Nils Jörn

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Nils Jörn (born October 31, 1964 in Bergen on Rügen ) is a German historian and author. He has been working at the archive of the Hanseatic City of Wismar since 2004 and has been its director since 2012.

Life

After attending school in Usedom and Wolgast , he completed his military service with the NVA from 1983 to 1986 . In September 1986 he began studying history and German at the Ernst-Moritz-Arndt University of Greifswald , where he specialized in medieval and early modern history between 1988 and 1990 under the supervision of Konrad Fritze . He completed his studies in 1991 with the license to teach history. He then stayed at the University of Greifswald in order to complete a research course on the subject of “The Hanseatic Stalhof in London from 1474 to 1554” under the supervision of Horst Wernicke . A research stay took him to London from 1991–1992 to the German Historical Institute and the London School of Economics . From 1994 until his doctorate in 1996 he worked as a research assistant on the joint project "The Hanseatic Flanders Trade" at the Universities of Greifswald and Kiel. From 1996 to 1999 he worked on the joint project “The Integration of the Southern Baltic Sea Region into the Old Empire 1555–1806” at the Universities of Greifswald, Kiel and Augsburg. For the next two years until 2001 he worked on the project funded by the Fritz Thyssen Foundation “Judicial activity, personnel structures and politically relevant jurisdiction at the Wismar Tribunal 1653-1806” at the Chair for General History of Modern Times at the University of Greifswald. He then moved to the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main as a post-doctoral student for fifteen months . Between 2002 and 2004 he was a DFG scholarship holder at the University of Greifswald in research and teaching.

Since October 2004 Nils Jörn has been working at the archive of the Hanseatic City of Wismar . Initially he worked as a research assistant with the inventory and evaluation of the case files of the Wismar Tribunal , since 2012 he has been head of the archive. Nils Jörn has been a board member of the Historical Commission for Pomerania and the Society for Pomeranian History, Archeology and Art since 2006 and a board member of the Hanseatic History Association since 2008 , as well as a member of the Historical Commission for Mecklenburg , founding president of the David Mevius Society and on the board of the association Friends and supporters of the archive of the Hanseatic City of Wismar.

Together with the Greifswald historian Dirk Alvermann , Jörn publishes the Biographical Lexicon for Pomerania .

As author, editor and co-author he is involved in numerous publications.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Vita on the website of the archive of the Hanseatic City of Wismar (accessed November 2014)
  2. ↑ Vita on the website of the Historical Commission for Pomerania (click on the page) (accessed November 2014)
  3. ^ List of members of the Historical Commission for Mecklenburg .
  4. ↑ Homepage of the Böhlau publishing house: http://www.degruyter.com/viewbooktoc/product/207561
  5. ↑ List of his publications on the website of the archive of the Hanseatic City of Wismar (accessed November 2014)
personal data
SURNAME Jörn, Nils
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian
DATE OF BIRTH October 31, 1964
PLACE OF BIRTH Mountains on Rügen