Franz-Reiner Erkens

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Franz-Reiner Erkens (born November 21, 1952 in Cologne ) is a German historian of medieval history.

Franz-Reiner Erkens studied history and German at the University of Cologne from 1971 to 1976 . With Egon Boshof , Erkens received his doctorate in 1980 at the University of Passau with a thesis on the Archbishop of Cologne Siegfried von Westerburg . In 1985 he completed his habilitation in Passau with a paper on the Trier church province in the investiture dispute . From 1985 to 1992 he taught as a private lecturer in medieval history and historical auxiliary sciences at the University of Passau. From 1992 to 1993 he was a lecturer in medieval history at the Friedrich Schiller University in Jena .

In 1993 he was appointed to the chair for medieval history at the University of Leipzig . From 1993 to 1996 he was Dean of the Faculty of History, Art and Oriental Studies in Leipzig. In 2002, Erkens was appointed to the chair for Medieval History at the University of Passau as the successor to Egon Boshof. In 2008 he also succeeded Boshof as head of the Institute for East Bavarian Local History Research , which was soon converted into the Institute for Cultural Research in East Bavaria and the Neighboring Regions (IKON). Erkens is a member of the Association for Historical Regional Studies of the Rhineland (since 1975), a member of the Association for East Bavarian Local History Research (since 1979) and a full member of the Commission for Bavarian Regional History at the Bavarian Academy of Sciences in Munich (since 2011). He retired on October 1, 2018.

Fonts (selection)

A list of publications appeared in Franz-Reiner Erkens: Sachwalter Gottes. The ruler as christus domini, vicarius Christi and sacra majestas. Collected essays for his 65th birthday. (= Historical research. Volume 116). Edited by Martin Hille, Marc von Knorring, Hans-Christof Kraus with the assistance of Andreas Fohrer. Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2017, pp. 547-557, ISBN 978-3-428-15222-3 .

Collected Essays

  • Franz-Reiner Erkens: Trustee of God. The ruler as christus domini, vicarius Christi and sacra majestas. Collected essays for his 65th birthday. (= Historical research. Volume 116). Edited by Martin Hille, Marc von Knorring, Hans-Christof Kraus with the assistance of Andreas Fohrer. Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2017, ISBN 978-3-428-15222-3 .

Monographs

  • The fakes Pilgrims of Passau. Historical-critical investigations and editions based on Codex Gottwicensis 53a (red) and 56 (black) (= sources and discussions on Bavarian history. NF volume 46). Beck, Munich 2011, ISBN 978-3-406-10411-4 .
  • The sacred rulers in the Middle Ages. From the beginning to the investiture dispute. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 2006, ISBN 3-17-017242-5 .
  • Electors and kings. On new theories about the king's election paragraph in the Sachsenspiegel and the emergence of the Elector College (= Monumenta Germaniae Historica . Studies and Texts. Volume 30). Hahn, Hannover 2002, ISBN 3-7752-5730-6 .
  • Konrad II. (Around 990-1039). Rule and empire of the first Salier emperor. Pustet, Regensburg 1998, ISBN 3-7917-1604-2 .
  • The Trier church province in the investiture dispute. Böhlau, Cologne a. a. 1987, ISBN 3-412-02187-X (At the same time: Passau, University, habilitation paper, 1986).
  • Siegfried von Westerburg (1274–1297). The imperial and territorial policy of a Cologne archbishop in the late 13th century (= Rhenish archive. 114). Röhrscheid, Bonn 1982, ISBN 3-7928-0448-4 (also: Passau, University, dissertation, 1980).

Editorships

  • The early medieval kingdom. Idea and religious foundations (= Reallexikon der Germanischen Altertumskunde . Supplementary volumes. 49). de Gruyter, Berlin a. a. 2005, ISBN 3-11-018886-4 .
  • The sacred nature of domination - legitimation of domination in the change of times and spaces. Fifteen interdisciplinary contributions to a worldwide and epoch-spanning phenomenon. Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 2002, ISBN 3-05-003660-5 .
  • with Hartmut Wolff : From Sacerdotium and regnum. Spiritual and secular violence in the early and high Middle Ages. Festschrift for Egon Boshof on the occasion of his 65th birthday (= Passau historical research. Volume 12). Böhlau, Cologne a. a. 2002, ISBN 3-412-16401-1 .
  • Charlemagne and the legacy of cultures (= files of the symposium of the Medievalist Association. 8). Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-05-003581-1 .
  • Europe and the Ottoman expansion in the late Middle Ages (= journal for historical research . Supplement 20). Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-428-09180-9 .

literature

  • Who is who? The German Who's Who. L. Edition 2011/2012, p. 261.

Web links

Remarks

  1. ↑ See the review by Heribert Müller in: Historisches Jahrbuch 104 (1984), p. 460 f.
  2. ↑ See the discussions of Harald Zimmermann in: Mitteilungen des Institut für Österreichische Geschichtsforschung . 96, 1988, p. 534; Rudolf Schieffer in: Rheinische Vierteljahrsblätter . 52, 1988, pp. 278-279; Georg Kreuzer in: German Archive for Research into the Middle Ages . 44, 1988, pp. 641-642 (online) ; Benoît-Michel Tock in: Revue d'histoire ecclésiastique . 84, 1989, pp. 120-122.
personal data
SURNAME Erkens, Franz-Reiner
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian
DATE OF BIRTH November 21, 1952
PLACE OF BIRTH Cologne