Peter Habicht

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Peter Habicht (born January 5, 1959 ) is a Swiss historian .

Life

Peter Habicht, son of mathematics professor Walter Habicht (1915–1998), began studying English and German in 1980 at the University of Basel , which he broke off in 1985 without a degree. 1984–1990 he worked as a taxi driver in Basel. In between, 1986/1987, he graduated from the École Jacques Lecoq (theater school) in Paris . 1990–2009 he worked as a tour guide for “Basel Tourismus”.

As a working student , he completed a history and art history course at the University of Basel from 1992–1999 , which he completed with a licentiate thesis on the wall paintings by Hans Holbein the Younger in the Grand Council Chamber of the Basel City Hall . Since 2000 he has worked as an author, city guide, speaker, exhibition curator, inventor and translator. He has published several popular science books on Basel history and culture in German and English, he has also written articles for exhibition catalogs and has meanwhile also worked for a kind of consulting agency.

Fonts (selection)

Monographs

  • Lifting the mask. Your Guide to Basel Carnival. Bergli Books, Basel 2001, ISBN 978-3-905252-04-0 . (also as e-book, 2nd edition 2013)
    • pfyffe soot cupboards. An introduction to the Basel Carnival. Bergli Books, Basel 2004, ISBN 978-3-905252-09-5 . (German version of Lifting the Mask )
  • with Christoph Matt: St. Leonhard. A tour through church and history . Quartiergemeinde St. Peter, Basel 2008, ISBN 978-3-033-01651-4 .
  • Basel - right in the middle on the edge. A city story. Christoph Merian Verlag , Basel 2008, ISBN 978-3-85616-326-6 . (2nd edition 2012)
    • Basel - A Center at the Fringe. A Concise History. Christoph Merian Verlag, Basel 2008, ISBN 978-3-85616-325-9 , (English version from Mittendrin am Rande )
  • with Christoph Matt: The Spalentor and the suburb. The story of a Basel landmark. Christoph Merian Verlag, Basel 2015, ISBN 978-3-85616-656-4 .

Essays

  • City and urban society between 1000 and 1530. In: Historisches Museum Basel (ed.): The Basler Münsterschatz . Exhibition catalog, Christoph Merian Verlag, Basel 2001, pp. 205–206.
  • Basel and the ship of fools. In: Thomas Wilhelmi (ed.): Sebastian Brant . Research contributions on his life, the «Ship of Fools» and the rest of the work. Schwabe, Basel 2002

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personal data
SURNAME Hawk, Peter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss historian
DATE OF BIRTH 5th January 1959