Rik Opsommer

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Rik Opsommer (* in the 20th century) is a Belgian historian . He is the director of the Ypres City Archives .

Life

Rik Opsommer received his doctorate in 1993 with a dissertation on feudal law in the 14th and 15th centuries in Flanders , supervised by Jos Monballyu . He then worked as an assistant at the Institute for Legal History of the Faculty of Law at the Kortrijk branch of the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven . Opsommer has been a lecturer at Ghent University since 2005 .

Among other things, Rik Opsommer published on field postcards , the postcards produced as field post during the First World War . He presented the results of his research at a conference in the Museum for Communication Berlin in 2010. In his contribution field postcards from West Flanders. Historical research possibilities and limitations of an everyday medium in the First World War , he pointed out that the products of German postcard publishers (such as Dr. Trenkler & Co. , C. Hünich in Berlin-Charlottenburg, Friedrich Stünkel in Elberfeld, Hannoverscher Kunstverlag Heinrich Carle ) and also The field postcard offer of the field bookshop of the 4th Army as evidence of the history of the First World War had not yet been adequately researched.

Fonts

  • Kemmelbergweg, Langemarckstein, Becelaerekaserne, Ypresstraße en Flandernsportplatz: onbekend, onbemind. Vlaamse propagandist toponiemen in Duitsland na de eerste wereldoorlog (= Ieperse historical studies , vol. 9). Stadsarchief Ieper, Ieper 2003.
  • as editor: Veldpost, Feldpost 1914–1918. 200 west vlaamse postcards . Stadsarchief Ieper, Ieper 2004-2007.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Udo Hebel (responsible): A gesture of reconciliation / University of Regensburg hands over a medieval document to the Ypres city archive , press release of the University of Regensburg from October 2, 2014, long-term saved in the version from October 5, 2014 in the Internet Archive
  2. ↑ a b Prof. dr. Rik Opsommer on law.ugent.be (Dutch), accessed June 10, 2019.
  3. ↑ Conference report by Sebastian Ziegler on hsozkult.de, accessed on June 10, 2019.
personal data
SURNAME Opsommer, Rik
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Belgian archivist, director of the Ypres municipal archives and lecturer at Ghent University
DATE OF BIRTH 20th century