Georg Scheibelreiter

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Georg Scheibelreiter (born February 3, 1943 in Vienna ) is an Austrian historian and heraldist .

Life

Georg Scheibelreiter began a double degree at the University of Vienna after graduating in 1961 : He studied law and completed it in 1967 with a Mag. Iur. as well as the subjects history and art history, in which he was awarded a Dr. phil. received his doctorate. From 1971 to 1974 he completed the training course at the Institute for Austrian Historical Research (IÖG) to deepen his knowledge of the auxiliary historical sciences of the Middle Ages and modern times. At the same time he worked from 1970 to 1980 on the “ Tabula Imperii Byzantini ” project of the Austrian Academy of Sciences in Vienna, and from 1972 to 1980 also as a university assistant at the Institute for Austrian Historical Research under Heinrich Fichtenau . In 1973 Scheibelreiter received a research grant for the Archives nationales in Paris.

In 1980 Scheibelreiter received his habilitation at the Humanities Faculty of the University of Vienna under Heinrich Fichtenau and Herwig Wolfram for the subjects of "Medieval History and Historical Auxiliary Sciences" and was in the following years as a university lecturer at the University of Vienna and as a visiting professor at the University of Innsbruck (1981 and 1994 ), the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis (USA) (1986) and the University of Klagenfurt (1988/89). In addition, since 1983 he has been the editor in charge of the communications of the Institute for Austrian Historical Research (MIÖG). From 1997 onwards he worked as an associate professor at the University of Vienna. In 2008 he retired.

The focus of Georg Scheibelreiter's work includes the early Middle Ages and its history of mentality , hagiography , the historical auxiliary sciences of heraldry , genealogy and sphragistics and, in connection with this, the animal, but also the mythical creatures in the Middle Ages.

Scheibelreiter is active in various voluntary functions not only in his research areas, so since 1990 as head of the section "Heraldry, Genealogy and Prosopography" at the Austrian Historians' Day, since 1993 as a board member of the heraldic-genealogical society "Adler" in Vienna and since 2002 as a board member the Erika Mitterer Society .

In 1984 Scheibelreiter received the advancement award of the Cardinal Innitzer Foundation , in 1990 the award of the Adolf Schärf Foundation of the City of Vienna. In addition, he has received honors from various international organizations, such as Fellow of the Center for Austrian Studies at the University of Minnesota (1987), Socio onorario dell 'Istituto del Sacro Romano Impero in Florence (1989), as Académicien of the Académie Internationale d 'Héraldique in Paris (1999) and as an honorary member of the HEROLD. Association for Heraldry, Genealogy and Related Sciences in Berlin (2010)

Fonts (selection)

Monographs

  • Animal names and heraldic creatures. Vienna / Cologne / Graz 1976, 2nd supplemented edition 1992, ISBN 3-205-05475-X . ( Publications of the Institute for Austrian Historical Research , Vol. 24)
  • The bishop in Merovingian times. Vienna / Cologne / Graz 1983. ( Publications of the Institute for Austrian Historical Research , Vol. 27)
  • The barbaric society. Mental history of the European Axial Age 5. – 8. Century. Primus-Verlag, Darmstadt 1999, ISBN 3-89678-217-7 .
  • Heraldry. Oldenbourg, Vienna / Munich 2006. 2nd edition. Oldenbourg Wissenschaftsverlag, Munich 2013, ISBN 978-3-486-59124-8 .
  • Coat of arms and kinship: research on the history of culture and mentality on heraldry and genealogy. Oldenbourg, Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-486-58935-1 . ( Communications from the Institute for Austrian Historical Research , Supplementary Volume 53)
  • The Babenberger. Imperial princes and sovereigns. Böhlau, Vienna / Cologne / Weimar, 2010, ISBN 978-3-205-78573-6 .

Editorships

  • with Anton Scharer : Historiography in the early Middle Ages. Oldenbourg, Vienna / Munich 1994, ISBN 3-486-64832-2 . ( Publications of the Institute for Austrian Historical Research , Vol. 32)
  • with Andrea Sommerlechner (Ed.): City, Party and Prince. Studies of the history of mentality on the chronology of the Trevisan Mark. Böhlau, Vienna / Cologne / Graz 1988, ISBN 3-205-08534-5 . ( Publications of the Institute for Austrian Historical Research , Vol. 28)

literature

  • Eckart Henning : Laudation for Prof. Dr. Georg Scheibelreiter. In: The Herald. Quarterly for heraldry, genealogy, and allied sciences. Vol. 54 = New Series Vol. 18, Issue 1-2, 2011, pp. 210-211.

Web links

Remarks

  1. ↑ Homepage of the Heraldic-Genealogical Society "Adler" - "We about us". ( Memento from April 29, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
  2. ^ Homepage of the Erika Mitterer Society
  3. ↑ The Herald. Quarterly for heraldry, genealogy, and allied sciences. Vol. 54 = New Series Vol. 18, Issue 1-2, pp. 209-210.
personal data
SURNAME Scheibelreiter, Georg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian historian and heraldist
DATE OF BIRTH February 3, 1943
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna