Ingrid Baumgärtner

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Ingrid Baumgärtner (born May 22, 1957 in Augsburg ) is a German historian of medieval history. Since September 1994 she has been teaching as professor for the history of the Middle Ages at the University of Kassel .

Live and act

Ingrid Baumgärtner attended the Asbach-Bäumenheim elementary school from 1963 to 1967 and the Donauwörth grammar school from 1967 to 1976 . There she obtained her Abitur in 1976. From 1976 to 1983 she then studied history, German and social studies at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich . In 1983 she received her doctorate from Laetitia Boehm with a thesis on the late medieval Italian legal scholar Martinus Garatus Laudensis . From 1983 to 1992 Baumgärtner worked initially as a research assistant and later as a temporary academic advisor at the Chair of Medieval History at the University of Augsburg ; she was visiting professor at the University of Pittsburgh and habilitation fellow of the DFG in Rome. In 1992 she completed her habilitation in Augsburg with a thesis on Rome - City and Commune in the 12th and 13th Centuries . This was followed by research stays in the USA at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton and at Stanford University , a substitute professor for Werner Paravicini at Kiel University and a Heisenberg grant from the DFG.

From 1983 to 1984 she was a research assistant, from 1984 to 1992 academic advisor on a temporary basis and from 1993 to 1994 private lecturer at the University of Augsburg . Baumgärtner has held the professorship for Medieval History at the University of Kassel since September 1994 . There she was dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences from 2009 to 2011. She is Research Associate at Villa I Tatti, The Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies, in Florence (since 2007), Treasurer on the Board of the Medievalist Association (since 2003), Deputy Chairwoman of the German Study Center in Venice (since 2009) and member of the Advisory board of the Hessian women's advancement programs ProProfessur and SciMento (since 2010) and the main committee of the Historical Commission for Hesse (since 2002).

Her research focuses on regional history in North Hesse as well as on European cultural history and research on Italy. Particularly noteworthy are the projects on cartography, urban, spatial and legal history funded by the DFG and the Gerda Henkel Foundation . On the occasion of the 1100 year old first mention of Kassel, Baumgärtner published an anthology in 2013 on the medieval history of Kassel from the royal court to the city.

Fonts

Monographs

  • Martinus Garatus Laudensis. An Italian legal scholar of the 15th century ( dissertations on legal history. Vol. 15). Böhlau, Cologne et al. 1986, ISBN 3-412-07186-2 (also: Munich, University, dissertation, 1982/1983).

Editorships

  • Consilia in the late Middle Ages. On the historical value of a source type (= study series of the German Study Center in Venice. Vol. 13). Thorbecke, Sigmaringen 1995, ISBN 3-7995-2713-3 .
  • Kunigunde - an empress at the turn of the millennium (= Furore Edition. Vol. 893). Furore-Verlag, Kassel 1997, ISBN 3-927327-41-7 .
  • with Winfried Schich : Northern Hesse in the Middle Ages. Problems of identity and supraregional integration (= publications of the Historical Commission for Hesse. Vol. 64). Elwert, Marburg 2001, ISBN 3-7708-1171-2 .
  • Helmarshausen. Book culture and goldsmithing in the high Middle Ages. Euregio-Verlag, Kassel 2003, ISBN 3-933617-16-2 .
  • with Franz-Josef Arlinghaus , Vincenzo Colli, Susanne Lepsius and Thomas Wetzstein : Practice of jurisdiction in European cities of the late Middle Ages (= jurisprudence. Vol. 23). Klostermann, Frankfurt am Main 2006, ISBN 3-465-04007-4 .
  • with Claudia Brinker-von der Heyde, Andreas Gardt and Franziska Sick: Nation - Europe - World. Identity drafts from the Middle Ages to 1800. Klostermann, Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 978-3-465-04020-0 .
  • with Hartmut Kugler: Europe in the Middle Ages. Cartographic concepts (= Orbis mediaevalis. Vol. 10). Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-05-004465-1 .
  • with Paul-Gerhard Klumbies and Franziska Sick: spatial concepts. Disciplinary approaches. V & R Unipress, Göttingen 2009, ISBN 978-3-89971-694-8 .
  • From the royal court to the city. Kassel in the Middle Ages. Euregio-Verlag, Kassel 2013, ISBN 978-3-933617-53-8 .

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Remarks

  1. ↑ See Martin Bertram's review in Sources and Research from Italian Archives and Libraries 68, 1988, pp. 577-578 ( online ).
  2. ↑ See the reviews by Andreas Büttner in: Historische Zeitschrift 301, 2015, pp. 488–489; Karl Borchardt in: German Archive for Research into the Middle Ages 70, 2014, p. 839 ( online ).
personal data
SURNAME Baumgartner, Ingrid
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian
DATE OF BIRTH May 22, 1957
PLACE OF BIRTH augsburg