Ernst Pitz

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Ernst Pitz (born March 3, 1928 in Hamburg ; † January 3, 2009 ) was a German Medievalist .

Ernst Pitz studied history, ancient languages ​​and literature at the University of Hamburg . His most important academic teacher was Hermann Aubin . Pitz received his doctorate in 1953 at the historical seminar in Hamburg with Aubin and Paul Johansen on the written administration of the imperial city of Lübeck. In 1956 he passed the examination for the higher archive service in Marburg and then entered the archive service at the state archives in Wolfenbüttel and Hanover. In 1967 he became a private lecturer and in 1968 he was seconded to the German Historical Institute in Rome, where he wrote the volume on Pope Calixt III for the Germanicum Repertory . which was published in 1989. In 1972, Pitz was appointed to the Technical University of Berlin at the same time as Werner Dahlheim , which transformed the previously sole chair for modern history into a history institute covering all epochs. Pitz himself took over the professorship for medieval history. In 1996 he retired. His main research interests included the city history of the late Middle Ages and the history of the Hanseatic League , as well as diplomacy and medieval legal and constitutional history . Since 1975 he has been a member of the board of the Hanseatic History Association .

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  • Writing and filing of the city administration in the late Middle Ages. Cologne - Nuremberg - Lübeck. Contribution to comparative urban research and late medieval records. Published by Paul Neubner, Cologne 1959 (= messages from the city archive of Cologne. Vol. 45, ZDB -ID 206141-7 ).
  • The customs tariffs of the city of Hamburg. Franz Steiner Verlag, Wiesbaden 1961 (= German trade files of the Middle Ages and the modern times , 9 = German customs tariffs of the Middle Ages and the modern times , vol. 2).
  • with Peter Baumgart : The statutes of the University of Helmstedt (= publications of the Lower Saxony archive administration. Vol. 15). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 1963.
  • Regional culture technology, mine sheath and surveying in the Duchy of Braunschweig until the end of the 18th century (= publications by the Lower Saxony archive administration. Vol. 23). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 1967.
  • A Lower German chamber court process from 1525. Contribution to the problem of the legal and economic history evaluation of the Reich Chamber Court files (= publications of the Lower Saxony archive administration. Vol. 28). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 1969.
  • Economic and social history of Germany in the Middle Ages (= scientific paperbacks. Social and economic history. Vol. 15). Steiner, Wiesbaden 1979, ISBN 3-515-03058-1 .
  • Europe in the Early and High Middle Ages (= History Study Book. Vol. 3). Klett-Cotta, Stuttgart 1982, ISBN 3-12-915630-5 .
  • The fall of the Middle Ages. The recording of the historical foundations of Europe in the political-historical literature of the 16th to 18th centuries (= historical research. Vol. 35). Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1987, ISBN 3-428-06303-1 .
  • Papal Rescripts in the Early Middle Ages. Diplomatic and legal history studies on the corpus of letters from Gregory the Great (= contributions to the history and source studies of the Middle Ages. Vol. 14). Thorbecke, Sigmaringen 1990, ISBN 3-7995-5714-8 .
  • Life in the Middle Ages. A reader. = Enjoy the story. Life in the Middle Ages (= Series Piper. Vol. 1166). Piper, Munich et al. 1990, ISBN 3-4921-1166-1 .
  • Unification of citizens and towns. Studies on the constitutional history of the Hanseatic cities and the German Hanseatic League (= sources and representations on Hanseatic history, New Series. Vol. 52). Böhlau, Cologne et al. 2001, ISBN 3-412-11500-2 .
  • Greco-Roman ecumenism and the three cultures of the Middle Ages. History of the Mediterranean part of the world between the Atlantic and Indian Oceans 270–812 (= Europe in the Middle Ages. Vol. 3). Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-05-003564-1 .
  • Constitutional doctrine and introduction to the German constitutional history of the Middle Ages (= writings on constitutional history. Vol. 75). Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2006, ISBN 3-428-11985-1 .

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SURNAME Pitz, Ernst
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian
DATE OF BIRTH March 3, 1928
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH January 3, 2009