Felix Escher

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Felix Escher (born March 8, 1945 in Berlin ) is a German historian .

Life

In 1965, Escher began studying history and geography at the Free University of Berlin and graduated in 1973 with the first state examination. From 1974 to 1979 he was employed as a research assistant at the chair for historical regional studies at the Free University of Berlin and from 1974/75 he was a member of a working group focusing on the research project “ Cistercians ” (from 1980 “Comparative Order Research”) at the Friedrich Meinecke Institute . In 1979, Escher received his doctorate from Heinz Quirin and worked in the interdisciplinary working group Germania Slavica at the Free University of Berlin.

From 1986 to 1996 Escher was a research assistant at the Historical Commission in Berlin and then a member of DFG projects. In addition, from 1992 to 2006 he was chairman of the State History Association for the Mark Brandenburg eV Between 1999 and 2000 he also worked as a research assistant at the Jewish Museum Berlin . Since 1999 he has been a lecturer at the TU Berlin , where he has been an adjunct professor for medieval history since the 2006/2007 winter semester . Since 2002 he and Eckart Henning have been the publisher and secretary of the Yearbook for Brandenburg State History . Since 2006 he has also been a member of the Historical Commission of Berlin and the Brandenburg Historical Commission .

Publications (selection)

  • Brandenburg pilgrimages and pilgrimage sites in the Middle Ages. In: Yearbook for the History of Central and Eastern Germany 27 (1978), pp. 116-137.
  • together with Wolfgang Ribbe : Städtische Siedlungen im Mittelalter (= supplement to the historical handbook of Brandenburg and Berlin ), Berlin / New York 1980.
  • Ascanians and Magdeburgers in the Mittelmark in the 12th and early 13th centuries. At the same time a contribution to the development of Berlin. In: Eckart Henning , Werner Vogel [Hrsg.]: Festschrift of the State Historical Association for the Mark Brandenburg on its centenary (1884–1984). Berlin 1984.
  • The Electorate of Brandenburg in the age of denominationalism. In: Ingo Materna , Wolfgang Ribbe (Ed.): Brandenburg history. Akademie Verlag, Berlin 1995, ISBN 3-05-002508-5 , pp. 231-290.
  • The Catholic Church in the 19th and 20th centuries Century. In: Gerd Heinrich (Hrsg.): A thousand years church in Berlin-Brandenburg. Berlin 1999.
  • together with Jürgen Vietig : Germans and Poles - a chronicle. Berlin 2002.
  • together with Hartmut Kühne: The Wilsnackfahrt. A pilgrimage and communication center of Northern and Central Europe in the late Middle Ages. Frankfurt am Main 2006.
  • Berlin becomes a metropolis. A history of the region . Elsengold Verlag, Berlin 2020, ISBN 978-3-96201-038-6 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Vademecum of the historical sciences. Edition 10.2012/2013. Steiner, Stuttgart 2012, ISBN 978-3-515-10079-3 , p. 348.
personal data
SURNAME Escher, Felix
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian
DATE OF BIRTH March 8, 1945
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin