Ludwig Schmugge

Born in Berlin, Schmugge completed his dissertation on John of Jandun in 1964 in Paris with the help of a six-month scholarship from the Commission for the Study of the History of Franco-German Relations.

From 1979 until his retirement in 2004, Schmugge taught as a full professor for medieval history at the University of Zurich.

[1] From 2004 to 2008 Schmugge was chairman of the scientific advisory board of the German Historical Institute in Rome.

His main areas of research are constitutional, ecclesiastical and social history of the High and Late Middle Ages as well as Canon Law.

With his dissertation he pursued the goal of compiling and rearranging the scarce sources on the life history of Johannes, of extracting from his works the social-theoretical ideas and then comparing them with those of Marsilius of Padua.