Andreas Rüther

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Andreas Rüther (* 1963 ) is a German medieval historian .

Life

From 1983 to 1988 he studied history, German philology and political science at the Free University of Berlin . In 1988 he passed the first state examination for the office of student council at the State Scientific Examination Office in Berlin. From 1989 to 1994 he was a research assistant at the Friedrich Meinecke Institute at the Free University of Berlin. In 1990 he received a scholarship at the Centro Interuniversitario di Studi Francescani in Assisi. After receiving his doctorate in 1994 as Dr. phil. in history with a focus on the Middle Ages at the Free University of Berlin, he had a postdoctoral scholarship from 1995 to 1997 at the graduate college "Church and Society in the Holy Roman Empire of the 15th and 16th Centuries"Georg-August University of Göttingen . In 1996 he was a habilitation student at the German Historical Institute in Warsaw . From 1997 to 1998 he received an Immanuel Kant habilitation grant from the Herder Institute for Historical Research on East Central Europe . From 1998 to 2004 he was a research assistant at the Justus Liebig University in Giessen , where, after completing his habilitation in 2004, he became a private lecturer in Medieval and Modern History. From 2004 to 2006 he represented German national history, late medieval history and Eastern European history at the Justus Liebig University in Giessen. From 2006 to 2007 he was a project member and lecturer at the professorship for Medieval History and Historical Auxiliary Sciences at the Ruhr University in Bochum . From 2007 to 2009 he held the chair in Medieval History at the University of Kassel with a W2 lectureship at the Max Planck Institute for European Legal History in Frankfurt am Main. From 2009 to 2013 he was an academic senior counselor at the Faculty of History in Bochum in the field of medieval history. From 2013 to 2014 he was in the chair for Medieval History, especially the History of the Late Middle Ages, at the Ruhr University in Bochum. From 2014 to 2015 he represented the professorship for general history at Bielefeld University with a special focus on the High and Late Middle Ages . In 2015 he was appointed adjunct professor at the Faculty of History, Philosophy and Theology at Bielefeld University. From 2016 to 2017 he represented the chair for the history of the late Middle Ages and the early modern period at the University of Duisburg-Essen . Since 2017 he has been a teacher for special tasks in the history department for the medieval work area at Bielefeld University.

His main research interests are pre-modern agricultural and migration history, new cultural history of the political, comparative national and regional history, court and residence research on the late Middle Ages and early modern times, church and town history in the later Middle Ages, and monasticism and religious orders since the early and high Middle Ages.

Fonts (selection)

  • Begging orders in town and country. The Strasbourg Mendikantenkonvente and Alsace in the late Middle Ages . Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-428-09235-X .
  • Region and Identity. Silesia and the Empire in the Late Middle Ages . Cologne 2010, ISBN 978-3-412-20612-3 .

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