Repertory Academicum Germanicum

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The Repertorium Academicum Germanicum (RAG) is a German research project with international participation on the personal history of the graduated scholars of the Old Kingdom between 1250 and 1550.

Goal setting

The RAG has the task of recording the biographical and social data of the scholars, theologians, lawyers, doctors and artists who graduated from German and foreign universities between 1250 and 1550 with their biographical and social data and a prosopographically oriented database for the entire area of ​​the Old Kingdom create. Undergraduate noble university goers are also considered. The RAG, which in the end will represent a “ Who's Who ” of the scholars of the Old Kingdom, offers with its database a variety of new, also interdisciplinary perspectives. Qualitative and quantitative statements about the intellectual elite of the empire as a whole, about their European network as well as about institutional and territorial comparisons are possible. The aim is to describe the work of scholars in premodern society on an empirically secured basis and to explain it in the context of modern, above all social, cultural and scientific-historical networked educational research. Over 50,000 scholars are expected.

organization

The RAG has been funded by the Federal Republic of Germany, the Free State of Bavaria and the State of Hesse since the beginning of 2007 as a project of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences ( Historical Commission at the Bavarian Academy of Sciences ) as part of the academy program of the German Academies of Sciences.

The RAG is also an organ (board of trustees) of the Swiss Academy of Humanities and Social Sciences . There are currently two jobs at the Universities of Bern (Switzerland) and Giessen (Germany). The overall management is in the hands of Rainer Christoph Schwinges and Christian Hesse , Bern.

Database

The heart of the RAG is a prosopographic database . All scholars who can be verified within the boundaries of the Old Kingdom and who were enrolled and / or obtained their doctorate in the higher faculties of law, theology and medicine between 1250 and 1550 will be accepted. It also lists those persons who have achieved the degree of »lic. art. «or» mag. art. «. In addition, all available information on the life paths, work and living conditions of the scholars is recorded. The database contains information on around 50,000 people. Much of it is already available online. The current status can be seen on the project homepage.

