Louise Buenger Robbert

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Louise Buenger Robbert (born August 18, 1925 in Saint Paul (Minnesota) , † June 11, 2007 in St. Louis ) was an American historian and numismatist .

She received her Bachelor of Arts in 1947 from Carleton College in Northfield , in 1949 her Master of Arts and her Bachelor of Education at the University of Cincinnati . She received her doctorate in 1955 from the University of Wisconsin – Madison .

Robbert concentrated her work on medieval Venice. Among the outstanding publications is The Venetian Participation in the Crusade of Damietta , which she published in Studi Veneziani 1995, then Venice and the Crusades in A History of the Crusades , edited by Kenneth M. Setton , more precisely in the fifth volume, published by Harry W. Hazard and Norman P. Zacour. She made important contributions, such as Dandolo Family , Falier, Marino Grado, Patriarchate of , Muda , Orseolo Family in Medieval Italy, an Encyclopedia .

She was an instructor at Smith College, Massachusetts from 1954 to 1955, received a Fulbright Scholarship to Venice, where she studied from 1955 to 1957. On her return she taught history at Hunter College in New York until 1960. She turned down a tenure so that she could marry George S. Robbert. So she switched to the St. Louis College of Pharmacy as an instructor (until 1962). Then the couple moved to Lubbock, Texas , where Louise worked as an assistant professor of history at Texas Technological College (now Texas Tech University ) until 1963, then as an associate professor until 1975.

In 1975 the couple moved to St. Louis , where George started work at Concordia Seminary. There she was also Associate Professor of History at the University of Missouri – St. Louis from 1978. In 1997 she retired.

In 2006 her husband died. She herself died of cancer the following year and was buried next to him in Bellefontaine Cemetery.

Works (selection)

  • Reorganization of the Venetian Coinage by Doge Enrico Dandolo , in: Speculum 49 (1974) 48-60.
  • A Venetian Naval Expedition of 1224 , in: David Herlihy et al. (Ed.): Economy, Society and Government in Medieval Italy: Essays in Memory of RL Reynolds , Kent (Ohio) 1969, 141–152.
  • Money and prices in thirteenth-century Venice , in: Journal of Medieval History 20 (1994) 373-390.
  • Reorganization of the Venetian Coinage by Doge Enrico Dandolo , in: Speculum 49 (1974) 48-60.
  • The Venetian Money Market 1150-1229 , in: Studi Veneziani 13 (1971) 3-121.
  • Venetian Participation in the Crusade of Damietta , in: Studi Veneziani ns XXX (1995) 15-33.
  • Rialto Businessmen and Constantinople, 1204-61 , Dumbarton Oaks Papers , Vol. 49, Symposium on Byzantium and the Italians, 13th-15th Centuries , 1995, pp. 43-58.
  • Domenico Gradenigo: A Thirteenth Century Venetian Merchant , in: Ellen E. Kittell, Thomas F. Madden (Eds.): Medieval and Renaissance Venice , University of Illinois, 1999, 27-48.
  • Il sistema monetario in: Vittore Branca (ed.): Storia di Venezia dalle origini alla caduta della serenissima , Vol. 2, Rome 1995, pp. 409-436.

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Remarks

  1. ^ Venetian Participation in the Crusade of Damietta , in: Studi Veneziani ns XXX (1995) 15-34.
  2. ↑ Christopher Kleinhenz (Ed.): Medieval Italy. To Encyclopedia , Routledge 2004, pp. 277 f., P. 329 f., P. 441 f. etc.
personal data
SURNAME Robbert, Louise Buenger
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American historian and numismatist
DATE OF BIRTH August 18, 1925
PLACE OF BIRTH Saint Paul, Minnesota
DATE OF DEATH June 11, 2007
Place of death St. Louis