Frank Rexroth

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Frank Rexroth (born October 4, 1960 in Kork (Baden) ) is a German historian . Rexroth has been teaching as Professor of Medieval and Modern History at the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen since 2000 .

Live and act

From 1980 Frank Rexroth studied history and German for teaching at the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg . In 1986 the first state examination for teaching at grammar schools took place. Rexroth was born in Freiburg i. Br. Is doing his doctorate on the work supervised by Michael Borgolte on German university foundations from Prague to Cologne . From 1989 to 1991 he was a research associate at the German Historical Institute in London . From 1992 to 1998 Rexroth was Michael Borgolte's university assistant at the Institute for History at the Humboldt University in Berlin . There he completed his habilitation in 1998 with the work Das Milieu der Nacht. Authorities and marginalized groups in late medieval London . In 1999 he taught as a professor for the history of the late Middle Ages and the early modern period at Bielefeld University .

Since 2000, Rexroth has been teaching as Professor of Medieval and Modern History as the successor to Hartmut Boockmann at the Georg-August University in Göttingen . Since 2004 he has been a full member of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen . He declined appointments as a member of the Max Planck Society and as director at the Max Planck Institute for History, Göttingen (2004) and as professor for general history with special consideration of the high and late Middle Ages at Bielefeld University (2008). Since April 2020 he has been dean of the Philosophical Faculty of the University of Göttingen.

His main research interests are the cultural history of scholars in the Middle Ages, the history of medieval expert cultures, the social history of European societies from a comparative perspective, rituals and ritualism, medieval urban history as group history, friendship and kinship as historical relationship systems, German history and the history of England. Rexroth is currently (2010) on the co-editors' committee of the historical magazine .

His habilitation deals with the tension between urban authorities and marginalized social groups in London between 1338 and 1445. In 2005, he published 114 pages of a description of 700 years of German history in the Middle Ages. Rexroth dealt with historical master stories in various articles . Together with Patrick J. Geary , Walter Pohl , Klaus Grubmüller and Thomas Haye, Rexroth presented the “Master Tales of the Middle Ages” in September 2004 at the Kiel Historians' Day. Rexroth published the contributions of the sections with further studies by Oliver Huck and Michail A. Bojcov in an anthology in 2007. Rexroth wants to initiate a "transdisciplinary examination of the practice of scientific storytelling". In 2006, Rexroth initiated an autumn conference of the Constance working group for medieval history on the island of Reichenau on the cultural history of scholars in the late Middle Ages. Rexroth published the articles in 2010. With Jörg Rogge and Martin Kintzinger , he organized a Reichenau conference of the Constance Working Group for Medieval History in autumn 2009 on the importance of violence for the political culture of the late Middle Ages . The results of the conference were published in 2015. On October 18, 2012, he gave a Maria Bindschedler guest lecture at the University of Bern at the invitation of Christian Hesse and Michael Stolz .

Rexroth was awarded numerous scientific honors and memberships for his research. He received the Heinz Maier Leibnitz Prize of the DFG (1992) for publications by young scientists in the field of "history of science and education" and the Prize of the Association of Historians of Germany for outstanding achievements by young scientists for his habilitation thesis . (1998). Rexroth is a member and deputy chairman of the renowned Constance working group for medieval history. Rexroth is a member of the historical commission for Lower Saxony and Bremen . From 2008 to 2009 he was a fellow at the Berlin Wissenschaftskolleg . From September 2016 to July 2017 he was a fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton . He is a member of the Central Council of Monumenta Germaniae Historica and the Board of Trustees of the Historisches Kolleg .

