Sigrid Jahns (''née'' Langer) (born on 26 October 1945) is a German historian. Until 2009 she was professor of early modern history at the Department of History of the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich.

Life

Born in

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, the daughter of a physician, after her Abitur in

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in 1965, Jahns began studying history,

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, philosophy and pedagogy, which she continued at the

Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel Kiel University, officially the Christian-Albrecht University of Kiel, (german: Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel, abbreviated CAU, known informally as Christiana Albertina) is a university in the city of Kiel, Germany. It was founded in ...

in 1967 and at the Goethe University Frankfurt in 1968. In 1972, she received her doctorate in philosophy from Friedrich Hermann Schubert in Frankfurt with a dissertation entitled ''Frankfurt, Reformation and Schmalkaldic League - the Reformation, Reich and Alliance Politics of the Imperial City of Frankfurt am Main 1525-1536''. After a subsequent stay abroad and a at a Bad Homburger Gymnasium, Jahns supervised the sub-project ''Zusammensetzung und Sozialbeziehungen des

Reichskammergericht The ''Reichskammergericht'' (; ; la, Iudicium imperii) was one of the two highest judicial institutions in the Holy Roman Empire, the other one being the Aulic Council in Vienna. It was founded in 1495 by the Imperial Diet in Worms. All legal ...

s 1548-1806'' from 1975 as a

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at the

Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen University of Giessen, official name Justus Liebig University Giessen (german: Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen), is a large public research university in Giessen, Hesse, Germany. It is named after its most famous faculty member, Justus von ...

, which produced her two-part habilitation

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''Das Reichskammergericht und seine Richter. Verfassung und Sozialstruktur eines höchsten Gerichts im Alten Reich'', which deals with the lawyers at the Reichskammergericht from the perspective of social and constitutional history.

Publications

* ''Frankfurt, Reformation und Schmalkaldischer Bund. Die Reformations-, Reichs- u. Bündnispolitik der Reichsstadt Frankfurt am Main 1525–1536.'' Kramer, Frankfurt 1976, (zugl. University of Frankfurt, FB Geschichtswissenschaften 1972: Dissertation.) * ''Die Assessoren des Reichskammergerichts in Wetzlar. Eine Fallstudie.'' Publication series of the Gesellschaft für Reichskammergerichtsforschung , issue 2, Wetzlar 1986, doi:10.17176/20170309-191119 * ''Das Reichskammergericht und seine Richter. Verfassung und Sozialstruktur eines höchsten Gerichts im Alten Reich. Part 1: Darstellung.'' Böhlau Verlag, Vienna, Cologne and Weimar 2011, * ''Das Reichskammergericht und seine Richter. Verfassung und Sozialstruktur eines höchsten Gerichts im Alten Reich. Part 2: Biographies.'' 2 volumes. Böhlau Verlag, Vienna, Cologne and Weimar 2003, * ''Juristenkarrieren in der Frühen Neuzeit''. * ''Die Assessoren des Reichskammergerichts in Wetzlar''. * ''Das Kammerkollegium des Reichskammergerichts im Verfassungs- und Sozialsystem des Alten Reiches''.''Das Kammerkollegium des Reichskammergerichts im Verfassungs- und Sozialsystem des Alten Reiches''
on WorldCat

References

External links

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on ''geschichte.uni-muenchen.de''

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