Arno Mentzel-Reuters

Arno Mentzel-Reuters

Arno Mentzel-Reuters (born November 19, 1959 in Setterich near Aachen ) is a German old Germanist and book scholar .

Career

Mentzel-Reuters attended the Dalton-Gymnasium in Alsdorf . After graduating from high school, he studied German , philosophy and history at RWTH Aachen University and the Technical University of Berlin . In 1988 he was awarded a Dr. phil. PhD . After training for the higher library service, he devoted himself to cataloging manuscripts in Aachen and Tübingen from 1988 onwards . He has headed the library since 1994, and since 2004 also the archive of the Monumenta Germaniae Historica (MGH).

In 1999 he completed his habilitation in book studies at the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen . In 2005 he completed his habilitation in the field of German language and literature of the Middle Ages at the University of Augsburg . In 2010 she appointed him associate professor .

From 2004 to 2010 he headed the digitization project of all editions of the MGH, which was funded by the German Research Foundation. With Jürgen Sarnowsky he publishes the supplements to the Prussian document book on behalf of the Historical Commission for East and West Prussian State Research .

See also : German literature in the Middle Ages

Memberships

• Member of the International Historical Commission for Research on the Teutonic Order (2004)
• Member of the board of the Historical Commission for East and West Prussian State Research , chairman from 2010 to 2019
• Full member of the Munich Center for Edition Studies

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Dissertation: Vröude. Image of Arthur, Fortuna and Grail conception in the Crône des Heinrich von dem Türlin as a defense of the courtly ideal of life . Lang, Frankfurt am Main 1989 (European University Theses. Series 1; 11)
2. ↑ Catalogus and Centuries: interdisciplinary studies on Matthias Flacius and the Magdeburg Centuries , DNB 988962004
3. ↑ Gerd Brinkhus, A. Menzel Reuters: manuscript catalogs of Tübingen University Library , Vol. 1: The Latin manuscripts, Part 2 online version
4. ↑ Arno Mentzel-Reuters (MGH)
5. ^ Habilitation thesis: Arma spiritualia. Libraries, books and education in the Teutonic Order
6. ^ University of Augsburg
7. ↑ MGH – BSB – DFG
8. ↑ MZE

Web links

• Literature by and about Arno Mentzel-Reuters in the catalog of the German National Library
• List of publications (MGH)
• Directory of Germanists (DAAD, German Association of Germanists)
• Arno Mentzel-Reuters in WorldCat
• Arno Mentzel-Reuters on GoogleBooks