Cordelia Hess

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Cordelia Heß (* 1977 in Fulda ) is a German historian and university graduate .

Life

She studied history, Scandinavian studies and church and dogma history in Hamburg and Stockholm . After completing her doctorate in Hamburg in 2007, she became a postdoc in Stockholm in 2008 on a project on clergy criticism in the late Middle Ages. She acquired docentur in Stockholm in 2013. From 2003 to 2007 she was a research assistant at the University of Hamburg and from 2012 to 2016 akademiforskare , funded by the Kungliga Vitterhets Historie och Antikvitets Academies , during which time she was visiting the Herzog August Library in Wolfenbüttel , the Kantor Center and the Historical Institute at the University Tel Aviv and at the Center for Research on Antisemitism at the TU Berlin . From 2014 to 2017 she was associate professor at the University of Gothenburg , Institute for Historical Studies. She has held the Chair of Nordic History in Greifswald since the 2017 winter semester .

Fonts (selection)

  • Making saints in the late medieval Baltic region. The canonization processes of Birgitta of Sweden, Nikolaus von Linköping and Dorothea von Montau (= Europe in the Middle Ages. Volume 11). Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-05-004514-6 (also dissertation, Hamburg 2007).
  • as editor with Jürgen Sarnowsky and Christina Link: Großschäfferei Königsberg I (Order Foliant 141) (= debt books and bills of the Großschäffer and Lieger of the Teutonic Order in Prussia. Volume 1). Böhlau, Cologne / Weimar / Vienna 2008, ISBN 3-412-20134-0 .
  • Social imagery in Middle Low German. Didactical literature and metaphorical representation (= Studies in medieval and Reformation traditions. Volume 167). Brill, Leiden / Boston 2013, ISBN 978-90-04-24775-8 .
  • as editor with Tobias Alm: Right-wing populism can be fatal! Development and consequences of the shift to the right in Scandinavia (= series Antifascist Politics. Volume 6). Ed. Assemblage, Münster 2013, ISBN 978-3-942885-29-4 .
  • as editor with Jonathan Adams: Fear and loathing in the North. Jews and Muslims in Medieval Scandinavia and the Baltic Region. Conference Fear and Loathing in the North: Muslims and Jews in Medieval Scandinavia and the Baltic Region, held in Stockholm on 10 - 11 June 2013 . DeGruyter, Boston / Berlin 2015, ISBN 3-11-034646-X .
  • as editor with Jonathan Adams: Revealing the Secrets of the Jews. Johannes Pfefferkorn and Christian Writings about Jewish Life and Literature in Early Modern Europe . DeGruyter, Berlin 2017, ISBN 3-11-052254-3 .
  • The Absent Jews. Kurt Forstreuter and the Historiography of Medieval Prussia . Berghahn Books, New York 2017, ISBN 1-78533-492-1 .
  • as editor with Jonathan Adams: The Medieval Roots of Antisemitism. Continuities and Discontinuities from the Middle Ages to the Present Day . Routledge, London 2018, ISBN 9781138630888 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ University of Gothenburg: Cordelia Heß.Retrieved August 4, 2018
personal data
SURNAME Hess, Cordelia
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian and university student
DATE OF BIRTH 1977
PLACE OF BIRTH Fulda