Klaus Zechiel-Eckes

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Klaus Zechiel-Eckes (born May 12, 1959 in Pforzheim ; † February 23, 2010 in Cologne ) was a German historian . Zechiel-Eckes was one of the most knowledgeable and productive researchers in medieval studies in the fields of codicology and the history of canon law.

Live and act

Klaus Zechiel-Eckes graduated from high school in 1978. From 1979 to 1990 he studied history, Romance studies and Middle Latin philology in Saarbrücken and Freiburg . Zechiel-Eckes was a student of Hubert Mordek in Freiburg . The state examination took place in 1984. The state examination paper was published in 1994 in the journal for Bavarian regional history . In 1990 he received his doctorate in Medieval History in Freiburg with a thesis on the Concordia canonum des Cresconius . In 1998 he completed his habilitation in Freiburg on a subject on Florus von Lyon in the subjects of medieval history and historical auxiliary sciences . This was followed by substitute professorships at the LMU Munich (1999/2000) and the University of Zurich (2002/2003). From the winter semester 2003/04 he taught as the successor to Tilman Struve as professor for the history of the early and high Middle Ages at the University of Cologne .

His main research interests in the area of ​​the early and high Middle Ages were political history, church history and church legal history as well as the intellectual and library history, especially of the Carolingian era , as well as the historical auxiliary sciences, especially codicology . His dissertation was received positively in the professional world, but the few reviews of the work show that medieval studies had little interest in editorial work in the 1990s. Together with Hubert Mordek and Michael Glatthaar, he published the new edition of the Admonitio generalis of Charlemagne from 789. His source- and manuscript-oriented research culminated in the unmasking of Pseudoisidor , a significant forgery of canon law from the 830s. Zechiel-Eckes managed to identify three working manuscripts of the forger and, based on this discovery, make the Corbie monastery as the place of origin and Paschasius Radbertus as the author likely. According to Zechiel-Eckes, the forgery was no longer just a means of struggle for church politics, but “a means of political conflict” against Ludwig the Pious . Zechiel-Eckes saw the forgery as a reaction to the deposition of bishops and the unrest that prevailed in the Franconian Empire from 833 to 835 .

Since 2007 Zechiel-Eckes has been a full member of the Central Management of Monumenta Germaniae Historica and a member of the North Rhine-Westphalian Academy of Sciences . A conference was held at the University of Cologne in February 2013 in memory of Zechiel-Eckes. The contributions gave Karl Ubl and Daniel Ziemann 2015 in an anthology out

