Gregor Rohmann

Gregor Rohmann (* 1970 in Hildesheim ) is a German historian .

Life

After graduating from high school at the Josephinum in Hildesheim, Rohmann studied history and political science at the University of Hanover and later history and ethnology at the Georg-August University in Göttingen . In 2000 he received his doctorate with the work Clemens Jäger, initially supervised by Hartmut Boockmann and after his death by Ernst Schubert , and the Fugger's Book of Honor. Kinship, Status and Historical Knowledge in Family Book Writing of the 16th Century . He then began a traineeship at the Museum of Hamburg History. In the following years Rohmann worked at various museums and participated in several exhibitions, some of which he directed. During this time he also worked with Spiegel TV for a documentary about Klaus Störtebeker.

Starting in the summer semester of 2004, Gregor Rohmann was given a teaching position at Bielefeld University in the field of “History at work”, which was expanded over the next few years to include the field of “History of the Late Middle Ages and the Early Modern Age”. In 2008 he moved to the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main , where he worked as a research assistant at the Chair of Medieval History I. In Frankfurt he became the managing project manager of the DFG project "Political Language in the Middle Ages - Semantic Approaches" and after completing his habilitation ( Tanzwut. Cosmos, Church and Man in the Significance of a Late Medieval Concept of Disease ) received Venia from the Department of Philosophy and History in November 2011 Legendi granted. In 2013 and 2014 he represented the junior professorship for Medieval History at the Humboldt University in Berlin and the professorship for Medieval History at the University of Cologne , before coming back to Frankfurt to represent the Professorship for Medieval History II . Rohmann taught at Goethe University from the 2014/2015 winter semester to the 2016 summer semester. In the fall semester of 2015 he was visiting professor in the history department of the University of Basel. In the 2016/2017 winter semester and 2017 summer semester, he represented Frank Rexroth's professorship at the University of Göttingen , and Hedwig Röckelein's in the winter semester . From the summer semester of 2018 he will receive a research grant from the Gerda Henkel Foundation .

Research priorities

His research interests include kinship in the Middle Ages, body and medicine in the Middle Ages, historiography and cultures of remembrance of the late Middle Ages and the reform period, social and cultural history of the late medieval city, religious ideas and religious practice (6th - 16th centuries) and the history of the Hanseatic League .

In his habilitation thesis Tanzwut , published in 2012 . Cosmos, Church and Man in the History of the Meaning of a Medieval Concept of Disease , Gregor Rohmann examines the premodern phenomenon of dance madness from a cultural-historical perspective. The focus of the work is the development of the description or the discourse of contemporary actors about dance madness as a disease in the period from the 14th to the 17th century. Contrary to popular research opinion, Rohmann does not define the involuntary, compulsive dance, which is what makes dance madness, as a form of mass hysteria or obsession, but as a disease pattern culturally constructed on religious ideas, which was the result of a long-lasting discourse between scholars, clergy and lay people be. In those negotiation processes, the dance rage was always mentioned in connection with the veneration of saints, such as the cult of John the Baptist . Those affected by the dance rage would have striven for a Christian motivated resumption in the salvation event. The involuntary dance expressed the far removed from salvation or the godforsakenness of those affected.

As part of a prosopographical project, Rohmann tries to deconstruct piracy or the taking of goods in the Hanseatic region in the Middle Ages. For this, Rohmann uses an online database in the form of a wiki, in which he evaluates sources of goods removal in cooperation with students from various universities and thus shows that the majority of piracy in the medieval Hanseatic region was legally legitimized and that piracy in the Middle Ages was one Acted exception. In the course of this research he came into contact with sources on the north German folk hero Klaus Störtebeker , from which he could deduce that the classic Klaus Störtebeker was more likely a Gdansk merchant named Johan Störtebeker.

Awards

• July 2012: Awarding of the Friedrich Sperl Prize for the promotion of the humanities by the Association of Friends and Supporters of the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University
• 2006: Awarding of the “Deep Drilling” prize by the North Rhine-Westphalia Culture Secretariat for the exhibition “Picture dispute and civic pride”

Fonts (selection)

Monographs

• Dance rage. Cosmos, Church and Man in the History of Significance of a Late Medieval Concept of Disease (= Historical Semantics. Volume 19). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2013, ISBN 978-3-525-36721-6 [Habilitation thesis Frankfurt am Main 2011]. ( Review on H-Soz-u-Kult )
• The Fugger Book of Honor. Presentation - commentary - transcription (=  studies on Fugger history. Publications of the Swabian Research Association at the Commission for Bavarian State History, Series 3. Volume 39/1). Published together with the facsimile volume: Das Ehrenbuch der Fugger. The Babenhausen manuscript (=  studies on Fugger history. Publications of the Swabian Research Association at the Commission for Bavarian State History, Series 3. Volume 39/2). Wißner, Augsburg 2004, ISBN 3-89639-445-2 ( review on H-Soz-u-Kult )
• "Amptman obedient to an honorary advice". Clemens Jäger and the historiography of the 16th century (= treatises on the history of Bavarian Swabia. Publications of the Swabian Research Association at the Commission for Bavarian State History, Series 1. Volume 28). Wißner, Augsburg 2001, ISBN 978-3-89639-285-5 .

Editorships

• Iconoclasm and civic pride. Herford churches in the age of religious struggles (=  Herford research. Volume 20). Publishing house for regional history, Bielefeld 2006, ISBN 978-3-89534-640-8 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Gregor Rohmann in the catalog of the German National Library
• Publications by Gregor Rohmann in the Opac der Regesta Imperii
• Page from Gregor Rohmann at the Goethe University
• Prosopography on the removal of goods and violence at sea in the Hanseatic region (1375–1435)
• Who were the Vitalien Brothers?

Remarks

1. ^ Gregor Rohmann: The book of honor of the Fugger. Presentation - commentary - transcription. Augsburg 2004.
2. ^ Gregor Rohmann: Tanzwut. Cosmos, Church and Man in the History of Significance of a Late Medieval Concept of Disease. Göttingen 2013.
3. ↑ PD Dr. Gregor Rohmann. Goethe University Frankfurt am Main , accessed on February 16, 2018 . 
4. ↑ Philip Knäble: Review of: Rohmann, Gregor: Tanzwut. Cosmos, Church and Man in the History of the Meaning of a Medieval Concept of Disease. Göttingen 2012. In: H-Soz-Kult, May 8, 2013 ( online ).
5. ^ Prosopography Wiki
6. ^ Christian Frey: Klaus Störtebeker was a Danzig merchant . welt.de, November 20, 2014, accessed on October 31, 2015. Is Klaus Störtebeker just a legend? welt.de, December 20, 2007, accessed October 31, 2015.