Susanna Burghartz

Susanna Burghartz (* 1956 in Essen ) is a German-Swiss historian .

Life

After graduating from high school in Essen in 1975, Burghartz studied history , philosophy , economics and historical auxiliary sciences at the universities of Freiburg im Breisgau , Bonn and Basel from 1976 to 1983 . From 1983 to 1992 she was assistant for medieval history at the University of Basel with František Graus and Achatz von Müller . In 1988 she did her doctorate with a thesis on crime in the late Middle Ages. From 1990 she held teaching positions for early modern history at various universities. 1997 habilitation them with a study on marriage and sexuality in Basel the early modern period. In 2000 she received a research professorship from the Swiss National Science Foundation . Since 2005 she has been a full professor for the history of the Late Middle Ages and the Renaissance at the University of Basel.

Her research focuses on the history of urban societies from the 14th to the 16th centuries, historical crime research, the history of women and gender , the history of European expansion and integration, the history of perception and representation, and Swiss history.

Fonts (selection)

• Body, honor and property. Delinquency in Zurich at the end of the 14th century. Chronos, Zurich 1990, ISBN 3-905278-60-X (= dissertation, University of Basel, 1988).
• Times of purity - places of fornication. Marriage and Sexuality in Basel during the Early Modern Period. Schöningh, Paderborn 1999, ISBN 3-506-71821-5 .

Web links

• Website by Susanna Burghartz
• Profile on the website of the Department of History at the University of Basel
• Susanna Burghartz in the jury of the competition "The Historical Book 2003"
• Publications by Susanna Burghartz in the Opac of the Regesta Imperii