Albert Werminghoff

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Albert Werminghoff (born August 3, 1869 in Wiesbaden , † February 2, 1923 in Halle ) was a German historian .

Albert Werminghoff studied in Freiburg im Breisgau and Leipzig and received his doctorate in 1893 with a thesis on the pledging of the central and lower Rhine imperial cities in the 13th and 14th centuries . After a subsequent traineeship at the Generallandesarchiv in Karlsruhe in 1896, he joined the Leges department of the Monumenta Germaniae Historica in Berlin as a permanent employee . Werminghoff became known as a diplomat and church historian through his work there, in particular through the publication of the Concilia . In 1902 he received his habilitation on the constitutional history of the church in the Middle Ages in Greifswald . In 1907 he became a full professor in Königsberg and in 1913 he was offered a position in Halle , where he devoted himself to the late Middle Ages instead of studying church history . In 1922 he was called to Leipzig. However, he died before he could take up this office.

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  • The pledges of the central and lower Rhine imperial cities during the 13th and 14th centuries. Breslau 1893 ( digitized version ).
  • Concilia aevi Karolini (= Monumenta Germaniae Historica: Concilia , 2.1 and 2.2). 1906-1908.
  • Constitutional history of the German Church in the Middle Ages. 1907-1913.
  • National Church Endeavors in the German Middle Ages. 1910.
  • The German Order and the Estates in Prussia. Until the 2nd Peace of Thor in 1466. 1912.
  • The legal idea of ​​the indivisibility of the state in German and Brandenburg-Prussian history. Speech given at the Hohenzollern celebration on October 21, 1915. Halle / Saale 1915 ( digitized version ).

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personal data
SURNAME Werminghoff, Albert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian
DATE OF BIRTH August 3, 1869
PLACE OF BIRTH Wiesbaden
DATE OF DEATH February 2, 1923
Place of death Hall