Alois Schmid (historian)

Alois Schmid (born July 14, 1945 in Pettendorf- Hummelberg) is a German historian .

Alois Schmid passed his Abitur in 1965 at the Albertus-Magnus-Gymnasium Regensburg . From 1967 to 1972 he studied history, German and social studies at the University of Regensburg . In 1974 he passed the 1st state examination for higher education and received his doctorate in the same year at the University of Regensburg with the work Das Bild des Bayernherzogs Arnulf (907-937) in German historiography from his contemporaries to Wilhelm von Giesebrecht under Andreas Kraus . From 1974 to 1977 Schmid worked as a research assistant at the University of Regensburg and then until 1982 in the same position at the Institute for Bavarian History at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich and until 1988 at the Bavarian Academy of Sciences in Munich . In 1985 he completed his habilitation in Medieval and Modern History at the University of Munich on the subject of Max III. Joseph and the European Powers. The foreign policy of the Electorate of Bavaria from 1745–1765 .

From 1988 to 1994 Schmid was professor for regional history at the Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt and until 1998 at the Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nuremberg for Bavarian and Franconian regional history . In 1998 he accepted an appointment at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich, where he taught Bavarian history and comparative national history until his retirement in 2010.

Schmid has been a member of the Commission for Bavarian State History at the Bavarian Academy of Sciences in Munich since 1993, of the Society for Franconian History since 1994, of the Swabian Research Foundation since 1999, of the Bavarian Benedictine Academy and of the Academy of the Augustinian Canons of Windesheim since 2000 . From 1999 to 2013 Alois Schmid was 1st chairman of the Commission for Bavarian State History, from 2002 to 2011 he was 2nd chairman of the Working Group of Historical Research Institutions in the Federal Republic of Germany (AHF).

His main research interests are the political, ecclesiastical and cultural history of Bavaria in the Middle Ages and in the early modern period . After Dieter Albrecht's death in 1999, Schmid took over the publication of the second edition of the fourth volume of the Handbook of Bavarian History , the first part of which appeared in 2003 and the second part in 2007. Along with Georg Leidinger, he is one of the most important connoisseurs of Aventine in the 20th and 21st centuries.

In 2013 Schmid received the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany on the ribbon . In December 2019 Schmid was honored with the culture award of the Bavarian State Foundation.

Fonts

• The image of the Bavarian Duke Arnulf (907–937) in German historiography from his contemporaries to Wilhelm von Giesebrecht. Lassleben, Kallmünz 1974.
• Max III. Joseph and the European Powers. The foreign policy of the Electorate of Bavaria from 1745–1765. Oldenbourg, Munich 1987, ISBN 3-486-53631-1 .
• New paths in Bavarian national history. VS-Verlag, Wiesbaden 2008.
• Johannes Aventinus (1477-1534). Career - works - impact. A biography. Schnell + Steiner, Regensburg 2019.

literature

• Rainald Becker, Daniel Burger , Thomas Horling, Hannelore Putz (eds.): Actors - Relationships - Ideas. Bavarian history in an inter-territorial context. Festival ceremony for Alois Schmid on his 65th birthday. Laßleben, Kallmünz / Upper Palatinate 2010, ISBN 978-3-7847-1218-5 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Alois Schmid in the catalog of the German National Library
• Publications by Alois Schmid in the Opac der Regesta Imperii
• Page from Schmid at the University of Munich
• Short biography and reviews of works by Alois Schmid at perlentaucher.de

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Professor Schmid receives Federal Cross of Merit - LMU Munich. Retrieved December 18, 2019 . 
2. ↑ Augsburger Allgemeine: High distinction for violinist Veronika Eberle. Retrieved December 20, 2019 .