Bernhard Schimmelpfennig
Bernhard Schimmelpfennig (born June 14, 1938 in Berlin ) is a German historian and former university professor.
Bernhard Schimmelpfennig studied history, German language and literature and ancient American studies at the Free University of Berlin (FU) from 1957 . There he was in 1964 with Wilhelm Berges with the dissertation Bamberg in the Middle Ages. Settlement areas and population up to 1370 as Dr. phil. PhD. From 1966 to 1971 he was a research assistant or assistant professor at the Friedrich Meinecke Institute . In 1971 he completed his habilitation at the Free University of Berlin. Schimmelpfennig taught from 1982 as a professor for medieval history at the University of Augsburg . In 1994 he was a visiting scholar at the Getty Research Institute . In 2003 he retired.
Schimmelpfennig is an excellent expert on the history of the papacy up to the end of the Middle Ages. His standard work Das Papstum , published in 1984, appeared in its sixth edition in 2009 and was translated into English in 1992 on the initiative of Robert Somerville .
Fonts (selection)
Monographs
- Papacy and saints. Canon Law and Ceremonial. Selected essays. Edited by Georg Kreuzer and Stefan Weiß . ars et unitas Verlag-Gesellschaft, Neuried 2005, ISBN 3-936117-62-4 .
- Kings and princes, emperors and popes according to the Worms Concordat (= Encyclopedia of German History . Vol. 37). Oldenbourg, Munich 1996, ISBN 3-486-55033-0 .
- The papacy. Basic features of its history from antiquity to the Renaissance (= basic features. Vol. 56). Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, Darmstadt 1984, ISBN 3-534-08355-5 (from the 3rd, unchanged edition as: Das Papstum. From Antiquity to the Renaissance. Darmstadt 1988; last: 6th, bibliographically updated edition (with bibliography by Elke Goez ), Darmstadt 2009, ISBN 978-3-534-23022-8 ).
- The ceremonial books of the Roman Curia in the Middle Ages (= library of the German Historical Institute in Rome. Vol. 40). Niemeyer, Tübingen 1973, ISBN 3-484-80060-7 (also: Berlin (West), Free University, habilitation paper, 1970).
- Bamberg in the Middle Ages. Settled areas and population up to 1370 (= historical studies. Bd. 391, ZDB -ID 514152-7 ). Matthiesen, Lübeck et al. 1964 (at the same time: Berlin (West), Free University, dissertation, 1963/1964).
Editorships
- with Gunther Gottlieb , Wolfram Baer, Josef Becker , Josef Bellot, Karl Filser, Pankraz Fried and Wolfgang Reinhard : History of the City of Augsburg. 2000 years from Roman times to the present. 2nd, revised edition. Theiss, Stuttgart 1982, ISBN 3-8062-0283-4 .
- with Jörg O. Fichte, Karl Heinz Göller : connections, influences, effects. Congress files for the first symposium of the Medievalist Association in Tübingen, 1984. de Gruyter, Berlin et al. 1986, ISBN 3-11-010447-4 .
literature
- Dietrich kurz , Knut Schulz : The Friedrich Meinecke Institute. Medieval story. In: Karol Kubicki, Siegward Lönnendonker (ed.): The historical sciences at the Free University of Berlin (= contributions to the history of science of the Free University of Berlin. Vol. 2). V&R unipress, Göttingen 2008, ISBN 978-3-89971-475-3 , pp. 41–61, here p. 58.
Web links
- Literature by and about Bernhard Schimmelpfennig in the catalog of the German National Library
- Publications by Bernhard Schimmelpfennig in the Opac of the Regesta Imperii
Remarks
- ^ Matthias Schrör : Review of: Frenz, Thomas: The Papacy in the Middle Ages. Cologne 2010. In: H-Soz-Kult , March 3, 2011 ( online ).
- ^ Robert Somerville: Review of Bernhard Schimmelpfennig and Ludwig Schmugge, Rome in the High Middle Ages. Studies on ideas about Rome and politics from the 10th to the 12th century (dedicated to Reinhard Elze at the end of his seventieth year). In: Catholic Historical Review 81 (1995), pp. 644-645.
- ^ Bernard Schimmelpfennig: The Papacy. Translated by James Sievert. New York 1992.
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Schimmelpfennig, Bernhard |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German historian |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 14, 1938 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Berlin |