Bernhard Jussen

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Bernhard Jussen (born May 24, 1959 in Geilenkirchen ) is a German historian .

Bernhard Jussen studied history, philosophy and Catholic theology at the universities in Munich and Münster . In Münster, among other things, he heard lectures from Arnold Angenendt . He received his doctorate from the University of Münster in 1988 with a topic on sponsorship and adoption in the early Middle Ages. The habilitation with a thesis on explorations of the semantics of the medieval culture of penance arose in 1999 from the project “Social Groups in Society in the Middle Ages” under the direction of Otto Gerhard Oexle at the Max Planck Institute for History . From 2000 to 2001 he was a substitute professor for Medieval History at the TU Dresden. From 1988 to 2001 he was a research fellow at the Max Planck Institute for History. In 2001 he became Professor of Medieval History at Bielefeld University . In the summer semester of 2008, Jussen accepted an offer as professor for medieval history at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main . Jussen is a member of the Board of Trustees of the Hanne Darboven Foundation .

His research focuses on historical semantics, historical political research, kinship research, collective visual knowledge and historical imagination in modern times as well as in the artistic production of history. In 2007 he received the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize of the German Research Foundation . In 2016 he was elected to the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences .

Fonts

Monographs

  • The Franks. History, society, culture (= Beck series. Vol. 2799). CH Beck, Munich 2014, ISBN 978-3-406-66181-5 .
  • The widow's name. Research into the semantics of the medieval culture of penance (= publications of the Max Planck Institute for History. Vol. 158). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2000, ISBN 3-525-35474-6 (At the same time: Göttingen, Universität, habilitation paper, 1999).
  • Sponsorship and adoption in the early Middle Ages. Artificial relationship as a social practice (= publications of the Max Planck Institute for History. Vol. 98). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 1991, ISBN 3-525-35635-8 (in English: Spiritual Kinship as Social Practice. Godparenthood and Adoption in the Early Middle Ages. Revised and expanded english edition. University of Delaware Press et al., Newark DE et al 2000, ISBN 0-87413-632-6 ).

Editorships

  • with Stefan Willer and Sigrid Weigel: Erbe. Transmission concepts between nature and culture (= Suhrkamp-Taschenbuch Wissenschaft. Stw. 2052). Suhrkamp, ​​Berlin 2013, ISBN 978-3-518-29652-3 .
  • The power of the king. Rule in Europe from the early Middle Ages to modern times. CH Beck, Munich 2005, ISBN 3-406-53230-6 .
  • Signal - Christian Boltanski (= From the artistic production of the story. Vol. 5). Wallstein-Verlag, Göttingen 2004, ISBN 3-89244-653-9 .
  • Ulrike Grossarth - Distant purposes (= From the artistic production of the story. Vol. 4). Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, Cologne 2003, ISBN 3-88375-749-7 .
  • together with Gadi Algazi and Valentin Groebner : Negotiating the Gift. Pre-Modern Figurations of Exchange (= publications of the Max Planck Institute for History. Vol. 188). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2003, ISBN 3-525-35186-0 .
  • Ordering Medieval Society. Perspectives on Intellectual and Practical Modes of Shaping Social Relations. University of Pennsylvania Press, Philadelphia PA 2001, ISBN 0-8122-3561-4 .
  • Hanne Darboven - writing time (= From the artistic production of history. Vol. 3 = Art History Library. Vol. 15). Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, Cologne 2000, ISBN 3-88375-398-X .

Web links

Remarks

  1. ^ Bernhard Jussen: "Occident" - "Latin Europe" - "Provincializing Europe". Remarks on post-Roman Europe between old and new interpretation patterns. In: Dirk Ansorge (ed.): Pluralist identity. Observations on the origin and future of Europe. Darmstadt 2016, pp. 24–34, here: p. 31f.
  2. ^ Gisela Lerch: Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences elects five new members. Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities, press release from June 10, 2016 from the Science Information Service (idw-online.de), accessed on June 10, 2016.
personal data
SURNAME Jussen, Bernhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian
DATE OF BIRTH May 24, 1959
PLACE OF BIRTH Geilenkirchen