Hans-Joachim Schmidt (historian)

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Hans-Joachim Schmidt (born April 30, 1955 in Bad Kreuznach ) is a historian on the history of the Middle Ages .

Life

After studying history, Romance languages ​​and education in Trier, Nantes and Santander, Schmidt was an assistant at the Free University of Berlin from 1984 to 1989 , then until 1998 senior assistant and university assistant at the University of Gießen . He received his doctorate in Trier in 1984 and habilitated in Gießen in 1994 in the fields of medieval history and regional history. He held several substitute professorships. In 1991 he was a guest of the German Historical Institute in Rome and the School of Law, State University of California , Berkeley (Cal).

Since 1998 he has been professor of medieval history at the University of Friborg (Switzerland) and is a member of the board and at times director of the Medieval Institute there. Since June 2005 he has been a member of the Commissione diritiva della Società dei Studi Francescani, Assisi and since June 1, 2006 Scientific Advisory Board of the Research Center for Comparative Religious History at the Technical University of Dresden . From 2011 to 2018 he was a member of the management of the Ecole doctorale des études médiévales of the Rectors' Conference of Western Switzerland.

His main research interests are city history, church history and the history of political concepts.

Publications

As an author

  • Order of mendicants in Trier. Effectiveness and environment in the high and late Middle Ages (Trier Historical Research 10), Trier 1986
  • Church, state, nation. Spatial division of the church in Medieval Europe (Research on Medieval History 37) Weimar 1999
  • Stations in European history. What works of art tell . Darmstadt 2009 (together with Volker Reinhardt and Michael Sommer)
  • Dominion through horror and love. Ideas and justifications in the Middle Ages (Orbis mediaevalis. Imaginations of the Middle Ages 1), Göttingen 2019

As editor

  • Empire, regions and Europe in the Middle Ages and modern times . Festschrift for Peter Moraw, ed. v. Hans-Joachim Schmidt u. a (Historical Research 67), Berlin 2000
  • Tradition, innovation, invention. Refusal to progress and awareness of progress in the Middle Ages . Colloquium of the Medieval Institute of the University of Friborg (Switzerland), ed. v. Hans-Joachim Schmidt (Scrinium Friburgense. Publications of the Medieval Institute of the University of Freiburg Switzerland 18), Berlin / New York 2005
  • Dioceses and diocese borders from the early Middle Ages to the present . Edited by Edeltraud Klueting, Harm Klueting u. Hans-Joachim Schmidt (Roman quarterly for Christian antiquity and church history, supplement 58), Rome 2006
  • Center and network. Church communications and spatial structures in the Middle Ages . Edited by Gisela Drossbach u. Hans-Joachim Schmidt (Scrinium Friburgense. Publications of the Medieval Institute of the University of Friborg Switzerland 22), Berlin, New York 2008
  • City foundation and urban planning: Freiburg in Switzerland in the Middle Ages (history, research and science 33), Münster 2010
  • Pope John XXII. Concepts and procedures of his pontificate . Edited by Hans-Joachim Schmidt, Martin Rohde (Scrinium Firburgense. Publications of the Medieval Institute of the University of Friborg Switzerland 32), Berlin, Boston 2014

As co-editor

  • Scrinium Friburgense . Publications of the Medieval Institute of the University of Freiburg (Switzerland), Berlin / New York - since 1998
  • Vita Religiosa. Orders and interpretations of religious life in the Middle Ages . Münster / Berlin - since 2006
  • Late medieval studies . Constance - since March 2009

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Annuaire de l'Université - Université de Friborg. Accessed January 31, 2019 .
  2. ^ Program doctoral en études médiévales: Accueil. Accessed January 31, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Schmidt, Hans-Joachim
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian on the history of the Middle Ages
DATE OF BIRTH April 30, 1955
PLACE OF BIRTH Bad Kreuznach