Katharina Simon-Muscheid

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Katharina Simon-Muscheid (born February 20, 1953 - † February 19, 2012 ) was a Swiss historian .

Katharina C. Simon-Muscheid studied Medieval and Modern History, Latin Philology as well as Prehistory and Protohistory at the University of Basel , where she worked as a research assistant from 1982 to 1989. In 1986 she did her doctorate there under František Graus with a thesis on the Basel craft guilds in the late Middle Ages (published in 1988). In 1999 she completed her habilitation with Rainer Christoph Schwinges at the University of Zurich . Her habilitation thesis, published in 2004, deals with “Things at the intersection of social networks”. She was a private lecturer at the University of Bern and had lectureships and professorial positions in Bern, Zurich, Friborg and Lucerne.

Her main research interests were the history of handicrafts, the history of the lower classes, gender history, food history and the material culture of the late Middle Ages and the early modern period. Katharina Simon-Muscheid also wrote several basic factual articles for the Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .

Katharina Simon-Muscheid was married to the historian Christian Simon .

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SURNAME Simon-Muscheid, Katharina
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Simon-Muscheid, Katharina C .; Muscheid, Katharina C. (single name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss historian
DATE OF BIRTH February 20, 1953
DATE OF DEATH 19th February 2012