Sabine von Heusinger
German medievalist (born 1964)
Sabine von Heusinger (born 13 September 1964) is a German professor of medieval history at the University of Cologne.
Early life
Sabine von Heusinger was born 13 September 1964 in Rielasingen. She studied German, politics and history at the University of Konstanz and Università degli Studi dell 'Aquila. In 1991, her Magister followed. She earned her doctorate at the University of Konstanz with a thesis on "Der observante Dominikaner Johannes Mulberg und der Basler Beginenstreit". Her Habilitation took place in 2006 at the University of Mannheim with work on social groups in the city using example from the guilds in Strasbourg.
On the basis of 4,055 individual entries on Strasbourg guild members from the second half of the 13th century to the end of the 15th century, she analyzed the Strasbourg guild system. Heusinger sees the Strasbourg guilds as mobile social groups and distinguishes four "sub-areas" of the medieval guild: the commercial guild, the brotherhood, the political guild and finally the military unit. She was able to prove in "more than 30% of the cases examined for Strasbourg [...] a guild change between the two generations."
Von Heusinger taught at the Universities of Konstanz, Luzern and Stuttgart. Since 2000 she has been working at the University of Mannheim.
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