Andreas Kalckhoff is a German historian and writer.

Biography

Kalckhoff grew up in Munich

Munich

Munich The city's motto is "" . Before 2006, it was "Weltstadt mit Herz" . Its native name, , is derived from the Old High German Munichen, meaning "by the monks' place". The city's name derives from the monks of the Benedictine order who founded the city; hence the monk depicted on the city's coat...

, Bavaria, where he studied Bavaria

Bavaria

Bavaria, formally the Free State of Bavaria is a state of Germany, located in the southeast of Germany. With an area of , it is the largest state by area, forming almost 20% of the total land area of Germany...

n History, medieval history and politics

Politics

Politics is a process by which groups of people make collective decisions. The term is generally applied to the art or science of running governmental or state affairs, including behavior within civil governments, but also applies to institutions, fields, and special interest groups such as the...

. 1976 he was conferred a Ph.D. by Karl Bosl for a thesis on late medieval nationalism

Nationalism

Nationalism is a political ideology that involves a strong identification of a group of individuals with a political entity defined in national terms, i.e. a nation. In the 'modernist' image of the nation, it is nationalism that creates national identity. There are various definitions for what...

 in Scotland

Scotland

Scotland is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. Occupying the northern third of the island of Great Britain, it shares a border with England to the south and is bounded by the North Sea to the east, the Atlantic Ocean to the north and west, and the North Channel and Irish Sea to the...

1977-1978 he was subeditor of a historical journal, 1978-1980 assistant professor at the university of Stuttgart

University of Stuttgart

The University of Stuttgart is a university located in Stuttgart, Germany. It was founded in 1829 and is organized in 10 faculties....

 in the Institut of Social research, department “Historical Behaviour Studies (Historische Verhaltensforschung)”, and scholar of August Nitschke.

Since 1980 he lives in Stuttgart

Stuttgart

Stuttgart is the capital of the state of Baden-Württemberg in southern Germany. The sixth-largest city in Germany, Stuttgart has a population of 600,038 while the metropolitan area has a population of 5.3 million ....

 working as a free journalist and writer

Books

• Kalckhoff, Andreas (1980): Richard III. Sein Leben und seine Zeit.Bergisch-Gladbach: Gustav Lübbe.
• Kalckhoff, Andreas (1983): Nacio Scottorum. Schottischer Regionalismus im Spätmittelalter. Frankfort-on-the-Main; Bern: Peter Lang.
• Kalckhoff, Andreas (1984): Fürsten-, Länder-, Bürgerwappen: Heraldik aus neun Jahrhunderten. Stuttgart: Pro Heraldica.
• Kalckhoff, Andreas (1987): Karl der Große. Verhaltensstruktur eines Herrschers. Munich: Piper.

Sources

• "Andreas Kalckhoff", in: Gehlen, Rolf & Wolf, Bernd (eds): Der gläserne Zaun. Aufsätze zu Hans Peter Duerrs "Traumzeit". Frankfort-on-the-Main: Syndikat 1983, p. 315.
• "Kalckhoff, Andreas", in Braun, Hugo (ed.): Journalistenkalender 1988/89. Bonn: Ferdinand C. Mentzen 1988, p. 23.
• Kalckhoff, Andreas: Guter Rat, in Oethen, Johannes (ed.): Stuttgarter Lesebuch. Autoren stellen sich vor. Karlsruhe: Braun 1989, pp. 90–96.
• "Kalckhoff, Andreas", in Török, Imre & Grübl, Birgit (eds.): Autoren in Baden-Württemberg. Ein aktuelles Nachschlagewerk. Stuttgart: Silberburg, 1991, pp. 259–260.

External links

• Books of Andreas Kalckhoff https://portal.d-nb.de/opac.htm?query=Andreas+Kalckhoff&method=simpleSearch in the German National Library
  German National Library
  The German National Library is the central archival library and national bibliographic centre for the Federal Republic of Germany...
  
  
• Homepage kalckhoff.de