Professors of German Universities (e.g. Cologne, Heidelberg) in Italy (1400-1550) and the Repertorium Academicum Germanicum (RAG)

Andresen, Suse; Schwinges, Rainer Christoph (4 June 2013). Professors of German Universities (e.g. Cologne, Heidelberg) in Italy (1400-1550) and the Repertorium Academicum Germanicum (RAG) (Unpublished). In: European Workshop on Historical Academic Databases. Bologna. 03.-05.06.2013.

The RAG’s task is to collect biographical and social data on those Theologians, Jurists, Physicians, and Masters of Arts, who studied at a university between 1250 and 1550. The information is entered into a prosopographic database that will finally cover the entire territory of the Holy Roman Empire. Non-graduated noble visitors of universities are also taken into account. The RAG, which in the end will be a “who is who” of the scholars of the Old Empire, offers divers new and interdisciplinary perspectives due to its vast collection of data. Qualitative and quantitative statements on the intellectual elite of the Empire, their European networks, as well as institutional and territorial comparisons will be possible. Thus the scholars' role in pre-modern society can be described on a firm empirical basis and explained within the framework of modern educational research, with special reference to social, cultural, and scientific history. Up to 50,000 scholars are to be expected.

Item Type:

Conference or Workshop Item (Speech)

Division/Institute:

06 Faculty of Humanities > Department of History and Archaeology > Institute of History > Medieval History

UniBE Contributor:

Andresen, Suse, Schwinges, Rainer Christoph

Subjects:

900 History > 940 History of Europe

Language:

English

Submitter:

Rainer Christoph Schwinges

Date Deposited:

16 Mar 2015 15:22

Last Modified:

05 Dec 2022 14:43

URI:

https://boris.unibe.ch/id/eprint/64987

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