Rolf Kießling

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Rolf Kießling (born July 25, 1941 in Augsburg ; † June 22, 2020 in Bonstetten ) was a German historian who primarily worked on the history of the Bavarian Swabia region .

From 1960 to 1966, Kießling studied history, German and geography at the universities of Munich and Erlangen . He received his doctorate in 1969 in Munich under Karl Bosl with a study of civil society and the church in Augsburg in the late Middle Ages. He completed his habilitation in 1985 and held a substitute professorship for theory and didactics of history at the KU Eichstätt . From 1994 to 2007 he was the successor to Pankraz Fried and held the chair for Bavarian and Swabian regional history at the University of Augsburg .

He has been a member since 1974 and was first chairman of the Swabian Research Foundation from 2001 to 2016 , headed the scientific advisory board of the Jewish Culture Museum in Augsburg , the Friends of the Augsburg City Archives and the Eugen Liedl Foundation.

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Monographs

  • The city and its country: environs policy, citizen ownership and economic structure in East Swabia from the 14th to the 16th century. Böhlau, Cologne et al. 1989, ISBN 3-412-04687-6 .
  • Civil society and church in Augsburg in the late Middle Ages. A contribution to the structural analysis of the Upper German imperial city (= treatises on the history of the city of Augsburg. Vol. 19). Mühlberger, Augsburg 2001, ISBN 3-89639-303-0 .
  • Little history of Swabia. Pustet, Regensburg 2013, ISBN 978-3-7917-2231-3 .
  • St. Anna in Augsburg: a church and its parish. Wißner, Augsburg 2013, ISBN 978-3-89639-940-3 .
  • Jewish history in Bavaria. From the beginning to the present. De Gruyter Oldenbourg, Berlin 2019, ISBN 978-3-486-76384-3 .

Editorships

  • Swabian Austria - on the history of the margraviate Burgau (1301-1805). Wißner, Augsburg 2007, ISBN 978-3-89639-626-6 .
  • Spaces and paths: Jewish history in the Old Kingdom 1300-1800. Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-05-004385-2 .
  • with Dietmar Schiersner: Places of remembrance in Upper Swabia: regional identity in cultural memory. UVK, Konstanz 2009, ISBN 978-3-86764-183-8 .

literature

  • Johannes Burkhardt, Thomas Max Safley, Sabine Ullmann: History in Spaces. For the 65th birthday. UVK-Verlagsgesellschaft, Konstanz 2006, ISBN 3-89669-618-1 .
  • Andreas Link, Barbara Rajkay, Wolfgang Scheffknecht: Augsburg, Swabia and the rest of the world. New contributions to national and regional history. Festschrift for Rolf Kießling on his 70th birthday. Wißner, Augsburg 2011, ISBN 978-3-89639-822-2 .

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personal data
SURNAME Kiessling, Rolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian
DATE OF BIRTH July 25, 1941
PLACE OF BIRTH augsburg
DATE OF DEATH June 22, 2020
Place of death Bonstetten