- Bismarck. Der Mann und das Werk (1915)
- Cosima Wagner. Ein Lebensbild zu ihrem 80. Geburtstage (1918)
- Hans von Bülow (1921)
- Wahnfried (1925)
- Vom alten Germanien zum neuen Reich. Zwei Jahrtausende deutscher Geschichte (1926)
- Geschichte der deutschen Universitäten (1929; 1976)
- Cosima Wagner. Ein Lebens- und Charakterbild (1929; 2 volumes)[2]
- Die Herrin von Bayreuth (1930)
Notes
- ↑ Regarding personal names: Until 1919, Graf was a title, translated as Count, not a first or middle name. The female form is Gräfin. In Germany, it has formed part of family names since 1919.
- ↑ Translated into English by Catherine Alison Phillips.
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