Florian Hartmann (historian)

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Florian Hartmann (born September 6, 1975 in Ratzeburg ) is a German historian who researches the history of the early and high Middle Ages .

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Florian Hartmann studied history, classical philology (Latin) and educational sciences at the University of Bonn and the Humboldt University in Berlin . In 2002 he passed the state examination for teaching at the secondary level I / II in Latin and history at the University of Bonn. From 2002 to 2004 he was a fellow of the DFG - Research Training Group "European histories" at the University of Dusseldorf , 2004-2007 research associate at the University of Bonn. Hartmann received his doctorate there in the summer semester of 2005 with a thesis on Pope Hadrian I supervised by Matthias Becher and Theo Kölzer . From 2007 to 2010 he was a research assistant at the German Historical Institute in Rome , and from 2010 to 2011 he had a scholarship from the German Humanities Institute abroad (DGIA). Hartmann has been a temporary academic advisor at the University of Bonn since 2011. In 2012 he received his habilitation there on the epistolographic textbooks of the ars dictaminis . In 2016, Hartmann received the Staufer Prize from the Stauferstiftung Göppingen for his habilitation .

Hartmann was a substitute professor in the summer semester 2013 and winter semester 2013/2014 at the University of Chemnitz , in the winter semester 2014/2015 and in the summer semester 2015 at the RWTH Aachen , in the winter semester 2015/2016 at the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen and in the summer semester 2017 at the RWTH Aachen. In 2017 he declined an offer to Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz in cooperation with the Academy of Sciences and Literature for a W2 professorship for Medieval History with a focus on basic historical sciences and digital humanities and an offer to RWTH Aachen for a Heisenberg -Professorship for discourses of knowledge in the Middle Ages accepted. In September 2015 he received a Heisenberg grant from the German Research Foundation . The focus is on two projects. As part of this scholarship, Hartmann is working on the first project on the Billungers and their empire and regional history networks, and on the second project on the beginnings of the ars dictaminis in Germany (1230–1330).

In his dissertation on Hadrian I, Hartmann devoted himself more to the fortunes and expectations of the city of Rome and would like to understand the Pope in his social environment. Hartmann would like to use a specific Roman perspective to shed light on the “possibilities, scope and ambitions of the papacy at the end of the 8th century” and explain “under what conditions and for what reasons Hadrian I, as a possible typical representative of the urban Roman aristocracy, granted the aristocratic papacy in this epoch lead to a temporary climax, force Rome's departure from Byzantium and considerably intensify the presence of the papacy in the city of Rome ”. Up until then, Hadrian's work had almost always examined his relationship to Charlemagne and thus made a contribution to Franconian history. With his dissertation Hartmann did not present a chronological biography, but a presentation structured according to thematic aspects. Hartmann deals with source-critical questions (Chapter 1), the papacy in the structure of the urban Roman aristocratic society (Chapter 2), productions and donations (Chapters 3–4), Rome's solution from the Byzantine Emperor (Chapter 5) and the relationship between Hadrian I. to Charlemagne (Chapter 6). In the first chapter he devotes himself to the central sources of the pontificate with the Vita Hadriani in Liber Pontificalis and Hadrian's letters in Codex epistolaris Carolinus . In a linguistic analysis of a letter, Hartmann found the poor state of Latinity under Hadrian. In his investigation of the papacy “in the structure of the Roman aristocratic society”, Hartmann primarily examines Hadrian's uprising and his personnel policy. Hartmann came to the conclusion that Hadrian's pontificate was "the climax and at the same time the preliminary conclusion of the aristocratic papacy". In the fifth chapter, Hartmann dates the separation of Rome from Byzantium to the year 776. In the sixth chapter, Hartmann relativizes the thesis of the friendly relationship between Hadrian and the Frankish king Karl using numerous examples. Rather, he notes a “process of continuous tension on almost all levels”. Hartmann states that the papacy is secularized as a characteristic of the Hadrianic pontificate.

In his habilitation thesis published in 2013, Hartmann opened up the little-known corpus of sources of the ars dictaminis, which began in the second half of the 11th century “in the context of the reform papacy and the investiture dispute in the area between Rome and Montecassino ”. Since the pioneering work of Ludwig von Rockinger (1863), this type of tradition had not attracted much attention. Hartmann follows the philological and historical development of the textbooks between around 1080 and 1220. He was able to prove that Alberich's Brevarium of Montecassino is not located in Montecassino, but in Rome.

Hartmann published the result of a conference in February 2009 at the DHI Rome on the subject of "Functions of eloquence in communal Italy" in 2011 as an anthology. Hartmann held a conference in Bonn in February 2014 on “Letters and Communication in Transition. Forms, Authors and Contexts in the Debates of the Investiture Controversy ”. The anthology was published by Hartmann in 2016. In a study published in 2016 on salutations and letters of condolence from the 13th and 15th centuries, he found “an increasingly pragmatic approach to intercultural communication” for the late medieval letter teachings in dealing with Muslim correspondence partners. In cooperation with Tina Orth-Müller, he developed the first German translation of the Codex epistolaris Carolinus, a collection of 99 papal letters from the years 739 to 791, which was published in 2017. Hartmann is a member of the Medievalist Association and since September 2014 a member of the Società internazionale per lo studio del Medioevo latino (SISMEL). In 2019, together with Benoît Grévin, he was the editor of a manual on medieval letter style, which bundles the results of a DFG network of German, Italian, French and English experts. A large-scale and comparative overview presentation had been a research gap until then.

