Zusammenfassung / Abstract
“From Berlin to Rome and Southern Italy. Eduard Sthamer’s archive travels from 1931 to 1937 in the light of his rediscovered diaries with special consideration of the German-Italian relations” – Sthamer, an employee of the Prussian Historical Institute in Rome from 1908 to 1915 tasked with researching of the castles of the Hohenstaufen Emperor Frederick II in the Naples State Archives, and from 1919 employee of the Prussian Academy of Sciences in Berlin, undertook researching trips through the little-researched ecclesiastical archives of southern Italy and Sicily between 1931 and 1937. His rediscovered private diaries provide interesting insights into the country and its people, as well as into the social conditions of these most backward regions of Italy, and also into the German-Italian relations at the time.