Gabriel Zeilinger

Gabriel Zeilinger (* 1975 in Freiburg im Breisgau ) is a German medieval historian .

Life

After high school and community service , Zeilinger studied history, geography and Nordic philology in Kiel and Oslo from 1996 . From 1998 to 2002 he was a student assistant at the professorship for economic and social history with Gerhard Fouquet . After the master's examination in 2002 he was the 2002/2003 academic assistant at the University of Greifswald in that of Karl-Heinz spit -led research project "Principes. The social network of the imperial princes and the inner structure of the imperial princes in the late Middle Ages ”. From 2003 to 2005 he was a scholarship holder of the Gerda Henkel Foundation, and since August 2005 he has been a research assistant . After receiving his doctorate in 2006, he has been a senior academic since 2011 . Currently at the professorship for economic and social history. In the 2011/2012 winter semester, he held a research grant from the Gerda Henkel Foundation. After completing his habilitation in the summer semester 2013, with a thesis on the urbanization of Alsace in the High Middle Ages, he has represented the Kiel professorship for economic and social history for three semesters. In March 2014 he conducted research as a visiting scholar at the University of Uppsala , from March 2016 as a DSM Fellow / Senior Expert at the German Maritime Museum in Bremerhaven . In the 2016/17 winter semester he was professor for comparative national history from a European perspective (focus on the late Middle Ages) at the University of Heidelberg , and in the 2018/2019 winter semester he was visiting professor at the Department of History and the Present of Ancient Europe at the Fernuniversität Hagen .

His research and interests are medieval economic and social history - especially of the city and the aristocracy - as well as their links to political history; History of medieval catastrophes, not least of war and shipwreck; Southwest German regional history; Scandinavian history; and American history.

Fonts (selection)

• The Urach wedding 1474. Form and function of a court festival in the 15th century (= Kieler Werkstücke. Series E. Contributions to social and economic history . Volume 2), Frankfurt am Main / Berlin 2003, ISBN 3-631-39948-0 ( also Master's thesis, Kiel 2003).
• Life forms in war. An everyday and empirical history of the southern German city war 1449/50 (= quarterly journal for social and economic history. Supplements . Volume 196), Stuttgart 2007, ISBN 978-3-631-39948-4 (also dissertation, Kiel 2006).
• Negotiated city. Dominion and community in the early urbanization of Upper Alsace from the 12th to the 14th century (= Medieval Research . Volume 60), Ostfildern 2018 (also habilitation thesis, Kiel 2013).

• as editor with Gerhard Fouquet: The urbanization of Europe from antiquity to the modern age (= Kieler Werkstücke. Series E. Contributions to social and economic history . Volume 7). Lang, Frankfurt am Main / Berlin / Bern / Bruxelles / New York / Oxford / Vienna 2009, ISBN 978-3-631-57881-0 .
• as editor with Kurt Andermann : Freedom and bondage. Medieval and early modern facets of a timeless problem (= Kraichtaler Colloquia . Volume 7). Bibliotheca Academica Verlag, Epfendorf 2010, ISBN 978-3-928471-87-9 .
• with Gerhard Fouquet: Disasters in the late Middle Ages . WBG, Darmstadt 2011, ISBN 978-3-534-24699-1 .
  • with Gerhard Fouquet: Disasters in the late Middle Ages . von Zabern, Darmstadt 2011, ISBN 978-3-8053-4362-6 .
  • as translators G. Fūkē and G. Tsāringā with Gerhard Fouquet: Saigai to fukkō no chūseishi. Yōroppa no hitobito wa Sanka o ikani ikinobitaka . Yasaka Shobō, Tokyo 2015, ISBN 978-4-89694-186-9 .
• as editor with Sunhild Kleingärtner : Formation of space through networks? The Baltic Sea region between the Viking Age and the Late Middle Ages from an archaeological and historical perspective. Contributions to the international workshop held in Kiel on October 28th and 29th, 2010 (= Journal for Archeology of the Middle Ages . Supplement 23). Habelt, Bonn 2012, ISBN 978-3-7749-3794-9 .
• as editor with Sven Rabeler, Elisabeth Gruber, Susanne Pils and Herwig Weigl: Mediator between rule and community. The role of functional and leadership groups in the medieval urbanization of Central Europe. International conference, Kiel, November 23rd - 25th, 2011. (= Research and contributions to the history of the city of Vienna . Volume 56). StudienVerlag, Innsbruck / Vienna / Bozen 2013, ISBN 978-3-7065-5227-1 .
• as editor with Oliver Richard: La participation politique dans les villes du Rhin supérieur à la fin du Moyen Age. Political participation in late medieval cities on the Upper Rhine (= studies by the France Center of the Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg . Volume 26). Erich Schmidt Verlag, Berlin 2017, ISBN 978-3-503-17487-4 .
• as editor with Heidrun Ochs: Department stores on the Middle and Upper Rhine in the late Middle Ages (= writings on Southwest German regional studies . Volume 80). Jan Thorbecke Verlag, Ostfildern 2019, ISBN 978-3-7995-5280-6 .

Web links

• PD Dr. phil. Gabriel Zeilinger, MA