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Heinz Mosche Graupe

German judaic scholar and historian (1906–1997)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionDec 22, 2025
Entity authorityQ1600667 ↗
Source-derived summary

Heinz Mosche Graupe (22 April 1906 – 23 March 1997) was a German philosopher, historian and scholar of Jewish studies. He was the first director of the Institut für die Geschichte der deutschen Juden.

Selected publications

Graupe, Heinz Moshe (1961). "Kant und das Judentum". Zeitschrift für Religions- und Geistesgeschichte. 13 (4): 308–333. doi:10.1163/157007361X00091.

Die Entstehung des modernen Judentums. Geistesgeschichte der deutschen Juden. 1650–1942.

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Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Heinz Mosche Graupe” is german judaic scholar and historian (1906–1997). The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Heinz, Mosche and Graupe, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA productive starting point for separating a subject’s documented career from later reputation and commemoration. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1906, 1997, 1961, 1163—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1906-04-22. For this dossier, Heinz, Mosche and Graupe is the immediate research focus.
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Chronology provides the most reliable spine for this subject; interpretation should follow only after identities and dates are secure. The source revision retrieved here is dated Dec 22, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q1600667. VIAF identifies the subject as 8112569. The Library of Congress control number is n82112108. 3 of 3 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1906, 1997, 1961 and 1163.

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This entry incorporates text from “Heinz Mosche Graupe” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.