Brigitte Degler-Spengler

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Brigitte Degler-Spengler (born April 5, 1941 in Röbel / Müritz (Mecklenburg), † November 28, 2015 in Basel ) was a Swiss historian of German descent.

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Brigitte Degler-Spengler attended elementary school in the Palatinate, where her family had settled in 1945, and in Saarland, then the French-language Lycée Maréchal Ney in Saarbrücken and the new-language grammar school of the Englischen Fräulein in Landau / Pfalz , where she passed the matriculation examination in 1961. She then studied history and German in Freiburg im Breisgau , Mainz and at the University of Basel . At the suggestion of Albert Bruckner , she wrote her dissertation on the Poor Clare Monastery Gnadental in Basel from its foundation to its abolition as a result of the Reformation.

After receiving her doctorate in 1967, she became Albert Bruckner's research assistant at Helvetia Sacra , for which she had been working as a freelancer since 1965. From 1976 until her retirement in 2003 she was Albert Bruckner's successor as chief editor at Helvetia Sacra . Under her direction, 22 volumes of Helvetia Sacra were published , and she was also involved in the other five volumes. Furthermore, she wrote articles for the New German Biography and for the Historical Lexicon of Switzerland the articles on the religious women and on Anna Payer , abbess of the Poor Clare Monastery in Gnadental in Basel.

In 1996 Brigitte Degler-Spengler joined the Philosophical Faculty of the University of Freiburg i. Ue. for her services as a director of Helvetia Sacra with the honorary doctorate awarded. In 2009 she accepted the Benedictine Academy of Bavaria into her circle because of her services to the history of the Benedictine order.

Publications (selection)

  • The Beguines in Basel. Basel, 1970. (Special reprint from Vol. 69 and 70 of the Basler Zeitschrift für Geschichte und Altertumskunde 1969/1970.)
  • The Clariss monastery Gnadental in Basel 1289 to 1529. Reinhardt, Basel 1969. (= sources and research on Basel history , 3.)
  • "The Poor Clare Monasteries in Switzerland". In: "Helvetia Franciscana" Vol. 23 (1994), pp. 44-61.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Brigitte Degler-Spengler: Religious women. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
  2. ^ Cécile Sommer-Ramer: Review In: Swiss Journal for History. Vol. 23 (1973), No. 2, pp. 360-362.
  3. ↑ Hans Kälin: Review in the Swiss Journal for History. Vol. 22 (1972), No. 3, p. 512f.

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personal data
SURNAME Degler-Spengler, Brigitte
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss historian of German descent
DATE OF BIRTH April 5, 1941
PLACE OF BIRTH Röbel / Müritz
DATE OF DEATH November 28, 2015
Place of death Basel