Heinrich Rüthing

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Heinrich Rüthing (born August 5, 1937 in Paderborn ; † July 26, 2017 in Bielefeld ) was a German historian .

life and work

The son of a primary school teacher studied in Münster, Göttingen and Erlangen. At the University of Erlangen he received his doctorate in 1965 under Arno Borst with a thesis on the Carthusian Heinrich von Kalkar (1328-1403). From 1972 he worked at Bielefeld University. First he was assistant to Kaspar Elm and from 1975 academic senior councilor. In 2002 he retired.

He completed his habilitation in 1985 with a thesis on the city of Höxter around 1500. This work is considered a work of paradigmatic rank in city history research. His main research areas were medieval, town, monastery and regional history of the Paderborn Monastery and East Westphalia. He worked closely with the regional archives and historical associations.

Rüthing was a member of the Historical Commission for Westphalia (full member 1986 to 2012, then corresponding member), the Antiquities Commission for Westphalia and the Association for the History and Antiquity of Westphalia, Department Paderborn . In 2012 he received the sponsorship award for Westphalian regional studies , which is awarded annually by the Regional Association of Westphalia-Lippe .

Fonts (selection)

  • The Karthäuser Heinrich Egher von Kalkar 1328–1403 (= studies on Germania sacra. Vol. 8 = publications of the Max Planck Institute for History. Vol. 18). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 1967.
  • The medieval university. Introduced and compiled by H. Rüthing. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 1973.
  • Höxter around 1500. Analysis of an urban society. Publishing house Bonifatius-Druckerei, Paderborn 1986.
  • as editor: The chronicle of Brother Göbel. Notes by a lay brother from the Böddeken monastery (1502–1543). Publishing house for regional history, Bielefeld 2005.
  • with Werner Best: The Iburg near Bad Driburg, Höxter district. Antiquities Commission for Westphalia, Münster 2006.
  • The Wittekindsberg near Minden as a "holy place". 1000 to 2000 (= Religion in History. Vol. 15). Publishing house for regional history, Bielefeld 2008, ISBN 978-3-89534-685-9 .
  • Johannes Probus: Chronica monasterii beati Meynulphi in Bodeken. Notes from the Böddeken monastery from 1409 to 1457 (= publications of the Historical Commission for Westphalia. New series 36). Edited and translated by Heinrich Rüthing. Publishing house for regional history, Bielefeld 2016, ISBN 978-3-7395-1036-1 .

literature

  • Johannes Altenberend (Ed.): Monastery-City-Region. Festschrift for Heinrich Rüthing. Historical Association for the County of Ravensberg: Special publication of the Historical Association for the County of Ravensberg. Publishing house for regional history, Bielefeld 2002, ISBN 3-89534-460-5 .
  • Johannes Altenberend: Obituary Heinrich Rüthing. In: Ravensberger Blätter 2 (2017), pp. 69–74.
  • Werner Freitag : Heinrich Rüthing (1937–2017). In: Blätter für deutsche Landesgeschichte 153 (2017), pp. 495–498.
  • Friedrich Gerhard Hohmann: "Dat is now everything gedain" , Heinrich Rüthing (1937–2017). In: Die Warte 175/2017, p. 40

Web links

Remarks

  1. ^ Klaus Graf : Heinrich Rüthing: Höxter around 1500. Analysis of a city society. Review. In: Westphalian research . 38: 419-420 (1988).
  2. ^ Historians say goodbye to Heinrich Rüthing. Press release No. 107/2002 from Bielefeld University.
  3. ↑ The LWL awards its sponsorship prize to Heinrich Rüthing from Bielefeld - historians have opened up a historical landscape for laypeople. Press release of the Landschaftsverband Westfalen-Lippe, May 24, 2012, accessed on July 10, 2012.
personal data
SURNAME Rüthing, Heinrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian
DATE OF BIRTH August 5, 1937
PLACE OF BIRTH Paderborn
DATE OF DEATH July 26, 2017
Place of death Bielefeld