Andreas Meyer (historian)

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Andreas Meyer (born December 19, 1955 in Zurich ; † February 6, 2017 ) was a Swiss historian .

Meyer taught from the summer semester of 2001 until his death in 2017 as a professor of medieval history and historical auxiliary sciences at the Philipps University of Marburg . Meyer was considered to be one of the best experts on the papal chancellery of the late Middle Ages. The new edition of the Regule Cancellarie is considered to be his most important research work .

Life

The son of German studies Kurt Meyer put the Matura in Aargau Suhr from. He studied history and literature at the University of Zurich , initially with the aim of becoming a school teacher. After passing his exams, however, he stayed at the university. He became Ludwig Schmugge's assistant . He received his doctorate in Zurich in 1984 with a thesis supervised by Schmugge on the filling and care of clergy in Zurich by the papal curia during the late Middle Ages. He also completed his habilitation in Zurich in 1993 with a thesis on notarial instruments . Meyer was an assistant at the Universities of Zurich and Bern . From 1989 to 1996 he did a research stay at the Istituto Svizzero di Roma and at the German Historical Institute in Rome (DHI). There he compiled Italian archives that were difficult to access. The stay in Italy left a lasting impression on him and his further research. The results of his work in Italy led to his habilitation thesis on the notary's office in early and high medieval Lucca . From October 1993 to September 1994 he was visiting professor at the DHI in Rome. There were also professorships in Zurich, Tübingen and Bern. From July 1998 to February 2001 he was an assistant professor at the University of Zurich.

Since March 2001 he has been the successor of Hans K. Schulze as full professor for medieval history and historical auxiliary sciences at the Philipps University of Marburg. Until his death he supervised 15 dissertations. At the same time he was in charge of the photo archive of older original documents up to 1250 and made lasting contributions to preserving and digitizing them. Under Meyer's direction, the collection was converted into a database that can be used on the Internet. As an academic teacher, he regularly went on excursions to Rome, Bologna , Lucca, Pisa , Venice , Apulia and his homeland in Switzerland. Meyer was involved in the commission of the Grimm Prize , in the Middle Ages Center and the Middle Ages Prize , and as chairman of the senior college.

Meyer died of pancreatic cancer in February 2017 . He was buried in the Aarau city ​​cemetery.

Research priorities

His research focused on Italian and German notaries, late medieval church history, especially benefices , everyday history, papal chancellery rules, Lucche town history, the cult of saints in the Middle Ages, long-distance trade in the late Middle Ages and the history of hospitals.

In his dissertation Meyer dealt with the complaints about the abuses of the papal granting of benefices in the late Middle Ages and wanted to use the well-documented sources of the Zurich Frau- und Großmünster as an example to show how the "mechanism of granting benefices" actually worked. Since Leo Santifaller's dissertation on the Brixen cathedral chapter from 1919, the subject of the composition of the cathedral and collegiate churches of the medieval empire has not been investigated in such depth. The work was recognized by Hans Conrad Peyer on January 27, 1987 in the “ Neue Zürcher Zeitung ” as “an important, reliable basic work for the further elucidation of our late medieval history in its European interrelations”. His work was pioneering. In the following years, further dissertations on federal collegiate churches were published at the University of Zurich, which continued Meyer's approach.

His habilitation dealt with the Italian notary's office in the early and high Middle Ages. He continued his research on the notary's office with the work of the Lucche notary, Ser Ciabatto. In 2005 he published his imbreviatures , which are among the earliest notarial registers, in a volume for the years 1222 to 1232. His main work is the new edition of the Regule Cancellarie . For this new edition he was able to track down over 180 manuscripts with office rules in a wide variety of archives and libraries. In his last years he devoted himself to the late medieval papal chancellery regulations. Meyer published a commemorative publication for Hans K. Schulze together with Sebastian Müller and Thomas Wozniak . This was intended to celebrate both the 50th anniversary of the doctorate as well as Schulze's 80th birthday in autumn 2012. On this occasion, a ceremony took place on October 8, 2012 in the Hessian State Archives in Marburg . The anthology published in 2014 contains contributions by 15 authors who deal with Schulze's research on various topics.

Meyer had been a member of the Commission Internationale de Diplomatique since 2008 . Together with Irmgard Fees, he took over the editing of the Archives for Diplomatics in 2015 with Volume 61 .

