Hans F. Haefele

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Hans Frieder Haefele (born June 5, 1925 in Zurich ; † October 1, 1997 in Zurich) was a Swiss historian and Middle Latin philologist .

Hans F. Haefele received his doctorate in 1954 from the University of Zurich on the concept of fortuna in the Vita Heinrici IV. Imperatoris . This was followed by a study visit to Paris. In 1954 he went to Munich. As an employee of the Monumenta Germaniae Historica (MGH), Haefele worked on the critical edition Notkers of the regular Taten Emperor Charlemagne, with which he completed his habilitation in Zurich in 1957. In 1963 he was appointed to the Free University of Berlin and at the same time to the University of Zurich. Haefele decided on Zurich and initially taught there as an associate professorand from 1973 to 1992 as a full professor for Latin Philology of the Middle Ages. Since 1978 he has been a corresponding member of the central management of the MGH. For decades Haefele devoted himself to the critical edition of the St. Gallen monastery history of Ekkehard IV.

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Monographs

  • Fortuna Heinrici IV. Imperatoris. Studies on the biography of the third Salier (= publications of the Institute for Austrian Historical Research. Vol. 15). Böhlau, Graz 1954 (at the same time: Zurich, university, dissertation, 1954).

Editorships and editions

  • Casus Sancti Galli (= selected sources on German history in the Middle Ages. Freiherr vom Stein memorial edition. Vol. 10). Scientific Book Society, Darmstadt 1980, ISBN 3-534-01417-0 .
  • Deeds of Emperor Charlemagne (= MGH Scriptores rerum Germanicarum. Nova series. Vol. 12). Weidmann, Berlin 1959.

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SURNAME Haefele, Hans F.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Haefele, Hans Frieder (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss historian and classical philologist
DATE OF BIRTH June 5, 1925
PLACE OF BIRTH Zurich
DATE OF DEATH October 1, 1997
Place of death Zurich