Almuth Salomon

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Almuth Salomon (born June 13, 1932 in Wilhelmshaven ; † March 6, 2018 in Münster ) was a German historian . As a scientific author, she dealt mainly with Frisian history.

Life

Almuth Salomon spent her childhood and youth in Kiel , East Prussia and Abbehausen . After graduating from secondary school in Nordenham , she studied at the Oldenburg University of Education in the early 1950s , where she graduated as a primary school teacher. She then taught at the elementary school in Altjührden before starting a second degree in history and German at the universities of Göttingen, Innsbruck and Zurich. In 1965 she received her doctorate from the Georg-August University in Göttingen with a thesis on the history of the Harlingerland up to 1600 . After several years as a lecturer at the University of Education in Hanover , she was appointed professor for medieval history, Westphalian regional history and didactics of history at the University of Education in Westphalia-Lippe (Münster II department) in August 1969 . After the merger of the University of Education with the Westphalian Wilhelms University of Münster on April 1, 1980, she taught at the Institute for Didactics of History at the University of Münster. In July 1997 she retired. Salomon's regional historical studies dealt in particular with the medieval history of Friesland and Lower Saxony. The focus of her teaching activity was the history-didactic training of primary school teachers. Even after her retirement, she dealt intensively with regional historical topics. Her burial took place in Abbehausen (near Nordenham).

Fonts

  • History of the Harlingerland up to 1600 (= treatises and lectures on the history of East Frisia, Volume 41), Verlag Ostfriesische Landschaft, Aurich 1965, at the same time Diss. Göttingen 1966.
  • Castles and chiefs in the Wangerland. In: Emder Jahrbuch, Volume 67 (1987), pp. 38-54.
  • Historical and regional excursion map of Lower Saxony. Scale 1: 50000. Sheet Wangerland / Hooksiel-West. edit by Almuth Salomon, ed. by Erhard Kühlhorn and Gerhard Streich (= publications of the Institute for Historical Research at the University of Göttingen, Volume 2, Part 10), Publishing House for Regional History, Bielefeld 1986, ISBN 3-7848-3630-5
  • Frisian historical images, historical events and collective memory in medieval Friesland (= treatises and lectures on the history of East Frisia, Volume 78). Ostfriesische Landschaftliche Verlags- und Vertriebsgesellschaft, Ostfriesische Landschaftliche Verlags- und Vertriebsgesellschaft, Aurich 2000, ISBN 3-932206-19-3
  • The Attena. In: Emder Yearbook for Historical Regional Studies in Ostfriesland , Volume 83 (2003), pp. 7–26.
  • Management layers in Jeverland. Changes in the course of the Middle Ages (= Oldenburger Schriften, NF 19; series of publications by the Jeverländischer Altertums- und Heimatverein eV; 21), Isensee Verlag, Oldenburg 2004, ISBN 978-3-89995-113-4
  • With Ingeborg Nöldecke and Antje Sander: Schortens. Local history from the Middle Ages to modern times. (= Heimatkundliche Schriftenreihe des Heimatverein Schortens von 1929 eV, No. 7) Nora, Berlin 2006. ISBN 978-3-86557-097-0
  • Attena <chief family> . In: Biographisches Lexikon für Ostfriesland , Vol. 4. Aurich 2007, pp. 18-21, ISBN 3-932206-62-2 online version (PDF; 167 kB)
  • Die Kankena , in: Emder Yearbook for Historical Regional Studies Ostfriesland, Volume 88/89 (2008/2009), pp. 7–22.

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personal data
SURNAME Salomon, Almuth
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian
DATE OF BIRTH June 13, 1932
PLACE OF BIRTH Wilhelmshaven
DATE OF DEATH March 6, 2018
Place of death Muenster