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Ludwig Schmugge (born 28 November 1939) is a German historian.

Life

Born in Berlin, Schmugge completed his dissertation on

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in 1964 in Paris with the help of a six-month scholarship from the Commission for the Study of the History of Franco-German Relations. He was awarded his doctorate in 1965 at the

Freie Universität Berlin The Free University of Berlin (, often abbreviated as FU Berlin or simply FU) is a public research university in Berlin, Germany. It is consistently ranked among Germany's best universities, with particular strengths in political science and t ...

with this work supervised by

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. From 1966 to 1971 he was a

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at the . In 1971 he was

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at the FU Berlin. Schmugge initially taught as professor of

medieval history In the history of Europe, the Middle Ages or medieval period lasted approximately from the late 5th to the late 15th centuries, similar to the post-classical period of global history. It began with the fall of the Western Roman Empire a ...

at the FU Berlin. From 1979 until his retirement in 2004, Schmugge taught as a full professor for medieval history at the

University of Zurich The University of Zürich (UZH, german: Universität Zürich) is a public research university located in the city of Zürich, Switzerland. It is the largest university in Switzerland, with its 28,000 enrolled students. It was founded in 1833 f ...

. In the academic year 1991/1992 he was a research fellow at the in Munich. From 2004 to 2008 Schmugge was chairman of the scientific advisory board of the

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in Rome. His main areas of research are constitutional, ecclesiastical and social history of the High and Late Middle Ages as well as

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. With his dissertation he pursued the goal of compiling and rearranging the scarce sources on the life history of Johannes, of extracting from his works the social-theoretical ideas and then comparing them with those of

Marsilius of Padua Marsilius of Padua (Italian: ''Marsilio'' or ''Marsiglio da Padova''; born ''Marsilio dei Mainardini'' or ''Marsilio Mainardini''; c. 1270 – c. 1342) was an Italian scholar, trained in medicine, who practiced a variety of professions. He ...

. Schmugge was for many years editor of the .

Writings

Monographs * ''Ehen vor Gericht. Paare der Renaissance vor dem Papst.'' Berlin University Press, Berlin 2008, . * ''Kirche, Kinder, Karrieren. Päpstliche Dispense von der unehelichen Geburt im Spätmittelalter.'' Artemis und Winkler, Zürich 1995, . * ''Schleichwege zu Pfründe und Altar. Päpstliche Dispense vom Geburtsmakel 1449–1533''. (''Schriften des Historischen Kollegs. Vorträge.'' Vol. 37). Stiftung Historisches Kolleg, Munich 1994
Digitalisat
. * ''Johannes von Jandun (1285/1289–1328). Untersuchungen zur Biographie und Sozialtheorie eines lateinischen Averroisten.'' Hiersemann, Stuttgart 1966
online
. Editions * ''Illegitimität im Spätmittelalter'' (''Schriften des Historischen Kollegs. Kolloquien.'' Vol. 29). Oldenbourg, Munich 1994,
Numerised
.

Literature

* , (ed.): ''Die Geschichtswissenschaft an der Freien Universität Berlin.'' V & R Unipress, Göttingen 2008, , . * Andreas Meyer (ed.): ''Päpste, Pilger, Pönitentiarie. Festschrift für Ludwig Schmugge zum 65. Geburtstag.'' Niemeyer, Tübingen 2004,

References

External links

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Veröffentlichungen von Ludwig Schmugge
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Schmugge, Ludwig 1939 births Living people Writers from Berlin Academic staff of the University of Zurich 20th-century German historians