Cord Meckseper

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Cord Meckseper (born October 29, 1934 in Bremen ) is a German building researcher and architectural historian .

Life

After studying architecture at the Technical University of Stuttgart , Meckseper worked at the chair for building history and building survey there as a scientific assistant and did his doctorate on the high medieval urban history of Rottweil am Neckar. He completed his habilitation and became a university lecturer in the field of "Urban History". 1973–1974 he was professor for the history, theory and criticism of architecture at the State University of Fine Arts in Berlin . In 1973 he was appointed full professor for architectural and art history at the University of Hanover . After his retirement in 1999, he continues to do research on building history, particularly in the Middle Ages.

From 1979 he played a major role in the preparations for the Lower Saxony state exhibition “City in Transition. Art and Culture of the Bourgeoisie in Northern Germany ”in Braunschweig , which was shown in 1985 in the Braunschweigisches Landesmuseum and Dankwarderode Castle . From 1986 to 1994 he was chairman of the Koldewey Society - Association for Research on Building History , and from 1989 to 1995 Vice President of the German Castle Association . He has been a member of the humanities class of the Braunschweig Scientific Society since 1992 .

Cord Meckseper is the older brother of the painter and graphic artist Friedrich Meckseper .

Publications (selection)

  • Castel del Monte : Its prerequisites in north-western European architecture in: Zeitschrift für Kunstgeschichte, Vol. 33, H. 3, pp. 211-231
  • Rottweil . Investigations into the history of urban construction in the High Middle Ages. 1970 (dissertation, University of Stuttgart, 1970).
  • A short art history of the German city in the Middle Ages. Scientific Book Society, Darmstadt 1982, ISBN 3-534-08579-5 ; 3rd, textually unchanged edition 2011 ( ISBN 978-3-534-24022-7 ).
  • [Associate Editor]: The City in Literature . Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 1983, ISBN 978-3525334911 .
  • The Leibnizhaus in Hanover . The story of a monument. With a major contribution to the building from 1652 by Ingrid Krüger. Edited by Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Society eV Schlütersche Verlagsanstalt, Hanover 1983, ISBN 3-87706-192-3 .
  • (Ed.): City in Transition. Art and culture of the bourgeoisie in Northern Germany 1150-1650. Exhibition catalog Landesausstellung Niedersachsen 1985, Vol. 1–4. Cantz, Stuttgart-Bad Cannstatt 1985, ISBN 3-922608-37-X .
  • "Paper is patient". How Otto the Great's palace in Magdeburg was found and how research began to withdraw again. In: Stefanie Lieb (Ed.), Form and Style. Festschrift for Günther Binding for his 65th birthday. Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, Darmstadt 2001, ISBN 3-534-14959-9 , pp. 75-82.
  • The piano nobile . An occidental room category. Olms, Hildesheim 2012, ISBN 978-3-487-14742-0 .
  • Architecture-Science: Glass Bead Games and the Real Unicorn. In: Braunschweigische Wissenschaftliche Gesellschaft. Yearbook 2012. J. Cramer Verlag, Braunschweig 2013, ISBN 978-3-934656-32-1 , pp. 237–244.

literature

  • Maike Kozok (Ed.): Structure, Symbol. Forays into architectural history from antiquity to the present. Festschrift for Cord Meckseper on his 65th birthday. Petersberg 1999, ISBN 3-932526-52-X .

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personal data
SURNAME Meckseper, Cord
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German building researcher and architectural historian
DATE OF BIRTH October 29, 1934
PLACE OF BIRTH Bremen