Dieter Girgensohn

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Dieter Girgensohn (born May 30, 1934 in Riga ) is a German church historian .

Life

Due to the events of the Second World War , the family moved to Posen in 1939–1940 and had to flee in 1945 , which brought them to the vicinity of Göttingen . He graduated from the University of Göttingen in 1960 with a degree in the history of the Middle Ages and modern times. There he received his doctorate with a thesis on Peter von Pulkau . His academic teachers were Alfons Lhotsky and Hermann Heimpel . From 1960 to 1963 he worked at the German Historical Institute in Rome and worked on the collection of papal bulls until 1198, a project of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen . In 1967 he was able to get a permanent position at the Max Planck Institute for History in Göttingen, which he held until his retirement in 1999.

The focus of his research is the politics of the popes in the Great Western Schism , in particular the negotiations between Benedict XIII. and Gregory XII. (1407-1408) and the Council of Pisa 1409. In recent years he has mainly deals with the history of the Republic of Venice occupied in the late middle ages, with special attention to the Church's history.

Girgensohn was chairman of the Göttingen local association of the SPD and long-standing financial policy spokesman in the district council.

He married twice, in 1960 and 1986. The first marriage had a son and a daughter. He has been a widower since 2008.

Works (selection)

  • Peter von Pulkau and the reintroduction of the lay chalice. Life and work of a Viennese theologian during the time of the great schism (= publications of the Max Planck Institute for History. Volume 12). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 1964.
  • 94 Article (Corsica - Venosa) in: Lexicon for Theology and Church , Volumes 6–10. 2nd Edition. Freiburg 1961–1965 (mainly about Italian dioceses; cf. the compilation in the register volume p. 534)
  • Church, politics and noble government of the Republic of Venice in the early 15th century (= publications of the Max Planck Institute for the History , Volume 118). 1st edition. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 1996, ISBN 978-3-525-35432-2 .
  • The University of Vienna and the Council of Constance. In: August Franzen, Wolfgang Müller (ed.): The Council of Constance. Contributions to its history and theology. Freiburg, Basel, Vienna 1964, pp. 252–281.
  • The Pisan Council of 1135 in the tradition of the Pisan Council of 1409. In: Festschrift for Hermann Heimpel (= publications of the Max Planck Institute for History Volume 36). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 1972, pp. 1063-1100.
  • Dall'episcopato greco all'episcopato latino nell'Italia meridionale. In: La Chiesa greca in Italia dall'VIII al XVI secolo (= Italia sacra Volume 20). Padova 1973, pp. 25-43.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Göttinger Tageblatt , accessed on April 14, 2019.
personal data
SURNAME Girgensohn, Dieter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German church historian
DATE OF BIRTH May 30, 1934
PLACE OF BIRTH Riga