Richard Bauer (historian)

Richard Bauer (* 1943 in Munich-Pasing ) is a German historian , archivist and former head of the Munich City Archives .

Life

Bauer grew up as a war child - "his first word was ' alarm '" - in Pasing and went to elementary school there. After graduating from the Wittelsbacher Gymnasium in Munich , he studied Bavarian history at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich . There he received his doctorate in 1971 under Karl Bosl on the electoral Bavarian clergy and church politics in the last decades of the 18th century. He then completed additional training as an archivist . From 1981 to 2008 he was in charge of the Munich City Archives, from 1984 to 2010 he was 1st Chairman of the Historical Association of Upper Bavaria .

Bauer has one grown son.

Richard Bauer is the author of numerous publications, mainly on Munich's history, including:

The electoral clergy and the Bavarian church policy 1768–1802 (= New series of publications of the Munich City Archives. Vol. 49 / Miscellanea Bavarica Monacensia. Vol. 32). Woelfle, Munich 1971.
History of Munich. From the Middle Ages to the present. Beck, Munich 2003, 2nd edition 2005, ISBN 3-406-51028-0 ( limited preview in the Google book search).
The reconstructed face: the Mozart bust by the Zurich sculptor Heinrich Keller in the Munich Residenz , Neustadt ad Aisch 2008.
Munich, Asamkirche , Regensburg 2011.
Maxvorstadt - time travel to old Munich , Munich 2013 ( discussion ).
Altmünchen - The painter Joseph Puschkin (1827–1905) and the Neuner collection in the Münchner Stadtmuseum , Weißenhorn 2017. ISBN 978-3-87437-577-1

Wolfgang Görl: Certificates and other passions. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung , February 16, 2011, p. 42 (Bavaria Region).

↑ ^a ^b ^c Katharina Rieger: The memory of Munich. In: Abendzeitung Munich , February 25, 2008.

personal data
SURNAME	Bauer, Richard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German historian, archivist and former head of the Munich City Archives
DATE OF BIRTH	1943
PLACE OF BIRTH	Munich-Pasing