Heinz Finger

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Heinz Finger (born May 12, 1948 in Wuppertal ) is a German librarian and historian .

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Finger studied history, German and English in Cologne, Freiburg and Cambridge. After receiving his doctorate in German studies (subject: studies on " Muspilli " ) at the University of Cologne in 1977, he entered the higher library service. He initially worked as a trainee lawyer at the Stuttgart State Library and as an assistant at the University of Mainz . From 1982 to 2001 he was head of the special collections and the manuscript department at the University and State Library in Düsseldorf .

From 2001 to the end of 2015 he was director of the Archbishop's Diocesan and Cathedral Library in Cologne . During his time as library director, he researched and published on numerous cross-epoch-spanning aspects of Cologne's church history, including Rainald von Dassel , the translation of the Three Kings , the Cologne archbishops as territorial lords in the early modern period, and the death of Engelbert von Berg . In contrast to the majority of research, he interpreted the latter not as a targeted murder attempt, but rather as a failed attempt at kidnapping. He is considered to be one of the best experts on the history of the Rhenish region in the late Middle Ages and early modern times. As a church historian , he has also repeatedly distinguished himself with contemporary historical contributions on the situation of Christian communities outside Europe (for example, the Christians in today's Iraq). Under his leadership as director of the Archbishop's Diocesan and Cathedral Library, numerous scientific colloquia took place, which brought the medieval and early modern manuscript holdings into the focus of research and the public.

Finger has been teaching medieval history at the Heinrich Heine University in Düsseldorf since 1987 , where he was made an honorary professor in 1995 . From 2004 to 2012 he was a board member of the Bibliothèques Européennes de Théologie (BETH) and from 2001 to 2013 deputy chairman, from 2013 to 2016 chairman of the Historical Association for the Lower Rhine . Also chair of the Gutenberg Society , member of the board of trustees of the Niederrhein Academy and the Research Institute for the Middle Ages and Renaissance (FIMUR) at the HHU Düsseldorf (since 1995). Finger is married, has two children and lives in Neuss .

Fonts

  • Studies on "Muspilli"  (= Göppingen work on German studies. Vol. 244). Göppingen 1977,  ISBN 3-87452-400-0 .
  • The Isenberg feud and the political merging of the northern Rhineland with Westphalia in the Staufer period. In: Annals of the Historical Association for the Lower Rhine , 197, 1994, pp. 27–62.
  • The woman in the medieval Rhineland. An exhibition of the University and State Library of the Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf (= publications of the University and State Library Düsseldorf. Vol. 22). University and State Library, Düsseldorf 1995 ( digitized version ).
  • Friedrich Spee and the northern Rhineland. An exhibition of the University and State Library Düsseldorf. Düsseldorf, 2000 ( digitized version ).
  • Millennium 2000. An exhibition by the Research Institute for the Middle Ages and Renaissance of the Heinrich Heine University in Düsseldorf in cooperation with the University and State Library in Düsseldorf . Düsseldorf, 1999 ( digitized version ).
  • with Rudolf Hiestand (ed.): Bishops, monasteries, universities and Rome - commemorative publication for Josef Semmler (1928–2011) (= Libelli Rhenani. Writings of the archbishop's diocesan and cathedral library on the history of the Rhenish churches and the state, as well as book and library history. Vol. 41). Cologne 2012, ISBN 978-3-939160-35-9 .

literature

  • Siegfried Schmidt, Konrad Groß et al. (Ed.): Rheinisch - Kölnisch - Katholisch. Contributions to church and state history as well as to the history of the book and library system of the Rhineland. Festschrift for Heinz Finger on the occasion of his 60th birthday (= Libelli Rhenani. Writings of the Archbishop's Diocesan and Cathedral Library on the history of the Rhenish churches and the state as well as on book and library history. Vol. 25). Archbishop's Diocesan and Cathedral Library, Cologne 2008, ISBN 978-3-939160-13-7 ( review ).

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Remarks

  1. ↑ Marcus Stark new director of the diocesan library. Archdiocese of Cologne, January 28, 2016, accessed on January 28, 2016.
  2. ↑ Heinz Finger: The violent death of Cologne Archbishop Engelbert and the prehistory. In: LWL Museum for Archeology - Westphalian State Museum Herne (Ed.): Aufruhr 1225! Knights, castles and intrigues. The Middle Ages on the Rhine and Ruhr. Philipp von Zabern, Mainz 2010, pp. 21–33.
  3. ^ Annals of the Historical Association for the Lower Rhine. 220, 2017, p. 330.
personal data
SURNAME Finger, Heinz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German librarian and historian
DATE OF BIRTH May 12, 1948
PLACE OF BIRTH Wuppertal