Martin watchmaker

Martin Uhrmacher (* 1971 in Koblenz ) is a German - Luxembourg historian .

Scientific career

In 1991 Martin Uhrmacher began studying history, historical regional studies , classical archeology and ancient history at the University of Trier , which he completed in 1998 with a master's degree. He then became a research assistant in the hospitals project in the Rhine-Maas-Moselle region from the 7th to the 15th century of the Collaborative Research Center 235 Between the Maas and the Rhine at the University of Trier (led by Franz Irsigler and Michel Pauly ). From 1998 to 1999 he also worked on the Historical Atlas of the Rhineland under the direction of Franz Irsigler and Rudolf Straßer . In 2007 he received his doctorate from the university with a thesis on leprosy and leprosoria in the Rhenish region from the 12th to the 18th century .

Since the University of Luxembourg was founded in 2003, he has worked there at the Institute for History . In August 2018 he was appointed Assistant Professor . His research areas are the historical regional studies of Luxembourg , the Greater Region and the Rhineland , as well as city ​​history , social and economic history , historical cartography and the history of medicine . Since 2010 he has been leading research projects on the history of the Luxembourg city. In cooperation with the City of Luxembourg, the university research project VILLUX X, which he has led since 2016, is dedicated to the creation of a digital and interactive historical atlas of the City of Luxembourg. On November 28, 2019, the atlas was presented to the public and the Luxatlas.lu site went live.

Award

• 2006: Hans Richard Winz Prize from the Society for Leprosy

Memberships (selection)

• Institut Grand-Ducal de Luxembourg , Section historique, Membre correspondant
• International Commission for the History of Towns (Member of the Atlas Working Group)
• Association for historical regional studies of the Rhineland at the University of Bonn
• Center Luxembourgeois de Documentation et d'Études Médiévales
• Advisory Council of the Society for Leprology eV
• Commission for Saarland State History e. V.
• Luxatlas.lu

Fonts (selection)

• Ed. Together with Guy Thewes: Extra Muros. Suburban spaces in the late Middle Ages and early modern times / Espaces suburbains au bas Moyen Âge et à l'époque modern (urban research, series A, 91), Vienna / Cologne / Weimar 2019 ISBN 978-3-412-22273-4
• New states - new borders. The Rhine-Maas-Moselle region between the border adjustments of the Ancien Régime and the reorganization by the Congress of Vienna (1779 - 1816) , in: Repression, reform and reorganization in the age of revolutions: The consequences of the Congress of Vienna for Western Europe (Luxemburg Studies / Etudes Luxembourgeoises; 15), ed. v. Andreas Fickers, Norbert Franz u. Stephan Laux , Berlin 2019, pp. 155-183 ISBN 978-3-631-77262-1
• Leprosy and leprosy in the Rhenish region from the 12th to the 18th century (contributions to regional and cultural history; 8 / Publications du CLUDEM ; 36), Trier 2011 ISBN 9783933701428
• Leprosoria in the Middle Ages and early modern times (publications by the Society for Rhenish History XII. Section 1b NF; Historical Atlas of the Rhineland, Supplement and Map VIII.5), Cologne 2000
• Ed. Together with Martial Gantelet and Guy Thewes: La paix des Pyrénées et son impact en Lorraine et au Luxembourg / The Peace of Pyrenees of 1659 and its effects on Lorraine and Luxembourg . Actes du colloque international organisé du 5 au 7 november 2009 au Musée d'Histoire de la Ville de Luxembourg . Special volume of the magazine Hémecht . Revue d'histoire luxembourgeoise. Journal of Luxembourg History 62, 3/4, Luxembourg 2010
• together with Michel Pauly : castle, city, fortress, city. The development of the city of Luxembourg from the 10th to the 20th century , in: Luxemburg-Atlas - Atlas du Luxembourg, ed. v. P. Bousch; Ch. Schulz; T. Chilla; Ph. Gerber; Ch. Sohn, Cologne 2009, pp. 32–33 (2 cards)
• "Striving for good peace and harmony" - norm and practice in leprosories of the 15th century as reflected in their statutes. The example of Trier , in: Norm and Practice of Poor Welfare in the Late Middle Ages and Early Modern Times ( VSWG -Beiheft 189), ed. v. Sebastian Schmitt and Jens Aspelmeier, Stuttgart 2006, pp. 147–167 (1 map)
• Leprosy in Cologne (12th – 18th centuries) , in: Krank - Gesund. 2000 years of illness and health in Cologne, ed. v. Thomas Deres, Cologne 2005, pp. 98–113

Web links

• Information on watchmakers on the website of the University of Luxembourg
• Watchmaker in the specialist forum for history H-Soz-u-Kult
• Watchmaker, Martin .  Publications in the bibliographic database of the Regesta Imperii .
• Watchmaker on Academia.edu

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Between the Meuse and the Rhine
2. ↑ Villux.uni.lu. Retrieved February 8, 2019 (UK English). 
3. ^ Ryck Thill: Eng digital zeitrees duerch d'Stad Lëtzebuerg . rtl.lu. December 2, 2019. Accessed January 22, 2020.