Christian Hesse (historian)

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Christian Hesse (born September 11, 1961 in Zurich ) is a Swiss historian .

Christian Hesse studied general history, art history and chemistry at the University of Zurich until 1987 . In 1990 he received his doctorate in Zurich with a constitutional and socio-historical work on the medieval monastery of St. Mauritius in Zofingen . His doctoral supervisor was Ludwig Schmugge . From 1990 to 1998 he was an assistant at the Historical Institute of the University of Bern . From 1998 to 2001 he was head of the National Fund project “Princely Office Holders in the Late Medieval Empire”. From 2002 to 2008 he was a manager in the National Fund project “Scholars in the Reich”. In 2003 he completed his habilitation at the University of Bern. In 2008 he turned down an offer at the University of Jena . Since September 1, 2008, Hesse has been teaching as a professor for medieval history at the University of Bern. Hesse is a member of the Konstanz Working Group for Medieval History and has been a member of the Historical Commission at the Bavarian Academy of Sciences since 2013 .

His research interests include the social and economic history of the nobility, the administrative, social and constitutional history of the late Middle Ages, the university and educational history of the late Middle Ages and the early modern period. Hesse wrote works on the careers of late medieval clergy and university visitors. In the spring of 2016 he organized a Reichenau conference of the Constance working group for medieval history on the subject of “cross-border transgressions”. In 2017, Hesse published the section on the time of the Luxembourg kings up to the election of Sigismund (1346–1410) for the “ Gebhardt ”, the fundamental handbook on German history .

Fonts

Monographs

  • Synthesis and Awakening (1346–1410) (= Gebhardt. Handbuch der deutschen Geschichte. Volume 7b). 10th, completely revised edition. Klett-Cotta, Stuttgart 2017, ISBN 978-3-608-60072-8 .
  • Officials of the princes in the late medieval empire. The functional elites of the local administration in Bavaria-Landshut, Hesse, Saxony and Württemberg 1350–1515 (= series of publications by the Historical Commission at the Bavarian Academy of Sciences. Vol. 70). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2005, ISBN 3-525-36063-0 ( review on Sehepunkte ; review on H-Soz-u-Kult ).
  • St. Mauritius in Zofingen. Constitutional and social-historical aspects of a medieval canon monastery (= publications on the history of Zofingen. Vol. 2). Sauerländer, Aarau et al. 1992, ISBN 3-7941-3602-0 .

Editorships

  • with Regula Schmid and Roland Gerber: conquering and taking possession. The conquest of Aargau in 1415 in a European comparison. Thorbecke, Ostfildern 2017, ISBN 3-7995-1243-8 .

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Remarks

  1. ^ Vademecum of the historical sciences. 10th edition 2012/2013, p. 401.
  2. ↑ Current members: Historical Commission at the Bavarian Academy of Sciences .
  3. ↑ See the reviews of J. Friedrich Battenberg in: Archive for Hessian History and Altertumskunde 76 (2018), pp. 340–342; Anne-Katrin Kunde in: Hémecht 2019, pp. 238–241.
personal data
SURNAME Hesse, Christian
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss historian
DATE OF BIRTH September 11, 1961
PLACE OF BIRTH Zurich