Frank Bezner

Frank Bezner (born May 4, 1971 in Heilbronn ) is a German Middle Latin philologist .

Life

After studying Greek, Latin, German and Middle and Neo-Latin philology at the University of Tübingen (1991–1996), he received a scholarship at the Ars and Scientia graduate college and received his doctorate in Middle Latin philology (2000). His dissertation examines the theory and practice of allegory and allegory in the context of the history of knowledge of the 12th century. (Among others with Peter Abailard, Wilhelm von Conches, Bernardus Silvestris). His doctorate was followed by archival studies in Ferrara and Rome , then a longer stay as a postdoctoral fellow at the Warburg Institute in London (2000–2002: initially as a Frances Yates fellow, then as part of a DAAD postdoctoral fellowship). He was then awarded a habilitation at the Center for Classical Studies at the University of Cologne (2002–2003). The habilitation project A Genealogy of the Past in the Renaissance: the Ferrara Case (1300–1598) examines the construction of the past in chronicles, histories and literary works as an aspect of political culture during the Estonian rule in Ferrara. From June 2003 to May 2008 he worked as a WIN member in the research project Construction of the Past as a Space of the Political . At the same time, he represented the subject of Middle and New Latin Philology at the German Seminar (Dept. Medieval Studies) in Tübingen as a lecturer . In July 2008 he was offered the professorship for Middle Latin Philology at the University of California, Berkeley , where he worked from 2009 to 2018. In the summer semesters of 2012 and 2014 he was visiting professor at the Department of Middle Latin Philology at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich .

Bezner has been Professor of Medieval Latin Literature at the Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg since 2018 .

Fonts (selection)

• Vela Veritatis. Hermeneutics, knowledge and language in the intellectual history of the 12th century (= studies and texts on the intellectual history of the Middle Ages. Volume 85). Brill, Leiden / Boston 2005, ISBN 90-04-14424-2 (also dissertation, Tübingen 2000).
• From liturgy to history. The giant Bible of St. Maximin and the Historia Excidii Sancti Maximini. With a contribution by Roland Friedrich Werner Eberhard König (= Antiquariat Bibermühle. Catalog. Volume 68) (= Illuminations. Volume 16). Tenschert, Ramsen 2011, OCLC 775823590 .
• as editor with Kirsten Mahlke : Between knowledge and politics. Archeology and genealogy of early modern past constructions (= Heidelberg Academy of Sciences. Academy Conferences. Volume 6). Winter, Heidelberg 2011, ISBN 978-3-8253-5631-6 .

Web link

• Bezner, Frank .  Publications in the bibliographic database of the Regesta Imperii .
• altphil.uni-freiburg.de
• Homepage
• University of California, Berkeley
• academicroom.com