Heribert Müller

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Heribert Müller (born March 16, 1946 in Cologne ) is a German historian with a focus on the late Middle Ages . He held chairs for Medieval History at the Universities of Frankfurt am Main (1987–1994), Cologne (1994–1998) and again from 1998 until his retirement in 2011 at the University of Frankfurt am Main. Müller mainly researches the history of France, Burgundy and the church in the 15th century.

Live and act

Heribert Müller is the son of an insurance officer. He grew up in Cologne-Nippes . Since 1956 he attended the Dreikönigsgymnasium in Cologne and passed his Abitur there in 1965. He did his military service from 1965 to 1967. He then studied history, German studies, philosophy and education at the University of Cologne from 1967 to 1973 . His most important academic teachers in history were Heinz Bellen , Egon Boshof , Odilo Engels , Hermann Jakobs , Theodor Schieder , Theodor Schieffer , Hans Tümmler and Friedrich Vittinghoff . In 1972 he passed the first state examination for teaching in secondary schools. He then worked as a research assistant in Cologne from 1973 to 1982. There he received his doctorate in 1976 on the subject of Heribert, Chancellor Otto III. and Archbishop of Cologne . From 1982 to 1987 he was a research assistant at the Bavarian Academy of Sciences . In the 1986 summer semester he completed his habilitation at the University of Cologne on a topic suggested by Erich Meuthen on "The French, France and the Basel Council ".

Since 1987 Müller has taught medieval history at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main . He gave his inaugural lecture in May 1989 on Johannes Haller , France and the French Late Middle Ages. From 1994 to 1998 Müller was professor for medieval history at the University of Cologne. From 1998 he taught again at the University of Frankfurt am Main until his retirement in 2011. In the college year 2009/2010 he was one of the scholarship holders of the historical college in Munich and worked there on the subject of the church and European powers in the age of the conciliar . In June 2010, Müller held a colloquium on the subject of The End of the Conciliar Age (1440–1450) at the Historical College . Müller published the twelve contributions in an anthology in 2012. His habilitation was awarded the Giovanni Domenico Mansi Prize of the Society for Council History Research in 1987. In 1994 he was awarded the Prix Duc d'Arenberg (Histoire et culture generales) for his research into the crusade plans and policy of the Duke Philip the Good of Burgundy . Müller is a member of the Frankfurt Historical Commission (1992), the Constance Working Group for Medieval History (1999) and the Historical Commission at the Bavarian Academy of Sciences (2000). From 2005 to 2007 Müller was chairman of the advisory board of the German Historical Institute in Paris .

His work focuses on the European history of the late Middle Ages, especially the history of France, Burgundy and the church in the 15th century. In addition, his research focuses on the Cologne and Rhenish history of the early Middle Ages. With his dissertation he provided a comprehensive account of the life story of Archbishop Heribert of Cologne . Until then, there was no monograph on the Archbishop of Cologne. Müller played a key role in researching the Basel Council. His habilitation was devoted to the Council of Basel . Together with Johannes Helmrath , he organized an autumn meeting of the Konstanz working group on the island of Reichenau in 2004 for the councils of Pisa (1409), Konstanz (1414–1418) and Basel (1431–1449). For the first time in its sixty-year history, the Constance working group dealt with the major church assemblies of the early 15th century. With his monograph on The Church Crisis of the Late Middle Ages , he presented a standard work on the Church and the European powers in the age of conciliarism.

The subject of his research was repeatedly the various crises and challenges of the French monarchy during the Hundred Years War as well as the rise and fall of the Dukes of Burgundy from the House of Valois . With Bernd Schneidmüller and Joachim Ehlers , Müller published an anthology in 1996 on the French kings of the Middle Ages. The work contains 25 rulers' biographies from Odo to Charles VIII in the period from 888 to 1498. In the introduction, the editors outline the development of the country from humble beginnings to “a royal state and finally a royal nation with an unmistakable profile far beyond the Middle Ages”. The contributions were written by exclusively German-speaking experts. Müller supervised the part on the late Middle Ages.

In 2004, Müller published seven articles from a colloquium held in 2002 in memory of the Frankfurt mediaevalist Elsbet Orth , who died in 1991 .

