Ernst Werner

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Ernst Werner (born November 20, 1920 in Tyssa ; † February 15, 1993 in Leipzig ) was a German historian who worked as a professor at the University of Leipzig from 1957 to 1986 and was its rector in 1968/69 . He is considered one of the best-known and most controversial medieval historians of the German Democratic Republic (GDR).

life and work

Born in Czechoslovakia , Werner grew up in the family of an employee. He graduated from the commercial academy in Bodenbach in 1941 , after which he was drafted into military service. From 1946 he completed his studies at the University of Leipzig , where he received his doctorate in philosophy in 1952 . In the following year he also completed his habilitation in Leipzig and worked as a senior assistant at the Institute for General History in the Middle Ages department and, from 1957 until his retirement in 1986, as Professor of General History at Karl Marx University.

From 1967 to 1975 he was a member of the SED group leadership at Leipzig University. From 1971 he was a corresponding member and from 1973 a full member of the Academy of Sciences in Berlin , in addition he was a member of the Saxon Academy of Sciences . Werner also took part in the organizational tasks of the Leipzig University and was rector of the Alma Mater in 1968/1969 . In 1985 he received an honorary doctorate from the University of Leipzig.

The medieval studies expert was one of the best-known, most versatile and at the same time - because he was subject to time-related limits - most controversial medieval historian in the GDR.

Fonts

  • The social foundations of the monastery reform in the 11th century. without location 1952, Deutscher Verlag der Wissenschaften, Berlin 1953, DNB 480317429 Dissertation Uni Leipzig May 7, 1952.
  • Pauperes Christi. Studies on socio-religious movements in the age of the reform papacy. without location 1955, Leipzig 1956 ( habilitation thesis Uni Leipzig 1955).
  • Theodora Büttner , Ernst Werner: Circumcellionen and Adamiten , 2 forms of medieval hairiness , Akamedmie-Verlag, Berlin 1959, DNB 450691853 (= research on medieval history , volume 2).
  • Ideological Problems of Medieval Plebeianism. Berlin 1960
  • News about late medieval heretics from Czechoslovak archives and libraries. Leipzig 1963
  • The birth of a great power - the Ottomans. Leipzig 1963, Berlin, Vienna, Cologne, Graz, 2nd edition 1972, 3rd edition 1978, 4th edition Weimar, 1985,
  • The emergence of a feudal state in Byzantium. Berlin 1967
  • The concept of the church in Jan Hus, Jakoubek von Mies, Jan Želivský and the left Taborites. Berlin 1967
  • Heretic and do-gooder. Berlin 1974
  • Heresy and Society in the 11th Century. Berlin 1975
  • City air makes you free. Early scholasticism and bourgeois emancipation in the first half of the 12th century. (= Session reports of the Saxon Academy of Sciences in Leipzig, philological-historical class. Volume 118.5.) Berlin 1976.
  • Constantinople and Canossa. Berlin 1977
  • Between Canossa and Worms. Berlin 1973, 1975, 1978
  • History of the Turks from the beginning to the present. Berlin 1978, 1979
  • City and Spiritual Life in the High Middle Ages. Weimar 1980
  • Sultan Mehmed the Conqueror and the turn of the epoch in the fifteenth century. Berlin 1982
  • Heretics and saints. Berlin 1986
  • Heresy and Society in the Middle Ages. Berlin, 1987
  • Word and sacrament in the sense of identity of the early Czech reformatos Jan Hus (around 1370–1415). Berlin 1989
  • Jan Hus. Weimar 1991
  • Late medieval lay mentalities reflected in visions, revelations and prophecies. Frankfurt am Main 1993 (with Sabine Tanz )
  • Mentality and Society in the Middle Ages. Frankfurt am Main 1993
  • Clerics, monks, heretics. Darmstadt 1992, Berlin 1992, Freiburg im Breisgau 1994

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personal data
SURNAME Werner, Ernst
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian
DATE OF BIRTH November 20, 1920
PLACE OF BIRTH Tyssa
DATE OF DEATH February 15, 1993
Place of death Leipzig