Hans-Michael Körner

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Hans-Michael Körner (born June 10, 1947 in Eschlkam ) is a German historian and history teacher .

Life

After graduating from high school in Cham in 1966, Körner studied German philology and history for high school teaching at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich (LMU). He graduated with the first state examination and became an assistant at the Historical Institute of the University of Regensburg . In Regensburg, Körner received his doctorate in 1976 with Dieter Albrecht with the thesis State and Church in Bavaria 1886-1918 . He then moved to the LMU Munich as an academic advisor, completed the teaching traineeship and went back to the LMU, where he completed his habilitation in 1988 at Hubert Glaser's Chair for History Didactics with the title State and History in the Kingdom of Bavaria .

After a teaching stay in the USA, Körner was appointed professor for Bavarian history and history didactics at the University of Würzburg in 1991 . From 1995 to 2012 he held the chair for history didactics at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich.

Körner is a member of the Commission for Contemporary History , the Commission for Bavarian State History at the Bavarian Academy of Sciences , co-editor of the historical yearbook of the Görres Society and initiator of the Bavarian lecture series at the LMU. In addition to didactics, his research interests include the history of Bavarian regional history in the 19th and 20th centuries. He is the author or editor of several standard works such as the Great Bavarian Biographical Encyclopedia , a History of the Kingdom of Bavaria and the volumes on Old Bavaria , Swabia and Franconia of the Handbook of Historic Places .

In 2012, Körner was awarded the Waldschmidt Prize , and in 2016 he received the Federal Cross of Merit on ribbon .

Works

As an author:

  • State and Church in Bavaria 1886–1918. Matthias Grünewald Verlag, Mainz 1977 (dissertation, University of Regensburg, 1976).
  • State and history in Bavaria in the 19th century. Beck, Munich 1992 (habilitation thesis, University of Munich, 1988/89)
  • History of the Kingdom of Bavaria. Beck, Munich 2006.
  • The Wittelsbachers. From the Middle Ages to the present (= CH Beck Wissen ). Beck, Munich 2009.

As editor:

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Vademecum of the historical sciences. F. Steiner, Stuttgart 2000, p. 440.
  2. ^ Anything but tranquil , Mittelbayerische , October 15, 2013, accessed on March 20, 2014.
  3. ↑ Evi Paleczek: Federal Cross of Merit for Prof. Körner. In: Mittelbayerische from April 13, 2016, accessed on December 22, 2017.
personal data
SURNAME Körner, Hans-Michael
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian
DATE OF BIRTH June 10, 1947
PLACE OF BIRTH Eschlkam