Achim Thomas Hack

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Achim Thomas Hack (born May 4, 1967 in Stuttgart ) is a German historian .

After his community service he studied history and comparative religious studies in Tübingen and Rome . In 1994 the Magister followed. In 1996 he did his doctorate with Harald Zimmermann in Tübingen on the reception ceremony at medieval Pope-Emperor meetings. In his ritual-historical questions, he was particularly influenced by Hubert Cancik and Burkhard Gladigow . From 1998 to 2005 Hack was a research assistant at the University of Regensburg . In 2005 he completed his habilitation there with a 1300-page study on the Codex epistolaris Carolinus . After substituting professorships in Regensburg, Konstanz and Munich (from summer semester 2008 to summer semester 2009), Hack has been teaching as professor for medieval history at the University of Jena since 2010 .

Hack's research focuses in the Middle Ages on papal and imperial history, the history of rituals, the history of religion, letter studies and the reception of the Middle Ages. He also researches the cultural history of disease and the body and asks about mobility on water and on land. Hack published his research results on the age, illness and death of rulers in the early Middle Ages using the Carolingian as an example . In this work, Hack was able to refute the pre-1945 thesis of a hereditary disease of the Carolingians, which should be responsible for the downfall of the dynasty. Hack was also able to refute the thesis that the diseases of the medieval kings were deliberately concealed in the sources.

Fonts

  • From Christ to Odin. A Carolingian is converted (= Jena Medieval Lectures. Vol. 3). Steiner, Stuttgart 2014, ISBN 978-3-515-10661-0 .
  • Gregory the Great and the Disease (= Popes and Papacy. Volume 41). Hiersemann, Stuttgart 2012, ISBN 978-3-7772-1227-2 .
  • Abul Abaz. On the biography of an elephant . Scientific publishing house Bachmann, Badenweiler 2011, ISBN 978-3-940523-12-9 . ( Review )
  • Old Age, Illness, Death, and Reign in the Early Middle Ages. The Carolingian example. Hiersemann, Stuttgart 2009, ISBN 978-3-7772-0908-1 . ( Review ).
  • Codex Carolinus. Papal epistolography in the 8th century . 2 volumes, Hiersemann, Stuttgart 2006, ISBN 978-3-7772-0621-9 . ( Review ).
  • The reception ceremony at medieval Pope-Emperor meetings . Böhlau, Cologne 1999, ISBN 3-412-03398-7 . ( Review )

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Remarks

  1. ↑ See the review by Tina B. Orth – Müller in: Rottenburger Jahrbuch für Kirchengeschichte 28 (2009), pp. 278–279 ( online ).
  2. ↑ See the review by Immo Eberl in: Genealogie. German Journal for Family Studies 31 (2012/2013) pp. 474–476.
  3. ↑ Achim Thomas Hack: Age, Illness, Death and Rule in the Early Middle Ages. The Carolingian example. Stuttgart 2009, p. 403.
personal data
SURNAME Hack, Achim Thomas
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hack, Achim
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian
DATE OF BIRTH May 4th 1967
PLACE OF BIRTH Stuttgart