Thomas Schilp

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Thomas Schilp (* 1953 in Friedberg (Hessen) ; † September 28, 2019 ) was a German historian and archivist .

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After graduating from high school in 1972, Schilp studied history, German studies, politics and philosophy at the Philipps University of Marburg from 1972 to 1981 . 1977/1978 he passed the first state examination; In 1981 he received his doctorate from Walter Heinemeyer with a thesis on the Reichsburg Friedberg in the Middle Ages. From 1981 to 1983 a traineeship at the archive school in Marburg followed . In 1984/1985 he was a research assistant at the Max Planck Institute for History in Göttingen , and from 1985 to 1987 research archivist at the main state archive in Düsseldorf . From 1987 onwards, Schilp worked for the Dortmund City Archives , and from 2011 until he retired in 2014, it was director of the archive. In 2001 he was elected a full member of the Historical Commission for Westphalia .

Due to a habilitation thesis on religious women's communities in the early Middle Ages, he received the venia legendi for medieval history at the Gerhard Mercator University in Duisburg in 1994 . In 1999 he was appointed adjunct professor, and in 2015 he was re-qualified at the Ruhr University in Bochum . Schilps research focused on the Memoria of the Middle Ages, the city's history and the history of religious communities of women.

Schilp was co-editor of several scientific series: Dortmund medieval research, Dortmund excursions on history and culture, Essen research on the women's foundation , Westphalia in the pre-modern era, memoria and remembrance practices. He died on September 28, 2019 at the age of 65.

Fonts

Monographs

  • The Reichsburg Friedberg in the Middle Ages. Investigations into their constitution, administration and politics (= Wetterauer Geschichtsblätter. Vol. 31). Bindernagel, Friedberg 1982, ISBN 3-87076-035-4 (also: Marburg, Universität, Dissertation, 1981).
  • Norm and reality of religious women's communities in the early Middle Ages. The Institutio sanctimonialium Aquisgranensis of the year 816 and the problem of the constitution of women's communities (= publications of the Max Planck Institute for History. Vol. 137 = Studies on Germania Sacra. Vol. 21). Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht, Göttingen 1998, ISBN 3-525-35452-5 (also: Duisburg, Universität, habilitation paper, 1994).

Source editions

  • The Reichsburg Friedberg in the Middle Ages. Regest of the documents 1216-1410 (= publications of the historical commission for Hesse. Vol. 3 = document book of the city Friedberg. Vol. 2). Elwert, Marburg 1987, ISBN 3-7708-0874-6 .
  • with Joachim Huske and Wilfried Reininghaus : The courage, rental and confirmation book 1770–1773. A source on the early history of the Ruhr mining industry (= publications of the Dortmund City Archives. Vol. 9). Wittmaack, Dortmund 1993, ISBN 3-9802117-9-7 .
  • Essen certificate book. Regesta of the documents of the women's monastery in Essen in the Middle Ages. Volume 1: From the foundation around 850 to 1350 (= publications of the Society for Rhenish History. Volume 80). Droste, Düsseldorf 2010, ISBN 978-3-7700-7635-2 .
  • with Jens Martin Rohrbach: Albrecht von Graefe to Frans Cornelis Donders . Letters from 1852 to 1870. Published on behalf of the German Ophthalmological Society . Klartext-Verlag, Essen 2013, ISBN 978-3-8375-1029-4 .

Editorships

  • with Beate Weifenbach: Reinoldus and the Dortmund community. The medieval city and its holy patron (= publications of the Dortmund City Archives. Vol. 15). Klartext-Verlag, Essen 2000, ISBN 3-88474-918-8 .
  • with Andrea Zupancic: The Berswordt master and Dortmund painting around 1400. Urban culture in the late Middle Ages (= publications of the Dortmund City Archives. Vol. 18). Publishing house for regional history, Bielefeld 2002, ISBN 3-89534-488-5 .
  • with Uwe Ludwig: Middle Ages on the Rhine and Maas. Contributions to the history of the Lower Rhine. Dieter Geuenich on his 60th birthday (= studies on the history and culture of Northwest Europe. Vol. 8). Waxmann, Münster et al. 2004, ISBN 3-8309-1380-X .
  • with Uwe Ludwig: Nomen et Fraternitas. Festschrift for Dieter Geuenich for his 65th birthday (= Reallexikon der Germanischen Altertumskunde . Supplementary volumes. Vol. 62). de Gruyter, Berlin et al. 2008, ISBN 978-3-11-021047-7 .
  • with Andrea Zupancic: “The new Dortmund” - Will Schwarz's Dortmund health center. (= Publications of the Dortmund City Archives. Vol. 20). Photographed by Gerd Kittel. Wasmuth, Tübingen et al. 2014, ISBN 978-3-8030-0783-4 .

Essays

  • The expansion of the Wetterau to "terra imperii" under the Hohenstaufen. Nidda and the Staufer Wetterau . In: Ottfried Dascher / Reinhard Pfnorr (ed.): Nidda. The history of a city and its surrounding area , Verlag Niddaer Heimatmuseum, Nidda 2nd edition 2003, pp. 23–35, ISBN 3-9803915-8-2 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Obituary: Prof. Thomas Schilp - former director of the city archives died at the age of 65. City of Dortmund, October 2, 2019, accessed on October 3, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Schilp, Thomas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian and archivist
DATE OF BIRTH 1953
PLACE OF BIRTH Friedberg (Hesse)
DATE OF DEATH September 28, 2019