Fonts (selection)

Monographs

  • Happy scholasticism. The science revolution of the Middle Ages. 2nd, revised edition. Beck, Munich 2019, ISBN 978-3-406-72521-0 .
  • German history in the Middle Ages (= Beck'sche Reihe. Vol. 2307). 3rd revised edition. Beck, Munich 2012, ISBN 978-3-406-48007-2 .
  • The milieu of the night. Authorities and marginalized groups in late medieval London (= publications of the Max Planck Institute for History. Vol. 153). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 1999, ISBN 3-525-35470-3 (also: Berlin, Humboldt-Universität, habilitation paper, 1997).
  • German university foundations from Prague to Cologne. The intentions of the founder and the ways and chances of their realization in the late medieval German territorial state (= Archive for Cultural History. Vol. 34). Böhlau, Cologne et al. 1992, ISBN 3-412-06989-2 (also: Freiburg, University, dissertation, 1988).

Editorships

  • with Marian Füssel and Inga Schürmann: Practices and spaces of knowledge. Expert cultures in the past and present. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2019, ISBN 978-3-525-37073-5 .
  • with Jörg Rogge, Martin Kintzinger: Violence and Resistance in the Political Culture of the Late Middle Ages (= Constance Working Group for Medieval History. Lectures and Research. Vol. 80). Thorbecke, Ostfildern 2015, ISBN 978-3-7995-6880-7 .
  • with Martin Mulsow: What can be considered scientific. Practices of demarcation in pre-modern scholarly milieus (= campus historical studies. Vol. 70). Campus Verlag, Frankfurt et al. Main 2014, ISBN 978-3-593-50078-2 .
  • Contributions to the cultural history of scholars in the late Middle Ages (= Konstanz working group for medieval history. Lectures and research. Vol. 73). Thorbecke, Ostfildern 2010, ISBN 978-3-7995-6873-9 ( online ).
  • with Wolfgang Huschner : Donated future in medieval Europe. Festschrift for Michael Borgolte on his 60th birthday. Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 2008, ISBN 3-05-004475-6 .
  • Master tales from the Middle Ages. Epoch imaginations and progressive patterns in the practice of medieval disciplines (= historical journal. Vol. 46). Oldenbourg, Munich 2007, ISBN 3-486-64450-5 .

literature

  • Frank Rexroth: The late Middle Ages and the beginnings of European expert culture. Introductory lecture , held in the plenary session on November 24, 2006. In: Yearbook of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen 2006. Göttingen 2007, pp. 319–325.
  • Frank Rexroth: Happy Scholasticism. The science revolution of the Middle Ages. 2nd, revised edition. Beck, Munich 2019, ISBN 978-3-406-72521-0 , pp. 13-18.

Web links

Remarks

  1. ^ The Dean's Office of the Philosophical Faculty
  2. ^ Frank Rexroth: The scholastic science in the master stories of European history. In: Klaus Ridder, Steffen Patzold (Hrsg.): The topicality of the premodern. Berlin 2013, pp. 111-134; Frank Rexroth: The Middle Ages and the Modern Age in the Master Tales of the Historical Sciences. In: Journal for Literary Studies and Linguistics , Vol. 38 (2008), pp. 12–31.
  3. ↑ Frank Rexroth: (Ed.): Master narratives from the Middle Ages. Epoch imaginations and progressive patterns in the practice of mediaeval disciplines. Munich 2007. Cf. the review by Bea Lundt in: Das Historisch-Politische Buch 57 (2009), pp. 33f.
  4. ↑ Frank Rexroth: Master Tales and the Practice of Historiography. An introduction sketch. In: Frank Rexroth: (Ed.): Master narratives from the Middle Ages. Epoch imaginations and progressive patterns in the practice of mediaeval disciplines. Munich 2007, pp. 1–22, here: p. 8.
  5. ↑ See the reviews by Hannah Skoda in: German Historical Institute London Bulletin 34 (2012), pp. 88–93 ( online ); Jörg Schwarz in: H-Soz-Kult , February 11, 2012, ( online ).
  6. ↑ Maria Bindschedler guest lecture
personal data
SURNAME Rexroth, Frank
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian
DATE OF BIRTH 4th October 1960
PLACE OF BIRTH Cork (bathing)