Gerhard Rösch (historian)

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Gerhard Rösch (born May 6, 1952 in Heidelberg ; † March 5, 1999 ) was a German historian . His research interests were the history of the Republic of Venice in the Middle Ages and in the early modern period, the economic history and the mentality of the merchants. Rösch was one of the best experts on the history of Venice in medieval studies . He was one of the few academic teachers who worked in the field of historical auxiliary sciences in Germany.

Live and act

The son of a Protestant pastor grew up in Karlsruhe and graduated from high school there in 1971. At the University of Heidelberg he studied history, historical auxiliary sciences , Slavic philology and political science . In 1977 he was in Heidelberg Peter Classen Dr. phil. doctorate with a thesis on the official use of imperial titles in late antique and early Byzantine times. In autumn 1973 he went to Vienna. There he completed the training course at the Institute for Austrian Historical Research from 1974 to 1977 , where he passed the state examination and thus acquired membership of this institute. In the institute work he devoted himself to the chancellery and documentary system of the bishops of Strasbourg from 1082–1162. From 1977 to 1980 he stayed at the German Study Center in Venice . There he became one of the connoisseurs of the history of Venice and its medieval trading history . He was also supported there by his wife, Eva Sibylle Rösch-Widmann, who stayed at the study center from 1983 to 1985.

After his assistantship in Kiel , he completed his habilitation in the winter semester 1985/86 with Hans Eberhard Mayer with a groundbreaking publication on the closure of the Venetian nobility ( Serrata ). After two positions as a research assistant at the University of Göttingen , a Heisenberg scholarship (1988), a teaching position in Darmstadt and professorships in Hamburg and Kiel, he was appointed to a professorship for medieval history at the University of Münster in 1995 as the successor to Gert Melville . There he devoted himself above all to the history of Emperor Frederick II and the medieval symbolism of rule. Together with his wife, he published a presentation on Friedrich II for a wider audience. He was also involved in the Graduate College of Writing Culture and Society in the Middle Ages and in the Board of Trustees of the Institute for Comparative Urban History, which elected him as a member. The Historical Commission for Westphalia had entrusted him with the edition of the 14th century papal documents for the Westphalian document book .

His wife was also a Venice-oriented historian. With her he wrote a “picture story” of Venice (1991) for a wider audience. Rösch published widely acclaimed monographs on Venice and the Empire. Trade and Transport Relationships in the German Empire (1982) and The Venetian Nobility up to the Closure of the Grand Council. On the genesis of a leadership class (1989). In the study published in 1982 he examined Venice's trade relations with the empire, which had been little explored until then . The work extends from Otto the Great (936) to the death of Frederick II (1250). Trade intensified in the second half of the 12th century and between 1222 and 1225 led to the establishment of a German department store ("Fondaco dei Tedeschi") on the Rialto . Venice mainly exported oriental luxury goods (spices, silk), while metals and furs were supplied from the German side. His last great work was a history of the city from the beginnings to the fall of the Doge Republic in 1797. He could no longer complete the work. Eva-Sibylle Rösch and Kerstin Hitzbleck edited the work, wrote the register and the chronology printed at the beginning. The illustration was published in 2000.

Fonts (selection)

  • Onoma basileias. Studies on the official use of the imperial titles in late antique and early Byzantine times (= Byzantina Vindobonensia. Vol. 10). Publishing house of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna 1978, ISBN 3-7001-0260-7 (also: Heidelberg, University, dissertation, 1976).
  • Venice and the Empire. Trade and transport policy relations in the German Empire (= library of the German Historical Institute in Rome. Vol. 53). Niemeyer, Tübingen 1982, ISBN 3-484-82053-5 .
  • The Venetian nobility until the closure of the Grand Council. On the genesis of a leadership class (= Kiel historical studies. Vol. 33). Thorbecke, Sigmaringen 1989, ISBN 3-7995-5933-7 (also: Kiel, University, habilitation paper, 1986).
  • with Eva-Sibylle Rösch: Venice in the late Middle Ages. 1250–1500 (= Ploetz Bildgeschichte. Vol. 2). Ploetz, Freiburg (Breisgau) et al. 1991, ISBN 3-87640-361-8 .
  • with Eva-Sibylle Rösch: Emperor Friedrich II and his Kingdom of Sicily. Thorbecke, Sigmaringen 1995, ISBN 3-7995-4246-9 .
  • Venice. History of a Maritime Republic. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart et al. 2000, ISBN 3-17-014547-9 .
  • Business education and business ethics in the Middle Ages (1200–1350) (= urban research. Series A: Representations. Vol. 63). Böhlau, Cologne et al. 2004, ISBN 3-412-12304-8 .

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Remarks

  1. ↑ Gerhard Rösch: Studies on the chancellery and document system of the bishops of Strasbourg (1082 / 84–1162). In: Communications from the Institute for Austrian Historical Research . 85 (1977) pp. 285-315.
  2. ↑ See the reviews by Hubert Houben in: Historische Zeitschrift 237, 1983, pp. 421–422; Olaf Mörke in: Blätter für deutsche Landesgeschichte 119, 1983, pp. 459-460 ( online ).
  3. ↑ See the review by Klaus Bergdolt in: Zeitschrift für Historische Forschung 28, 2001, pp. 301f.
personal data
SURNAME Rösch, Gerhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian
DATE OF BIRTH May 6, 1952
PLACE OF BIRTH Heidelberg
DATE OF DEATH March 5, 1999