Hartmut Boockmann (August 22, 1934 – June 15, 1998) was a German

historian A historian is a person who studies and writes about the past and is regarded as an authority on it. Historians are concerned with the continuous, methodical narrative and research of past events as relating to the human species; as well as the ...

, specializing in medieval history. Boockmann was born in Marienburg, East Prussia, Germany, after 1945

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Poland. He received his Ph.D. in 1965. Boockmann was professor for medieval and modern history in

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from 1975 to 1982, then in

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, between 1992 and 1995 at the Humboldt-University of Berlin, and thereafter until his death in Göttingen again. Boockmann was specialized in the German

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. He died in

Major publications

*''Laurentius Blumenau. Fürstlicher Rat – Jurist – Humanist (ca. 1415-1484)'', (=Göttinger Bausteine zur Geschichtswissenschaft ; Bd. 37), Göttingen 1965 (dissertation) *''Johannes Falkenberg, der Deutsche Orden und die polnische Politik. Untersuchungen zur politischen Theorie des späteren Mittelalters. Mit einem Anhang: Die Satira des Johannes Falkenberg'', Göttingen 1975 (Habilitation) *''Der Deutsche Orden. Zwölf Kapitel aus seiner Geschichte'', zuerst München 1981 *''Die Marienburg im 19. Jahrhundert'', zuerst Frankfurt a. M. usw. 1982 *''Die Stadt im späten Mittelalter'', zuerst München 1986 *''Stauferzeit und spätes Mittelalter. Deutschland 1125–1517'', zuerst Berlin 1987 *''Deutsche Geschichte im Osten Europas, Ostpreußen und Westpreußen'', Berlin 1992 *''Fürsten, Bürger, Edelleute, Lebensbilder aus dem späten Mittelalter'', München 1994 *''Wissen und Widerstand. Geschichte der deutschen Universität'', Berlin 1999 *''Wege ins Mittelalter. Historische Aufsätze'', München 2000 *''Einführung in die Geschichte des Mittelalters'', 8. Auflage, München 2007 .

Literature

* Peter Moraw: ''Nachruf Hartmut Boockmann.'' In: Deutsches Archiv für Erforschung des Mittelalters 54 (1998), S. 911–912.

External links

* Texts of Boockmann in the web:
Spätmittelalterliche deutsche Stadt-TyrannenBürgerkirchen im späteren Mittelalter - PDF
* ttp://www.dhm.de/ausstellungen/eisenkleider/boock1.htm Die Ritter und ihre Harnische Biography
Nachruf von Werner Paravicini mit Auswahlbibliographie
German medievalists University of Kiel alumni Academic staff of the University of Göttingen Academic staff of the Humboldt University of Berlin 1934 births 1998 deaths People from Malbork People from West Prussia People from East Prussia 20th-century German historians German male non-fiction writers Members of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences and Humanities {{Germany-historian-stub