Heinrich Schmidinger (historian)

Heinrich Schmidinger (born July 11, 1916 in Loibersdorf , † June 2, 1992 in Salzburg ) was an Austrian historian .

Schmidinger first attended the Capuchin high school in Linz , then the Petrinum and the academic high school . In 1935 he joined the Kremsmünster Abbey and was sent to Salzburg to study philosophy and theology and to Vienna for history. In 1946 he left the order and sought a scientific career, which began in 1950 as an assistant at the Institute for Austrian Historical Research with a focus on church history and especially papal history, primarily on the basis of research into papal documents. From 1957 to 1968 he taught as a university professor in Freiburg im Üechtland and from 1968 to 1986 in Salzburg. From 1968 to 1981 he was director of the Austrian cultural institute in Rome .

Fonts (selection)

• Patriarch and sovereign. The secular rule of the Patriarchs from Aquileia to the end of the Hohenstaufen . Graz 1954, OCLC 906060344 .
• Roma docta? Rome as a spiritual center in the Middle Ages. Inaugural lecture held on June 15, 1971 at the University of Salzburg . Salzburg 1973, OCLC 74128853 .
• Romana regia potestas. State and imperial thinking with Engelbert von Admont and Enea Silvio Piccolomini . Basel 1978, ISBN 3-7190-0707-3 .

literature

• Peter Franz Kramml, Heinz Dopsch and Heinrich Koller (eds.): Patriarch in the Occident. Contributions to the history of the papacy, Rome and Aquileias in the Middle Ages. Selected essays by Heinrich Schmidinger. Celebration for his 70th birthday. Verlag St. Peter, Salzburg 1986, ISBN 3-900173-49-4 .
• Othmar Hageneder : In memoriam Heinrich Schmidinger. In: Römische Historische Mitteilungen 34/35 (1992/1993), pp. 19–24.

Web links

• Entry on Schmidinger, Heinrich in the Austria Forum , with false information about Friborg
• Entry on Schmidinger, Heinrich, father in the Austria Forum  (in the AEIOU Austria Lexicon )
• Schmidinger, Heinrich .  Publications in the bibliographic database of the Regesta Imperii .