Thomas Wünsch (historian)
Thomas Wünsch (born August 21, 1962 in Landshut ) is a German historian .
Thomas Wünsch studied history, Romance studies, philosophy and Slavic studies at the University of Regensburg from 1982 to 1988 . With Kurt Reindel and Horst Fuhrmann he received his doctorate in 1991 with the thesis Spiritalis intellegentia. On the allegorical interpretation of the Bible by Petrus Damiani . From 1991 to 1994 he worked as a historian at the Haus Oberschlesien Foundation . He then worked from 1994 to 1998 as a research assistant to Alexander Patschovsky at the University of Konstanz . There he completed his habilitation in 1997 with a thesis on conciliarism and Poland . From 1998 to 2003, Wünsch worked as a university lecturer in Konstanz for general and East Central European history of the Middle Ages. Since 2003 Wünsch has been teaching the Modern and Contemporary History of Eastern Europe and its cultures at the University of Passau . He is a member of the Historical Commission for Silesia and since 2004 co-editor of the journal for East Central Europe Research . From 1993 to 1996 he published the Upper Silesian Yearbook .
His research interests include the parliamentary forms in church and state, religious places of remembrance, the nobility in Silesia, humanism and the Renaissance in Eastern Europe and Ruthenia .
Fonts
Monographs
- Germans and Slavs in the Middle Ages: Relations with Czechs, Poles, Southern Slavs and Russians. Oldenbourg, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-486-58707-4 .
- Conciliarism and Poland: People, Politics and Programs from Poland on the Constitutional Question of the Church in the Time of the Medieval Reform Councils. Schöningh, Paderborn u. a. 1998, ISBN 3-506-74727-4 (also: Konstanz, Universität, habilitation paper, 1997/98).
- Spiritalis intellegentia. On the allegorical interpretation of the Bible by Petrus Damiani (= theory and research. Vol. 190). Roderer, Regensburg 1991, ISBN 3-89073-578-9 (At the same time: Regensburg, University, dissertation, 1991).
Editorships
- Religion and magic in East Central Europe: Scope for theological standardization processes in the late Middle Ages and early modern times (= religious and cultural history in East Central and Southeastern Europe. Vol. 8). Lit-Verlag, Berlin 2006, ISBN 3-8258-9273-5 .
- Urban history of Upper Silesia: Studies on urban development and culture in an East Central European region from the Middle Ages to the eve of industrialization (= conference series of the Haus Oberschlesien Foundation. Vol. 5). Mann, Berlin 1995, ISBN 3-7861-1917-1 .
- Reformation and Counter-Reformation in Upper Silesia. The effects on politics, art and culture in the East Central European context (= conference series of the Haus Oberschlesien Foundation. Vol. 3). Gebr. Mann, Berlin 1994, ISBN 3-7861-1829-9 .
Web links
- Literature by and about Thomas Wünsch in the catalog of the German National Library
- Page from Wünsch at the University of Passau
- Publications by and about Thomas Wünsch at Litdok East Central Europe / Herder Institute (Marburg)
Remarks
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Wish, Thomas |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German historian |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 21, 1962 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Landshut |