Guido M. Berndt

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Guido M. Berndt (born February 2, 1974 in Würzburg ) is a German historian with a focus on early medieval history .

Life

Guido Michael Berndt studied Medieval History, Ancient History and Cultural Anthropology at the University of Paderborn . In 2005 he received his doctorate under Jörg Jarnut in Medieval History with a thesis on the history of the vandals , which was published in 2007. In 2009 Berndt published a bilingual edition of the Vita Meinwerci Episcopi Patherbrunnensis from the 12th century.

From 2001 to 2004 he was a PhD student at the DFG Research Training Group on Travel Literature and Cultural Anthropology . Between 2005 and 2009 he held various positions at the Museum in the Kaiserpfalz Paderborn, and from 2009 to 2015 he was part of the DFG research group on communities of violence at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg . Since 2016 he has been working as a research assistant at the Free University of Berlin in the field of history of late antiquity and the early Middle Ages. In summer 2018 he was a fellow at the DFG-Kolleg research group Migration and Mobility in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages at the University of Tübingen . He has also been a lecturer at the University of Bayreuth since the summer semester of 2016 . In the 2019/20 winter semester, he represented the professorship for Medieval History at the University of Innsbruck .

Berndt's research focuses on the history of late antiquity and the early Middle Ages , in particular the history of the Vandals , Goths and Lombards .

Fonts

  • Conflict and Adaptation: Studies on Migration and Ethnogenesis of the Vandals (= Historical Studies 489). Matthiesen, Husum 2007, ISBN 978-3-7868-1489-4 .
  • Vita Meinwerci Episcopi Patherbrunnensis. The life of Bishop Meinwerk of Paderborn (= Medieval Studies 21). Fink, Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-7705-4914-6 .
as editor
  • with Roland Steinacher : The realm of the vandals and its (preliminary) stories (= memoranda. Austrian Academy of Sciences, Philosophical-Historical Class. Volume 366) (= Research on the history of the Middle Ages. Volume 13). Publishing house of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna 2008, ISBN 978-3-7001-3822-8 .
  • with Roland Steinacher: Arianism. Roman Heresy and Barbarian Creed . Ashgate, Farnham et al. 2014, ISBN 1-4094-4659-X .

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personal data
SURNAME Berndt, Guido M.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian with a focus on late antiquity and medieval history
DATE OF BIRTH 2nd February 1974
PLACE OF BIRTH Wurzburg