Diethard Aschoff

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Diethard Aschoff (born March 7, 1937 in Frankfurt am Main ) is a German historian and Judaist . He was an honorary professor at the University of Münster and worked at the Institutum Judaicum Delitzschianum there . His research focus is the Jewish history of Westphalia .

Life

From 1957 to 1964 he studied Latin , history and Protestant theology in Munich and Heidelberg and in 1958 became a member of the Christian student union Heidelberger Wingolf . He received his doctorate in 1971 on a topic from patristics . Two Latin editions in the Corpus Christianorum also come from this area . Since 1973 he has worked for the Germania Judaica at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem . Between 1972 and 1976 he was a research assistant in the field of medieval history in Heidelberg. He then worked in school between 1976 and 1993.

In 1978 he also received a teaching position on the history of Judaism at the University of Münster . In 1990 he became an honorary professor in Münster. Since 1993 he has been a member of the Institutum Judaicum Delitzschianum . There he was mainly responsible for Jewish history in Westphalia. In 2002 he retired.

Aschoff has been a full member of the Historical Commission for Westphalia since 1986 , and in the same year he received the LWL work grant at the suggestion of the Historical Commission . He is editor of the series Westfalia Judaica and History and Life of the Jews in Westphalia . He himself published three source editions in the Westfalia Judaica series. He published more than 350 articles on Jewish history.

literature

  • Short biography. In: Harm Klueting (Ed.): The Duchy of Westphalia. Volume 1: Harm Klueting (Ed.): The Electorate of Cologne Duchy of Westphalia from the beginnings of Cologne rule in southern Westphalia to secularization in 1803. Aschendorff, Münster 2009, ISBN 978-3-402-12827-5 . P. 917.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Verband Alter Wingolfiten eV (Ed.): Vademecum Wingolfiticum , 25th edition, Hannover 2012, p. 51.
personal data
SURNAME Aschoff, Diethard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian and Judaist
DATE OF BIRTH March 7, 1937
PLACE OF BIRTH Frankfurt am Main