Kathrin Utz Tremp

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Kathrin Utz Tremp (born July 12, 1950 in Biel ) is a Swiss historian of medieval history. From 1999 to 2015, she was a research assistant at the Freiburg State Archives, responsible for the holdings of the Middle Ages and the Ancien Régime and worked for many years as a lecturer (since 2000 as a private lecturer) at the University of Lausanne .

life and work

She is a citizen of Sumiswald BE and Näfels GL and grew up in Biel. After graduating from the German high school in Biel , she studied medieval and modern history as well as Germanic philology at the University of Bern and graduated with a thesis on “Church and Council with Johannes von Segovia ” with Erich Meuthen . After working as an assistant at the University of Lausanne ( Peter Rück ) and at the University of Freiburg i. Ü.She received her doctorate here in 1982 with a doctoral thesis on "The St. Vinzenz Collegiate Foundation in Bern, from its foundation in 1484/85 to its abolition in 1528" (published 1985). In 2000 she completed her habilitation at the University of Lausanne.

With research grants from the Swiss National Science Foundation , she developed the edition of the files of the Freiburg Waldensian Trials of 1399 and 1430 (published in 2000). As part of further research projects of the Swiss National Science Foundation, she dealt with “Les débuts de la chasse aux sorcières au bas Moyen Age: sources et recherches” (completed in 2006) and with “Research on the medieval notary registers of the Freiburg State Archives” (completed in 2010). From 1976 to 2007 she wrote numerous articles on monasteries and monasteries in the cantons of Bern, Friborg and Vaud as a freelancer for Helvetia Sacra . As senior assistant (1990–1995) and lecturer at the University of Lausanne, she supervised numerous licentiate and master's theses (together with Agostino Paravicini Bagliani ). In addition, she held various teaching positions at the universities of Bern, Freiburg i. Ü. and Lucerne, was from 2010 to 2015 employee of the collection of Swiss legal sources , long-time editor of the Freiburger Geschichtsblätter (together with Hubertus von Gemmingen ) and founding member and long-time president of the Association Women in Freiburg .

Her research areas include the church, piety and heresy history of the Middle Ages and the early modern period. With her numerous publications on the history of Friborg, Bern and western Switzerland, she is one of the most prominent mediaevalists in Switzerland. She emerged internationally with her work on the Waldensians and the beginnings of the witch hunts in the late Middle Ages. Through the scientific development of late medieval sources, in addition to texts on piety and social history, and above all the Freiburg notarial register, she has created the basis for further research on urban society.

She is also particularly interested in gender issues, the minorities and the forgotten of history. After her retirement (2015) she worked on a monograph on the Jetzer trade in Bern (1507–1509). She communicated the results of her research in extensive teaching. For her work she was awarded the Franz Joseph II von Liechtenstein Prize for Scientific Research from the University of Freiburg i. Ü. and in 2013 with an honorary doctorate from the Theological Faculty of the University of Bern.

Kathrin Utz Tremp is married to the medieval historian Ernst Tremp (* 1948), the former collegiate librarian of St. Gallen. They have two grown sons.

Writings (without essays)

  • The collegiate monastery St. Vinzenz in Bern, from its foundation in 1484/85 to its abolition in 1528 , Bern 1985 (= archive of the Historical Association of the Canton of Bern 69)
  • (together with Georges Descoeudres) Bern, French Church, former preacher monastery : archaeological and historical studies 1988–1990 on the church and former convent buildings , Bern, Stuttgart, Vienna 1993 (= series of publications by the Education Department of the Canton of Bern)
  • L'imaginaire you sabbath. Edition critique des textes les plus anciens (1430 c. - 1440 c.) , Réunis par Martine Ostorero, Agostino Paravicini Bagliani, Kathrin Utz Tremp, Lausanne 1999 (= Cahiers lausannois d'histoire médiévale 26)
  • Waldenses, revenants, witches and rebels. Biographies on the Waldensian Trials of Freiburg im Üchtland (1399 and 1430) , Freiburg 1999 (= Freiburg history sheets, special volume)
  • Sources on the history of the Waldensians of Freiburg im Üchtland (1399–1439) , Hannover 2000 (= MGH sources on the intellectual history of the Middle Ages 18)
  • Friedrich Reiser and the "Waldensian-Hussite International" in the 15th century. Files from the Ötisheim – Schönenberg conference, October 2 to 4, 2003 , ed. by Albert de Lange and Kathrin Utz Tremp, Heidelberg, Ubstadt-Weiher, Basel 2006
  • Inquisition et sorcellerie en Suisse romande. Le registre Ac 29 des Archives cantonales vaudoises (1438–1528) , réunis par Martine Ostorero and Kathrin Utz Tremp, en collaboration avec Georg Modestin, Lausanne 2007 (= Cahiers lausannois d'histoire médiévale 41)
  • From heresy to witchcraft. "Real" and imaginary sects in the late Middle Ages , Hanover 2008 (= MGH Schriften 59)
  • Chasses aux sorcières et demonologie. Entre discours et pratiques (XIVe - XVIIe siècles) , réunis par Martine Ostorero, Georg Modestin et Kathrin Utz Tremp, Florence 2010 (= Micrologus' Library 36)
  • "Fiat littera ad dictamen sapientum". Notaries, Lombards and Jews in Freiburg im Üchtland (14th century) , Zurich and St. Gallen 2012 (= European legal and regional history 17)
  • (together with Hubertus von Gemmingen) Gens du cuir, gens du drap à Friborg au Moyen Âge , traduit de l'allemand par Maria Portmann et Jean Steinauer, Friborg 2013 (= Archives de la Société d'histoire du canton de Friborg ns 14)
  • (together with Lionel Dorthe) Registrum Lombardorum. Le premier registre notarial des Archives de l'Etat de Friborg (1356–1359) , Bâle 2016 (= SDS FR I / 3/7 )
  • Histoire de Friborg, t. 1: La ville de Friborg au Moyen Âge (XIIe – XVe siècle) , Neuchâtel 2018 (= Collection Focus 19)
  • Why Maria wept bloody tears. The Jetzer trade and the Jetzer trials in Bern (1507–1509) (in preparation)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ University of Bern: Dies Academicus 2013, p. 11
personal data
SURNAME Utz Tremp, Kathrin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss historian
DATE OF BIRTH July 12, 1950
PLACE OF BIRTH Biel