Andreas Ranft
Andreas Ranft (born August 22, 1951 in Marburg ) is a German historian .
Andreas Ranft first studied economics, then switched to studying history, law, philosophy and political science. In 1983 he received his doctorate in Kiel with a thesis on the Lüneburg basic household in the middle of the 15th century. He then became a research assistant at the History Department of the University of Hanover . From 1984 to 1990 Ranft was a university assistant at the historical seminar of the Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel . In 1991 Ranft qualified as a professor on the subject of aristocratic societies. Group formation and cooperative society in the late medieval empire . In 1999 he was appointed professor for medieval history at the Martin Luther University in Halle-Wittenberg . From 2003 to 2010 he was dean of the Faculty of Philosophy I there. He retired in October 2017.
His research focuses on the social and cultural history of the late Middle Ages as well as urban and administrative history.
He is a member of the Historical Commission for Saxony-Anhalt , of the Association of Historians in Germany (VHD) and a board member of the Association for the History of the City of Halle .
Web links
- Literature by and about Andreas Ranft in the catalog of the German National Library
- Page from Ranft at the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg
Remarks
- ↑ See the review by Jürgen Bohmbach in: Niedersächsisches Jahrbuch für Landesgeschichte 62 (1990), pp. 362–363 ( online ).
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| SURNAME | Ranft, Andreas |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German historian |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 22, 1951 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Marburg |