Helmut Flachenecker

Helmut Flachenecker (born March 27, 1958 in Nuremberg ) is a German historian .

Helmut Flachenecker studied history, German literature and geography at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg and the Catholic University of Eichstätt from 1977 to 1983 . He passed the state examination for teaching at grammar schools in 1983, the Magister followed in 1985. He received his doctorate in 1987 in Eichstätt on the city of Eichstätt from the 13th to the 16th century. In 1992 he completed his habilitation in the subjects of Medieval History and Bavarian State History at the University of Eichstätt. In 1998 he was Umhabilitierung at the Georg-August-University of Goettingen and the Venia legendi for the subjects medieval and modern history. From 1983 to 1997, Flachenecker was a research assistant, academic adviser and senior assistant at the Chair of Medieval History at the Catholic University of Eichstätt. From 1997 to 2002 he was Scientific Director of the Germania Sacra research project at the Max Planck Institute for History in Göttingen. In 2002 he was appointed to the Julius Maximilians University of Würzburg . There he holds the chair for Franconian regional history . He was visiting professor at Flagler College in St. Augustine, Florida in the fall of 2015 .

His main research interests are church history and urban history in the Middle Ages and the early modern period. From 1997 to 2002 he was the scientific director of the Germania Sacra research project at the Max Planck Institute for History in Göttingen. He is co-editor of the specialist internet magazine Concilium Medii Aevi .

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Monographs

• A spiritual city. Eichstätt from the 13th to the 16th century (= Eichstätter contributions. Vol. 19 = Eichstätter contributions. History department. Vol. 5). Pustet, Regensburg 1988, ISBN 3-7917-1176-8 (also: Eichstätt, University, dissertation, 1988).
• Scots monasteries. Irish Benedictine convents in high medieval Germany (= sources and research from the field of history. NF Vol. 18). Schöningh, Paderborn et al. 1995, ISBN 3-506-73268-4 (Eichstätt, University, habilitation paper, 1992).

Editorships

• with Rolf Kießling : urban landscapes in old Bavaria, Franconia and Swabia. Studies on the phenomenon of small towns during the late Middle Ages and the early modern period (= magazine for Bavarian regional history. Supplement. Series B, vol. 15). Beck, Munich 1999, ISBN 3-406-10815-6 .
• with Hans Heiss and Hannes Obermair : City and Hochstift. Brixen, Bruneck and Klausen up to secularization = Città e principato (= publications of the South Tyrolean Provincial Archives. Vol. 12). Athesia, Bozen 2000, ISBN 88-8266-084-2 .
• with Rolf Kießling: Urbanization and Urbanity. The contribution of the church institutions to urban development in Bavaria (= Journal for Bavarian State History. Supplement. Vol. 36). Beck, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-406-10677-4 .
• with Janusz Tandecki: Numbers and Memory. From the variety of account books and comparable types of sources (= publications of the German-Polish discussion group for source editions. Vol. 5). Edition scientific colloquium 2009. Towarzystwo Naukowe w Toruniu, Toruń 2010, ISBN 978-83-61487-70-8 .
• with Hans Heiss: Franconia and South Tyrol. Two cultural landscapes in comparison (= publications of the South Tyrolean Provincial Archives. Vol. 34 = Mainfränkische Studien. Vol. 81). Files from the international conference from March 1st to 3rd, 2007 at the Julius Maximilians University of Würzburg. Universitäts-Verlag Wagner, Innsbruck 2013, ISBN 978-3-7030-0803-0 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Helmut Flachenecker in the catalog of the German National Library
• Helmut Flachenecker on the website of the University of Würzburg
• Helmut Flachenecker on Academia.edu