Georgine Tangl

Georgine Tangl (born May 17, 1893 in Vienna , † November 22, 1972 in Munich ) was an Austrian historian .

Michael Tangl's daughter moved early from Vienna to Marburg and then to Berlin. There she attended grammar school from 1905 to 1911. In 1911 she began studying history, Latin and Greek at the University of Berlin, where her father taught history as a professor. Tangl did his doctorate under Dietrich Schäfer on the participants in the general councils of the Middle Ages . In 1917 the examination for teaching at higher schools took place. From 1924 to 1959 she was a teacher at the state Augusta girls' high school. In addition to her school work, she continued to work scientifically. At first she continued her father's research and dealt with topics from papal diplomacy . In 1923 her translation was published, Das Register Innocenz 'III. about the imperial question . Studies on the Innocenz 'III register followed in 1929 . In 1940 she became an employee of the Monumenta Germaniae Historica (MGH), where she took over the edition of Bernold's Chronicles . In 1961 she moved to the MGH in Munich and continued work on the 1940 edition of Berthold's and Bernold's chronicles . This task occupied her for the rest of her life.

Fonts

• Participants in the general councils of the Middle Ages. 2nd, unchanged edition, reprographic reprint of the 1st edition, Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, Darmstadt 1969.

literature

• Gottfried Opitz : Obituary Georgine Tangl. In: German Archive for Research into the Middle Ages 29 (1973), pp. 667–668 ( online ).

Web links

• Literature by and about Georgine Tangl in the catalog of the German National Library
• Tangl, Georgine .  Publications in the bibliographic database of the Regesta Imperii .