Iselin Gundermann

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Iselin Gundermann (born May 28, 1935 in Magdeburg ; † February 21, 2009 in Berlin ) was a German librarian and historian .

Life

Gundermann's ancestors came from Thuringia . She was born in 1935 as the daughter of a "Sparkassenmann" who later worked in the GDR Ministry of Finance . Before the air raids on Magdeburg on January 16, 1945 , the family was evacuated and moved to Halle (Saale) in 1947 . It belonged to the Protestant boys community and visited to the matriculation examination in 1953 the Adolf Reichwein School. Then she began studying library science and older German philology at the Humboldt University in Berlin . In 1954 the father went to the Federal Republic . He started at the German Savings Banks and Giro Association in Bonn.

In 1955 the Gundermanns followed. She continued her German and history studies at the University of Bonn . In 1957/58 she studied at the University of Innsbruck . In 1961 she passed the first state examination for the higher teaching post in Bonn . Afterwards she was a guest student at the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen . In 1963 she was at the Philosophical Faculty of the University of Bonn with a thesis Duchess Dorothea of Prussia (1504-1547) for Dr. phil. PhD.

From then on she worked at Walther Hubatsch's chair and became an academic councilor in 1969 and senior academic counselor in 1972 . In 1973 she passed the examination for the higher service at academic libraries at the Librarian Training Institute in Cologne and then looked after the seminar library in Bonn. In 1983 she went to the Geheime Staatsarchiv Preußischer Kulturbesitz in Berlin as a Scientific Senior Councilor and participated in numerous (traveling) exhibitions, including a. Otto Braun (1984), Friedrich the Great (1986/87), Friedrich III. (1988/89), Helmuth Karl Bernhard von Moltke (1991) and General Land Law for the Prussian States (1994 ff.). From 1990 to 2000 she was Scientific Director (Head of Section and Department) there.

She published on Prussian history . From 1984 she was a member of the Working Group for Berlin-Brandenburg Church History , she was also an employee and editor of the Yearbook for Berlin-Brandenburg Church History . Gundermann was also an assessor in the State Historical Association for the Mark Brandenburg .

Awards

Fonts (selection)

  • Duchess Dorothea of ​​Prussia (1504–1547) (= studies on the history of Prussia . Volume 9). Grote, Cologne a. a. 1965.
  • Investigations on the prayer book of the Duchess Dorothea of ​​Prussia (= Scientific Treatises of the Working Group for Research of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia . Volume 36). Westdeutscher Verlag, Cologne a. a. 1966.
  • (Catalog): Albrecht von Brandenburg-Ansbach and the culture of his time. Exhibition in the Rhine. Landesmuseum, Bonn, June 16 - August 25, 1968 . Rheinland Verlag, Düsseldorf 1968.
  • (Ed.): History of the Protestant Church in East Prussia. Images of East Prussian churches . Publishing house Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 1968.
  • With Carl Wünsch: The Evangelical Parish Church in Bladiau in East Prussia. With a reference about the church in Waltersdorf (= architectural and art monuments of the German East . Series B, Volume 8). Weidlich, Frankfurt am Main 1969.
  • Berlin as a congress city in 1878 (= Berlin Reminiscences . No. 49). Haude and Spener, Berlin 1978, ISBN 3-7759-0196-5 .
  • (Catalog with Friedrich Benninghoven, Helmut Börsch-Supan ): Friedrich the Great. Exhibition of the Secret State Archives of Prussian Cultural Heritage on the occasion of the 200th anniversary of the death of King Frederick II of Prussia . Nicolai, Berlin 1986, ISBN 3-87584-172-7 .
  • (Catalog): Kaiser Friedrich III. (1831-1888). Exhibition of the Secret State Archives of Prussian Cultural Heritage on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the three emperor year 1888 . v. Hare u. Koehler, Mainz 1988, ISBN 3-7758-1187-7 .
  • with Reinhart route: Old Capital Berlin . v. Hase and Koehler, Mainz 1993, ISBN 3-7758-1287-3 .
  • (Catalog): General Land Law for the Prussian States 1794. Exhibition by the Secret State Archives Prussian Cultural Heritage . v. Hase and Koehler, Mainz 1994, ISBN 3-7758-1315-2 .
  • (Catalog): Via Regia. Prussia's way to the crown. Exhibition of the Secret State Archives of Prussian Cultural Heritage 1998 . Duncker and Humblot, Berlin 1998, ISBN 3-428-09454-9 .
  • (Ed.): Evangelical Church of the Prussian Union 1817–2003. A picture and text volume (= publications of the Evangelical Central Archive in Berlin . Volume 11). Commissioned by the EKU Foundation for Research on Church History, Evangelical Central Archive in Berlin , Berlin 2013, ISBN 978-3-9801646-5-8 .

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SURNAME Gundermann, Iselin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German librarian and historian
DATE OF BIRTH May 28, 1935
PLACE OF BIRTH Magdeburg
DATE OF DEATH February 21, 2009
Place of death Berlin