Selected publications

  • Rainer Christoph Schwinges : Illustrious gentlemen. Margraves of Baden on an educational trip (1452–1456). In: Andreas Bihrer, Mathias Kälble and Heinz Krieg (eds.): Nobility and royalty in medieval Swabia. Festschrift for Thomas Zotz on his 65th birthday. Stuttgart 2009, pp. 392-405.
  • Rainer Christoph Schwinges: Access for everyone? Jewish students and the medieval university. In: Matthias Konradt and Rainer C. Schwinges (eds.): Jews in their environment. Acculturation of Judaism in Antiquity and the Middle Ages. Basel 2009, pp. 229-253.
  • Peter Moraw : Collected contributions to German and European university history. Structures - People - Developments (Education and Society in the Middle Ages and Renaissance, Volume 31), Leiden, Boston 2008.
  • Rainer Christoph Schwinges (Ed.): University in Public Space (Publications of the Society for the History of University and Science, Volume 10), Basel 2008.
  • Rainer Christoph Schwinges: Repertorium Academicum Germanicum. A who's who of the graduated scholars of the Old Kingdom (1250–1550). In: Peter Moraw : Collected contributions to German and European university history. Structures - People - Developments (Education and Society in the Middle Ages and Renaissance, Volume 31), Leiden, Boston 2008, pp. 577–602.
  • Rainer Christoph Schwinges: Students and Scholars. Studies on the social and cultural history of German universities in the Middle Ages (Education and Society in the Middle Ages and Renaissance, Volume 32), Leiden, Boston 2008.
  • Rainer Christoph Schwinges: On the effect of university knowledge on urban space in the German late Middle Ages. In: Jörg Rogge (Hrsg.): Handing down, conveying, applying. On dealing with knowledge stocks in late medieval and early modern cities (Contributions to Historical Cultural Studies, Volume 6), Berlin 2008, pp. 155–187.
  • Hesse, Christian and Rainer C. Schwinges: "University Ranking" and Scholarly Mobility in the Middle Ages: The Repertorium Academicum Germanicum (RAG) on the way to the personal foundations of the knowledge society. In: Akademie aktuell, 02/2008, pp. 15-18.
  • Rainer A. Müller and Rainer Christoph Schwinges (eds.): Scientific freedom in the past and present (publications of the Society for the History of University and Science, Volume 9), Basel 2008.
  • Wolfram C. Kellers and Frank Wagner: The Repertorium Academicum Germanicum (RAG): Basic research for a history of knowledge. In: Mirror of Research. Science magazine of the Justus Liebig University Giessen. Volume 25, 1/2008, pp. 88-93. Article in the Giessen Electronic Library (PDF file)
  • Rainer Christoph Schwinges (Ed.): Exam, Title. PhDs. Academic and state qualifications from the 13th to the 21st century (publications by the Society for the History of Universities and Science, Volume 7), Basel 2007.
  • Suse Baeriswyl-Andresen: The "Repertorium Academicum Germanicum". Considerations for a model-oriented database structure and for the preparation of prosopographic information of the late Middle Ages graduate scholars. In: Sigrid Schmitt and Michael Matheus (ed.): Urban society and church in the late Middle Ages. Mainz 2007, pp. 17-36.
  • Christian Hesse: Repertorium Academicum Germanicum (RAG): The graduated scholars of the Old Kingdom between 1250 and 1550. On the way to the foundations of the premodern knowledge society. In: Yearbook of historical research in the Federal Republic of Germany. Reporting year 2006, Munich 2007, pp. 105–108.
  • Rainer Christoph Schwinges: The empire in learned Europe. An essay from a personal history perspective. In: Bernd Schneidmüller and Stefan Weinfurter (eds.): Heilig - Römisch - Deutsch. The empire in medieval Europe. Dresden 2006, pp. 231-254
  • Wolfram C. Kellers and Frank Wagner: Prosopographical basic research on university history: The universities in Erfurt and Rostock in the late Middle Ages and the Repertory Academicum Germanicum. In: Mecklenburgische Jahrbücher. Volume 121, 2006, pp. 69-92.
  • Peter Moraw and Rainer Christoph Schwinges: The Repertorium Academicum Germanicum (RAG): The research into the life paths of German scholars between 1250 and 1550 shows the medieval origins of the modern knowledge society as reflected by its bearers. In: Akademie Aktuell. Journal of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences. June 2004, pp. 39-42. Article as a PDF file
  • Universities, scholars, careers. In: Klaus Oschema and Rainer Christoph Schwinges (eds.): About d'Schultere Luege. 50 years full professorship for Medieval History at the University of Bern. Booklet accompanying the exhibition from November 12 to December 17, 2004. Bern 2004, pp. 52–62. Section on the RAG as a PDF file
  • Suse Baeriswyl: The graduated scholars of the Old Kingdom and the councilors of the Elector. Research on the history of the councils of Elector Albrecht Achilles von Brandenburg-Ansbach as part of the international project »Repertorium Academicum Germanicum«. In: Yearbook for University History . Volume 6, 2003, pp. 169-183.
  • Peter Moraw: German and European Scholars in the Latin Middle Ages. A blueprint. In: Christian Hesse, Beat Immenhauser, Oliver Landolt and Barbara Studer (eds.): People of history - history of people. Studies in the history of the crusades, social and educational. Festschrift for Rainer Christoph Schwinges on his 60th birthday. Basel 2003, pp. 239-254.
  • Christian Hesse: Repertory Academicum Germanicum. Social and impact history of late medieval scholars in the empire. A research project on the history of knowledge. In: Peter Csendes and Johannes Seidl (eds.): Stadt und Prosopographie (research on the history of cities and markets in Austria, Volume 6), Linz 2002, pp. 109–116.
  • Rainer Christoph Schwinges: On the professionalization of learned activity in the German late Middle Ages. In: H. Boockmann, L. Grenzmann u. a. (Ed.): Law and Constitution in the Transition from the Middle Ages to the Modern Age. Part II: Report on Colloquia of the Commission for the Study of the Late Middle Ages. 1996–1997 (Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, phil.-hist. Class, 3rd volume, volume 239), Göttingen 2001, pp. 473–493.
  • Rainer Christoph Schwinges: Results and status of university history in the Middle Ages, primarily in the German-speaking area - some entirely subjective comments. In: Human - Science - Magic. Announcements of the Austrian Society for the History of Science 20, 2000 [2001], pp. 97–119.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Press release 36/06 v. November 21, 2006 of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences