Urs Martin Zahnd

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Urs Martin Zahnd-Lässer (born May 10, 1945 in Bern ; † November 17, 2014 there ) was a Swiss historian .

Urs Martin Zahnd attended the Hofwil teacher training college and studied history and German at the universities of Bern and Vienna from 1967 to 1975 . In 1975 he received his doctorate from Erich Meuthen with the thesis The spread of education in the political leadership of the late medieval city. An investigation based on the situation in Bern , obtained the higher teaching post (grammar school teacher) and taught at the Free Gymnasium Bern until 2007 . From 1983 he was a lecturer at the University of Bern, he obtained his habilitation in 1986 with his work on the autobiographical notes of Ludwig von Diesbach . From 1996 until his retirement in 2011 he was adjunct professor at the University of Bern.

His main research areas were education and schools, territorial politics in the northern Alpine foothills in the 14th and 15th centuries. Century, late medieval self-testimonies and urban historiography in the late Middle Ages and in the early modern period.

Urs Martin Zahnd founded the Singkreis Wohlen in 1970 , which he directed until 1983 and was involved in the Evangelical Reformed parish of Bern- Bümpliz as a parish council in the field of church services, music and culture.

Fonts

  • Heinrich IV von Bubenberg and the peace treaty after the Old Zurich War . In: Berner Zeitschrift für Geschichte Vol. 74, (2012), pp. 29–56.
  • “We are willing to have a kronick described”. Bernese historiography in the 16th and 17th centuries. In: Bern journal for history and local history. Historischer Verein des Kantons Bern, 67/1 (2005), pp. 37–61.
  • Image of society and social criticism in Niklaus Manuels Berner Totentanz . In: beautiful to die for. Age, dance of death and the art of death from 1500 to today, ed. by A. von Hülsen-Esch u. a., Regensburg 2006, pp. 144–155.
  • From the Heiliglandfahrt to the farm tour. Forms and functions of aristocratic and patrician educational trips in late medieval Bern. In: Grand Tour. Aristocratic Travel and European Culture from the 14th to the 18th Century, ed. v. Rainer Babel and Werner Paravicini, Ostfildern 2005 (Supplements of Francia; Vol. 60), pp. 73–88.
  • City and territory: Bernese alliances and castle rights and the beginnings of urban territorial politics. In: Bern journal for history and local history. Vol. 65 (2003), pp. 102-103.
  • as editor with Klaus Arnold and Sabine Schmolinsky: The portrayed self. Studies on self-testimonies of the later Middle Ages and the early modern times (= self-testimonies of the Middle Ages and the beginning modern times. Vol. 1). Winkler, Bochum 1999.
  • Some remarks on late medieval family books from Nuremberg and Bern . In: Nuremberg and Bern. Two imperial cities and their land areas, Erlangen 1990, pp. 7–37.
  • The economic and social environment of Bendicht Tschachtlans . In: Tschachtlans Bilderchronik (commentary), Lucerne 1988, pp. 13-25.
  • The autobiographical notes of Ludwig von Diesbach: Studies of late medieval self-portrayal in Upper German and Swiss regions . Berner Burgerbibliothek, Bern 1986.
  • The Bernese Guild of the Middle Lions in the late Middle Ages (= history of the Bernese Guild of the Middle Lions. Vol. 1). Guild of Middle Lions, Bern 1984.
  • The educational situation in the Bernese councilors in the late Middle Ages. Distribution, character and function of education in the political leadership of a late medieval city , Bern 1979.

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personal data
SURNAME Zahnd, Urs Martin
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Zahnd-Lässer, Urs Martin (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss historian
DATE OF BIRTH May 10, 1945
PLACE OF BIRTH Bern
DATE OF DEATH 17th November 2014
Place of death Bern