Jürgen Sarnowsky

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Jürgen Sarnowsky (born November 16, 1955 in Berlin ) is a German historian . He has been teaching as professor of medieval history at the University of Hamburg since 1996 . His main research topics were the religious orders of knights in medieval Europe, the general history of Prussia in the Middle Ages, England in the Middle Ages, the intellectual and educational history of the Middle Ages as well as digital editions and e-learning .

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Jürgen Sarnowsky studied history, physics and philosophy at the Free University of Berlin from 1975 . In 1981 he passed the First State Examination for the Office of the Academic Council. From 1982 to 1987 he worked as a research assistant at Dietrich kurz . In 1985 he received his doctorate in the subjects of Medieval and Modern History. From 1982 to 1993 he worked as an assistant at the Free University of Berlin. There he completed his habilitation in 1992 on the subject of the economic management of the Teutonic Order in Prussia (1382-1454) . Sarnowsky was a substitute professor at the University of Chemnitz-Zwickau (1993/94) and the University of Hamburg (1995/96). In 1994/1995 Sarnowsky was the holder of a Heisenberg grant . Since 1996, Sarnowsky has been teaching as the successor to Gerhard Theuerkauf as professor of medieval history at the Department of History at the University of Hamburg. In the same year he founded the Hamburg Medieval Circle with Nikolaus Henkel for the interdisciplinary networking of mediaeval disciplines.

Sarnowsky has been chairman of the Historical Commission for East and West Prussian State Research since 2019 , of which he has been a full member since 1994. He is also a member of the board of the Hanseatic History Association . In 1999 he became a corresponding member of the History Faculty of the University of Toruń , and in 2000 a member of the Herder Research Council . He was elected chairman of the Hanseatic History Association in 2019 .

His main research interests are the religious orders of knights in medieval Europe. He presented numerous and fundamental works, above all on the Teutonic Order in Prussia and the Johannites in Rhodes . Further areas of work are research on the Hanseatic, regional, economic, social and urban history, the intellectual and educational history of the Middle Ages and England in the Middle Ages. Further research focuses are the digital edition of late medieval sources and e-learning.

His work on the economic activity of the Teutonic Order was recognized as one of the most important works on the Prussian Teutonic Order and Prussian regional history. In it he turned against the thesis of a general decline of the order after the lost battle of Tannenberg . In 2001 he published a work on the late phase of the Johanniter on Rhodes. Until then, the history of the Order of St. John was largely unexplored over the past hundred years, given the tradition scattered across Europe and the lack of preparatory work. From 2008 to 2014 he was head of the DFG project “Development and virtual reconstruction of the older registers of the Teutonic Order Chancellery”. Since 2013 he has headed the DFG project "Sources for economic management of subordinate officials of the Teutonic Order in Prussia". He published introductions on the Teutonic Order (2007), the Templars (2009) and the Order of St. John (2011). In 2018 he published a presentation on the spiritual orders of knights.

In 2002, Sarnowsky published the first German-language overview of the medieval millennium of English history. In three large main chapters, Sarnowsky deals with Anglo-Saxon England from 400 to 1066 (pp. 79–150), Norman and Angevin England from 1066 to 1272 (pp. 151–249) and late medieval England (pp. 151–249).

In 2006 Sarnowsky published the contributions to a conference held in 2003 on the municipal registers of the Hanseatic region. Sarnowsky dealt with the end of the medieval Hanseatic League. He criticized the three-way scheme still prevailing in research with beginnings, "heyday" and decline in Hanseatic history. In his opinion, the changes around 1500 should be viewed as a process of transition into a new phase of Hanseatic history. This was more than a mere decline.

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Monographs

  • The spiritual orders of knights. Beginnings - structures - effects. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 2018, ISBN 978-3-17-022579-4 .
  • Exploring the world. The great voyages of discovery from Marco Polo to Alexander von Humboldt. Beck, Munich 2015, ISBN 3-406-68150-6 .
  • The German Order. 2nd, revised edition, Beck, Munich 2012, ISBN 978-3-406-53628-1 .
  • England in the Middle Ages. Primus, Darmstadt 2002, ISBN 3-89678-420-X .
  • Power and rule in the Order of St. John of the 15th century. Constitution and administration of the Johanniter on Rhodes (1421–1522) (= Vita regularis. Orders and interpretations of religious life in the Middle Ages. Volume 14). Lit, Münster 2001, ISBN 3-8258-5481-7 .
  • The economic management of the Teutonic Order in Prussia (1382–1454) (= publications from the archives of Prussian cultural property. Volume 34). Böhlau, Cologne 1993, ISBN 3-412-07893-X .
  • The Aristotelian-Scholastic Theory of Movement. Studies on the commentary of Albert of Saxony on the physics of Aristotle (= contributions to the history of philosophy and theology of the Middle Ages. Texts and investigations. New series, volume 32). Aschendorff, Münster 1989, ISBN 3-402-03927-3 .

Editorships

  • with Stuart Jenks , Marie-Luise Laudage : Vera lex historiae. Studies on Medieval Sources. Festschrift for Dietrich kurz on his 65th birthday on January 1, 1993. Böhlau, Cologne 1993, ISBN 3-412-10191-5 .
  • Administration and writing in the Hanseatic cities (= Hanseatic Studies. Volume 16). Porta-Alba-Verlag, Trier 2006, ISBN 3-933701-21-X .
  • Images - perceptions - ideas. New research on the historiography of the high and late Middle Ages (= Nova mediaevalia. Sources and studies on the European Middle Ages. Volume 3). V & R Unipress, Göttingen 2007, ISBN 978-3-89971-340-4 .
  • Conceptual considerations for the edition of invoices and official books of the late Middle Ages (= Nova mediaevalia. Sources and studies on the European Middle Ages. Volume 16). V&R unipress, Göttingen 2016, ISBN 978-3-8471-0677-7 .

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Remarks

  1. ↑ Hamburg Medieval Circle
  2. ↑ See the reviews by Klaus Neitmann in: Deutsches Archiv für Erforschung des Mittelalters 53 (1997), pp. 786–787 ( digitized version ); Bernhard Demel in: Mitteilungen des Institut für Österreichische Geschichtsforschung 105 (1997), pp. 207–208.
  3. ↑ See the review by Marie-Luise Favreau Lilie in: Historische Zeitschrift 277 (2003), pp. 182–183.
  4. ^ Karl Borchardt in: German Archive for Research into the Middle Ages 66 (1997), p. 815 ( online )
  5. ↑ See the review by Karl Borchardt in: Deutsches Archiv für Erforschung des Mittelalters 68 (2012), p. 815 ( online )
  6. ↑ See the review by Karl Borchardt in: Deutsches Archiv für Erforschung des Mittelalters 75 (2019), pp. 778–779.
  7. ↑ See the review by Stephanie Irrgang in: Zeitschrift für Geschichtswwissenschaft 50 (2002), p. 1044 f.
  8. ^ Jürgen Sarnowsky: The end of the medieval Hanseatic League. In: Sonja Birli, Nils Jörn, Christian Peplow, Haik Thomas Porada and Dirk Schleinert (eds.): Ene vruntlike tohopesate. Contributions to the history of Pomerania, the Baltic Sea region and the Hanseatic League. Festschrift for Horst Wernicke on his 65th birthday. Hamburg 2016, pp. 499-516.
personal data
SURNAME Sarnowsky, Jürgen
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian
DATE OF BIRTH November 16, 1955
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin