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 | |
|---|---|
| Born | 11 December 1891 |
| Died | 24 March 1944 (aged 52) Berlin |
| Cause of death | Aerial bombing |
| Occupation(s) | Numismatist; medievalist |
| Academic background | |
| Alma mater | Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universitat |
| Thesis | Die Münzen und das Münzwesen der deutschen Reichsäbtissinnen im Mittelalter (1915) |
| Doctoral advisor | Michael Tangl |
Biography
editMenadier 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
editReferences
edit- ^ "Dorothea Menadier". En stor familie – Mit Stamtræ på Internet (in Danish). Retrieved 2021-08-15.
- ^ Stammbaum Dorothea Manadier auf www.einegroßefamilie.de
- ^ a b Menadier, Dorothea (1915). Die Münzen und das Münzwesen der deutschen Reichsäbtissinnen im Mittelalter (in German). Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universitat zu Berlin.
- ^ 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.
- ^ Numismatische Zeitschrift (in German). Selbstverlag der Österreichischen Numismatischen Gesellschaft. 1920.
- ^ Was die Frau von Berlin wissen muß ... Losdau.
- ^ "Sterbeurkunde Nr. 704 vom 31. März 1944, Standesamt Berlin-Steglitz". Ancestry.de (Kostenpflichtig) (in German).
- ^ 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.