Wolfgang Schmid (historian)

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Wolfgang Schmid (born August 12, 1957 in Kusel ) is a German historian .

Life

Wolfgang Schmid studied history, art history and political science. In 1990 he received his doctorate in Trier with a dissertation on donors and clients in late medieval Cologne , and in 1997 he received his habilitation with a thesis on " Dürer as an entrepreneur. Art, humanism and economy in Nuremberg around 1500" . Since 2003 he has been an adjunct professor of regional history at the University of Trier , and since 2007 visiting professor at the University of Luxembourg . He is chairman of the local group Untermosel of the Eifelverein , deputy chairman of the district group Mayen-Koblenz and as main cultural warden member of the main board of the Eifelverein.

In addition to economic history topics from the early modern period, Schmid primarily dealt with the complex phenomenon of memoria . In numerous studies he examined the relationship between political-dynastic representation and liturgical memoria in the culture of remembrance and burial of rulers, bishops, clergy and nobles in the Rhenish-Luxembourg area. Another focus of his research interests are pilgrimages, cults of saints and worship of relics. In recent years he has mainly dealt with structural changes in rural areas in the 19th and 20th centuries in Luxembourg and the Eifel. He is currently working on various publications on the subject of veneration of saints, treasure art and politics around 1200.

Fonts

  • Cologne Renaissance culture as reflected in the records of Hermann Weinsberg (1518–1597) (= publications of the Cologne City Museum. Vol. 8). Cologne 1991, ISBN 3-927396-43-5 .
  • Founder and client in late medieval Cologne (= publications of the Cologne City Museum. Vol. 11). Cologne 1994, ISBN 3-927396-11-5 , correct ISBN 3-927396-61-3 .
  • Poppo von Babenberg (986-1047). Archbishop of Trier - patron of St. Simeon - patron saint of the Habsburgs . Trier 1998, ISBN 3-89070-033-0 .
  • Emperor Heinrich's trip to Rome. For the staging of politics in a Trier illuminated manuscript from the 14th century (= Mittelrheinische Hefte. H. 21). Koblenz 2000, ISBN 3-931014-47-9 .
  • Dürer as an entrepreneur. Art, humanism and economy in Nuremberg around 1500 (= contributions to regional and cultural history. Vol. 1). Trier 2003, ISBN 978-3-933701-05-3 .
  • with Stefan Heinz and Barbara Rothbrust: The grave monuments of the archbishops of Trier, Cologne and Mainz . Trier 2004, ISBN 2-503-51604-1 .
  • with Paula Giersch: Rhineland - Holy Land. Pilgrimages and cultural contacts in the Middle Ages (= Armarium Trevirense. Vol. 1). Trier 2004, ISBN 2-503-51604-1 .
  • with Michael Embach (ed.): The "Medulla Gestorum Treverensium" by Johann Enen. A Trier Hheilumdruck from 1514 (= Armarium Trevirense. Vol. 2). Trier 2004, ISBN 2-503-51604-1 .
  • with Dorothee Rippmann and Katharina Simon-Muscheid (eds.): For general use instead of. Fountain in European urban history . Trier 2008, ISBN 978-3-89890-116-1 .
  • Graphic Media and Catholic Reform. Adoration of relics, goldsmithing and pilgrimage in cities in the Rhineland after the Thirty Years' War (= messages and records from the library of the Episcopal Seminary in Trier. Vol. 25). Trier 2008, ISBN 978-3-7902-0199-4 .
  • with Michel Margue and Michel Pauly: The way to the Imperial Crown. Henry VII's move to Rome as portrayed by Archbishop Baldwin of Trier (= Publications du CLUDEM. Vol. 24). Trier 2009, ISBN 978-3-89890-129-1 .
  • with Wieland Schmid: Henri Tudor. Accumulator. Electricity . Luxembourg 2009. - English edition: Henri Tudor. Accumulator. Elektricity . Luxembourg 2009. - French edition: Henri Tudor. Accumulateur. Electricity . Luxembourg 2009.
  • (Ed.): Festschrift 125 years of the Eifelverein (1888–2013) . Vol. 1: The Eifelverein on its way through history . Vol. 2: The Eifel - Contributions to a regional study . Trier 2013. ISBN 978-3-921805-91-6 .
  • Life and work in the Ösling. The villages of Binsfeld, Breidfeld and Holler (municipality Weiswampach) between past and present. Luxembourg 2016. ISBN 978-2-87992-990-3 .
  • The epitaph of Junker Konrad Schilling von Lahnstein in Kottenheim and the Gothic and Renaissance tomb art in the Mayen-Koblenz area. Mayen 2017. ISBN 978-3-930821-27-3 .
  • with Michael Embach, Andreas Heinz and Bernhard Schneider: The Trier Cathedral Chapter in the Middle Ages and in the early modern period. Mainz: Ges. F. Middle Rhine. Church history 2018. ISBN 978-3-929135-76-3 .
  • The shrine of the apostle Simon in Sayn. Adoration of saints, treasure art and politics around 1200. Lahnstein: Imprimatur-Verlag 2019. ISBN 978-3-947874-04-0 .

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personal data
SURNAME Schmid, Wolfgang
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian
DATE OF BIRTH August 12, 1957
PLACE OF BIRTH Kusel