Jeffrey F. Hamburger

Jeffrey F. Hamburger ( born February 9, 1957 in London) is an American art historian.

Life

Hamburgers grandparents had to emigrate in the period of National Socialism from Leipzig and Cologne. He studied at Yale University and received his doctorate there in 1987. He taught at Oberlin College and at the University of Toronto, and in 2000 professor at Harvard University, where he has held since 2008, Kuno Francke Professor of German, art and cultural history ( German Art and Culture). In 2007 he was a Humboldt Fellow, hosted at the Department of Medieval Art History in Heidelberg.

His research focuses on the religious art of the Middle Ages and medieval illuminated manuscripts.

2012 Hamburg sent a petition to the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation against the dismantling of the Berlin Gemäldegalerie, one of the most important collections of Old Masters in Europe, and launched a corresponding signature collection.

Prizes and awards

2009 Hamburg was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and in 2010 in the American Philosophical Society.

His research has been supported by the Guggenheim Foundation, the American Philosophical Society, the Institute for Advanced Study, the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation.

Writings (selection )

  • The " various books of mankind." Johannes Tauler on the " scivia » Hildegard von Bingen. Paulinus, Trier 2005, ISBN 3-7902-0194-4.
  • Leaves from Paradise: The Cult of John the Evangelist at the Dominican Convent of paradise in Soest, Houghton Library Studies, Vol 2 Cambridge: Houghton Library, distributed by Harvard University Press, 2008.
  • Women - Monastery - Art: New research on the cultural history of the Middle Ages. International Colloquium in conjunction with Crown and Veil: Art of medieval convents, Wolfsburg, Mülheim / Ruhr, co-editor. by Carola Jaeggi, Susan Marti, Hedwig Röckelein. Turnhout: Brepols, 2007.
  • Anne Korteweg: Tributes in Honor of James H. Marrow: Studies in Late Medieval and Renaissance Painting and Manuscript Illumination, Turnhout: Brepols, 2006.
  • With Anne -Marie Bouché, : The Mind's Eye: Art and Theological Argument in the Medieval West. Princeton: Department of Art & Archaeology, Princeton University, Princeton University Press, 2005.
  • Crown and Veil: Art of medieval convents, Munich 2005 Art and Exhibition Hall of the Federal Republic of Germany, Bonn. .
  • St. John the Divine: The Deified Evangelist in Medieval Art and Theology. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2002 ISBN 0-520-22877-4.
  • The Ottheinrich Bible. Commentary on the facsimile edition of the manuscript Cgm 8010/1.2 of the Bavarian State Library in Munich, with Brigitte Gullath, Karin Schneider, and Robert Suckale. Lucerne: Facsimile -Verlag, 2002.
  • The Visual and the Visionary: Art and Female Spirituality in Late Medieval Germany. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1998, ISBN 0-942299-45-0.
  • Nuns as Artists: The Visual Culture of a Medieval Convent Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997 ISBN 0-520-20386-0.
  • The Rothschild Canticles: Art and Mysticism in Flanders and the Rhineland circa 1300 New Haven: . Yale University Press, 1990, ISBN 0-300-04308-2 [= dissertation ].
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