Ilgvars Misāns

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Ilgvars Misāns (* 1955 in Magadan ) is a Latvian historian and university professor.

Life

Misāns is the son of a Latvian geologist who worked in the Far East of Russia . From 1973 to 1978 he studied history at the University of Latvia in Riga .

After graduating in 1978, he first worked as a teacher. He returned to the university in 1981 for postgraduate studies, was a candidate for science in 1988 and a doctorate in history and a lecturer in history in 1992.

In 1999 he became an associate professor; since 2002 he has been a full professor of medieval history, department head for history and philosophy and chairman of the doctoral committee.

Misāns mainly researches the medieval history of Latvia, especially the history of the city of Riga and the Livonian Parliament. He has published many articles, especially in German-language publications, and was the editor of several works.

Award

Fonts

  • “We have always been a warrior people”. The representation of the East Baltic Crusades in Latvian historiography. In: Jutta Prieur (Ed.): Lippe and Livland. Medieval rulership formation under the sign of the rose (= special publications by the Natural Science and Historical Association for the Land Lippe eV, vol. 82), Bielefeld: Verlag für Regionalgeschichte, 2008, pp. 183–207.
  • Good times? Bad times? The "Swedish times" in Latvian historiography. In: Frank Hadler and Mathias Messenhöler (eds.): Past greatness and powerlessness in East Central Europe: Representations of imperial experience in historiography since 1918. (= History and history culture in the 20th century, vol. 8). [Leipzig]: Akademische Verlagsanstalt, 2007, pp. 77–96.
  • Organization and course of the Livonian Country and City Days. In: Yearbook for the History of Central and Eastern Germany 51 (2005), pp. 49–62.
  • Integration through trade: the unity of the Baltic Sea region during the Hanseatic period (12th / 13th 15th centuries). In: Saeculum. Yearbook for Universal History 2005, pp. 227–239.
  • Riga - a suburb of the Livonian cities in the Middle Ages? In: Ilgvars Misāns and Horst Wernicke (eds.): Riga and the Baltic Sea region. From the foundation in 1201 to the early modern period. (= Conferences on East Central Europe Research, Vol. 22). Marburg: Verlag Herder Institute, 2005, pp. 169–179.
  • with Klaus Neitmann (ed.): Leonid Arbusow (1882–1951) and the exploration of medieval Livonia. Böhlau, Cologne a. a. 2014 ISBN 978-3-412-22214-7 (Sources and studies on Baltic history 24)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Entry in the order database of the Presidential Chancellery of Estonia
personal data
SURNAME Misāns, Ilgvars
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Latvian historian and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH 1955
PLACE OF BIRTH Magadan