Leo Schmidt

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Leo Schmidt (born Leopold Rupert Schmidt, in 1953) is a German curator of monuments and a historian of art and architecture. He is professor at the department of architectural conservation at the Brandenburg University of Technology. [1]

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Early life and education

Schmidt studied art history, classical archeology and history at the University of Freiburg and at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich. In 1980 he gained his Doctor of Philosophie at the University of Freiburg with a thesis on the architecture of Holkham Hall. [2] [3]

Career

From 1980 until 1995 Schmidt worked as a senior investigator in the State Department for the Care of Historic Buildings in Baden-Wuerttemberg; last as the head of department of monument inventory in Baden. Since 1995 he is full Professor holding the chair for architectural conservation at Brandenburg University of Technology. [1]

Schmidt's research interests include the theory and practice of heritage preservation and its history, the history of city development and historic town centres, and architecture and urban planning during the reign of the Wilhelmine Empire. He has studied building archeology and heritage preservation of English Country houses of the 18th century. He has compiled a history of the building of the Berlin Wall [4] [5] and the army research center Peenemünde. [6] He has published a number of books and articles on this subject. [7] [8]

Since 2006 he is a fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London.

Selected publications

Notes

  1. 1 2 David Lowe; Tony Joel (21 January 2014). Remembering the Cold War: Global Contest and National Stories. Taylor & Francis. pp. 16–17. ISBN   978-1-317-91258-3.
  2. ↑ D P Mortlock (1 May 2013). Aristocratic Splendour: Money and the World of Thomas Coke, Earl of Leicester. History Press Limited. pp. 9–. ISBN   978-0-7524-9600-9.
  3. ↑ Howard Montagu Colvin; Joseph Mordaunt Crook; Terry Friedman (1980). Architectural drawings from Lowther Castle, Westmorland. Society of Architectural Historians of Great Britain. pp. 29–32.
  4. ↑ Christoph Lindner (10 September 2009). Globalization, Violence and the Visual Culture of Cities. Routledge. pp. 93–. ISBN   978-1-134-01691-4.
  5. ↑ Silke Arnold-de Simine (2005). Memory Traces: 1989 and the Question of German Cultural Identity. Peter Lang. pp. 281–. ISBN   978-3-03910-297-6.
  6. ↑ Dankwart Guratzsch, (March 23, 2011) Die Raketen-Basis der Nazis soll geflutet werden, Welt-online.de
  7. ↑ Artemy M. Kalinovsky; Craig Daigle (5 June 2014). The Routledge Handbook of the Cold War. Routledge. pp. 72–. ISBN   978-1-134-70065-3.
  8. ↑ John Schofield (8 February 2009). Aftermath: Readings in the Archaeology of Recent Conflict. Springer Science & Business Media. pp. 60–. ISBN   978-0-387-88521-6.

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