Felicitas Schmieder

Felicitas Schmieder (born January 20, 1961 in Frankfurt am Main ) is a German historian . Her main research interests are cultural contacts in the Middle Ages, mediaeval history of perception, prophecy as a political language, history of Europe in the Middle Ages, mediaeval German urban history, premodern cartography (maps of the world and maps) and European culture of remembrance.

Scientific career

Felicitas Schmieder studied history and Latin in Frankfurt am Main , where she passed the state examination in 1986, and in 1991 with the work Europe and the foreigners. The Mongols in the judgment of the West from the 13th to the 15th century doctorate and in 2000 with the work of Frankfurt in the Middle Ages. A church city history was habilitated . There she taught from 1987 to 2004 as a research assistant / university professor. Schmieder also took up teaching positions at the universities of Constance, Giessen and Prague. Since 1995 she has been a recurrent visiting professor at the Department for Medieval Studies at the Central European University , Budapest . Since December 2004 she has been professor for the past and present of Old Europe at the Fernuniversität Hagen

Scholarships

• DHI Rome (1990)
• Historical College Munich (1998/99)
• IAS Jerusalem (2001)
• Waseda University Tokyo (2005)
• École pratique des Hautes Études Paris (2007)
• Collegium Budapest Institute for Advanced Study (2008/09)
• International College for Research in the Humanities "Future, Freedom and Prediction", Erlangen (2013)
• Stockholms universitet, Historiska institutionen: Research Award Riksbankens Jubileumsfonds (2018/19).

Memberships

• Member of the Historical College in Munich
• the Frankfurt Historical Commission
• the Historical Commission for Westphalia
• of the board of trustees of the " Institute for Comparative Urban History " in Münster / Westphalia.
• Chairwoman of the advisory board for the distance learning course "Historic City" (from 2009)
• Member of the executive board of CARMEN: The Worldwide Medieval Network
• on the editorial board of "Dies nova"
• "Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies"
• Permanent delegate of the KSW faculty in the Philosophical Faculty Conference and its treasurer since 2012
• Boarding school Expert activities for universities / academies / scientific funding programs in Belgium, Denmark, EU, Finland, Great Britain, Ireland, Austria, Romania, Russia, Ukraine, Hungary, USA.

Fonts

• Europe and the strangers. The Mongols in the judgment of the West from the 13th to 15th centuries (= contributions to the history and source studies of the Middle Ages. Volume 16). Thorbecke, Sigmaringen 1994, ISBN 3-7995-5716-4 (also dissertation, Frankfurt am Main 1991).
• Johannes de Plano Carpini : News from the Mongols (1245 - 1247), introduced, translated and explained by Felicitas Schmieder (= foreign cultures in old reports. Volume 3). Thorbecke, Sigmaringen 1997, ISBN 3-7995-0603-9 .
  • Johannes von Plano Carpini: News from the Mongols (1245 - 1247), introduced, translated and explained by Felicitas Schmieder (= The Hundred Most Important Explorers. ). Ed. Erdmann, Wiesbaden 2015, ISBN 3-7374-0010-5 .
• Frankfurt, the King and the Empire, accompanying document to the permanent exhibition “From the Palatinate to the Early City. Frankfurt in the Middle Ages ”in the Historical Museum Frankfurt am Main . Historical Museum Frankfurt am Main 2001.
• as editor with Peter Schreiner : Il Codice Cumanico e il suo mondo. Atti del Colloquio Internazionale, Venezia, 6-7 dicembre 2002. ( Centro Tedesco di Studi Veneziani , Ricerche, 2) Edizioni di Storia e Letteratura, Rome 2005, ISBN 88-8498-203-0 .
• The medieval city (= compact history ). Scientific Book Society, Darmstadt 2005, ISBN 3-534-15134-8 .
  • The medieval city (= compact history ). 2nd, updated edition, Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, Darmstadt 2009, ISBN 978-3-534-23021-1 .
  • The medieval city (= compact history ). 3rd, updated edition, Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, Darmstadt 2012, ISBN 978-3-534-25085-1 .
• as editor with Wolfram Brandes : End times: eschatology in the monotheistic world religions; Lectures at a conference from March 31 to April 2, 2005 in Frankfurt (= Millennium Studies: on culture and history of the first millennium AD, Volume 16). de Gruyter, Berlin a. a. 2008, ISBN 3-11-018621-7 .
• as editor with Klaus Herbers : Venezia, incrocio di culture: percezioni di viaggiatori europei e non europei a confronto; atti del convegno, Venezia, 26-27 gennaio 2006 (= Ricerche Centro Tedesco di Studi Veneziani Volume 4). Edizioni di Storia e Letteratura, Rome 2008, ISBN 978-88-8498-505-7 .
• as editor with Tanja Michalsky and Gisela Engel : supervision - view - insight: new perspectives on cartography on the threshold of the early modern period; Conference in September 2006 in Frankfurt (= Frankfurt cultural studies, volume 3). trafo Wiss.-Verl., Berlin 2009, ISBN 978-3-89626-720-7 .
• as editor with Wolfram Brandes: Antichrist: Constructions of Enemy Images, Conference "Antichrist. Eschatological Enemy Types and Identifications", September 24-27, 2007, Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt . Akad.-Verl., Berlin 2010, ISBN 3-05-004743-7 .
• as editor with Marianne O'Doherty : Travels and mobilities in the Middle Ages: from the Atlantic to the Black Sea (= International medieval research Volume 21). Brepols, Turnhout 2015, ISBN 2-503-55449-0 .
• As editor: Medieval shaping the future in the face of the end of the world, Forming the future facing the end of the world in the Middle Ages (= Archive for Cultural History Supplement 77). Böhlau Verlag, Cologne et al. 2015, ISBN 3-412-50194-8 .
• as editor with Wolfram Brandes and Rebekka Voss : Peoples of the Apocalypse: eschatological beliefs and political scenarios (= Millennium Studies: on culture and history of the first millennium AD. Volume 63). de Gruyter, Berlin a. a. 2016, ISBN 3-11-046949-9 .

Web links

• Schmieder on the website of the Fernuniversität Hagen
• academia.edu
• Schmieder, Felicitas .  Publications in the bibliographic database of the Regesta Imperii .