Gerhard Fouquet

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Gerhard Fouquet (born November 22, 1952 in Ludwigshafen am Rhein ) is a German historian .

Gerhard Fouquet studied history, German and chemistry in Saarbrücken , Giessen and Mannheim . He received his doctorate in 1985 in Siegen with Ulf Dirlmeier with a thesis on the Speyer cathedral chapter in the late Middle Ages. From 1980 to the end of 1981 he was a research assistant at the General State Archives in Karlsruhe. From 1981 to 1996 he worked first as a research assistant, then as an assistant and finally as an academic adviser at the University of Siegen . In 1994 he received his habilitation. In 1994/95 he was a substitute professor at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz . In 1996 he took over the chair for social and economic history at the Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel . In 2002 he turned down an offer at the Westphalian Wilhelms University in Münster .

His main field of work is the social and economic history of the late Middle Ages . The focus is on the social history of the medieval church, the constitutional and economic history of the German principalities, the culture of the urban bourgeoisie and nobility, the social history of work and environmental history. Among other things, Fouquet is a member of the Konstanz working group for medieval history and a member of the board of the German Association of Historians (until 2008 as treasurer) and co-editor of the internationally renowned quarterly journal for social and economic history and the yearbook for regional history.

In 2005 he became Vice Rector. From June 1, 2008 to May 31, 2014 he was President of the Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel. Since 2008 he has also been the representative of the Federal Republic of Germany in the International Commission for Urban History . He is also chairman of the commission for residential cities in the Old Kingdom (1300-1800) at the Göttingen Academy of Sciences . Fouquet is a full member of the Academy of Sciences in Hamburg and a corresponding member of the commission for historical regional studies in Baden-Württemberg . In October 2013, he was awarded an honorary doctorate from Dalhousie University in Halifax , Canada .

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Monographs

  • The Speyer cathedral chapter in the late Middle Ages (approx. 1350–1540). Noble friendship, princely patronage and papal clientele (= sources and treatises on the Middle Rhine church history. Volume 57). 2 volumes. Mainz 1987.
  • The lake book of the Dominican convent St. Lambrecht (= writings of the Diocesan Archives Speyer. Volume 12). Speyer 1990.
  • Building for the city. Finances, organization and work in municipal construction companies in the late Middle Ages (= urban research. Publications of the Institute for Comparative Urban History in Münster. Volume 48). Cologne et al. 1999, ISBN 3-412-09598-2 .
  • with Ulf Dirlmeier , Bernd Fuhrmann : Europe in the late Middle Ages 1215-1378 (= Oldenbourg outline of history. Volume 8). Munich 2003, ISBN 3-486-49721-9 .
  • with Rolf Drechsel: Dannstadt and Schauernheim . On the history of rural communities in the Palatinate. Volume 1: The history of Dannstadt and Schauernheim from the beginnings to the Thirty Years War. Speyer 1989.
  • with Ingo Dierck: Dannstadt and Schauernheim. On the history of rural communities in the Palatinate. Volume 2: The history of Dannstadt and Schauernheim from the resettlement in 1650 to the French era. Dannstadt-Schauernheim 2006.
  • with Gabriel Zeilinger: Disasters in the late Middle Ages (= knowledge connects ). Scientific Book Society, Darmstadt 2011, ISBN 978-3-534-24699-1 .

Editorships

  • The journey of an anonymous nobility to the Holy Land in 1494 (= Kieler Werkstücke. Series E, Volume 5). Frankfurt am Main et al. 2007, ISBN 978-3-631-56777-7 .
  • with Hans-Jörg Gilomen : Networks in European trade in the Middle Ages (= lectures and research. Volume 72). Thorbecke, Ostfildern 2010, ISBN 3-7995-6872-7 .
  • with Gabriel Zeilinger: The urbanization of Europe from antiquity to modern times (= Kieler Werkstücke. Series E, Volume 7). Frankfurt am Main et al. 2009, ISBN 978-3-631-57881-0 .

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Remarks

  1. ^ Commission Residential Cities in the Old Kingdom (1300–1800)
personal data
SURNAME Fouquet, Gerhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH November 22, 1952
PLACE OF BIRTH Ludwigshafen am Rhein