Silvana Seidel Menchi

Silvana Seidel Menchi , maiden name Silvana Menchi (born April 2, 1938 ) is an Italian historian.

Life

Silvana Menchi studied history at the University of Florence and the University of Basel and Latin philology at the University of Munich . In 1990 she completed her habilitation at the University of Heidelberg . She researched and taught at the University of Trento , at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS) in Paris and was a research assistant at Harvard University . She was a professor at the University of Pisa and was retired there. In 2011 she received an honorary doctorate from the University of Basel.

Seidel Menchi researches Erasmus of Rotterdam , the Reformation in Italy and gender relations in the early modern period.

Seidel Menchi has been married to the art historian Max Seidel since 1968 .

Fonts (selection)

• Erasmus as a heretic. Reformation and Inquisition in Italy in the 16th Century. Translation from the Italian Ulrich Hartmann, Silvana Seidel Menchi. Brill, Leiden 1993, ISBN 90-04-09474-1 (zugl .: Heidelberg, Univ., Habil.-Schr., 1990).
• (Ed.): Persecution of heretics in the 16th and early 17th centuries. Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 1992, ISBN 3-447-03253-7 .
• Martin Wallraff , Silvana Seidel Menchi, Kaspar von Greyerz (eds.): Basel 1516. Erasmus' Edition of the New Testament. Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen 2016, ISBN 978-3-16-154522-1 .
• When humanism learned to read the Bible. In: NZZ . March 26, 2016, p. 28.

Web links

• Literature by and about Silvana Seidel Menchi in the catalog of the German National Library
• Literature by and about Silvana Seidel Menchi in the bibliographic database WorldCat
• Silvana Seidel Menchi , short vita at Refo500

Individual evidence

1. ↑ University of Basel: Honorary PhDs in the Philosophical and Historical Faculty.Retrieved September 15, 2017.
2. ^ Dagmar Drüll: Heidelberger Gelehrtenlexikon. Part: 1933-1986. Springer, Berlin 2009, ISBN 978-3-540-88834-5 , p. 578.