Christian Lackner (historian)

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Christian Lackner (born March 12, 1960 in Spittal an der Drau ) is an Austrian historian and diplomat .

Christian Lackner studied history and French at the University of Innsbruck and completed his teaching degree in 1983. He received his doctorate in Innsbruck in 1985 . From 1983 to 1986 he completed the 57th training course at the Institute for Austrian Historical Research , where he became a scientific official from 1987. In the 1989/90 winter semester he became a lecturer at the Institute for History at the University of Vienna . His habilitation took place in 2001 at the University of Vienna. Since September 2010 Lackner has been teaching as a professor for historical auxiliary sciences with a focus on the Middle Ages at the University of Vienna. His inaugural lecture dealt with a topic on university documents. Lackner is the owner of one of the very few chairs for historical auxiliary sciences in the German-speaking area. Since 2020 he has been director of the Institute for Austrian Historical Research .

His main areas of work are diplomacy, Austrian history of the high and late Middle Ages, letter research, medieval educational history and library history . Lackner published a critical edition in 1996 on the second oldest surviving account book of Duke Albrecht III. from the years 1392 to 1394. This was the first time that an account book of the Habsburg dukes was critically edited. In his habilitation, Lackner analyzed the council, court offices, chancellery and government practice of the Austrian dukes from the death of Duke Rudolf IV (1365) to the death of his nephew Wilhelm (1406). It is the first coherent structural analysis of the late medieval Habsburg ducal court. In view of the inadequate access to sources, Lackner was able to identify 2,250 original documents for the period from 1365 and 1406 in 70 archives through his own research. With his work, Lackner made an important contribution to the diplomatic and constitutional history of the late medieval empire.

Lackner examined the archive order of the Habsburg house archive in Baden im Aargau , one of the oldest comprehensible archive orders of the state archives. Since 2005 Lackner has been processing the regests of the Dukes of Austria from the House of Habsburg for the period 1365–1395. Lackner gave his inaugural lecture on the privilege of Duke Albrecht III. for the University of Vienna in 1384. After his interpretation of the external (sealing, scribe, layout) and internal (dictation comparison) features, the privilege came about almost exclusively at the instigation of the university and less through the efforts of the ducal court. According to Lackner, one of the university's founding fathers, the theologian Heinrich von Langenstein , edited the text. Lackner had already expressed this opinion in 1997.

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Monographs

  • Possibilities and perspectives of diplomatic research. The privilege of Duke Albrecht III. for the University of Vienna from the year 1384 (= change of staff. Inaugural lectures from the historical and cultural studies faculty of the University of Vienna. Vol. 4). Böhlau, Vienna et al. 2013, ISBN 3-205-78909-1 .
  • Court and rule. Council, chancellery and government of the Austrian dukes (1365–1406) (= communications from the Institute for Austrian Historical Research. Vol. 41). Oldenbourg, Vienna a. a. 2002, ISBN 3-7029-0456-5 (also: Vienna, University, habilitation paper, 2001).

Editorships

  • Modus supplicandi. Between lordly grace and importunitas petentium (= publications by the Institute for Austrian Historical Research. Vol. 72). Böhlau, Vienna 2019, ISBN 3-205-23238-0 .
  • with Claudia Feller: “Manu propria”. From the personal writing of the mighty (13th – 15th centuries) (= publications of the Institute for Austrian Historical Research. Vol. 67). Böhlau, Vienna 2016, ISBN 3-205-20401-8 .

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Remarks

  1. ^ Christian Lackner: Hof und Herrschaft. Council, chancellery and government of the Austrian dukes (1365–1406). Vienna et al. 2002, p. 14.
  2. See the reviews of Franz Fuchs in: Deutsches Archiv für Erforschung des Mittelalters 61 (2005), pp. 648–649. ( Digitized version ); Martin Wagendorfer in: Francia 34 (2007), pp. 347-348 ( online ); Steffen Krieb in: Hessisches Jahrbuch für Landesgeschichte. 54 (2004), pp. 344-345.
  3. ^ Christian Lackner: Archive regulations in the 14th century: On the history of the Habsburg house archive in Baden in Aargau. In: Gustav Pfeiffer (Ed.): Manuscripts, Historiography and Law. Winfried Stelzer on his 60th birthday. Munich 2002, pp. 255-268.
  4. ^ Christian Lackner: Diplomatic comments on the privilege of Duke Albrecht II for the University of Vienna from 1384. In: Mitteilungen des Institut für Österreichische Geschichtsforschung , Vol. 105 (1997), pp. 114–129.