Alexander Cartellieri

| birth_place = Odessa, Novorossiya, Russia | death_date = | death_place = Jena, German Democratic Republic (East Germany) | occupation = Archivist (Karlsruhe)
Historian (medievalist)
Writer
University professor and prorector (Jena) | party = | known_for = | alma_mater = Tübingen
Leipzig
Berlin | spouse = Margarete Ornold (1870–1931) | parents = Leopold Cartellieri (1828–1903)
''German consul''
Cölestine Manger (1831–1918) | children = Ilse Cartellieri/Prange (1896–1949)
Walther Cartellieri (1897–1945)
Wolfgang Cartellieri (1901–1969)
''and two others'' }} Alexander Cartellieri (19 June 1867 – 16 January 1955) was a German historian, principally of the High Middle Ages. Between 1904 and 1934 he held a full professorship for Medieval and Modern History at the University of Jena. After his retirement in 1934, he continued to live in Jena through the National Socialist years, the war, Soviet occupation and the early years of German partition.

A committed monarchist and, until the First World War, well networked internationally with fellow medievalists, his personal diaries, which have been extensively researched and analysed posthumously, provide insights which are enlightening about the times through which he lived, and quite possibly constitute a more important contribution to European historiography than any of his published articles and books on the Medieval centuries. The war led him to break off his international contacts, most importantly with French and Belgian medieval scholars. He was never reconciled to the post-imperial "Weimar Republic" (as Adolf Hitler scathingly termed the democratic regime that operated in Germany between 1919 and 1933, thereby popularising a term that was quickly adopted by historians during the 1930s). Cartellieri campaigned against the "burdensome and humiliating" Versailles peace treaty, even though – unlike many German historians of the time – he never retreated into a narrowly nationalist historical vision. After 1933, the foreign policy successes of the Hitler government impressed him, but he resisted or ignored any pressures to become a propagandist for a National Socialist government strategy that was more and more obviously based on violence, both domestically and on the world stage. Provided by Wikipedia