Adelheid Krah

Adelheid Krah (* before 1983 in Kaufbeuren ) is a German historian . She works as a university lecturer and senior lecturer at the University of Vienna .

Adelheid Krah studied philosophy, political science, German literature and history including historical auxiliary sciences and a focus on Bavarian regional history at the University of Munich . There she received her doctorate in 1983 with a thesis supervised by Eduard Hlawitschka on the deposition procedures of sub-kings, dukes, margraves and bishops in the Carolingian Empire and its successor states. She then worked between 1984 and 1989 as a research assistant and temporary academic advisor at the Leopold Wenger Institute for Legal History at the University of Munich and then between 1989 and 1993 as a research assistant and temporary academic advisor at the Institute for Medieval History, Educational and Research University history and historical auxiliary sciences. From 1993 to 1998 she was an Excellence Scholarship holder at the University of Munich for the advancement of women and a lecturer in medieval history and subject didactics. In the summer she completed a fellowship at the UNESCO International Center for Writers and Translators in Visby , Sweden , and between 1998 and 2002 she was a lecturer at the University of Munich and at the University of Vienna at the Institute for History. In 2002, Krah qualified as a professor at the University of Vienna and then worked from 2002 to 2010 as a university lecturer at the Institute for History at the University of Vienna and as a research assistant at the Bavarian Main State Archives in the DFG project area. She has been Senior Lecturer for Medieval History and E-Learning and Member of the Executive Board of the International Center for Archival Research (ICARUS) since 2010 . In the summer of 2012 she was a fellowship at the DHI Paris.

The main research interests of Krah are in the areas of German constitutional history of the high and late Middle Ages, French constitutional and regional history in which she also wrote her habilitation thesis, in the European social and cultural history of the early Middle Ages, in the European regional history, the history of border areas and the History of the Baltic Sea Region and Migration and Remote Ownership Management. Krah worked on projects for the digital indexing of the "Freising official books" and the spiritual documents of the German-speaking area.

Fonts (selection)

Monographs

• Deposition proceedings as a reflection of royal power. Investigations into the balance of power between royalty and nobility in the Carolingian Empire and its successor states (= investigations into German state and legal history. NF 26). Scientia-Verlag, Aalen 1987, ISBN 3-511-02846-9 . (At the same time: Munich, University, dissertation, 1983)
• Lex episcoporum et ceteris clericorum. Early ecclesiastical texts from Northern Italy in a manuscript in the Leipzig University Library (= treatises of the Saxon Academy of Sciences in Leipzig, Philological-Historical Class. Vol. 73.5). Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1993, ISBN 3-05-002458-5 .
• The emergence of the “potestas regia” in western France during the first years of the reign of Emperor Charles II (840–877). Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-05-003565-X .

Editorships

• The virtual document landscape of the Diocese of Passau. Lectures of the conference from 16./17. September 2010 in Passau (= publications of the Institute for Cultural Area Research in Eastern Bavaria and the neighboring regions of the University of Passau. Vol. 62). Klinger, Passau 2011, ISBN 978-3-86328-108-3 .

Web links

• Page from Adelheid Krah at the Institute for History at the University of Vienna
• Publications by Adelheid Krah in the Opac of the Regesta Imperii