Fonts

  • The Concordia canonum of Cresconius. Studies and Edition (= Freiburg contributions to medieval history. Vol. 5). Lang, Frankfurt am Main et al. 1992, ISBN 3-631-44932-1 (also: Freiburg (Breisgau), university, modified dissertation, 1990).
  • Florus of Lyon as a church politician and publicist. Studies on the personality of a Carolingian “intellectual” using the example of the dispute with Amalarius (835–838) and the predestination dispute (851–855) (= sources and research on law in the Middle Ages. Vol. 8). Thorbecke, Stuttgart 1999, ISBN 3-7995-6087-4 (also: Freiburg (Breisgau), university, habilitation paper, 1997/1998).
  • A look into Pseudoisidor's workshop. Studies on the creation process of the false decretals. With an exemplary editorial appendix (pseudo-Julius to the oriental bishops, JK † 196). In: Francia . 1: Middle Ages. Vol. 28, 2001, pp. 37-90, ( digitized version ).
  • On Pseudoisidor's trail. Or: try to lift a thick veil. In: Wilfried Hartmann , Gerhard Schmitz (ed.): Progress through counterfeiting? Origin, shape and effects of the pseudoisidoric forgeries. Contributions to the symposium of the same name at the University of Tübingen on July 27 and 28, 2001 (= Monumenta Germaniae Historica . Studies and Texts. Vol. 31). Hahn, Hannover 2002, ISBN 3-7752-5731-4 , pp. 1–28.
  • Catalog of the early medieval fragments of the University and State Library in Düsseldorf. From the beginning of the eighth to the end of the ninth century (= writings of the University and State Library in Düsseldorf. 34). Reichert, Wiesbaden 2003, ISBN 3-89500-351-4 ( digitized version ).
  • Bookbinders sharpen their knives ...: Medieval manuscripts and documents as cover waste. In: Dietrich Boschung , Hansgerd Hellenkemper (Hrsg.): Cosmos of signs. Typeface and pictorial formula in antiquity and the Middle Ages (= scripts of the teaching and research center for the ancient cultures of the Mediterranean area. Vol. 5). Reichert, Wiesbaden 2007, ISBN 978-3-89500-585-5 , pp. 141-160.
  • Rebel clerics? An unknown canonical-patristic polemic against Bishop Hinkmar von Laon in Cod. Paris, BNF, nouv. acq. lat. 1746 (= Monumenta Germaniae Historica. Studies and Texts. Vol. 49). Hahn, Hannover 2009, ISBN 978-3-7752-5709-1 .
  • Early pseudoisidor reception at Hinkmar von Laon. A fragment of the “signature work” from July 869, which was believed to be lost. In: German Archive for Research into the Middle Ages . Vol. 66, No. 1, 2010, pp. 19-54, ( digitized version ).
  • (published posthumously) forgery as a means of political debate. Ludwig the Pious (814–840) and the genesis of the pseudoisidorical decretals (= North Rhine-Westphalian Academy of Sciences and Arts. Lectures. G. 428). Schöningh, Paderborn et al. 2011, ISBN 978-3-506-77243-5 .
  • (published posthumously) The first decretals. The letter of Pope Siricius to Bishop Himerius of Tarragona from the year 385 (JK 255) (= Monumenta Germaniae Historica. Studies and Texts. Vol. 55). Edited from the estate with additions by Detlev Jasper. Hahn, Hannover 2013, ISBN 978-3-7752-5715-2 .

literature

  • Theo Kölzer : Obituary for Klaus Zechiel-Eckes. In: Yearbook of the North Rhine-Westphalian Academy of Sciences and Arts , 2011, 2011, pp. 134-139.
  • Gerhard Schmitz: Klaus Zechiel-Eckes. In: German Archive for Research into the Middle Ages, Vol. 66.2, 2010, pp. 639–648. ( Digitized version )
  • Karl Ubl, Daniel Ziemann (Ed.): Forgery as a means of politics ?. Pseudoisidor in the light of new research. Commemorative publication for Klaus Zechiel-Eckes (= Monumenta Germaniae Historica, Studies and Texts. Vol. 57). Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 2015, ISBN 978-3-447-10335-0

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Remarks

  1. ^ Klaus Zechiel-Eckes: New aspects on the history of Bishop Hermann of Augsburg (1096–1133). The Collectio Augustana, a legal collection from the late period of the investiture dispute. In Zeitschrift für Bayerische Landesgeschichte 57 (1994), pp. 21-44 ( digitized version ).
  2. ^ Wilfried Hartmann: Klaus Zechiel-Eckes as a researcher of canon law. In: Karl Ubl, Daniel Ziemann (Ed.): Counterfeiting as a means of politics? Pseudoisidor in the light of new research. Commemorative letter for Klaus Zechiel-Eckes. Wiesbaden 2015, pp. 243–256, here: p. 244.
  3. ^ Klaus Zechiel-Eckes: Forgery as a means of political conflict. Louis the Pious (814-840) and the genesis of the pseudoisidoric decretals. Paderborn 2011.
  4. ↑ Klaus Zechiel-Eckes: On Pseudoisidor's Track. Or: try to lift a thick veil. In: Wilfried Hartmann, Gerhard Schmitz (ed.): Progress through counterfeiting? Origin, shape and effects of the pseudoisidoric forgeries. Contributions to the symposium of the same name at the University of Tübingen on July 27 and 28, 2001. Hannover 2002, pp. 1–28, here: pp. 16–24.
  5. ↑ Cf. the review by Gregor Patt in: Nassauische Annalen 127 (2016), pp. 394–395.
personal data
SURNAME Zechiel-Eckes, Klaus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian and medievalist
DATE OF BIRTH May 12, 1959
PLACE OF BIRTH Pforzheim
DATE OF DEATH February 23, 2010
Place of death Cologne