Prof. Dr. Jeffrey F. Hamburger

Profile

Academic positionFull Professor
Research fieldsArt History,Medieval History
Keywordstheology, mysticism, medieval manuscript illumination, iconography

Current contact address

CountryUnited States of America
CityCambridge
InstitutionHarvard University
InstituteHistory of Art and Architecture

Host during sponsorship

Prof. Dr. Willibald SauerländerZentralinstitut für Kunstgeschichte, München
Prof. Dr. Wolf TegethoffZentralinstitut für Kunstgeschichte, München
Prof. Dr. Robert SuckaleInstitut für Geschichte und Kunstgeschichte, Technische Universität Berlin, Berlin
Prof. Dr. Lieselotte E. Saurma-JeltschInstitut für Europäische Kunstgeschichte, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, Heidelberg
Prof. Dr. Eva SchlotheuberInstitut für Geschichtswissenschaften, Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf
Start of initial sponsorship01/08/1996

Programme(s)

1995Humboldt Research Fellowship Programme
2014Anneliese Maier Research Award Programme

Nominator's project description

Professor Jeffrey Hamburger, Kuno Francke Professor of German Art and Culture, Harvard, USA Jeffrey Hamburger is one of the world’s leading authorities on the religious art of the Middle Ages. He has made important contributions concerning unpublished and little known works of art which offer new insights into medieval society, religion, and culture from the perspective of medieval women. Among his other interests are the history of manuscript illumination, medieval mysticism, image theory and devotional imagery. During his stay in Germany, he intends to work with Professor Eva Schlotheuber to advance fundamental research in medieval studies. Professor Jeffrey Hamburger is hosted by Professor Eva Schlotheuber at the Heinrich Heine Universität Düsseldorf

Publications (partial selection)

2022Jeffrey F. Hamburger, Linda Safran, and David Roxburgh: The Diagram as Paradigm: Medieval Diagrams in a Cross-Cultural Perspective (Byzantine, Western European, and Islamicate). Dumbarton Oaks, 2022
2021Jeffrey F. Hamburger, Lisa Fagin Davis, Anne-Marie Eze, Nancy Netzer and William Stoneman Beyond Words: New Research on Illuminated Manuscripts in Boston Collections. Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, 2021
2021Jeffrey F. Hamburger: Color in Cusanus . Hiersemann, 2021
2021Jeffrey F. Hamburger and Joshua O'Driscoll: Imperial Splendor: The Art of the Book in the Holy Roman Empire, 800–1500 . Pierpont Morgan Library, 2021
2021Jeffrey F. Hamburger and Joshua O'Driscoll: Kaiserliche Pracht: Deutsche Buchkunst von 800 bis 1500. Quaternio Verlag, 2021
2021Jeffrey F Hamburger: The Birth of the Author: Pictorial Prefaces in Glossed Books of the Twelfth Century . Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, 2021
2020Jeffrey F Hamburger: Diagramming Devotion: Berthold of Nuremberg’s Transformation of Hrabanus Maurus’s Poems in Praise of the Cross . University of Chicago Press, 2020
2019Jeffrey F. Hamburger and Eva Schlotheuber: The Liber ordinarius of Nivelles: Liturgy as Interdisciplinary Intersection. Mohr Siebeck, 2019
2018Jeffrey F. Hamburger: Painting the Page in the Age of Print: Central European Manuscript Illumination of the Fifteenth Century. Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, 2018
2018Jeffrey F Hamburger and Maria Theisen: Unter Druck. Mitteleuropäische Buchmalerei im 15. Jahrhundert. Akten der Tagung, Wien, Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, 13.1.–17.1.2016. Imhoff Verlag, 2018
2016Jeffrey F. Hamburger, Eva Schlotheuber, Susan Marti, Margot Fassler: Liturgical Life & Latin Learning at Paradies bei Soest, 1300-1425 (Volume I und II). Aschendorff Verlag GmbH & Co. KG, 2016
2016Jeffrey Hamburger and Brigitte Bedos-Rezak: Sign and Design: Script as Image in a Cross–Cultural Perspective (300–1600 CE). Dumbarton Oaks, 2016
2015Jeffrey F. Hamburger and Christoph Mackert: 10 Stationen zur mitteleuropäischen Buchmalerei des 15. Jahrhunderts. Quaternio Verlag, 2015
2015Jeffrey F. Hamburger and Nigel F. Palmer: The Prayer Book of Ursula Begerin. Urs Graf, 2015
2015Jeffrey F. Hamburger, Robert Suckale, and Gude Suckale-Redlefsen: Unter Druck: Mitteleuropäische Buchmalerei im Zeitalter Gutenbergs. Quaternio Verlag, 2015
2014Jeffrey F. Hamburger: Script as Image. Peeters, 2014
2013Jeffrey F. Hamburger and Gabriela Signori: Catherine of Siena: The Creation of a Cult. Brepols, 2013
2013Jeffrey F. Hamburger: Haec figura demonstrat’. Diagramme in einem Pariser Exemplar von Lothars von Segni, De missarum mysteriis’ aus dem frühen 13. Jahrhundert. De Gruyter, 2013
2011Jeffrey F. Hamburger: Piecing together the Picture: Fragments of German and Netherlandish Manuscripts in the Houghton Library. Harvard University Press, 2011
2010Jeffrey F. Hamburger: Ouvertures . Les presses du réel/Musée des Beaux–Arts, Lyon, 2010
2008Jeffrey F. Hamburger and Susan Marti: Crown and Veil: The Art of Female Monasticism in the Middle Ages. Columbia University Press, 2008
2008Jeffrey F. Hamburger: Leaves from Paradise: The Cult of John the Evangelist at the Dominican Convent of Paradies bei Soest. Harvard University Press, 2008
2007Jeffrey F. Hamburger, Carola Jäggi, Susan Marti, Hedwig Röckelein: Frauen – Kloster – Kunst: Neue Forschungen zur Kulturgeschichte des Mittelalters. Internationales Kolloquium im Zusammenhang mit Krone und Schleier: Kunst aus mittelalterlichen Frauenklöster, Die Wolfsburg, Mülheim/Ruhr. Brepols, 2007
2006Jeffrey F. Hamburger and Anne Korteweg: Tributes in Honor of James H. Marrow: Studies in Late Medieval and Renaissance Painting and Manuscript Illumination . Brepols, 2006
2005Jeffrey F. Hamburger and Anne-Marie Bouché: The Mind’s Eye: Art and Theological Argument in the Medieval West . Princeton University Press, 2005
2002Jeffrey F. Hamburger and Robert Suckale: Die Ottheinrich–Bibel. Kommentar zur Faksimile–Ausgabe der Handschrift Cgm 8010/1.2 der Bayerischen Staatsbibliothek München . Faksimile Verlag, 2002
2002Jeffrey F. Hamburger: St. John the Divine: The Deified Evangelist in Medieval Art and Theology . University of California Press, 2002
1998Jeffrey F. Hamburger: The Visual and the Visionary: Art and Female Spirituality in Late Medieval Germany . Zone Books, 1998
1996Jeffrey F. Hamburger: Nuns as Artists: The Visual Culture of a Medieval Convent . University of California Press, 1996
1990Jeffrey F. Hamburger: The Rothschild Canticles: Art and Mysticism in Flanders and the Rhineland ca. 1300 . Yale University Press, 1990