Ursula Peters (Germanist)

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Ursula Peters (born September 11, 1944 in Würzburg ) is a German old Germanist. She is a professor for German Medieval Studies at the University of Cologne .

Life

From 1963 Ursula Peters studied German, Romance languages ​​and philosophy at the universities of Würzburg, Heidelberg, Berlin (FU) and Cologne and received her doctorate in 1970 with a thesis on Ulrich von Liechtenstein at the FU Berlin. In 1980 she completed her habilitation at the University of Konstanz, where she worked as a research assistant from 1971 to 1985. From 1985 to 1986 she briefly worked as a professor for the older German language at the Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg , before she was offered a position in Aachen in 1986. Since the winter semester 1994/95 she has been teaching at the University of Cologne, where she took over the chair from Joachim Bumke , who retired in the same year.

Ursula Peters has been a full member of the North Rhine-Westphalian Academy of Sciences and Arts since 1996, and has been a member of the Leopoldina since 2009 .

Ursula Peters was Vice President of the German Research Foundation from 1998 to 2004 and was thus a member of the Presidium of the DFG, which consists of the President and eight other Vice Presidents as well as the Chairman of the Donors' Association for German Science .

Fonts (selection)

  • Women's service . Studies on Ulrich von Lichtenstein and the reality content of the love poetry. Göppingen 1971. ( Göppinger papers on German studies. 46).
  • Literature in the city. Studies on the social conditions and forms of cultural organization of urban literature in the 13th and 14th centuries. Tübingen 1983. ( Studies and texts on the social history of literature. 7).
  • Religious experience as a literary fact. On the prehistory and genesis of women-mystical texts of the 13th and 14th centuries. Tübingen 1988. ( Hermaea. NF 56).
  • Dynasty history and kinship pictures. The noble family in the vernacular literature of the Middle Ages. Tübingen 1999. ( Hermaea. NF 85).
  • with Andrea Legde: Modern times. The 20th Century Collection. Nuremberg 2000 (= cultural-historical walks in the Germanic National Museum. Volume 3). ISBN 978-3-926982-61-2 .
  • Wolf Vostell . Now the Germans are again number 1 in Europe , 1968. In: Annette Scherer Mäzene, Schenker, Stifter. The Germanisches Nationalmuseum and its collections , Nuremberg 2002, ISBN 978-3-926982-87-2 .
  • From social history to cultural studies: essays 1973–2000 edited by Susanne Bürkle, Tübingen; Basel: Francke 2004, ISBN 3-7720-8066-9 (collection of essays by Ursula Peters).
  • The I in the picture: the figure of the author in vernacular illuminated manuscripts from the 13th to 16th centuries , Cologne, Weimar, Vienna: Böhlau 2008, ISBN 978-3-412-18806-1 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Biographical data of Ursula Peters in: Frauendienst , Ursula Peters, Kümmerle-Verl., 1971, page 227
  2. ↑ Member entry of Ursula Peters (with picture and CV) at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on July 16, 2016.
personal data
SURNAME Peters, Ursula
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German old Germanist
DATE OF BIRTH September 11, 1944
PLACE OF BIRTH Wurzburg