Hubert Houben (historian)

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Hubert Houben (born February 4, 1953 in Heinsberg ) is a German-Italian medieval historian .

life and work

After completing his studies, Hubert Houben received his doctorate in 1978 from the Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg in Middle Latin under Johanne Autenrieth with a thesis on the St. Blasian manuscripts of the 11th and 12th centuries. From 1980 to 1983 he was a Feodor Lynen Research Fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation at the Institute for Middle and Modern History at the University of Lecce . During these years he devoted himself to researching the medieval memorial tradition of Italy. He taught in Lecce as a lecturer for German language and literature until 1988. After further research grants from the German Research Foundation and as a Senior Visiting Research Fellow at St. John's College in Oxford , he completed his habilitation in 1992 with a thesis on the Abbey of Santissima Trinità di Venosa at the University of Paderborn . Until 1994 he was professor associato at the University of Bologna and then until 2001 at the University of Lecce. Since 2001 he has been a full professor for Medieval History at the Faculty of Art and Human Sciences . In 2011, he refused the offer of director of the German Historical Institute in Rome . Since 2016 he has been President of the International Historical Commission for Research on the Teutonic Order (Vienna). He has been a member of the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei in Rome since 2017 .

His fields of research are the history of the European Middle Ages with special consideration of southern Italian and German history, the history of the medieval church with a focus on monasticism and orders of knights , Emperor Frederick II and the castles in southern Italy, medieval urban history and intercultural relations in the Mediterranean region. In 2008 he published a description of Frederick II. Houben was able to find an early modern notarial copy of a previously unknown general privilege of Frederick II for the Teutonic Order from June 1219 in the library of the Società Napoletana di Storia Patria . Houben has published his source find in the Archives for Diplomatics .

Since 1988 Hubert Houben has had both German and Italian citizenship.

Awards

  • 2014: Premio Umanesimo della Pietra per la Storia (Martina Franca, Prov.Taranto)
  • 2010: Honorary citizenship of the city of Otranto "for his fundamental contributions to the history of the city of Otranto in the Middle Ages"
  • 2009: Premio Saturo d'Argento (Leporano, Prov. Tarent) "for research on the history of Salento in the Middle Ages"
  • 2007: Premio Galeone ( Taranto ) "in recognition of his significant scientific contributions and for his research on the history of Taranto"
  • 2002: Frederick Prize (Premio Federichino) of the Fondazione Federico II ( Palermo ), the Fondazione Federico II Hohenstaufen ( Jesi ) and the Society for Staufer History ( Göppingen ) “for important research work and numerous, well-founded and excellent publications on Lower Italian history in the Middle Ages especially about the relations between Italy and Germany "
  • 2000: Premio Basilicata ( Potenza ) for his work Roger II of Sicily

Fonts

Monographs

  • St. Blasian manuscripts of the 11th and 12th centuries. With special consideration of the Ochsenhauser monastery library (= Munich contributions to medieval studies and Renaissance research. Vol. 30). Arbeo-Gesellschaft, Munich 1979, ISBN 3-920128-31-1 .
  • The Venosa Abbey and monasticism in the Norman-Staufer southern Italy (= library of the German Historical Institute in Rome. Vol. 80). Niemeyer, Tübingen 1995, ISBN 3-484-82080-2 (At the same time: Paderborn, University, habilitation paper, 1992: Monasticism, rule and society in southern Norman-Staufer Italy, with special attention to the Venosa Abbey. ).
  • Roger II of Sicily. Ruler between Orient and Occident. (= Design of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance ). Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, Darmstadt 1997, ISBN 3-534-23113-9 (2nd, bibliographically completely updated and supplemented edition. Ibid 2010, ISBN 978-3-534-23113-3 ); (In Italian: Ruggero II di Sicilia. Un sovrano tra Oriente e Occidente (= Centro Europeo di Studi Normanni. Collana di Fonti e Studi. Vol. 8). Laterza, Roma et al. 1999, ISBN 88-420-5900-5 ) ; (in English: Roger II of Sicily. A Ruler Between East and West (= Cambridge Medieval Textbooks ). Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2002, ISBN 0-521-65208-1 ).
  • Normanni tra north e south. Immigrazione e acculturazione nel Medioevo. Di Renzo, Rome 2003, ISBN 88-8323-061-2 .
  • Emperor Friedrich II (1194–1250). Rulers, people and myths (= Kohlhammer-Urban pocket books. Vol. 618). Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 2008, ISBN 978-3-17-018683-5 ( review ).
  • The Normans (= Beck'sche Reihe 2755 CH Beck Wissen ). Beck, Munich 2012, ISBN 978-3-406-63727-8 .

Collections of articles

  • Medioevo monastico meridionale (= Nuovo Medioevo. Vol. 32). Liguori editore, Naples 1987, ISBN 88-207-1545-7 .
  • Tra Roma e Palermo. Aspetti e momenti del Mezzogiorno medioevale (= Università degli Studi di Lecce. Pubblicazioni del Dipartimento di Studi Storici dal Medioevo all'Età Contemporanea. Saggi e Ricerche 7 = 8 (of the entire series)). Congedo, Galatina 1989, ISBN 88-7786-351-X .
  • Mezzogiorno normanno-svevo. Monasteri e castelli, ebrei e musulmani (= Nuovo Medioevo. Vol. 52). Liguori editore, Napoli 1996, ISBN 88-207-2624-6 .

Source editions

  • The "libro del capitolo" del monastero della SS. Trinità di Venosa (Cod. Casin. 334). Una testimonianza del Mezzogiorno normanno (= Università degli Studi di Lecce. Dipartimento di Scienze Storiche e Sociali. Materiali e Documenti. Vol. 1, ZDB -ID 594688-8 ). Congedo, Galatina 1984.
  • Venosa 1655. Un'anonima storia, descrizione e serie dei vescovi nel lascito di Ughelli. Presentazione, indice dei nomi, dei luoghi e delle cose a cura di Antonio Capano. Appia 2 Editrice, Venosa 1997.
  • German Historical Institute in Rome (ed.): Documents on the history of the fort buildings of Emperor Frederick II and Charles I of Anjou. Volume 3: Abruzzo, Campania, Calabria and Sicily. Based on material collected by E. Sthamer . Niemeyer, Tübingen 2006, ISBN 3-484-70042-4 .
  • Lettere degli ambasciatori estensi sulla guerra di Otranto (1480–81). Trascrizioni ottocentesche conservate a Napoli. 2 volumes, Congedo editore Galatina, 2013. ISBN 9788867660209

Web links

Remarks

  1. ↑ See the review by Hans Schadek in: Zeitschrift des Breisgau-Geschichtsverein "Schau-ins-Land" 98 (1979), pp. 153–154 ( online ).
  2. ↑ See the reviews by Wolfgang Stürner in: Zeitschrift für bayerische Landesgeschichte 73 (2010), pp. 171–173 ( online ); Wolfgang Hasberg in: Das Historisch-Politische Buch 56 (2008), pp. 584–585.
  3. ^ Hubert Houben: A previously unknown general privilege of Frederick II for the Teutonic Order (June 1219). In: Archiv für Diplomatik 64 (2018) pp. 161–176.
personal data
SURNAME Houben, Hubert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-Italian medieval historian
DATE OF BIRTH 4th February 1953
PLACE OF BIRTH Heinsberg