Frank G. Hirschmann

Frank G. Hirschmann (born September 17, 1955 in Duisburg ) is a German historian .

Hirschmann studied languages ​​from 1973 to 1980 at the universities of Bonn , Cologne , Tours and Granada, and from 1988 to 1994 history at the University of Trier . In 1994 he received his doctorate and in 1999 he completed his habilitation in Trier. Since then he has represented chairs in Trier and at Saarland University and has curated numerous historical exhibitions. Since 2006 he has been working as an adjunct professor in Trier. He also works for various museums as well as the Trier Tourism and Marketing GmbH and numerous other institutions. From 2007 to 2020 he was a lecturer at Heidelberg University. His main research interests are comparative urban history, religious institutions and the history of the Rhineland, the Low Countries and northern France. He also acted as a director for numerous theater and music theater productions.

Fonts

• with Wolfgang Heckenbach: French as a world language. Annotated bibliography on Francophonie 1945–78 , Tübingen 1979 (= Tübingen Contributions to Linguistics , 139).
• Verdun in the high Middle Ages. A Lorraine cathedral city and its surroundings in the mirror of the spiritual institutions , 3 vols., Trier 1996 (= Trier historical research , 27).
• Urban planning, construction projects and large construction sites in the 10th and 11th centuries. Comparative studies on the cathedral cities west of the Rhine , Stuttgart 1998 (= monographs on the history of the Middle Ages , 43).
• with Monika Escher: The urban centers of the high Middle Ages. Comparative studies of cities and urban landscapes in the west of the empire and in eastern France. Annotated maps with local lexicon , 3 vols., Trier 2005 (= Trier historical research , 50).
• with Gerold Bönnen : Monasteries and monasteries 1215 to 1520, map and booklet IX.1.2 of the Historical Atlas of the Rhineland , Cologne 2006.
• Die Stadt im Mittelalter , Munich 2009 (= Encyclopedia of German History , 84); 2nd, updated and expanded edition Berlin / Boston 2016.
• The beginnings of urbanism in Central Europe. The episcopal seats of the empire up to the 12th century , 3 vols., Stuttgart 2011/2012 (= monographs on the history of the Middle Ages , 59).
• with Romain Maréchal: The Holy Empress Kunigunde of Luxembourg , Trier 2014.
• with Beatrix Bouvier : The Marx and von Westphalen families. Life paths from grandparents to daughters , Trier 2018.

Web links

• Hirschmann, Prof. Dr. Frank G. - Research Directory. In: research.fid-benelux.de.