Jörg Jungmayr

Jörg Jungmayr (* 1948 ) is a lecturer at the Free University of Berlin and teaches at the Institute for German and Dutch Philology. He also works at the Research Center for Middle German Literature.

After studying German and history at the universities in Tübingen and Berlin, he has been working as a research assistant at the Free University of Berlin since 1975. Research and teaching focus on the areas of women's mysticism and the literature of the late Middle Ages, with particular attention to the authors. As an editor he works on the bio-bibliographical lexicon Die Deutsche Literatur and is responsible for the series II Die Deutsche Literatur between 1450 and 1620 .

Editions

Jungmayr has been responsible for various editions. He translated and commented on Henricus Cornelius von Nettesheim's treatise : On the nobility and princes' meeting of the female gender (1540), which goes back to a Latin treatise from 1529. He also edited the Legenda Maior des Raimund von Capua , which appeared in two volumes in 2004.

Further editions are currently in preparation, such as the Hystori and wonderful legend Katharinae von Senis after the print edition Augsburg 1515. He is also working on an edition of the legend of the saints Von dem Wünderbarlichen Vnd Heiligen Leben Vnd Miraculen der Heiligen Jungfrawen Cathrina Von Senis as well as on the works of Teresa by Avila , which are to be published in full.

Font directory

• Henricus Cornelius von Nettesheim: From the nobility and rulers' meeting of the female gender, 1540. Translation from: Declamatio de nobilitate et praecellentiae foeminei sexus, 1529. Edited and commented. - In: Archive for women's research in the history of philosophy and theology . Volume 4. Munich 1988, pp. 53-95, 340-359. - 2nd, revised and expanded edition 1996, pp. 63–100, 368–390.
• The Legenda Maior (Vita Catharinae Senensis) by Raimund von Capua. Edition based on the Nuremberg manuscript Cent. IV, 75, translation and commentary (bilingual edition). 2 vols. Berlin 2004.

Web links

• Personnel page at the Free University of Berlin