Laetitia Boehm

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Laetitia Boehm (born March 30, 1930 in Munich ; † October 23, 2018 there ) was a German historian . From 1969 until her retirement in 1998, she taught as a full professor for Middle and Modern History with a special focus on university and educational history at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich . Boehm was one of the first history professors in the Federal Republic of Germany.

life and work

After school in Landsberg am Lech , Hamburg, Wiesbaden and Abitur in Garmisch-Partenkirchen in 1948 , Laetitia Boehm studied history, German and Romance languages ​​at the Universities of Eichstätt and from 1949/50 in Munich. She had attended courses from Alois Dempf , Romano Guardini and Franz Schnabel , among others . Your most important academic teacher was Johannes Spörl . Boehm received his doctorate in 1954 under Spörl ( study on the history of the first crusade - Guibert von Nogent , 1954). She completed her habilitation in 1959 with a conceptual history work in the early and high Middle Ages. After Dorothee Grokenberger and Annelies Kammenhuber, she was only the third woman to qualify at the Munich Faculty of Philosophy . She had to wait almost a decade before she was appointed to a chair. In 1965 she was appointed adjunct professor. After studying in Friborg and Paris, Boehm became a full professor for Medieval and Modern History in 1969, with a special focus on university and educational history at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität in Munich . Out of around 70 medieval professorships, Edith Ennen and Laetitia Boehm only held two women. Before that, Boehm had turned down a professorship at the newly founded University of Düsseldorf in 1968 . From 1973 to 1975 Boehm was the first woman dean of the Philosophical Faculty at LMU Munich. In 1998 Boehm retired. Her academic students include Ingrid Baumgärtner , Rainer A. Müller , Winfried Müller and Helmut Zedlmaier . From 1969 to 2000 Boehm was also director of the Munich University Archives.

Thematically, she worked on medieval historiography, the history of Burgundy , the education system in the Middle Ages and early modern times and the universities in the Sattelzeit around 1800. She researched the history of the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich. In addition, she supervised dissertations on all epochs, which then appeared in the series Ludovico Maximilianea , which she edited . In 1975 Boehm became the first woman to become a full member of the historical commission at the Bavarian Academy of Sciences . From 1974 to 1999 she headed the history section of the Görres Society . She was also the editor of the Görres Society's historical yearbook . From 1990 to 1993 she was President of the Society for the History of Science . Since 2009 she has also been a member of the Academy's Commission for the History of Science. From 1990 to 1993 she was President of the Society for the History of Science. She received the Bavarian Constitutional Medal in Silver (1997), the Bavarian Order of Merit (2000), the Ring of Honor of the Görres Society (2001) and the Bavarian Maximilian Order (2008).

Fonts

Monographs

  • History of Burgundy: politics, state formation, culture. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 1971; 2nd supplemented edition. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 1979, ISBN 978-3-17-005213-0 ; Licensed edition: VMA-Verlag, Wiesbaden 1998, ISBN 3-928127-62-4 .

Essays

  • History thinking, educational history, science organization. Selected essays by Laetitia Boehm on the occasion of her 65th birthday , ed. v. Gert Melville, Rainer A. Müller , Winfried Müller. Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1996, ISBN 3-428-08640-6 .

Editorships

  • The Ludwig Maximilians University in its faculties . Part 1: Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1972, ISBN 3-428-02702-7 ; Part 2: Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1980, ISBN 3-428-04737-0 .
  • with Rainer A. Müller : Universities and colleges in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. A university history in individual representations (= Hermes-Handlexikon ). Econ-Verlag, Düsseldorf et al. 1983, ISBN 3-430-11382-2 .
  • with Charlotte Schönbeck: T echnology and education . VDI-Verlag, Düsseldorf 1989, ISBN 978-3-18-400865-9 .
  • Biographical lexicon of the Ludwig Maximilian University in Munich . Part 1: Ingolstadt-Landshut 1472 - 1826 . Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1998, ISBN 3-428-09267-8 .
  • Christoph Besold: Synopsis of Politics . Translated by Cajetan Cosmann. Insel, Frankfurt a. M. 2000, ISBN 978-3-458-17019-8 .
  • with Gerhard Tausche: From the Danube to the Isar. Lectures on the history of the Ludwig Maximilians University 1800–1826 in Landshut . Duncker and Humblot, Berlin 2003, ISBN 978-3-428-11226-5 .

literature

  • Boehm, Laetitia. In: Kürschner's German Scholars Calendar. Bio-bibliographical directory of contemporary German-speaking scientists. Volume 1: A - G. 30th edition. De Gruyter, Berlin et al. 2018, ISBN 978-3-11-051766-8 , p. 330.
  • Boehm, Laetitia. In: Friedhelm Golücke : Author's lexicon for student and university history. SH-Verlag, Cologne 2004, ISBN 3-89498-130-X . Pp. 49-51.
  • Anne Christine Nagel : In the shadow of the Third Reich. Medieval research in the Federal Republic of Germany 1945-1970 (= forms of memory. Vol. 24). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2005, ISBN 3-525-35583-1 , p. 267.
  • Winfried Müller (Hrsg.): University and education. Festschrift Laetitia Boehm on her 60th birthday. PS, services for the humanities. und Medien, Munich 1991, ISBN 3-928045-00-8 .
  • Winfried Müller: Laetitia Boehm (1930-2018). In: Historical yearbook. 139, 2019, pp. 621-624.
  • Helmut Zedelmaier : Laetitia Boehm (1930-2018). In: Francia . 47, 2020, p. 485 ff.

Web links

Remarks

  1. ↑ Winfried Müller: Laetitia Boehm (1930-2018). In: Historisches Jahrbuch 139 (2019), pp. 621–624, here: p. 621.
  2. ^ Anne Christine Nagel: In the shadow of the Third Reich. Medieval research in the Federal Republic of Germany 1945–1970. Göttingen 2005, p. 267.
  3. ↑ Rainer Blasius : Obliged to the king, connected to the Free State. 150 years ago Maximilian II founded the Historical Commission at the Bavarian Academy. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , May 30, 2008, No. 124, p. 10; Winfried Müller: Laetitia Boehm (1930-2018). In: Historisches Jahrbuch 139 (2019), pp. 621–624, here: p. 622.
personal data
SURNAME Boehm, Laetitia
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian
DATE OF BIRTH March 30, 1930
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich
DATE OF DEATH 23 October 2018
Place of death Munich