Folker Reichert

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Folker Reichert in August 2003 in Angkor

Folker Reichert (born June 4, 1949 in Fürth ) is a German historian .

Folker Reichert studied history, German and Latin at the universities of Würzburg and Heidelberg and graduated in 1975 with the state examination. He received his doctorate in 1982 in Heidelberg with a thesis supervised by Hermann Jakobs on the prehistory of the late medieval corporate state in the Duchy of Austria . From 1982 to 1983 he was lecturer for the German Academic Exchange Service at the Foreign Language Institute in Shanghai (now the Foreign Language University of Shanghai ), where he held a visiting professorship in 1997. He completed his habilitation in 1990 in Heidelberg with a thesis supervised by Jakobs on the discovery of East Asia in the Middle Ages. After substituting professorships at the universities of Dresden , Cologne and Bonn , Reichert became professor of middle history at the University of Stuttgart in 1994 . Reichert has been retired since October 2012. In 2006 he was visiting professor at Tongji University (chin. 同济大学, Tóngjì Dàxué) in Shanghai (PR China), 2008/9 visiting professor at Yokohama State University (Japanese 横 浜 国立 大学, Yokohama kokuritsu daigaku, short: Yokokoku) in Yokohama (Japan), 2009 visiting professor at Chulalongkorn University (Thai: จุฬาลงกรณ์ มหาวิทยาลัย) in Bangkok (Thailand). He is a full member of the Commission for Historical Regional Studies in Baden-Württemberg .

The main research areas of Folker Reichert are the late medieval constitutional history, Asia and Europe in the Middle Ages, the history of discovery, the history of travel and discoveries, perception of others, pilgrimages to Jerusalem and the history of medieval studies in the 20th century. His interests in the Asian region result from his teaching activity in Shanghai . In 2004, together with Eike Wolgast , Reichert published Karl Hampe's war diary from the First World War. In 2009 he presented a biography about Hampe. In 2010 he was awarded the Wedekind Prize for German History by the Göttingen Academy of Sciences . Reichert is preparing a biography of the historian Carl Erdmann .

Fonts

(in chronological order)

  • with Siegfried Englert (Ed.): Shanghai. City above the sea (= Heidelberg library publications. Vol. 17). Heidelberger Verlags-Anstalt and Druck, Heidelberg 1985, ISBN 3-920431-35-9 (2nd, expanded and revised edition. Winter, program Heidelberger Verlags-Anstalt, Heidelberg 1996, ISBN 3-8253-7023-2 ).
  • This side of the wall. Pictures from China (= The bibliophile paperbacks. Vol. 490). Harenberg, Dortmund 1986, ISBN 3-88379-490-2 (3rd edition, ibid 1990).
  • The journey of Blessed Odoric from Pordenone to India and China. (1314 / 18-1330). Manutius-Verlag, Heidelberg 1987, ISBN 3-925678-04-2 .
  • Thailand. Land of the Free (= The bibliophile paperbacks. Vol. 554). Harenberg, Dortmund 1988, ISBN 3-88379-554-2 .
  • Encounters with China. The discovery of East Asia in the Middle Ages (= contributions to the history and source studies of the Middle Ages. Vol. 15). Thorbecke, Stuttgart 1992, ISBN 3-7995-5715-6 (at the same time: Heidelberg, University, habilitation paper, 1989/1990).
  • with Gerhard Faix (ed.): Eberhard im Bart and the pilgrimage to Jerusalem in the late Middle Ages (= living past. Vol. 20). Kohlhammer. Stuttgart 1998, ISBN 3-17-015380-3 .
  • with Gerrit J. Schenk: Athos. Journeys to the Holy Mountain 1347–1841 (= foreign cultures in old reports. Vol. 12). Thorbecke, Stuttgart 2001, ISBN 3-7995-0611-X .
  • Experience of the world. Travel and cultural encounters in the late Middle Ages. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart et al. 2001, ISBN 3-17-014997-0 ( review ).
  • as editor with Eike Wolgast : Karl Hampe: Kriegstagebuch 1914-1919 (= German historical sources of the 19th and 20th centuries. Vol. 63). Oldenbourg, Munich 2004, ISBN 3-486-56756-X .
  • The journey of Count Palatine Ottheinrich to the Holy Land in 1521. Pustet, Regensburg 2005, ISBN 3-7917-1964-5 .
  • with Helmut Brall-Tuchel : Rome - Jerusalem - Santiago. The pilgrim diary of the knight Arnold von Harff (1496–1498). Translated, commented and introduced from the text of the edition by Eberhard von Groote . Böhlau, Cologne et al. 2007, ISBN 978-3-412-20026-8 (3rd, revised edition, ibid 2009).
  • with Robert Bohn and others: Long-distance trade in antiquity and the Middle Ages (= then 2008, special volume). Theiss, Stuttgart 2008, ISBN 978-3-8062-2148-0 .
  • Learned life. Karl Hampe, the Middle Ages and the history of the Germans (= series of publications by the Historical Commission at the Bavarian Academy of Sciences. Vol. 79). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2009. ISBN 978-3-525-36072-9 .
  • The image of the world in the Middle Ages. Primus, Darmstadt 2013, ISBN 978-3-86312-370-3 .
  • as editor: Asia and Europe in the Middle Ages. Studies on the history of travel , Göttingen 2014, ISBN 978-3-525-30072-5 .

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personal data
SURNAME Reichert, Folker
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian
DATE OF BIRTH June 4, 1949
PLACE OF BIRTH Fuerth