Arnd Reitemeier

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Arnd Reitemeier (* 1967 in Göttingen ) is a German historian with a focus on the late Middle Ages .

Arnd Reitemeier studied history and English, political science and education at the Universities of Göttingen and St. Andrews from 1986 to 1992 . In 1992 the first state examination for teaching at grammar schools took place. From 1993 to 1994 Reitemeier was a freelancer at the German Historical Museum in Berlin . After a research stay in England in 1994, he received his doctorate in 1996 under Hartmut Boockmann in Göttingen. After a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Münster , Reitemeier was a research assistant to Heinrich Dormeier at the chair for the history of the Middle Ages at the University of Kiel from 1997 to 2002 . In 2002 he completed his habilitation in Kiel with the work Pfarrkirchen in der Stadt des Late Middle Ages published in 2005 . From 2004 to 2008 he was senior assistant at the chair for the history of the Middle Ages in Kiel. Since October 2008 he has been teaching as the successor to Ernst Schubert as professor for Lower Saxony regional history at the University of Göttingen. At the same time he is head of the Institute for Historical Research . He gave his inaugural lecture in Göttingen in May 2009 on "Rule and legitimation of Duke Wilhelm the Younger (1535 to 1592) of Braunschweig-Lüneburg and other mentally ill imperial princes as a research task in comparative national history". He has been a full member of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences since 2016 .

His main research interests are the medieval parish churches, the forms of piety in the late Middle Ages, the villages and towns in the late Middle Ages and the Reformation, Great Britain and Hanover in the age of personal union, as well as maps as (auxiliary) means of historical science. In his dissertation, he examined foreign policy in the Middle Ages using the example of diplomatic relations between the Empire and England in the period from 1377 to 1422. Reitemeier presented studies on the education of nobility and princes in England and on favorites at the English royal court in the 14th and 15th centuries . To mark the 500th anniversary of the Reformation, he published an overview of the Reformation in Northern Germany.

Fonts

  • Reformation in Northern Germany. Trust in God between sovereignty and fear of the devil. Wallstein Verlag, Göttingen 2017, ISBN 3-8353-1968-X .
  • Parish churches in the city of the late Middle Ages: politics, economics and administration (= quarterly for social and economic history. Vol. 177). Steiner, Stuttgart 2005, ISBN 3-515-08548-3 (partly at the same time: Kiel, University, habilitation paper, 2004).
  • Foreign Policy in the Late Middle Ages. The diplomatic relations between the Reich and England 1377-1422 (= publications of the German Historical Institute London. Vol. 45). Paderborn u. a. 1999, ISBN 3-506-72043-0 (also: Göttingen, Universität, Dissertation, 1996).

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Remarks

  1. ↑ a b Prof. Dr. Arnd Reitemeier on the homepage of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen
  2. ↑ See the reviews by Joseph P. Huffmann in: Speculum 76 (2001), pp. 1094-1095; Dirk Reitz in: The English Historical Review 118 (2003), pp. 761-762; Jean-Marie Moeglin in: Francia 30 (2003), pp. 350-351 ( online ); Dieter Berg in: Historische Zeitschrift 280 (2005), pp. 445–446.
  3. ↑ See the reviews by Roxane Berwinkel in: in: Niedersächsisches Jahrbuch für Landesgeschichte 90 (2018), pp. 377-380; Eberhard Borrmann in: Yearbook for Brandenburg State History 69 (2018), pp. 244–246 ( online )
personal data
SURNAME Reitemeier, Arnd
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian
DATE OF BIRTH 1967
PLACE OF BIRTH Goettingen