Dieter Geuenich

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Dieter Geuenich (born February 17, 1943 in Honnef ) is a German historian who has emerged primarily in the areas of medieval personal name research , Alemannic research and the history of the Lower Rhine .

Live and act

Dieter Geuenich studied history, German, theology and philosophy in Bonn and Münster . From 1969 to 1972 he was a research assistant in the special research area “Medieval Research” at the University of Münster. In 1972 he received his doctorate from Karl Schmid in Münster . From 1973 to 1982 he was a research assistant at the history seminar at the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg . In 1981 he qualified as a professor in Freiburg im Breisgau for "Middle and Modern History and Historical Regional Studies". From 1982 to 1987 Geuenich was professor of medieval history in Freiburg before, after an intermezzo as a guest lecturer in 1987/88 at the German Historical Institute in Rome, he accepted a professorship for medieval history at the University of Duisburg in 1989 . In 1992/93 he was visiting professor in Tokyo and in 1994 visiting professor in Los Angeles. In 2000 he became a corresponding member of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences . From 2004 to 2008 Geuenich taught as a professor at the University of Duisburg-Essen. As an academic teacher, he supervised twelve dissertations.

Geuenich published in 1997 an overview presentation to Alemanni , which appeared in the second edition of 2005. In Duisburg, Geuenich initiated and promoted various projects such as the interdisciplinary DFG project "Nomen et gens", the Institute for Lower Rhine Cultural History and Regional Development (InKuR), as its Managing Director until 2007, or the Niederrhein Academy / Academie Nederrijn eV in Xanten , which he is chairman of. Geuenich is series editor of the Xanten lectures on the history of the Lower Rhine . In addition, Geuenich is a member of the steering committee of the Euregio Study Program (ESPRO) and co-editor of the Reallexikons der Germanischen Altertumskunde . For his services, Dieter Geuenich was awarded the Mercator Badge of Honor of the City of Duisburg in 2005 by the Lord Mayor of Duisburg, Adolf Sauerland, and in 2015, the Badge of Honor of the State of Baden-Württemberg .

In the municipal elections in Baden-Württemberg in 2019 , Dieter Geuenich was elected to the municipal council of Denzlingen for the free voters .

Fonts (selection)

(A full list of publications can be found here )

A list of publications up to 2008 appeared in: Uwe Ludwig and Thomas Schilp (eds.): Nomen et Fraternitas. Festschrift for Dieter Geuenich for his 65th birthday (= Reallexikon der Germanischen Altertumskunde. Vol. 62). de Gruyter, Berlin a. a. 2008, ISBN 3-11-020238-7 , pp. 803-827.

Monographs

  • The personal names of the monastery community of Fulda in the early Middle Ages (= Münstersche Mittelalter-Schriften. Vol. 5). Fink, Munich 1976, ISBN 3-7705-1239-1 (also: Münster, Universität, Dissertation, 1972).
  • History of the Alemanni (= Kohlhammer-Urban pocket books. Vol. 575). Kohlhammer, Stuttgart et al. 1997, ISBN 3-17-012095-6 (2nd, revised edition, ibid 2005, ISBN 3-17-018227-7 ).

Editorships

  • with Otto Gerhard Oexle : Memoria in the Society of the Middle Ages (= publications of the Max Planck Institute for History. 111). Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht, Göttingen 1994, ISBN 3-525-35648-X .
  • The Lower Rhine cultural area. 2 volumes. Pomp, Bottrop et al. 1996-1997;
    • Volume 1: From Antiquity to the 18th Century. Lecture series from January 18 to April 24, 1996. 1996, ISBN 3-89355-142-5 ;
    • Volume 2: In the 19th and 20th centuries. Lecture series from January 22 to March 20, 1997. 1997, ISBN 3-89355-156-5 .
  • with Wolfgang Haubrichs and Jörg Jarnut : Nomen et gens. On the historical significance of early medieval personal names (= Real Lexicon of Germanic Antiquity . Supplementary volumes. Vol. 16). de Gruyter, Berlin et al. 1997, ISBN 3-11-015809-4 .
  • The Franks and the Alemanni up to the “Battle of Zülpich” (496/97) (= Real Lexicon of Germanic Antiquity. Supplementary volumes. Vol. 19). de Gruyter, Berlin et al. 1998, ISBN 3-11-015826-4 .
  • Cologne and the Lower Rhine region in their historical spatial relationships (15th – 20th centuries) (= publications of the Historical Association for the Lower Rhine, especially the Old Archdiocese of Cologne. Vol. 17). Rheinland-Verlag, Pulheim 2000, ISBN 3-7927-1836-7 .
  • with Walter Berschin and Heiko Steuer : Mission and Christianization on the Upper and Upper Rhine (6th – 8th centuries) (= archeology and history. Vol. 10). Thorbecke, Stuttgart 2000, ISBN 3-7995-7360-7 .
  • with Dirk Ansorge and Wilfried Loth : milestones of European civilization. Wallstein-Verlag, Göttingen 2001, ISBN 3-89244-438-2 .
  • with Guillaume van Gemert: reciprocities. German-Dutch interrelationships from the early modern period to the present (= series of publications by the Niederrhein Academy. Vol. 5). Pomp, Essen 2003, ISBN 3-89355-241-3 .
  • Adoration of saints and pilgrimages on the Lower Rhine (= series of publications by the Lower Rhine Academy. Vol. 6). Pomp, Essen 2004, ISBN 3-89355-250-2 .
  • with Ingo Runde: Name and company in the early Middle Ages. Personal names as indicators of linguistic, ethnic, social and cultural group affiliations of their bearers (= German name research based on linguistic history. Contributions from the "Henning Kaufmann Foundation for the promotion of German name research based on linguistic history". 2). Olms, Hildesheim et al. 2006, ISBN 3-487-13106-4 .

literature

  • Uwe Ludwig and Thomas Schilp (eds.): Nomen et Fraternitas. Festschrift for Dieter Geuenich for his 65th birthday (= Reallexikon der Germanischen Altertumskunde. Vol. 62). de Gruyter, Berlin a. a. 2008, ISBN 3-11-020238-7 .

Web links

Remarks

  1. ↑ Dissertations supervised by Dieter Geuenich. In: Uwe Ludwig and Thomas Schilp (eds.): Nomen et Fraternitas. Festschrift for Dieter Geuenich on his 65th birthday. Berlin et al. 2008, p. 828 f.
  2. ↑ See the discussion by Matthias Hardt in: Zeitschrift für Geschichtswwissenschaft 47, 1999, p. 176f.
  3. ↑ Nomen et Gens . Seminar for Medieval History, Eberhard Karls University Tübingen. Retrieved July 29, 2019.
  4. ↑ Badische Zeitung , October 5th, 2015, accessed on October 8th, 2015. The state's badge of honor for Dieter Geuenich ( memento of April 7, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) .
  5. ^ Denzlingen: Final results of the municipal council election 2019 . May 27, 2019, accessed July 26, 2019.
personal data
SURNAME Geuenich, Dieter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian
DATE OF BIRTH February 17, 1943
PLACE OF BIRTH Honnef