Gerhard Streich

Gerhard Streich (* 1946 ) is a German historian.

Streich studied Medieval and Modern History and German Studies in Göttingen from 1971 to 1980 and from 1983 worked as a research assistant at the Institute for State Research at the University of Göttingen .

He deals with the constitution of castles, sacred topography and the veneration of saints in ruling churches, family organization and the transfer of power as reflected in the founding of monasteries, the history of cartography and historical settlement and cultural research.

In 1984 he received the first Wedekind Prize for German History from the Göttingen Academy of Sciences for his book Castle and Church during the German Middle Ages . That was also his dissertation from 1984 in Göttingen.

Fonts

• Castle and church during the German Middle Ages. Investigations into the sacred topography of palaces, castles and mansions , Constance Working Group for Medieval History: Lectures and Research, Special Volume 29, Jan Thorbecke Verlag 1984
• Monasteries, monasteries and commendants in Lower Saxony before the Reformation, with a source and literature appendix on the ecclesiastical structure of Lower Saxony around 1500, studies and preparatory work for the Historical Atlas of Lower Saxony, issue 30, Hildesheim: Lax 1986
• with Andreas König, Holger Rabe: Höxter, Volume 1: Höxter and Corvey in the Early and High Middle Ages, Hannover: Hahn 2003,
• with Andreas König, Michael Koch: Höxter , Volume 2: Höxter and Corvey in the late Middle Ages, studies and sources on Westphalian history, Bonifatius Verlag 2015

He was also involved in the regional map of the history and regional studies of Lower Saxony and the historical and regional excursion map of Lower Saxony.

Web links

• Literature by and about Gerhard Streich in the catalog of the German National Library
• Short biography at Bonifatius Verlag