Johannes Helmrath

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Johannes Helmrath (born July 20, 1953 in Cologne ) is a German historian of medieval history. Since April 1997 he has been teaching as a professor of medieval history with special emphasis on the late Middle Ages at the Humboldt University in Berlin .

Live and act

The son of the director of the same name at the Kaiser-Karls-Gymnasium in Aachen graduated from high school in 1972 at his father's school. After completing his military service, Helmrath studied history, philosophy and Latin philology at the universities of Aachen , Toulouse , Paris , Bonn and Cologne from 1973 to 1980 . He received his doctorate in 1984 in Cologne under Erich Meuthen on the subject of The Basel Council 1431–1449 . During his time in Cologne he was co-editor of the journal Geschichte in Cologne . From 1988 to 1997, Helmrath was a member of the historical commission at the Bavarian Academy of Sciences in Cologne and was involved in the publishing company "Deutsche Reichstagakten". In 1995 he also received his habilitation in Cologne with a thesis on the Reichstag and rhetoric. The speeches of Enea Silvio Piccolomini at the Reichstag 1454/55. For the 1995/96 winter semester Helmrath was a substitute professor at the Humboldt University in Berlin. 1996/97 followed a teaching position at the University of Cologne. A call from the University of Bielefeld rejected Helmrath from March 1997th Since April 1997, Helmrath has succeeded Hartmut Boockmann as Professor of Medieval History with special emphasis on the Late Middle Ages at the Humboldt University in Berlin.

Since 2004 Helmrath has been a member of the Pontificio Comitato di Scienze Storiche at the Vatican. From 2011 to 2016 he was the speaker of the SFB “Transformations of Antiquity”, which was extended in 2012, and sub-project leader of the project A04 “Historiography of Humanism: Social Practice, Narrativity and Historical Semantics”. Together with Thomas Woelki, Helmrath leads the edition Acta Cusana edited by Erich Meuthen and Hermann Hallauer . Sources on the life story of Nikolaus von Kues . The first delivery of the second volume, consisting of around 1000 documents, extends from April 1452 to May 1453 and was published in 2012. Volumes II, 3: 1454–1455 (2016) and II, 2: 1453–1454 (2017) have been published since then.

Helmrath is the founding director of the Institute for Catholic Theology at Humboldt University, which opened in autumn 2019 with 40 students and six professorships . The institute was planned and built at the instigation of the Roman Catholic Archbishop of Berlin Heiner Koch in cooperation with the red-red-green government of the capital since 2016.

Fonts

Monographs

  • The Basel Council 1431–1449. State of research and problems (= Cologne historical treatises. Vol. 32). Böhlau, Cologne et al. 1987, ISBN 3-412-05785-1 .

Editorships

  • with Ursula Kocher, Andrea Sieber (ed.): Maximilians Welt. Emperor Maximilian I in the field of tension between innovation and tradition (= Berlin Medieval and Early Modern Research. Vol. 22). V&R unipress, Göttingen 2018, ISBN 3-8471-0884-0 .
  • with Heribert Müller : The Councils of Pisa (1409), Constance (1414–1418) and Basel (1431–1449). Institution and people (= lectures and research. Vol. 67). Thorbecke, Stuttgart 2007, ISBN 978-3-7995-6867-8 ( digitized version ).
  • Diffusion of humanism. Studies on the national historiography of European humanists. Wallstein-Verlag, Göttingen 2002, ISBN 3-89244-506-0 .
  • with Heribert Müller, in collaboration with Helmut Wolff: Studies for the 15th Century. Festschrift for Erich Meuthen. 2 volumes. Oldenbourg, Munich 1994, ISBN 3-486-56078-6 .

literature

  • Christian Jaser, Harald Müller, Thomas Woelki (Eds.): Elegance and Performance. From speakers, humanists and council fathers. Johannes Helmrath on his 65th birthday. Böhlau, Vienna et al. 2018, ISBN 3-412-50136-0 .

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Remarks

  1. ^ Steffen Zimmermann: A milestone for Catholic theology in Berlin. In: Katholisch.de , October 11, 2019, accessed on the same day.