Georg Strack

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Georg Strack in Marburg, October 2019

Georg Strack (* 1977 in Oberndorf , Austria ) is an Austrian historian . Since October 2019 Strack has been teaching as professor for medieval history at the Philipps University of Marburg .

life and work

Georg Strack studied Medieval History from 1999 to 2004 with the minor subjects Modern History and German Medieval Studies at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich (LMU). From 2005 to 2008 he was a doctoral scholarship holder of the German National Academic Foundation . He received his doctorate in 2008 with a thesis on Thomas Pirckheimer supervised by Claudia Märtl . From 2008 to 2011 he was the coordinator of the junior research group “Cultural and Religious Diversity in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance”. From 2011 to 2019 he was an academic and senior counselor at the LMU's history seminar. In the 2013 summer semester he was a junior research fellow at the Center for Advanced Studies at LMU and dealt with the papal crusade sermon in the Middle Ages. In the summer semester 2014 he had a research stay in Italy with a postdoctoral fellowship from the German Historical Institute in Rome , in September he was Research Associate at the Rikkyo University in Tokyo . He completed his habilitation in 2017 with a thesis on the transmission and interpretation of political speeches by the popes in the Middle Ages. In it he examined for the first time the perception and imagination of political rhetoric in the Middle Ages using the speeches and sermons of popes. Strack organized the scientific network funded by the DFG from 2011 to 2018 on the rules of the game of conflict and negotiation at the Papal Court of the Middle Ages. In the summer semester 2018 and in the winter semester 2018/19 he was a substitute professor at the Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg . Since October 1, 2019, he has been teaching as the successor to Andreas Meyer as professor at the Philipps University of Marburg with a focus on the history of the High and Late Middle Ages.

His main research interests are the history of the papacy and the crusades , cultural and social history of the high and late Middle Ages, humanism and rhetoric research, document research and digital humanities. With his dissertation he presented a biography of the Nuremberg early humanist Thomas Pirckheimer. With his dissertation, Strack provided not only a comprehensive evaluation of the widely scattered archive material and research literature, but also a first edition of some of Pirckheimer's relevant writings (three speeches as well as a series of envoy letters and written advice). On the basis of archive finds during Pirckheimer's studies in Padua (1441/42), Perugia (1442–1443 / 44) and Pavia (1443 / 44–1447), he came to completely new insights. The work analyzes not only his collective manuscript (London, British Library , Codex Arundel), but also his speaking activities and social and intellectual networks. The study met with an extremely positive response from experts. Enno Bünz counted Strack's work among the important monographs of other learned councilors of the 15th century such as Gregor Heimburg (by Paul Joachimsen ), Laurentius Blumenau ( Hartmut Boockmann ), Hertnid von Stein ( Matthias Thumser ), Job Vener ( Hermann Heimpel ) or Ulrich Riederer ( Christine Reinle ). According to Dieter J. Weiß , Strack presented not only an “exemplary biography”, but also an important contribution “to the typology of the learned councils as well as to international humanism research as a whole”.

With Julia Knödler, he edited an anthology on medieval rhetoric. The anthology goes back to a conference organized in October 2009 at the Munich Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, “Cultural and Religious Diversity in the Middle Ages and Renaissance”.

Fonts

Monographs

  • Thomas Pirckheimer (1418-1473). Scholarly advice and early humanist (= historical studies. Vol. 496). Matthiesen, Husum 2010, ISBN 978-3-7868-1496-2 .

Editorships

  • with Jessika Nowak: Stilus - modus - usus. Rules of conflict and negotiation at the papal court in the Middle Ages. Brepols, Turnhout 2019, ISBN 978-2-503-58507-9 .
  • with Julia Knödler: Rhetoric in the Middle Ages and Renaissance. Concepts - Practice - Diversity (= Munich Contributions to History. Vol. 6). Utz, Munich 2011, ISBN 978-3-8316-0951-2

Web links

Commons : Georg Strack  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Remarks

  1. ↑ See the reviews by Jürgen Geiß in: H-Soz-Kult , June 15, 2011, ( online ); Dieter Mertens in: sehepunkte 14 (2014), No. 5 [15. May 2014], ( online ); Gernot M. Müller in: Historische Zeitschrift 297 (2013), pp. 184–186; Marek Wejwoda in: New Archive for Saxon History 83 (2012), pp. 338–341; Gilda Paola Mantonavi in: Quaderni per la storia dell'Università di Padova 45 (2012), p. 335; Christiane Schuchhard in: Sources and research from Italian archives and libraries 91 (2011), pp. 521–522 ( online ); Dieter J. Weiß in: Journal for Bavarian State History 75 (2012), pp. 591–592 ( online ); Enno Bünz in: Mitteilungen des Verein für Geschichte der Stadt Nürnberg 98 (2011), pp. 373–375; Tobias Daniels in: German Archive for Research into the Middle Ages 67 (2011), pp. 795–796 ( online ).
  2. ↑ See the discussion by Enno Bünz in: Mitteilungen des Verein für Geschichte der Stadt Nürnberg 98 (2011), pp. 373–375.
  3. ↑ Dieter J. Weiß in: Zeitschrift für Bayerische Landesgeschichte 75 (2012), pp. 591–592, here: p. 592 ( online ).
  4. ↑ See the reviews by Thomas Woelki in: sehepunkte 12 (2012), No. 7/8 [15. July 2012], ( online ); Gerrit Himmelsbach in: Journal for Romance Philology 129 (2013), pp. 1208–1209.
personal data
SURNAME Strack, Georg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian historian
DATE OF BIRTH 1977
PLACE OF BIRTH Oberndorf