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Monographs

  • Ars dictaminis. Letter writers and verbal communication in the Italian municipalities of the 11th to 13th centuries (= Medieval Research. Vol. 44). Thorbecke, Ostfildern 2013, ISBN 978-3-7995-4363-7 ( online ).
  • Hadrian I (772-795). Early medieval aristocratic papacy and Rome's dissolution from the Byzantine emperor (= popes and papacy. Vol. 34). Hiersemann, Stuttgart 2006, ISBN 978-3-7772-0608-0 .

Editorships

  • with Benoît Grévin: Ars dictaminis. Handbook of medieval letter style (= monographs on the history of the Middle Ages. Vol. 65). Hiersemann, Stuttgart 2019, ISBN 3-7772-1906-1
  • Changing letters and communication. Media, authors and contexts in the debates of the investiture dispute (= papacy in medieval Europe. Vol. 5). Böhlau, Cologne et al. 2016, ISBN 978-3-412-50529-5 .
  • Cum verbis ut Italici solent ornatissimis. Functions of eloquence in communal Italy (= Super alta perennis. Studies on the effects of classical antiquity. Vol. 9). V&R unipress, Göttingen 2011, ISBN 978-3-89971-737-2 .
  • with Tina Orth-Müller: Codex epistolaris Carolinus. Early medieval papal letters to the Carolingian rulers (= selected sources on the history of the Middle Ages. Freiherr vom Stein memorial edition. Volume 49). Scientific Book Society, Darmstadt 2017, ISBN 978-3-534-26806-1 .

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Remarks

  1. ↑ See the reviews of Matthias Thumser in: Francia-Recensio 2014–3 ( online ); Ferdinand Opll in: Mitteilungen des Institut für Österreichische Geschichtsforschung 123 (2015), pp. 178–180 ( online ); Georg Strack in: German Archive for Research into the Middle Ages. 70 (2014), pp. 716-717 ( online ).
  2. ^ Stauferstiftung Göppingen: Scientific Staufer Prizes 2016 awarded. Innovative research achievements recognized
  3. ↑ See the reviews by Rosamond McKitterick in: Francia-Recensio 2009/4 ( online ); Klaus Herbers in: Archive for Cultural History. 90 (2008), pp. 458-460; Rudolf Schieffer in: German Archive for Research into the Middle Ages. 64 (2008), pp. 259-260 ( online ); Thomas Prarsch in: Middle Latin Yearbook. 42 (2007), pp. 322-325; Benjamin Moulet in: Le Moyen Âge. 112 (2006), pp. 726-728; Sebastian Scholz in: Journal of the Savigny Foundation for Legal History, Canonical Department. 94 (2008), pp. 332-334; Amalie Fößel in: Journal of History. 57 (2009), pp. 457-459.
  4. ↑ Florian Hartmann: Hadrian I (772-795). Early medieval aristocratic papacy and the solution of Rome from the Byzantine emperor. Stuttgart 2006, p. 11.
  5. ↑ Florian Hartmann: Hadrian I (772-795). Early medieval aristocratic papacy and the solution of Rome from the Byzantine emperor. Stuttgart 2006, p. 33 ff.
  6. ↑ Florian Hartmann: Hadrian I (772-795). Early medieval aristocratic papacy and the solution of Rome from the Byzantine emperor. Stuttgart 2006, p. 77.
  7. ↑ Florian Hartmann: Hadrian I (772-795). Early medieval aristocratic papacy and the solution of Rome from the Byzantine emperor. Stuttgart 2006, p. 261.
  8. ↑ Florian Hartmann: Hadrian I (772-795). Early medieval aristocratic papacy and the solution of Rome from the Byzantine emperor. Stuttgart 2006, p. 295.
  9. ↑ Florian Hartmann: Ars dictaminis. Letter holder and verbal communication in the Italian urban communes of the 11th to 13th centuries. Ostfildern 2013, p. 7f.
  10. ↑ See the conference report: Julia Becker: Functions of eloquence in communal Italy. In: Sources and research from Italian archives and libraries 89 (2009), pp. 423–429.
  11. ↑ See the review by Detlev Jasper in: Mitteilungen des Institut für Österreichische Geschichtsforschung 126 (2018), pp. 174–176 ( online ).
  12. ↑ Florian Hartmann: Christian-Muslim communication in the mirror of Latin and Arabic prose teachings and office manuals. In: Archiv für Kulturgeschichte 98 (2016), pp. 297–314. See the review by Klaus Naß in: Deutsches Archiv für Erforschung des Mittelalters 74 (2018), pp. 272–273.
  13. ↑ See the review by Roman Deutinger in: German Archives for Research into the Middle Ages. 75 (2019), pp. 222-223.
  14. ↑ See the review by Christoph Galle in: H-Soz-Kult , March 4, 2020, ( online ).
personal data
SURNAME Hartmann, Florian
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian
DATE OF BIRTH 6th September 1975
PLACE OF BIRTH Ratzeburg