Hannes Möhring

Hannes Möhring (born May 3, 1949 in Hamburg ) is a German Medievalist and Orientalist who teaches as a private lecturer at the University of Bayreuth .

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After graduating from Liebig-Gymnasium in Frankfurt am Main in the summer of 1968, he studied history, historical auxiliary sciences , oriental philology , Islamic studies and politics at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt from the winter semester 1968/1969 . In 1972 he began work on his investigation into Saladin's conquest of the city of Jerusalem and its defense in the Third Crusade , on the basis of which he received his doctorate in 1977 under Peter Herde . The dissertation was developed with the help of a grant from the German National Academic Foundation and was published in 1980. In 1977/1978 Möhring received a scholarship from the Volkswagen Foundation ; From 1979 to 1980 he worked as a research assistant on the development of the history radio college at the German Institute for Distance Learning at the University of Tübingen . He then continued his scientific research, 1981/1982 with a grant from the Gerda Henkel Foundation , 1983–1985 with support from the Fritz Thyssen Foundation . In 1985 he received a position as an academic adviser at the University of Bayreuth , where he worked until 1988.

From 1988 Möhring worked on an extensive work on the so-called peace emperor of the end times in the imagination of the European and Islamic Middle Ages. Between 1993 and 1996 he received a habilitation grant from the German Research Foundation . On July 28, 1999, he completed his habilitation with this thesis at the University of Bayreuth in the subjects of medieval history and historical auxiliary sciences. In the following year, the text was published in the series Medieval Research . In the winter semester 1999/2000 and in the summer semester 2000 Möhring represented the professorship for Medieval History at the University of Stuttgart , in the winter semester 2001/2002 and the summer semester 2002 at the Technical University of Braunschweig . From the winter semester 2002/2003 to 2008 he worked at the University of Regensburg in the DFG research group “Forms and Functions of War in the Middle Ages”, after which (2008) he held a mediaeval lectureship at the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg . After 2008 he was a private lecturer in Bayreuth, where, after Ludger Körntgens left the University of Mainz in 2012, he also represented the chair for medieval history, which Kristin Skottki took over in the 2016/2017 winter semester. He has been retired since April 2016.

Möhring's research concerns the Middle East and the Mediterranean region in the Middle Ages; The focus is on European-Near East relations in the context of the crusades as well as on end-time expectations and their political instrumentalizations. On November 11, 2000, he was awarded the Staufer Prize of the Stauferstiftung Göppingen for his habilitation thesis , whereby the broad temporal, spatial and cultural framework of the work was particularly emphasized. Möhring is at the International College for Research in the Humanities “Fate, Freedom and Prediction. Coping strategies in East Asia and Europe ”at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg , where he had several research stays (summer semester 2010, winter semester 2011/2012, summer semester 2017). There he dealt with political prophecies and the reception of the pseudo-Methodios as well as the eschatological expectations at the turn of the millennium under Otto III.

Fonts (selection)

Saladin and the Third Crusade. Aiyubid strategy and diplomacy compared primarily the Arabic and Latin sources (= Frankfurter Historische Abhandlungen. Volume 21). Franz Steiner, Wiesbaden 1980, ISBN 3-515-02895-1 (also dissertation, University of Frankfurt 1977).
The world emperor of the end times. Origin, change and effect of a thousand-year prophecy (= Middle Ages research. Volume 3). Thorbecke, Stuttgart 2000, ISBN 3-7995-4254-X ( digitized ).
King of Kings. The Bamberg rider in a new interpretation. Langewiesche Nachf. Köster, Königstein im Taunus 2004, ISBN 978-3-7845-2141-1 .
Saladin. The Sultan and His Time, 1138–1193. Beck, Munich 2005, ISBN 978-3-406-50886-8 (English translation 2008, Italian translation 2007, Turkish translation 2008; Spanish translation 2010; 2nd edition 2012).

literature

Stefan Weinfurter : On the presentation of the science prize to private lecturer Dr. Hannes Möhring. In: Germany and Italy at the time of the Staufer. (= Writings on Hohenstaufen history and art. Volume 22). Editor Karl-Heinz Rueß. Göppingen 2002, ISBN 3-929776-14-6 , pp. 167-173.