Fonts

Monographs

  • The Church Crisis of the Late Middle Ages. Schism, conciliarism and councils (= Encyclopedia of German History . Vol. 90). Oldenbourg, Munich 2012, ISBN 978-3-486-55864-7 .
  • France, Burgundy, and the Empire in the Late Middle Ages. Selected essays (= Late Middle Ages, Humanism, Reformation. Vol. 56). Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen 2011, ISBN 978-3-16-150695-6 .
  • Crusade plans and crusade policy of Duke Philip the Good of Burgundy (= series of publications of the Historical Commission at the Bavarian Academy of Sciences. Vol. 51). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 1993, ISBN 3-525-36044-4 .
  • Heribert, Chancellor Otto III. and Archbishop of Cologne (= publications of the Cologne History Association, Vol. 33, ISSN  1430-0133 ). Wamper, Cologne 1977 (at the same time: Cologne, university, dissertation, 1976).

Editorships

  • with Johannes Helmrath : The Councils of Pisa (1409), Constance (1414-1418) and Basel (1431-1449). Institution and people (= Constance working group for medieval history. Lectures and research. Vol. 67). Thorbecke, Ostfildern 2007, ISBN 978-3-7995-6867-8 .
  • "... their citizens' freedom". Frankfurt am Main in the Middle Ages. Contributions to the memory of the Frankfurt media artist Elsbet Orth (= publications of the Frankfurt Historical Commission. Vol. 22). Kramer, Frankfurt am Main 2004, ISBN 3-7829-0544-X .
  • with Joachim Ehlers and Bernd Schneidmüller : The French Kings of the Middle Ages. From Odo to Charles VIII. 888–1498. Beck, Munich 1996, ISBN 3-406-40446-4 .

literature

  • Patrick Bahners : Barefoot to Cologne. Oral transmission is not a trinket! The historian Heribert Müller, a living corrective of written culture history, turns seventy. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , March 16, 2016, No. 64, p. 12.
  • Heribert Müller. In: Jürgen Petersohn (Ed.): The Constance Working Group for Medieval History. The members and their work. A bio-bibliographical documentation (= publications of the Constance Working Group for Medieval History on the occasion of its fiftieth anniversary 1951–2001. Vol. 2). Thorbecke, Stuttgart 2001, ISBN 3-7995-6906-5 , pp. 295-299 ( digitized version ).
  • Gabriele Annas, Jessika Nowak (ed.): Et l'homme dans tout cela? Of people, powers and motives. Festschrift for Heribert Müller on his 70th birthday (= Frankfurt historical treatises. Vol. 48). Steiner, Stuttgart 2017, ISBN 3-515-11469-6 .

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Remarks

  1. ↑ Heribert Müller: The admired hereditary enemy. Johannes Haller, France and the French Late Middle Ages. In: Historische Zeitschrift 252 (1991), pp. 265-317 ( online ).
  2. ^ Winner of the Arenberg Foundation .
  3. ↑ See the discussions by Friedrich Lotter in: Blätter für deutsche Landesgeschichte 117 (1981), pp. 682–683 ( online ); Rudolf Schieffer in: German Archive for Research into the Middle Ages 35 (1979), pp. 290–291 ( online ).
  4. ↑ See Michael Borgolte : Personal history and event. Methodological information on Heribert Müller's work on the French and French politics at the Basel Council. In: Journal for the History of the Upper Rhine 140 (1992), pp. 413-424.
  5. ↑ Heribert Müller, Johannes Helmrath : For the introduction. In this. (Ed.): The councils of Pisa, Constance and Basel. Ostfildern 2007, pp. 9–29, here: p. 9.
  6. ↑ See the reviews by Bertrand Schnerb in: Francia 25/1 (1998), pp. 296–298 ( digitized version ); Michel Parisse in: Historische Zeitschrift 267 (1998), pp. 747-750; Werner Maleczek in: Mitteilungen des Institut für Österreichische Geschichtsforschung 106 (1998), pp. 533-534; Philippe Depreux in: Archiv für Kulturgeschichte 84 (2002), pp. 243–244; Karl Schnith in: Das Historisch-Politische Buch 45 (1997), p. 458; Malte Prietzel in: Journal for historical research 25 (1998), pp. 429-431; Karl-Friedrich Krieger in: Zeitschrift für Geschichtswwissenschaft 45 (1997), pp. 260–261; Hubertus Seibert in: Historisches Jahrbuch 118 (1998), pp. 382–383; Sandra Dieckmann in: Journal for Romance Philology 117 (2001), p. 664; Joseph Hanimann: From the royal state to the royal nation. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , August 28, 1996, No. 200, p. 35.
personal data
SURNAME Müller, Heribert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian
DATE OF BIRTH March 16, 1946
PLACE OF BIRTH Cologne