Dieter Berg

This article describes the German historian. For the German boxer see Dieter Berg (Boxer) .

Dieter Berg (born July 22, 1944 in Prussian Holland / East Prussia ) is a German historian who deals with the history of the Middle Ages .

Life

Dieter Berg studied history and German in Cologne , Göttingen and Bochum for a higher teaching post. From 1969 to 1983 he was a research assistant in Bochum, where he received his doctorate in 1973 with a thesis suggested and supervised by Franz-Josef Schmale . 1981 followed the habilitation in Bochum. In the following years he was visiting professor at several universities, including Heidelberg . From 1989 he was C-4 professor at the University of Hanover at the historical seminar, where he retired in 2009.

Berg's research interests cover several areas: In addition to the general history of the Holy Roman Empire in the Middle Ages, but above all in the High and Late Middle Ages and especially the Hohenstaufen , he mainly deals with the history of foreign relations in the Middle Ages. England's relations with the continent in particular were repeatedly the subject of his scientific investigations. With his work England and the Continent and Germany and its Neighbors , Berg gave important impulses, for example on the importance of “foreign policy”, which some historians do not consider to be given for the time of the Middle Ages. In 2007 he presented a standard German work on the English ruler Richard the Lionheart .

In 2013 Berg's biography of King Henry VIII of England appeared , which was positively received by research, and in 2016 an overview of the House of Tudor was published . In both works Berg combined the description of political history with structural-historical aspects and embedded this in the context of European history.

Furthermore, the medieval educational and cultural history (such as the universities) as well as the church and order history, especially the mendicant orders , form the focus of his research. Berg also deals with the history of science in the 19th and 20th centuries and dealt intensively with the history of the Jews . He worked for almost a decade at the Institutum Judaicum Delitzschianum and was director of the Institute for Franciscan History in Münster until the end of 2006 .

Fonts

Monographs

• England and the continent. Studies on the foreign policy of the Anglo-Norman kings in the 11th and 12th centuries. Winkler, Bochum 1987, ISBN 3-924517-18-5 .
• Germany and its neighbors 1200–1500 (= Encyclopedia of German History . 40). Oldenbourg, Munich 1997, ISBN 3-486-55707-6 .
• Poverty and history. Studies on the history of the mendicant orders in the High and Late Middle Ages (= Saxonia Franciscana. 11). Butzon and Bercker, Kevelaer 2001, ISBN 3-7666-2074-6 (contains 13 articles from the years 1978-2001).
• The Anjou Plantagenets. The English kings in Europe in the Middle Ages (1100–1400) (= Kohlhammer-Urban pocket books. 476 (recte 577)). Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 2003, ISBN 3-17-014488-X ( Alois Gerlich : Review. In: Journal of the Savigny Foundation for Legal History . German Department. Vol. 122, 2005, pp. 519-522).
• Richard the Lionheart. Scientific Book Society, Darmstadt 2007, ISBN 978-3-534-14511-9 .
• Henry VIII of England. Life - domination - effect (= Kohlhammer-Urban-Taschenbücher. 736). Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 2013, ISBN 978-3-17-021900-7 .
• The Tudors. England and the Continent in the 16th Century. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 2016, ISBN 978-3-17-025670-5 .
• Oliver Cromwell: England and Europe in the 17th Century. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 2019, ISBN 978-3-170-33160-0 .

Editorships

• Citizens, mendicants and bishops in Halberstadt. Studies on the history of the city, the mendicants and the diocese from the Middle Ages to the early modern period (= Saxonia Franciscana. 9). Dietrich-Coelde, Werl 1997, ISBN 3-87163-224-4 .
• Traces of Franciscan history. Chronological outline of the history of the Saxon Franciscan provinces from their beginnings to the present (= Saxonia Franciscana. Sonderbd.). Dietrich-Coelde, Werl 1999, ISBN 3-87163-240-6 .
• Jürgen Werinhard Einhorn: Art Education. Literature, art and school practice from a Franciscan perspective. Celebration for the 65th birthday (= Saxonia Franciscana. 12). Dietrich-Coelde, Werl 1999, ISBN 3-87163-249-X .
• with Leonhard Lehmann: Franziskus-Quellen. The writings of St. Francis, descriptions of life, chronicles and testimonies about him and his order (= testimonies of the 13th and 14th centuries to the Franciscan movement. 1). Butzon & Bercker, Kevelaer 2009, ISBN 978-3-7666-2111-5 .
• Francis of Assisi: Complete Writings (= Reclam's Universal Library . 19044). Latin / German. Reclam, Stuttgart 2014, ISBN 978-3-15-019044-9 .

literature

• Raphaela Averkorn, Winfried Eberhard, Raimund Haas, Bernd Schmies (Hrsg.): Europe and the world in history. Festschrift for Dieter Berg's 60th birthday. Winkler, Bochum 2004, ISBN 3-89911-024-2 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Dieter Berg in the catalog of the German National Library
• Publications by Dieter Berg in the Opac of the Regesta Imperii
• Page at the University of Hanover

Remarks

1. ↑ See the discussion by Michael Borgolte : Europe discovers its diversity. 1050-1250 . Handbook of the History of Europe 3, Stuttgart 2002, p. 380 f.
2. ↑ Review Knut Görich : Dieter Berg, Richard Löwenherz, WBG, Darmstadt 2007. In: German Archive for Research into the Middle Ages 66 (2010), p. 412 f. ( online ); Ursula Vones-Liebenstein in: Le Moyen Âge 114 (2008), pp. 671–672.
3. ↑ See the reviews by Michael Maurer in: Zeitschrift für Historische Forschung 42 (2015), pp. 540–542 ( online ); Sascha Weber in: H-Soz-Kult , November 26, 2015 ( online ).