Evamaria angel

Evamaria Engel (born November 27, 1934 in Greifswald as Evamaria Raschke ) is a German historian with a focus on the Middle Ages .

Life

Evamaria Engel graduated from high school in 1952 and began studying history at the Humboldt University in Berlin (HUB), which she completed in 1956 with a degree in history. After graduation, she first became a research assistant at the Institute for German History at the HUB, and in 1962 assistant at the Institute for History at the German Academy of Sciences . In May 1963 Evamaria Engel did her doctorate at the HUB as Dr. phil. The subject of the dissertation was feudal lords, feudal citizens and farmers in the Altmark. An analysis of the rural social structure based on the Brandenburg Land Book of 1375 , experts were Eckhard Müller-Mertens , Bernhard Töpfer and Friedrich Beck . In 1971 Engel became a senior research assistant at the Feudalism Science Department of the Central Institute for History of the GDR Academy of Sciences . The PhD B took place in 1976 with a thesis on the subject of studies on the relationships between central power and urban bourgeoisie from the middle of the 13th to the beginning of the 14th century .

She has been deputy head of the feudalism science department since 1980. Here she contributed to the edition of the Constitutiones of the Monumenta Germaniae Historica . In the reception organization of the GDR Academy, the research focus on the history and culture of East Central Europe. Most recently, she was the project manager for the Promotion of New Scientific Projects . From 1977 to 1987 Engel was a member and from 1988 to 1990 head of the editorial board for the yearbook for the history of feudalism . She had been a professor at the Central Institute since 1982, and towards the end of the GDR she was a member of the board of the GDR Historians' Society , where she also headed the feudalism research area.

On May 8, 1990, she gave the introductory lecture at the establishment of the Association for Medieval History.

One of her best-known publications is Die deutsche Stadt im Mittelalter (1993).

She is married to the historian Gerhard Engel .

Fonts (selection)

As an author:

• Feudal lords, feudal citizens and farmers in the Altmark: An analysis of the rural social structure based on the Brandenburg land book of 1375. Berlin 1963 (Dissertation HU Berlin 1963).
• with Benedykt Zientara: feudal structure, feudal bourgeoisie and long-distance trade in late medieval Brandenburg. Böhlau, Weimar 1967.
• with Friedrich Bruns , Hugo Weczerka , et al. : Hanseatic trade routes . Part 3, register tape . Böhlau Verlag, Weimar 1968.
• Studies on the relationships between central power and urban bourgeoisie from the middle of the 13th to the beginning of the 14th century and German history from 1250 to 1314. ( Dissertation B ). Academy of Sciences of the GDR, Berlin 1976.
• with Bernhard Töpfer : From the Hohenstaufen empire to the power of domination: German history from the Worms Concordat in 1122 to the double election of 1314.Böhlau , Weimar 1976.
• Management of the collective of authors, with Bernhard Töpfer: The unfolded feudal society from the middle of the 11th to the seventies of the 15th century (= German history. Ed. By the Central Institute for History of the Academy of Sciences of the GDR. Volume 2). German Science Publishers, Berlin 1983.
• The German city of the Middle Ages. Beck, Munich 1993.
• What is a millennium? Let me think about it. Memory - experience - hope. Women in the 20th century. Bodoni, Berlin 1999.
• with Frank-Dietrich Jacob: Urban life in the Middle Ages. Written sources and images. Böhlau, Cologne [a. a.] 2006.
• An experiment on Heinrich Alexander Stoll (1910-1977). In: Mecklenburgische Jahrbücher, Vol. 128 (2013), pp. 227–261.

As editor:

• Charles IV - politics and ideology in the 14th century. Böhlau, Weimar 1982 DNB 830490582 .
• with Eberhard Holtz: German kings and emperors of the Middle Ages. Böhlau, Cologne / Vienna 1989.
• with Bernhard Töpfer: Emperor Friedrich Barbarossa. State expansion - aspects of its politics - effect. Böhlau, Weimar 1994, ISBN 3-7400-0923-3 .
• with Karen Lambrecht, Hanna Nogossek: Metropolises in Transition: Centrality in East Central Europe at the turn of the Middle Ages to the modern age. Akademie Verlag, Berlin 1995.
• with Lieselott Enders , Gerd Heinrich and others: German city book. Urban History Handbook . Founded by Erich Keyser , continued by Heinz Stoob . Revision. Volume 2. Brandenburg and Berlin . Stuttgart, Berlin, Cologne: Kohlhammer, 2000. ISBN 978-3-170-15388-2

literature

• Lothar Mertens : The lexicon of the GDR historians. Saur, Munich 2006, page 199f, ISBN 978-3-598-11673-5 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Evamaria Engel in the catalog of the German National Library
• Literature about Evamaria Engel in the state bibliography MV