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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 January 2013
Kantorowicz and Mommsen, “Eka” and “Ted,” so different in so many ways, were nevertheless close friends and linked as two German émigré medievalists who both had a deep influence on the study of history in the United States. While the story of their friendship is well worth telling, there is no room for that here. Instead, I will treat some main features of their work in the Old World and the New and attempt to estimate how their New World careers helped enrich American scholarship.
Access to Ernst Kantorowicz's historiographic position before his emigration can be gained by viewing the Mythenschau controversy of 1929-30, probably the liveliest Historikerstreit of Weimar. Kantorowicz, who received his Ph.D. in 1921 in political economy (Nationalökonomie), was self-educated as a medieval historian, for he almost certainly never took a university course in the medieval field.
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