Wilhelm Janssen (historian)

Wilhelm Janssen (born May 6, 1933 in Cologne ) is a German historian and archivist .

Wilhelm Janssen studied German and History at the University of Cologne and completed his studies with a doctorate. From 1959 to 1961 he was an archive trainee for the state of North Rhine-Westphalia at the Marburg archive school . He began his professional career as an archivist in 1961 at the Historical Archives of the City of Cologne . In 1964 he moved to the main state archive in Düsseldorf, where he took over management from Friedrich Wilhelm Oediger in 1972 (until 1992). From 1992 to 1998 he was a professor at the University of Bonn and there director of the Institute for Historical Regional Studies of the Rhineland . He has been retired since 1998.

In 1976 Janssen was elected a corresponding member of the Historical Commission for Westphalia . Between 1982 and 2009 he was a full member before becoming a corresponding member again. Janssen mainly deals with Rhenish history in the late Middle Ages and the early modern period.

Fonts

• Bastian Steingießer (arrangement): Wilhelm Janssen: List of writings. In: Rheinische Vierteljahrsblätter 63 (1999), pp. 264–275 ( digitized version )
• The Archdiocese of Cologne in the late Middle Ages 1191–1515. 2 volumes. Bachem, Cologne 1995/2003 (= History of the Archdiocese of Cologne. Volumes II / 1 and II / 2).
• A little Rhenish story. Patmos-Verlag, Düsseldorf 1997, ISBN 3-491-34232-5 .

literature

• Rudolf Schieffer : Laudation to Wilhelm Janssen. In: Rheinische Vierteljahrsblätter. 63, 1999, pp. 1–6 ( digitized version )

Web links

• Literature by and about Wilhelm Janssen in the catalog of the German National Library
• Publications by Wilhelm Janssen in the Opac of the Regesta Imperii
• Page from Janssen at the University of Bonn