Gerhard Theuerkauf

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Gerhard Theuerkauf (born March 6, 1933 in Magdeburg ; † November 17, 2014 in Hamburg ) was a German historian .

Gerhard Theuerkauf studied history (including the historical auxiliary sciences), German and Latin philology and law at the University of Münster from 1953 to 1961 . In 1958 the teaching examination took place. Encouraged by Otto Herding , he did his doctorate in 1960 with a dissertation on the constitution of the bishopric of Münster and on the north-west German feudal law from the 14th to the 16th century. He was a research assistant at the Historical Commission for Westphalia (with Johannes Bauermann , 1959–1961) and at the History Department of the University of Münster, Department of Westphalian State History (with Albert K. Hömberg and then with Heinz Stoob , 1962–1967). In 1967 he was elected a full member of the Historical Commission for Westphalia , in 1975 his membership was converted into a corresponding one.

With a study of legal record and legal awareness in northern Germany from the 8th to the 16th century, he qualified as a professor in 1966 for Middle and Modern History and auxiliary historical sciences . Since 1967 he has taught as a lecturer, since 1971 as a scientific adviser and associate professor at the University of Münster, Medieval and Modern History. In Münster, he supervised three dissertations as first reviewer. In 1974 he was appointed full professor at the University of Hamburg (successor to Rolf Sprandel ). Within the history seminar of this university, he headed the Medieval II department. From 1974 to 1975 and 1986 to 1987 he was the managing director of the history department, and from 1978 to 1980, during a reform-friendly time, he was the spokesman for the history department. In 1980 he initiated the Hamburg working group for regional history. In 1995 he retired. In Hamburg he supervised sixteen dissertations as a first reviewer. Jürgen Sarnowsky was his successor as professor of medieval history .

Theuerkauf's research focused on the constitutional and economic history of the Middle Ages, taking into account the early modern period, the regional history of Northern Germany, the history of images of the world and the Orient, historical source studies and the theory of history as well as the online project "History in Variants" , to which as a parallel, exceeding history in the narrower sense, also experimental texts (“A day on the river”) belong.

Fonts

  • Land and feudal system from the 14th to the 16th century. A contribution to the constitution of the bishopric of Münster and to the north-west German feudal law (= New Münster contributions to historical research. Vol. 7, ISSN  0077-7706 ). Böhlau, Cologne et al. 1961 (at the same time: Münster, university, dissertation, 1961).
  • On the typology of late medieval territorial administration in Germany. In: Annali della Fondazione Italiana per la Storia Amministrativa. Vol. 2, 1965, ISSN  0531-9846 , pp. 37-76.
  • Lex, Speculum, Compendium iuris. Legal record and legal awareness in northern Germany from the 8th to the 16th century (= research on German legal history 6, ISSN  0429-1522 ). Böhlau, Cologne et al. 1968 (at the same time: Münster, university, habilitation paper, 1966).
  • Social conditions of humanistic world chronicle. System-theoretical sketches for Nauclerus' Chronicle. In: Kaspar Elm , Eberhard Gönner , Eugen Hillenbrand (eds.): State history and intellectual history. Festschrift for Otto Herding on the occasion of his 65th birthday (= publications of the commission for historical regional studies in Baden-Württemberg. Series B: Research. Vol. 92). Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 1977, ISBN 3-17-004363-3 , pp. 317-340.
  • Hamburg and the Elbe trade in the Middle Ages. In: Jürgen Ellermeyer, Rainer Postel (ed.): City and port. Hamburg contributions to the history of trade and shipping (= workbooks on the preservation of monuments in Hamburg. Vol. 8 = Publication of the Hamburg working group for regional history. Vol. 2). Christians, Hamburg 1986, ISBN 3-7672-0951-9 , pp. 33-43.
  • Forgery of documents of the Archdiocese of Hamburg-Bremen from the 9th to the 12th century. In: Lower Saxony Yearbook for State History. Vol. 60, 1988, ISSN  0078-0561 , pp. 71-140.
  • Hamburg 1483 and 1685. Two uprisings in a socio-historical comparison. In: Das alten Hamburg (1500–1848 / 49) (= Hamburg contributions to public science. Vol. 5). Reimer, Berlin et al. 1989, ISBN 3-496-00948-9 , pp. 73-96.
  • Introduction to the interpretation of historical sources. Focus: Middle Ages = the interpretation of historical sources (= university paperbacks. History 1554). Schöningh, Paderborn et al. 1991, ISBN 3-506-99400-X (2nd edition, unchanged reprint. Ibid 1997).
  • Merchant shipping on the Elbe. From the customs tariffs of the 13th century to the "Elb-Schiffahrts-Acte" of 1821. In: The Elbe. A résumé. = Labe. Život řeky. Nicolai, Berlin 1992, ISBN 3-87584-395-9 , pp. 69-75, (catalog for the exhibition of the German Historical Museum Berlin in the German Hygiene Museum Dresden, in the Deichtorhallen Hamburg and in the National Museum Prague 1992/1993).
  • Semiotic Aspects of History: History Semiotics. In: Gerold Ungeheuer (founder), Herbert Ernst Wiegand (ed.): Handbooks for language and communication science. = Handbooks of linguistics and communication science. Volume 13: Roland Posner, Klaus Robering, Thomas A. Sebeok (eds.): Semiotics. A handbook on the theoretical basics of nature and culture. = Semiotics. Teilbd. 3. de Gruyter, Berlin et al. 2003, ISBN 3-11-015662-8 , pp. 2937-2976.

literature

  • Silke Urbanski (Ed.): Law and everyday life in the Hanseatic region. Gerhard Theuerkauf on his 60th birthday (= De Sulte. Vol. 4). German Salt Museum , Lüneburg 1993, ISBN 3-925476-03-2 .
  • Hans-Werner Goetz : Gerhard Theuerkauf <emeritiert>. In: Uni HH. Vol. 26, No. 3, 1995, p. 59.
  • Christina Deggim, Silke Urbanski (Ed.): Hamburg and Northern Europe. Studies on urban and regional history. Festschrift for Gerhard Theuerkauf on his 70th birthday (= publications of the Hamburg Working Group for Regional History (HAR). Vol. 20). Lit, Münster 2004, ISBN 3-8258-7587-3 .
  • Theuerkauf, Gerhard. In: Kürschner's German Scholars Calendar 2011. Bio-bibliographical directory of contemporary German-speaking scientists. Volume 4: SE-Z. 23rd edition. de Gruyter, Berlin et al. 2011, ISBN 978-3-598-23630-3 , p. 4293.

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personal data
SURNAME Theuerkauf, Gerhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian
DATE OF BIRTH March 6, 1933
PLACE OF BIRTH Magdeburg
DATE OF DEATH 17th November 2014
Place of death Hamburg