Bernd-Ulrich Hergemöller

Bernd-Ulrich Ludwig Hergemöller (born October 22, 1950 in Münster ) is a German historian .

After graduating from the Münster Ratsgymnasium, Bernd-Ulrich Hergemöller studied Catholic theology, philosophy and history in Münster. In the course of studying theology, he turned away from the faith. In 1978 he received his doctorate from Heinz Stoob on the Golden Bull of Emperor Charles IV of 1356. He completed his habilitation in 1984 with a thesis inspired by Stoob on the subject of Pfaffenkriege in the late medieval Hanseatic region . Then he was a private lecturer in Münster and from 1992 to 1996 university lecturer at the Ruhr University in Bochum . Since 1996 he has held the chair of the Middle Ages department at the Department of History at the University of Hamburg . On November 1, 2012, he was retired for health reasons.

Hergemöller has published around 300 publications in total. One of his main research areas was the urban social history with special consideration of the marginalized groups , another was the imperial and constitutional history of the late Middle Ages. In addition, Hergemöller edited and translated numerous sources on the history of male homosexuality in medieval cities ( Cologne , Münster, Venice , Augsburg , Basel ). "It already has a place of honor in the history of homosexual historiography" ( Patrick Bahners ). In 1998 he published his lexicon man for man .

Hergemöller was an independent councilor of the city of Münster (1984–1987) and a member of the Historical Commission for Mecklenburg .

Fonts

• Pfaffenkriege in the late medieval Hanseatic area: sources and studies on Braunschweig, Osnabrück, Lüneburg and Rostock . Böhlau, Cologne 1988, ISBN 3-412-04487-3
• Fringe groups of late medieval society. A handbook and study book . Fahlbusch, Warendorf 1990, ISBN 3-925522-07-7 . Revised (3rd) edition 2001, ISBN 3-925522-20-4 .
• Man for man . Biographical lexicon on the history of love for friends and male sexuality in the German-speaking area . MännerschwarmSkript-Verlag, Hamburg 1998, ISBN 3-928983-65-2 . Revised paperback edition: Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt 2001, ISBN 3-518-39766-4 . Completely revised edition in two volumes: LIT-Verlag, Münster 2010, ISBN 978-3-643-10693-3 .
• Sodom and Gomorrah. On everyday reality and the persecution of homosexuals in the Middle Ages . MännerschwarmSkript-Verlag, Hamburg 1998, ISBN 3-928983-58-X . Revised and supplemented 2nd edition 2000, ISBN 3-928983-81-4 .
• Introduction to the historiography of homosexualities (= historical introductions. Volume 5). Edition diskord, Tübingen 1999, ISBN 3-89295-678-2 .
• Cogor adversum te. Three studies on the literary-theological profile of Charles IV and his office (= studies on the Luxembourgers and their time. Volume 7). Fahlbusch, Warendorf 1999, ISBN 3-925522-18-2 .
• as editor: Sources on the constitutional history of the German city in the Middle Ages (= selected sources on the German history of the Middle Ages. Volume 34). Scientific Book Society, Darmstadt 2000, ISBN 3-534-06864-5 .
• Masculus et femina. Systematic baselines of a medieval gender history . HHL-Verlag, Hamburg 2001, ISBN 3-936152-01-2 . Revised and updated 2nd edition 2005, ISBN 3-936152-05-5 .
• Sleepless nights. Sleep as a metaphorical, moral and metaphysical variable in the Middle Ages . HHL-Verlag, Hamburg 2002, ISBN 3-936152-02-0 .
• Magnus versus Birgitta. The fight of St. Birgitta of Sweden against King Magnus Eriksson . HHL-Verlag, Hamburg 2003, ISBN 3-936152-03-9 .
• as editor: Hans Blüher (1888–1955). Annotated and annotated biobibliography (1905–2004). HHL-Verlag, Hamburg 2004, ISBN 3-936152-04-7 .
• Choirboys and bakeries. Homosexual clerics in medieval Basel . MännerschwarmSkript-Verlag, Hamburg 2004, ISBN 3-935596-60-X .
• The little children almost mock me. Sources and reflections on the ancients and the aging process in the Middle Ages . HHL-Verlag, Hamburg 2006, ISBN 3-936152-06-3 .
• The friends of evil. Malography, Black Legend and Hate Crime in the Middle Ages . HHL-Verlag, Hamburg 2007, ISBN 978-3-936152-07-4 .
• Wisdom lease. Aphorisms from A (llein) to Z (ynic). HHL-Verlag, Hamburg 2009, ISBN 978-3-936152-09-8 .
• Promptuarium ecclesiasticum medii aevi. Comprehensive reference work on medieval church language and theology. Peter Lang, Frankfurt am Main et al. 2011, ISBN 978-3-631-61958-2 .
• with Nicolai Clarus: Glossary on the history of the medieval city. Peter Lang, Frankfurt am Main et al. 2011, ISBN 978-3-631-61957-5 .
• Uplop - Seditio: inner-city unrest of the 14th and 15th centuries in the narrower empire. Schematic comparative conflict analysis (= studies on historical research of the Middle Ages. Volume 28). Kovač, Hamburg 2012, ISBN 978-3-8300-6287-5 .
• as editor: Fontes sodomitarum. Selected sources on the persecution of homosexuals in the Christian Middle Ages. HHL-Verlag, Hamburg 2013, ISBN 978-3-936152-10-4 .
• Prague heads. From Charles IV to Jan Hus. Poets and thinkers of the "golden age" in 25 biograms. HHL-Verlag, Hamburg 2014, ISBN 978-3-936152-12-8 .
• Facta ficta. On the reality of the unreal from the Middle Ages to today. HHL-Verlag, Hamburg 2015, ISBN 978-3-936152-13-5 .

literature

• Patrick Bahners : Bernd-Ulrich Hergemöller. And how wasteful its writing. Man by man, book by book: a pioneer in the historiography of homosexuals. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , October 18, 2010, No. 242, p. 32.

Web links

• Literature by and about Bernd-Ulrich Hergemöller in the catalog of the German National Library
• Publications by Bernd-Ulrich Hergemöller in the Opac of the Regesta Imperii
• Page from Bernd-Ulrich Hergemöller at the University of Hamburg

Remarks

1. ↑ See the review by Bernd Schneidmüller in: Niedersächsisches Jahrbuch für Landesgeschichte 62 (1990), pp. 325–327.