Anton Scharer

Anton Scharer (born March 8, 1954 in Vienna ) is an Austrian historian . He is an associate professor for medieval history at the Institute for History at the University of Vienna .

Education and academic career

Scharer attended elementary school and grammar school in Vienna between 1960 and 1972 and passed his Matura in 1972. He began studying history and English at the University of Vienna in 1972 and completed his history studies in July 1978 with a doctorate in philosophy.

Between January 1977 and July 1978 he worked as a study assistant and was then from July to August 1978 contract assistant. He eventually became a university assistant at the Institute for History at the University of Vienna and at the Institute for Austrian Historical Research and completed his habilitation on January 29, 1999 for the history of the Middle Ages and auxiliary historical sciences. On March 1 of the same year he became an associate professor.

In 1984 he received the Böhlau Prize from the Austrian Academy of Sciences and was Visiting Fellow at All Souls College in Oxford in 1987/88 and 2004 . His main research interests are in the (early) Middle Ages, the history of England and diplomacy.

Since 1977, Anton Scharer and Georg Scheibelreiter have been responsible for the editorial support of the notifications of the Institute for Austrian Historical Research (MIÖG). In addition to his journal articles and monographs, he also published articles in the Reallexikon der Germanischen Altertumskunde .

Works

• The Anglo-Saxon royal document in the 7th and 8th centuries (publications by the Institute for Austrian Historical Research 26). Vienna, Böhlau 1982
• Initulation III. Latin titles and titles of rulers from the 7th to the 13th century (MIÖG Erg.-Bd. 29, 1988, publisher together with Herwig Wolfram )
• Historiography in the early Middle Ages (publications by the Institute for Austrian Historical Research 32). Vienna 1994 (publisher together with Georg Scheibelreiter)
• Domination and representation. Studies on the court culture of King Alfred the Great (MIÖG Erg.-Bd. 36,). Vienna, Munich 2000
• Changing perspectives on England and the continent in the early Middle Ages. Aldershot [u. a.] 2014

Web links

• Biography of Anton Scharer at the Institute for History at the University of Vienna
• Publications by Anton Scharer in the Opac of the Regesta Imperii