Werminghoff, Albert

Historian

born: 03.08.1869 in Wiesbaden

died: 02.02.1923 in Halle an der Saale

Werminghoff, the son of a Wiesbaden hotelier, studied classical philology and history in Freiburg and Leipzig, receiving his doctorate in 1893. In 1894, he passed the senior teacher's examination and received a teaching qualification for Latin, Greek and history.

After a traineeship at the Generallandesarchiv in Karlsruhe, he joined the Leges department of the Monumenta Germaniae Historica (MGH) in Berlin in 1896. He became known as a diplomat (document researcher) and church historian through the publication of the Concilia. In February 1902, he habilitated at the University of Greifswald with a thesis on the constitutional history of the church in the Middle Ages. He became a private lecturer there and was awarded the title of professor in 1905. In the winter semester of 1907/08, he was appointed to a chair for medieval and modern history in Königsberg.

In 1913, he moved to Halle, where he devoted himself to the late Middle Ages. In 1921, the Protestant Theological Faculty of the Albertus University in Königsberg awarded him an honorary doctorate. In 1922, he received a call to Leipzig. However, he died before he could take up this post.