Sebastian Scholz

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Sebastian Scholz (born October 5, 1962 in Münster ) is a German historian .

Sebastian Scholz studied history and Latin for teaching at the Universities of Münster and Cologne. In 1991 he received his doctorate in Cologne with Odilo Engels and Werner Eck with the thesis Transmigration and Translation. Studies on the bishopric change of bishops from late antiquity to the high Middle Ages . The habilitation took place in 2003 at the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz with the thesis Politics - Self-Understanding - Self-Presentation. The Popes in Carolingian and Ottonian times .

From 1990 to 2007 Scholz was a research assistant at the Inscription Commission of the Academy of Sciences and Literature in Mainz , where he wrote the volumes of inscriptions for the Bergstrasse district (1994), the city of Darmstadt and the Darmstadt-Dieburg and Groß-Gerau districts (1999) as well as the Odenwaldkreis (2005) edited. Since 2007, Scholz has been teaching as the successor to Reinhold Kaiser as Professor of Medieval History at the History Department of the University of Zurich . Scholz is the only professor of early medieval history in Switzerland.

His main areas of work are the history of the Frankish Empire , the history of the papacy in the early and high Middle Ages, medieval and early modern epigraphy , poverty in the early Middle Ages, canonism in the early Middle Ages, and remembrance of the dead in the Middle Ages. In his habilitation, Scholz examined the development and representation of the papal self-image in the Carolingian and Ottonian times (731-1024). In 2011 he edited a volume with Reinhold Kaiser on sources on the history of the Franks and Merovingians . Scholz worked with Rüdiger Fuchs on the volume of inscriptions "The inscriptions of the Hersfeld-Rotenburg district" as part of the inter-academic project "The German Inscriptions". This edition of a total of 356 inscription numbers was published in 2015. Also in 2015 he published an overview of the Franconian Empire under the rule of the Merovingians . Scholz would like to supplement previous work on the Merovingians with "church development, church legislation as well as the entire legal development and its influence on society". The aim of the work is "the bracing of worldly power and the church as well as the church's influence on social development". to grasp more precisely.

Fonts

  • The Merovingians. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 2015, ISBN 978-3-17-022507-7 .
  • together with Reinhold Kaiser : Sources on the history of the Franks and the Merovingians. From the 3rd century to 751. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 2012, ISBN 978-3-17-022008-9 .
  • Politics - self-image - self-expression. The popes in Carolingian and Ottonian times (= historical research. Vol. 26). Steiner, Stuttgart 2006, ISBN 3-515-08933-0 (also: Mainz, Univ., Habil.-Schr., 2003).
  • Transmigration and translation. Studies on the change of bishopric of the bishops from late antiquity to the high Middle Ages (= Cologne historical treatises. Vol. 37). Böhlau, Cologne et al. 1992, ISBN 3-412-08191-4 (At the same time: Cologne, Univ., Diss., 1990/1991).

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Remarks

  1. ↑ Stefan Schima in: Mitteilungen des Institut für Österreichische Geschichtsforschung 117 (2009), pp. 164–168; Christine Kleinjung in: Das Mittelalter 13, 2008, pp. 181–182; Ralf Lützelschwab in: Hessisches Jahrbuch für Landesgeschichte 58, 2008, pp. 269–270.
  2. ↑ Jürgen Strothmann in: Rottenburger Jahrbuch für Kirchengeschichte 36, 2017, pp. 310-312 ( online ).
  3. ↑ Sebastian Scholz: The Merovingians. Stuttgart 2015, p. 9.
personal data
SURNAME Scholz, Sebastian
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian
DATE OF BIRTH 5th October 1962
PLACE OF BIRTH Muenster