Gisbert Knopp

Gisbert Knopp (born July 16, 1941 in Düsseldorf ) is a German historian .

Life

Knopp studied history , art history and philosophy at the University of Bonn since 1962 . He completed his studies in 1968 with a state examination in philology and in 1969 with a Magister Artium. From 1969 to 1974 he was a research assistant, assistant and lecturer at the University of Bonn. In 1972 he was awarded a doctorate from the University of Bonn with a thesis on the Prussian administration of the Düsseldorf administrative district in the years 1899-1919. PhD. He was a professor of Christian art history and monument preservation at the University of Bonn, chief curator, most recently deputy state curator at the Rhenish Office for the Preservation of Monuments , co-editor of the annals of the Historical Association for the Lower Rhine , commissioner for monument preservation at the University of Bonn and is chairman of the Friends' Association of the Bonn City Museum. Founding and board member of the Academic Art Museum of the University of Bonn. Another work by Knopp is the bronze relief that has stood on Bonn's Münsterplatz since November 2013 and shows the city of Bonn at the end of the 18th century.

Honors

• Honorary citizen of the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn.

Publications

approx. 250 publications on the history of the Rhine, the history and art history of Kurköln and the architecture of the 19th and 20th centuries.

• The altar paintings of the late Nazarene in the Church of St. Remigius in Bonn. History, iconography, restoration and repositioning . Worms 2002.
• The gothic choir hall of Aachen Cathedral and its equipment. Building history - building research - renovation . Petersberg 2002.
• History of the Brauweiler Abbey . Pulheim 1988.
• Landsberg Castle in Ratingen . Neuss 1984.
• Dusseldorf sky spirit . Neuss 1978.
• The Prussian administration of the administrative district of Düsseldorf in the years 1899-1919 . Cologne 1974.
• Joseph Vivien, portraitist of Cologne's elector-archbishops Joseph Clemens and Clemens August, Worms 2010
• Camilla Hague. The rediscovered painter, St. Augustin 2020

swell

• Vademecum of the historical sciences 1998
• Literature by and about Gisbert Knopp in the catalog of the German National Library
• Udo Mainzer, Prof. Dr. Gisbert Knopp MA, in: Preservation of monuments in the Rhineland, 23.2006, pp. 190–191
• Frank Vallender, monument protection as a passion. Gisbert Knopp turns 70, in: General-Anzeiger from July 16, 2011

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Bronze model destroyed - Bonn cathedral stolen . In: General-Anzeiger Bonn . March 30, 2014 ( general-anzeiger-bonn.de [accessed June 24, 2018]).
2. ↑ Personalities - University of Bonn. Retrieved June 24, 2018 .