Gert Melville

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Gert Melville (born November 27, 1944 in Wartenberg ) is a German historian in the field of medieval history. He is one of the leading researchers in the field of order history.

Life

Gert Melville studied law, history, German literature and philosophy at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich between 1965 and 1971 , where he received his doctorate in 1971 under Johannes Spörl . He then worked until 1984 in various positions at the Department of University and educational history of Laetitia Boehm at LMU Munich and ended in 1983 his habilitation . This was followed by professorships at the Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen and the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main and the University of Passau between 1985 and 1991 . During this time, Melville was also a visiting professor at the Université de Paris I (Sorbonne) and the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales .

Melville taught since 1991 as a professor for medieval history at the Westphalian Wilhelms University in Münster until he moved to the Technical University of Dresden in 1994 . There he held the chair for Medieval History until the winter semester 2009/10 and was appointed senior professor by the Philosophical Faculty in 2010 . Melville has been a member of the TU Dresden University Council since May 2010 . In addition, he has been a permanent visiting professor at the Catholic University of Eichstätt since 2004 , of which he was an interim director from June 2008 to March 2009. In May 2012 Melville was founded by Pope Benedict XVI. Appointed to the Pontifical Committee for the Study of History . In 2017 Melville was awarded an honorary doctorate by the Universidad Nacional de San Martín in Buenos Aires . The award recognizes his special merits in researching medieval history, in particular the history of the order, as well as the underlying institutional historical approach.

Melville has two sons and lives with his family in Coburg .

Research activity

In his research, Melville mainly deals with the medieval historiography of the late medieval court culture as well as the comparative history of orders in the Middle Ages. In addition to his research activities, he made a name for himself primarily as a science manager. In Dresden, for example, Melville was the founder and spokesman of the Collaborative Research Center 537 Institutionality and Historicity and the International Graduate School 625 Institutional Orders, Writing and Symbols / Ordres institutionnels, écrit et symboles . Since 2005 Melville has been director of the Research Center for Comparative Order History , which was initially located at the KU Eichstätt and has been housed at the TU Dresden since 2010. In addition, since 2010 he has been head of the research project Monasteries in the High Middle Ages: Innovation laboratories for European life plans and order models , which is financed by the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences and the Saxon Academy of Sciences .

Together with Martial Staub, Melville published the two-volume encyclopedia of the Middle Ages in 2008 , an updated edition of which was published in 2013.

Fonts

Monographs

Editorships

  • with Martial Dust: Encyclopedia of the Middle Ages. 2 vol., Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, Darmstadt 2008, ISBN 978-3-89678-598-5 .
  • with Alois Schmid : Studies on the educational system of the Bavarian Augustinian Canons in the Middle Ages and early modern times. Augustiner-Chorherren-Verlag, Paring 2008, ISBN 3-936197-08-3 .
  • with Anne Müller: Medieval orders and monasteries in comparison. Methodical approaches and perspectives. Lit Verlag, Berlin / Münster 2007, ISBN 3-8258-1125-5 .
  • with Sébastien Barret: Oboedientia. On forms and limits of power and subordination in medieval religiosity. Lit Verlag, Münster 2007, ISBN 3-8258-8926-2 .
  • with Anne Müller: Regula Sancti Augustini. Normative basis of different associations in the Middle Ages. Augustiner-Chorherren-Verlag, Paring 2008, ISBN 3-9805469-8-5 .
  • with Markus Schürer: The own and the whole. To the individual in medieval religiosity. Lit, Münster u. a. 2002, ISBN 3-8258-6163-5 .
  • with Annette Kehnel : In propositio paupertatis. Studies on the understanding of poverty in the medieval mendicant orders. Lit, Münster u. a. 2001, ISBN 3-8258-5340-3 .
  • with Jörg Oberste : The begging orders under construction. Contributions to processes of institutionalization in medieval religiosity. Lit, Münster u. a. 1999, ISBN 3-8258-4293-2 .
  • with Peter von Moos : The public and private in the premodern era. Böhlau, Cologne a. a. 1998, ISBN 3-412-01698-5 .
  • with Heinz Duchhardt : In the field of tension between law and ritual. Social communication in the Middle Ages and early modern times. Böhlau, Cologne a. a. 1997, ISBN 3-412-04597-7 .
  • De ordine vitae. About norms, forms of organization and use of script in medieval religious orders. Lit, Münster 1996, ISBN 3-8258-2586-8 .
  • Institutions and history. Theoretical aspects and medieval findings. Böhlau, Cologne a. a. 1992, ISBN 3-412-06291-X .

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Remarks

  1. ^ TU Dresden has a university council . In: idw-online.de from May 10, 2010. Retrieved May 25, 2012.
  2. ^ Christine Burtscheidt: University of Eichstätt: Chancellor gone. Bishop puts Chancellor in front of the door. In: süddeutsche.de of June 16, 2008. Retrieved July 20, 2010; Verena Doyé: Gert Melville resigns from the university management . In: Danube courier .com February 19, 2009. Retrieved on July 20 of 2010.
  3. ↑ Historian of the TU Dresden accepted into the papal committee . In: sz-online.de of May 24, 2012. Accessed on May 25, 2012.
  4. ↑ Press office of the Technische Universität Dresden: Medieval researcher Prof. Gert Melville from the TU Dresden is now an honorary doctor in Argentina , April 20, 2017.
personal data
SURNAME Melville, Gert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Medievalist
DATE OF BIRTH November 27, 1944
PLACE OF BIRTH Wartenberg (Upper Bavaria)