Jens Kunze

Jens Kunze (* 1967 in Freital ) is a German historian . His research focus is the Saxon regional studies in the late Middle Ages and in the early modern period, in particular the history of the Saxon nobility and manors.

Life

Jens Kunze comes from Freital in Saxony and grew up in the town of Tharandt . In 2004/05 he did his doctorate at the University of Leipzig with the dissertation Das Amt Leisnig in the 15th century. Constitution, economy, everyday life . Among other things, he worked as an employee at the universities in Leipzig and Marburg and at the research center for personal fonts in Marburg as well as at the central office for genealogy in the Saxon State Archives in Leipzig and lives in Wermsdorf .

He is the 3rd chairman of the Wermsdorf home association.

Publications (selection)

• The Leisnig office in the 15th century. Constitution, economy, everyday life (= writings on Saxon history and folklore , vol. 21). Leipziger Universitäts-Verlag, Leipzig 2007. ISBN 978-3-86583-027-2
• with Gisela Kunze: The staff of the court, the state government and the army command of Albertine Saxony, 1500–1750 , 3rd edition, 3rd, unchanged reprint, Kleve, Arbeitsgemeinschaft für Mitteldeutsche Familienforschung, 2007.
• The newly developed holdings of the Leipzig Consistory in the Saxon State Archives in Leipzig . In: City history. Messages from the Leipziger Geschichtsverein eV 2009, Sax-Verlag, Beucha 2009, ISBN 978-3-86729-066-1 , pp. 43–66.
• The assessors of the Leipzig Consistory from its inception to the middle of the 18th century . In: Leipziger Stadtgeschichte , Yearbook 2012, Sax-Verlag, Beucha 2012, ISBN 978-3-86729-102-6 , pp. 33–54.
• The Leipzig Schöffenbuch 1420–1478 (1491). Edition (= sources and research on the history of the city of Leipzig , vol. 4). Leipziger-Universitäts-Verlag, Leipzig 2012. ISBN 978-3-86583-650-2
• Document book of the city of Zwickau, part 2 The oldest city book 1375–1481 (= Codex diplomaticus Saxoniae , main part 2 The documents of the cities and spiritual institutions in Saxony , vol. 20). Hahn, Hannover 2012. ISBN 978-3-7752-1906-8
• (with Henning Steinführer ): Document book of the city of Zwickau, Part 1 The documentary tradition 1118–1485, Volume 1 1118–1399 (= Codex diplomaticus Saxoniae , main part 2, The documents of the cities and spiritual institutions in Saxony , Volume 21), Hahn , Hannover 2013. ISBN 978-3-7752-1907-5
• The von Zech family in the first half of the 18th century , Niederjahna 2016.

Web links

• Literature by and about Jens Kunze in the catalog of the German National Library
• Kunze, Jens .  Publications in the bibliographic database of the Regesta Imperii .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Short biography with portrait photo on the occasion of the 69th German Genealogy Day .
2. ^ Wermsdorf homeland association