Fonts

A list of publications appeared in: Theo Kölzer : Obituary Andreas Meyer (1955–2017). In: Archives for Diplomatics, History of Writing , Seal and Heraldry 63 (2017) pp. XI – XXIV, here: pp. XV. – XXIV.

  • Felix et inclitus notarius. Studies on the Italian notary's office from the 7th to the 13th century (= library of the German Historical Institute in Rome. Vol. 92). Niemeyer, Tübingen 2000, ISBN 3-484-82092-6 .
  • Manducator from Lucca. An unknown canonist in the early 13th century. In: Sources and research from Italian archives and libraries . Vol. 76, 1996, pp. 94-124 ( digitized version )
  • Late medieval charity law in the field of tension between the papal curia and the ordinary collature: research approaches and open questions. In: Stanley A. Chodorow (Ed.): Proceedings of the eighth international congress of medieval canon law (= Monumenta iuris canonici. Series C: Subsidia. Vol. 9). Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Città del Vaticano 1992, ISBN 88-210-0634-4 , pp. 247-262.
  • The Vienna Concordat of 1448 - a successful reform of the late Middle Ages. In: Sources and research from Italian archives and libraries. Vol. 66, 1986, pp. 108–152 ( digitized version )

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Remarks

  1. ^ Andreas Meyer: Zurich and Rome. Ordinary collation and papal provisions at the Frau- und Grossmünster 1316–1523. Tuebingen 1986.
  2. ↑ Dissertation projects
  3. ^ Theo Kölzer: Obituary by Andreas Meyer (1955–2017). In: Archives for Diplomatics 63, 2017, pp. XI – XXIV, here: p. XI.
  4. ^ Ludwig Schmugge: Andreas Meyer (1955-2017). In: Sources and research from Italian archives and libraries 98, 2018, pp. 459–462, here: p. 459 ( online ).
  5. ↑ Family obituaries: Neue Zürcher Zeitung of February 14, 2017, p. 18. ( online ) and Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung of February 15, 2017, p. 13 ( online )
  6. ^ Andreas Meyer: Zurich and Rome. Ordinary collation and papal provisions at the Frau- und Großmünster 1316–1523. Tübingen 1986, p. 6. Cf. the reviews of Brigide Schwarz in: Zeitschrift der Savigny-Stiftung für Rechtsgeschichte, Canonical Department 75, 1989, pp. 447–448; Michael Reimann in: Sources and research from Italian archives and libraries 68, 1988, pp. 588–589 ( digitized version ); Rudolf Reinhardt in: Zeitschrift für Kirchengeschichte 101, 1990, pp. 110–111.
  7. ^ Ludwig Schmugge: Andreas Meyer (1955-2017). In: Sources and research from Italian archives and libraries 98, 2018, pp. 459–462, here: pp. 459 f. ( online ). Martin Gabathuler: The canons at the Grossmünster and Fraumünster in Zurich. A prosopography from the beginning to 1316. Bern et al. 1998.
  8. ↑ See the reviews by Claude Jeay in: Bibliothèque de l'École des chartes 160, 2002, pp. 315–318; Thomas Vogtherr in: Das Mittelalter 7, 2002, p. 225 f .; Benoît-Michel Tock in: Francia 29/1 (2001), pp. 382-384 ( online ).
  9. ↑ See on this new edition Andreas Meyer: The planned new edition of the late medieval papal chancellery rules. In: Martin Bertram (ed.): Stagnation or advanced training? Aspects of general canon law in the 14th and 15th centuries. Tübingen 2005, pp. 117-131; Andreas Meyer: Emil von Ottenthal revisited: On the way to an expanded new edition of the late medieval Regulae cancellariae apostolicae. In: Journal of the Savigny Foundation for Legal History. Canonical Department 122, 2005, pp. 218–236.
  10. ↑ Thomas Wozniak, Sebastian Müller and Andreas Meyer (eds.): Königswege. Festschrift for Hans K. Schulze on his 80th birthday and 50th anniversary of his doctorate. Leipzig 2014.
personal data
SURNAME Meyer, Andreas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss historian
DATE OF BIRTH December 19, 1955
PLACE OF BIRTH Zurich
DATE OF DEATH February 6, 2017