Ingrid Baumgärtner is a Senior Professor at the University of Kassel, where she held the chair of Medieval History from 1994 to 2023. She was Visiting Professor at the University of Pittsburgh, Research Fellow of the DFG in Rom, Visiting Member at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, Visiting Scholar at Stanford University, Heisenberg Fellow at Augsburg University and Research Associate at the Villa I Tatti in Florence. She served as Vice-president of the Centro Tedesco di Studi Veneziani, as Dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences at Kassel University, as a member of the Mediävistenverband’s presiding committee and in Review Boards of the DFG. She is still active on different scientific boards, among them the Academic Committee of the Martin Buber Society of Fellows in Jerusalem.

Her publications are concerned with medieval law, cultural and urban history as well as social space and cartography. Geographically, her focus is on Germany, Italy and the Mediterranean world. She led DFG projects on court proceedings in the late medieval city, on maps as bridges between the Western European and the Muslim world and on travel reports of the Holy Land. Her current long-term coop-project ‘Burchards Dekret Digital’ (2020-2037) is financed by the Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur Mainz.

A complete list of publications is available below ("Publications").

For consultation appointments, please send an email to ibaum[at]uni-kassel[dot]de

Most of the articles are available as open access (free access to the full text) via KOBRA.

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