Kay Peter Jankrift

Kay Peter Jankrift (born March 1, 1966 in Georgsmarienhütte ) is a German historian and medical historian .

Kay Jankrift studied Middle and New History, Semitic Philology and Islamic Studies at the Universities of Münster and Tel Aviv. After receiving his doctorate from the Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster in 1995, he worked from 1997 to 2000 as a research assistant at the Institute for Theory and History of the University of Münster. From 2000 to 2005 Jankrift was a research associate at the Institute for the History of Medicine at the Robert Bosch Foundation . He has been a freelancer at the institute since 2005.

In addition, Jankrift was a lecturer for medieval history at the history seminar of the University of Münster and until the summer semester of 2000 at the Heinrich Heine University in Düsseldorf. In 2002 he received his habilitation with the Venia Legendi for Medieval History at the Westphalian Wilhelms University in Münster. From September 2005 he was a research assistant at the Institute for History at the University of Erlangen and at the Ruhr University Bochum (DFG focus project: Multi-ethnic and multi-religious cultures on the Iberian Peninsula). From 2009 to 2013 he was a research assistant at the Institute for European Cultural History at the University of Augsburg . From 2011 to 2012 he was a research assistant at the German Medical History Museum in Ingolstadt . In 2012 he was awarded the title of Associate Professor. Since January 2013 he has been a research assistant at the Institute for the History and Ethics of Medicine at the Technical University of Munich .

His main research interests are: History of the Iberian Peninsula, encounters between Orient and Occident, city history, history of the Crusades and the religious orders of knights, social, cultural and medical history of the Middle Ages.

Fonts (selection)

• Institutionalization and organization of the Order of Saint Lazarus in Jerusalem from its beginnings to the year 1350 (= Vita regularis. Orders and interpretations of religious life in the Middle Ages 4), LIT-Verlag, Münster 1996 (phil. Diss. Münster 1995)
• Fires, storms, famines. Disasters in the medieval world , Jan Thorbecke Verlag, Ostfildern 2003.
• Illness and Medicine in the Middle Ages (= Study Knowledge Compact, Middle Ages), Scientific Book Society, Darmstadt 2003. ( Review )
• The middle age. A millennium in twelve chapters , Jan Thorbecke Verlag, Ostfildern 2004. ( Review )
• With god and black magic. Medicine in the Middle Ages (= Special Scientific Series), Scientific Book Society, Darmstadt 2005.
• Executioners, whores, merchants. Everyday Life in a Medieval City , 2nd edition, Klett-Cotta, Stuttgart 2008, ISBN 978-3-608-94140-1 .
• In the fire of faith. The fate of a Jewish family in the age of the Inquisition , Klett-Cotta, Stuttgart 2014, ISBN 978-3-608-94702-1 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Kay Peter Jankrift in the catalog of the German National Library
• Page from Jankrift at the Technical University of Munich