Bernd Roeck

Bernd Roeck at the Frankfurt Book Fair 2017

Bernd Roeck (born December 17, 1953 in Augsburg ) is a German historian . From 1999 he was full professor of general and Swiss modern history at the University of Zurich until his retirement in January 2019.

Life

Bernd Roeck received his doctorate in 1979 under Hans Schmidt at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich . In 1987 the habilitation followed. From 1986 to 1990 he was director of the German Study Center in Venice . From 1990 to 1991 he was C3 professor at the University of Augsburg and from 1991 to 1999 full professor for medieval and modern history at the University of Bonn . In 1993 he became a member of the Advisory Board of the Southwest German Working Group for Urban History Research, and has been the chairman of this working group since 1998. From 1996 to 1999 he was Secretary General of the Italian-German Center Villa Vigoni (German-Italian Center for European Excellence) in Loveno di Menaggio on Lake Como. In 1999 he was appointed to the chair for General and Swiss Modern History at the History Department of the University of Zurich.

Roeck is a member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Centro tedesco di Studi Veneziani and its president ad interim in 2005/06. He is a member of the Istituto Veneto di scienze, lettere ed arti , the Accademia Roveretana degli Agiati , the Scientific Advisory Board of the Germanisches Nationalmuseum Nürnberg and the German Historical Institute in Rome . He is still u. a. Member of the Board of Trustees of the Right Livelihood Award | Foundation Switzerland. He was also a visiting professor at the National Taiwan Normal University (NTNU).

From 2009 to 2011 he was Dean of the Philosophical Faculty of the University of Zurich. Together with Gesine Krüger, he held the presidency of the Master of Advanced Studies in Applied History course .

In 2017 he was a conversation partner in the documentary Turning Time - The Renaissance by Martin Papirowski .

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Roeck published numerous works on social, art and cultural history, namely on urban history research and on the history of marginalized groups and minorities. On the occasion of his stays in Venice he dealt with the painting and sculpture of the Italian Renaissance , in the 1990s he wrote studies on Aby Warburg . Since then, Roeck has made a significant contribution to the “ iconic turn ” and to the integration of visual science as an interdisciplinary field in historical studies . His book The Historical Eye (2004) is an introduction to the problems of dealing with works of art as sources of history . He became particularly well known for his visual analysis of paintings by Piero della Francesca , which reflect the life of Condottiere Federico da Montefeltro and the murder of his brother, Oddantonio da Montefeltro .

Prices

• 1996 Cavaliere del Merito / Knight's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Republic of Italy
• 1997 Habilitation award from the University of Munich
• 2001 Philip Morris Prize
• 2012 Warburg professorship from the Warburg Foundation Hamburg
• Citizen Medal of the City of Augsburg

Fonts

City history

• Baker, bread and grain in Augsburg 1600–1650. Studies on the supply policy of the imperial city and on the social structure of the bakery trade in the age of the 30 Years War . Thorbecke, Sigmaringen 1987. (= Treatises on the history of the city of Augsburg. Volume 31.) ISBN 3-7995-6941-3 .
• A city in war and peace. Studies on the history of the imperial city of Augsburg between calendar dispute and parity (2 volumes). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 1989. (= series of publications of the historical commission at the Bavarian Academy of Sciences. Volume 37.) ISBN 3-525-35937-3 .
• The living environment and culture of the bourgeoisie in the early modern period . Oldenbourg, Munich 1991, 2nd edition 2011. (= Encyclopedia of German History . Volume 9). ISBN 978-3-486-59800-1 .
• As if the world wanted to break. A city in the age of the Thirty Years War . Beck, Munich 1991. ISBN 3-406-35500-5 .
• City history - world history. Pforzheim - a city in a historical process . Stadt- und Kreis-Sparkasse, Pforzheim 1995. ISBN 3-9804049-5-1 .
• Heretics, Artists and Demons. The worlds of goldsmith David Altenstetter . A journey into the Renaissance. Beck, Munich 2009. ISBN 978-3-406-59171-6 .

Image science

• Art patronage in the early modern period. Art market, artists and their clients in Italy and in the Holy Roman Empire (15th – 17th centuries) . Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 1999. ISBN 3-525-01370-1 .
• The historical eye. Works of art as witnesses to their time. From the renaissance to the revolution. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2004. ISBN 3-525-36732-5 .
• with Andreas Tönnesmann : The nose of Italy. Federico da Montefeltro, Duke of Urbino . Wagenbach, Berlin 2005. ISBN 3-8031-3616-4 .
• Murderer, painter and patron: Piero della Francesca's “Flagellation”. An art-historical crime story. Beck, Munich 2006. ISBN 3-406-55035-5 .
• with Martina Stercken, François Walter, Marco Jorio and Thomas Manetsch (eds.): Schweizer Städtebilder. Urban iconographies (15th-20th centuries) / Portraits de villes suisses. Iconography urbaine (XVe – XXe siècle) / Vedute delle città svizzere. L'iconografia urbana (XV – XX secolo). Chronos, Zurich 2013. ISBN 978-3-0340-1085-6 .
• Learned artists. Renaissance painters, sculptors and architects on art . Wagenbach, Berlin 2013. ISBN 978-3-8031-3645-9 .

Monographs

• The morning of the world. History of the renaissance. Beck, Munich 2017. ISBN 978-3-406-69876-7 .
• Leonardo. The man who wanted to know everything. Biography. Beck, Munich 2019. ISBN 978-3-406-73509-7 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Bernd Roeck in the catalog of the German National Library
• Bernd Roeck in the Internet Movie Database (English)