Werner Goez

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Werner Goez (born July 13, 1929 in Frankfurt am Main , † July 13, 2003 in Sterzing ) was a German historian .

Werner Goez studied history, art history, musicology and German literature in Frankfurt from 1948. His main academic teacher was Paul Kirn . In 1954 he received his doctorate under Kirn with a study of intellectual history and political theories in the Middle Ages and in the early modern period. In 1960 he completed his habilitation in Frankfurt with a legal and constitutional history paper on the compulsory loan . Since 1964 he was professor of history, first in Würzburg , then in Erlangen , where he held the chair for medieval history and historical auxiliary sciences from 1969 to 1997. His scientific assistant was Dieter Hägermann from 1967 to 1974 . From 1965 to 1972 Goez was a member of the school committee of the West German Rectors' Conference and from 1972 to 1988 chairman of the library committee of the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg. He died unexpectedly in July 2003 while on a trip to Italy in Sterzing.

In his scientific work he mainly dealt with the period of the High Middle Ages. His work on the political theory of the Translatio imperii (1958) and on the feudal principle of mandatory lending (1962) became fundamental. Goez was considered a connoisseur of the medieval history of Italy, especially Tuscany and the early humanists. His paperback published in 1975 on Italy from the sixth to the sixteenth century saw several editions. He also excelled scientifically in the subject areas of the investiture controversy and reform papacy , especially on Pope Gregory VII . His book Lebensbilder aus dem Mittelalter (1998), published in 1998, contains thirty-four brief biographical sketches. For the critical edition of all documents and letters from Margravine Mathilde von Canossa , he and his wife Elke Goez have been collecting material from more than ninety archives and libraries since 1986 . The edition was published in 1998 by the Monumenta Germaniae Historica and comprises 139 documents that can be regarded as genuine as well as 15 forgeries and 115 otherwise verifiable or accessible deperdita .

Goez was awarded the Federal Cross of Merit on Ribbon and the Federal Cross of Merit 1st Class . He also received the Bavarian Order of Merit and was Cavaliere ufficiale of the Italian Order of Merit as well as the first holder of the Arco for services to the cultural relations between Italy and the Federal Republic of Germany.

Fonts (selection)

  • Translatio Imperii. A contribution to the history of historical thought and political theories in the Middle Ages and in the early modern period. Mohr, Tübingen 1958.
  • The obligation to borrow. An investigation into the history of the German feudal law. Mohr, Tübingen 1962 (at the same time: Frankfurt / M., University, habilitation thesis, 1962).
  • Shaping the High Middle Ages - personal history essays in a general historical context . Scientific Book Society, Darmstadt 1983, ISBN 3-534-09078-0
  • Fundamentals of the history of Italy in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance (= Fundamentals. Vol. 27). Scientific Book Society, Darmstadt 1984, ISBN 3-534-06403-8 .
  • Emilia Romagna - Northern Italian art cities between the Po, Apennines and Adriatic . DuMont Buchverlag, Cologne 1989, ISBN 3-7701-1972-X
  • Church reform and investiture dispute. 910–1122 (= Kohlhammer-Urban pocket books. Vol. 462). Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 2008, ISBN 978-3-17-020481-2 .

literature

  • Rudolf Schieffer : On the Via Francigena under expert guidance. He opened the eyes of thousands to the sublime witnesses of our past: On the death of the medievalist Werner Goez. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , July 22, 2003, No. 167, p. 33.

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Remarks

  1. ↑ See the reviews of Johannes Bärmann in: Zeitschrift der Savigny-Stiftung für Rechtsgeschichte. German Department 80 (1963), pp. 412-418; Paul Kläui in: Swiss Journal for History. 12 (1962), pp. 554-555 ( online ); Rolf Sprandel in: Vierteljahrschrift für Sozial- und Wirtschaftsgeschichte 50 (1963), pp. 231–232; Bruno Meyer in: Historische Zeitschrift 200 (1965) pp. 389–391.
  2. ↑ See the reviews by Jörg Ulrich in: Zeitschrift für Kirchengeschichte . 111 (2000), pp. 119-120; Wilhelm Kurz in: Sources and research from Italian archives and libraries 80 (2000), pp. 729–730 ( digitized version ); Bettina Pferschy-Maleczek in: Mitteilungen des Institut für Österreichische Geschichtsforschung 109 (2001), pp. 206–207; Thomas N. Bisson in: Speculum 76 (2001), pp. 456-458; Frank Theisen in: Journal of the Savigny Foundation for Legal History, German Department 119 (2002), pp. 581–585; Frank Theisen in: Ius Commune 27 (2000), pp. 454-458; Tilman Struve in: Historische Zeitschrift 271 (2000), pp. 438-439; Jörg Busch in: Zeitschrift für die Geschichte des Oberrheins 148 (2000), pp. 437–438; Antonella Ghignoli in: Archivio Storico Italiano 157 (1999), pp. 838-840; Gert Haendler in: Theologische Literaturzeitung 2001 No. 9, Sp. 945–946 ( online ); Paolo Golinelli in: Cahiers de Civilization Médiévale 45 (2002), pp. 85-89 ( online ); Paolo Golinelli: A proposito di nuove edizioni di documenti matildici e canossani. In: Nuova Rivista Storica 84 (2000), pp. 661-672.
personal data
SURNAME Goez, Werner
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian
DATE OF BIRTH July 13, 1929
PLACE OF BIRTH Frankfurt am Main
DATE OF DEATH July 13, 2003
Place of death Sterzing