Alexander Koller (historian)

Alexander Koller (born December 12, 1960 in Regensburg ) is a German historian .

biography

After attending the humanistic grammar school of the Regensburger Domspatzen , Alexander Koller studied classical and Romance philology as well as history at the University of Munich . After a stay in Dijon , he obtained the title of Magister Artium (MA) in Latin in 1989. Philology. After the state examinations in French, Latin and history, he was awarded a doctorate in Modern History in 1993 with an investigation into early modern peace mediation using the example of the Peace of Vossem (1673). phil. PhD. Since 1993 he has worked at the German Historical Institute in Rome as a consultant for the history of the early modern period. In 1999 the Federal Ministry of Education and Research appointed him as Deputy Director of the DHI Rome . From May 2001 to September 2002 he was acting director of the institute. Between 1993 and 2018 he was responsible for editing the journal Sources and Research from Italian Archives and Libraries . In 2010 he completed his habilitation in modern history at the University of Vienna with a thesis on the relationship between the imperial court and the Roman curia in the epoch of confessionalization (1555–1648). In the summer semester of 2012 he was a visiting professor at the University of Vienna.

Awards

• 2016 honorary professorship at the University of Leipzig for early modern history (focus on south and south-west Europe).
• 2019 Cross of Honor of the Republic of Austria for Science and Art 1st Class.

Fonts

• The mediation of the Peace of Vossem (1673) by the Jülich-Bergisch Vice Chancellor Stratmann, Münster 1995.
• Emperor and Pontiff. Research on the relationship between the imperial court and the Roman curia in the age of confessionalization (1555–1648), Münster 2012.
• as editor: Kurie und Politik, Tübingen 1998.
• as editor with Richard Bösel, Grete Klingenstein: Kaiserhof - Papsthof (16th – 18th centuries), Vienna 2006.
• as editor: The External Relations of the Roman Curia under Paul V. Borghese (1605–1621), Tübingen 2008.
• Nunciature reports from Germany, III. Department: 1572–1585, 9th vol .: Nunciatures of Giovanni Delfino and Bartolomeo Portia (1577–1578), Tübingen 2003.
• Nunciature reports from Germany, III. Department: 1572–1585, 10th vol .: Nunciatures of Orazio Malaspina and Ottavio Santacroce. Interim des Cesare Dell'Arena (1578–1581), Berlin 2012.
• as editor with Irene Fosi: Papato e impero nel Pontificato di Urbano VIII (1623–1644), Città del Vaticano 2013.
• as editor with Susanne Kubersky-Piredda: Identità e rappresentazione. Le chiese nazionali a Roma 1450–1650, Roma 2016.
• as editor with Rubén González Cuerva: A Europe of Courts, a Europe of Factions. Political Groups at Early Modern Centers of Power (1550–1700), Leiden 2017.

Web links

• Biography of Alexander Koller on the DHI Rome website (with a link to the list of publications)
• Bettina Scherbaum: Review: The External Relations of the Roman Curia. Sehepunkte 9 (2009), No. 3 [15. March 2009]
• Tobias Daniels, Bibliotheca Hertziana, Max Planck Institute for Art History Rome: A. Koller: Imperator und Pontifex. Reviewed for H-Soz-Kult, July 10, 2013
• Klaus Unterburger: Review of: Nunciature reports from Germany together with supplementary files. Review. Sehepunkte 13 (2013), No. 9 [15. September 2013]