Lorenz Hubert Weinrich (born 20 August 1929) is a German historian.

Life

Weinrich was born in

Salzwedel Salzwedel (, officially known as Hansestadt Salzwedel; ) is a town in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany. It is the capital of the district (''Kreis'') of Altmarkkreis Salzwedel, and has a population of approximately 21,500. Salzwedel is located on the Ger ...

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. He started studying history and

classical philology Classics, also classical studies or Ancient Greek and Roman studies, is the study of classical antiquity. In the Western world, ''classics'' traditionally refers to the study of Ancient Greek and Roman literature and their original languages, ...

Freie Universität Berlin The Free University of Berlin (, often abbreviated as FU Berlin or simply FU) is a public university, public research university in Berlin, Germany. It was founded in West Berlin in 1948 with American support during the early Cold War period a ...

in 1948, and he earned his doctoral degree in 1954 with a study on Wala of Corbie. Afterwards, he worked as a teacher at different schools in

Berlin Berlin ( ; ) is the Capital of Germany, capital and largest city of Germany, by both area and List of cities in Germany by population, population. With 3.7 million inhabitants, it has the List of cities in the European Union by population withi ...

and, starting in 1957, also at the Freie Universität Berlin. In 1967/1968 he was a visiting scholar for

Medieval Latin Medieval Latin was the form of Literary Latin used in Roman Catholic Church, Roman Catholic Western Europe during the Middle Ages. It was also the administrative language in the former Western Roman Empire, Roman Provinces of Mauretania, Numidi ...

University of Chicago The University of Chicago (UChicago, Chicago, or UChi) is a Private university, private research university in Chicago, Illinois, United States. Its main campus is in the Hyde Park, Chicago, Hyde Park neighborhood on Chicago's South Side, Chic ...

. He habilitated in 1971 at Freie Universität Berlin in history. In 1973 and 1974 he taught

Gregorian chant Gregorian chant is the central tradition of Western plainsong, plainchant, a form of monophony, monophonic, unaccompanied sacred song in Latin (and occasionally Greek language, Greek) of the Roman Catholic Church. Gregorian chant developed main ...

and liturgy chant at the Episcopal University for Church Music Berlin. In 1980 he lectured at Universität des Saarlandes in

Saarbrücken Saarbrücken (; Rhenish Franconian: ''Sabrigge'' ; ; ; ; ) is the capital and largest List of cities and towns in Germany, city of the state of Saarland, Germany. Saarbrücken has 181,959 inhabitants and is Saarland's administrative, commerci ...

. From 1987 to 1989 he was Dean of the faculty of history at Freie Universität Berlin. In 1975 Weinrich was invested into the Order of the Holy Sepulchre. Since 1979 he has been

Commander Commander (commonly abbreviated as Cmdr.) is a common naval officer rank as well as a job title in many army, armies. Commander is also used as a rank or title in other formal organizations, including several police forces. In several countri ...

of the order. In 2013 he was appointed to commander of the Order of St. Sylvesters with star. Since 1977 Weinrich has been a member, and from 1979 and 1980 vice chair, and from 1980 to 1992 chair, of the board of the association ''Gesellschaft für Christlich-Jüdische Zusammenarbeit in Berlin (''Association for Christian Jewish co-operation in Berlin'').'' In 1986 he was elected as a board member of the ''Deutscher Koordinierungsrat der Gesellschaften für Christlich-Jüdische Zusammenarbeit'' and 1987 he was its chair. In this capacity he presented the Buber-Rosenzweig-Medal to Yehudi Menuhin in 1989. Weinrich conducted the Gregorian scholae of the Roman Catholic parish Mater Dolorosa in Lankwitz from 1952 to 2002. He was a member of the Pastoral council for decades and until 2007 he was member of the management board of the parish. In this capacity he was co-founder of the foundation

Stiftung Mater Dolorosa Berlin-Lankwitz The Stiftung Mater Dolorosa Berlin-Lankwitz (''Mater Dolorosa Berlin-Lankwitz Foundation'') is an independent nonprofit foundation (nonprofit), foundation under the civil law of Germany and Berlin based in Lankwitz in the borough Steglitz-Zehlendo ...

in 2006.Satzung der Stiftung Mater Dolorosa Berlin-Lankwitz
(PDF; 51 kB). Retrieved 25 October 2015.

Publications (selection)

Monographs * ''Wala – Graf, Mönch und Rebell''. Lübeck und Hamburg 1963 (Karolingische Studien Heft 386) * ''Das ungarische Paulinerkloster Santo Stefano Rotondo in Rom (1404–1579).'' Berliner historische Studien. Band 12, Ordensstudien, Berlin, Duncker und Humblot 1998. . Edits and translations * together with Herbert Helbig: ''Urkunden und erzählende Quellen zur deutschen Ostsiedlung im Mittelalter''. Darmstadt 1968. * ''Quellen zur deutschen Verfassungs-, Wirtschafts- und Sozialgeschichte bis 1250'' (= ''Ausgewählte Quellen zur deutschen Geschichte des Mittelalters''. Band 32). Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, Darmstadt 1977, . * ''Toleranz und Brüderlichkeit: 30 Jahre Gesellschaft für Christlich-Jüdische Zusammenarbeit in Berlin.'' Berlin, Gesellschaft für Christlich-Jüdische Zusammenarbeit 1979. * ''Quellen zur Verfassungsgeschichte des Römisch-Deutschen Reiches im Spätmittelalter (1250–1500).'' Freiherr-vom-Stein-Gedächtnisausgabe 33, Darmstadt 1983, . * ''Pfarrkirche und Gemeinde Mater Dolorosa Berlin-Lankwitz 1912–1987'', Berlin 1987. * together with Jürgen Miethke: ''Quellen zur Kirchenreform im Zeitalter der großen Konzilien des 15. Jahrhunderts. Erster Teil: Die Konzilien von Pisa (1409) und Konstanz (1414–1418).'' (Ausgewählte Quellen zur deutschen Geschichte des Mittelalters, Freiherr-vom-Stein-Gedächtnisausgabe 38a). Darmstadt 1995. * ''Quellen zur Reichsreform im Spätmittelalter.'' Ausgewählte Quellen zur deutschen Geschichte des Mittelalters. Band 39. Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, Darmstadt 2001, . * ''Heiligenleben zur deutsch-slawischen Geschichte. Adalbert von Prag und Otto von Bamberg.'' Ausgewählte Quellen zur deutschen Geschichte des Mittelalters. Band 23. Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, Darmstadt 2005, . Papers * ''Laurentius-Verehrung in Ottonischer Zeit.'' In: ''Jahrbuch für die Geschichte Mittel- und Ostdeutschlands'', Band 21. 1972. * ''Der Slawenaufstand von 983 in der Darstellung des Bischofs Thietmar von Merseburg.'' In: Dieter Berg, Hans-Werner Goetz (Hrsg.): ''Historiographia Mediaevalis. Studien zur Geschichtsschreibung und Quellenkunde des Mittelalters. Festschrift für Franz-Josef Schmale zum 65. Geburtstag''. Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, Darmstadt 1988, S. 77–87.

References

External links

Lorenz Weinrich, Mater Dolorosa Berlin-Lankwitz
{{DEFAULTSORT:Weinrich, Lorenz 1929 births Living people People from Salzwedel People from the Province of Saxony German Roman Catholics German medievalists Academic staff of the Free University of Berlin