Dorothea Menadier (11 December 1891 – 24 March 1944) was a German medievalist and numismatist, who studied the coinage of women's monastic houses.

Dorothea Menadier
Born11 December 1891
Died24 March 1944(1944-03-24) (aged 52)
Berlin
Cause of deathAerial bombing
Occupation(s)Numismatist; medievalist
Academic background
Alma materFriedrich-Wilhelms-Universitat
ThesisDie Münzen und das Münzwesen der deutschen Reichsäbtissinnen im Mittelalter (1915)
Doctoral advisorMichael Tangl

Biography

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Menadier was born on 11 December 1891.[1] She was the daughter of the medieval numismatist and director of the Berlin Coin Cabinet Julius Menadier (de) and Ida, née Freiin von Düring.[2] After attending the Chamissoschule in Berlin-Schöneberg, she studied history at the universities of Tübingen and Berlin. In Berlin, she graduated with a PhD on 21 June 1915. Her thesis was supervised by Michael Tangl. Menadier analysed the coins and coinage of medieval German nunneries and abbesses, a topic that had been suggested by her father.[3]

Menadier's research demonstrated that most of the mints known from the coinage are also known from documentary sources.[4] She also demonstrated that bailiffs were connected to the coinage.[5]

In 1932 she contributed to a women's guidebook to Berlin, entitled Was die Frau von Berlin wissen muß ... : Ein praktisches Frauenbuch für Einheimische und Fremde.[6] She died on 24 March 1944 at the age of 52 when an aerial bomb hit her house in Berlin-Lichterfelde. She was unmarried.[7]

Selected works

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  • Die Münzen und das Münzwesen der deutschen Reichsäbtissinnen im Mittelalter (Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universitat zu Berlin., 1915).[3][8]

References

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  1. ^ "Dorothea Menadier". En stor familie – Mit Stamtræ på Internet (in Danish). Retrieved 2021-08-15.
  2. ^ Stammbaum Dorothea Manadier auf www.einegroßefamilie.de
  3. ^ a b Menadier, Dorothea (1915). Die Münzen und das Münzwesen der deutschen Reichsäbtissinnen im Mittelalter (in German). Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universitat zu Berlin.
  4. ^ Hävernick, Walter (1930). Der Kölner Pfennig im 12. und 13. Jahrhundert : Periode der territorialen Pfennigmünze (in German). Georg Olms Verlag. ISBN 978-3-487-41334-1.
  5. ^ Numismatische Zeitschrift (in German). Selbstverlag der Österreichischen Numismatischen Gesellschaft. 1920.
  6. ^ Was die Frau von Berlin wissen muß ... Losdau.
  7. ^ "Sterbeurkunde Nr. 704 vom 31. März 1944, Standesamt Berlin-Steglitz". Ancestry.de (Kostenpflichtig) (in German).
  8. ^ Gasper, Dr Giles E. M.; Gullbekk, Professor Svein H. (2015-06-28). Money and the Church in Medieval Europe, 1000–1200: Practice, Morality and Thought. Ashgate Publishing, Ltd. ISBN 978-1-4724-5682-3.