Johannes Laudage

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Johannes Laudage (born February 23, 1959 in Menden ; † January 26, 2008 in Nattenheim ) was a German historian . Laudage taught from the 1999/2000 winter semester until his death in 2008 at the Heinrich Heine University in Düsseldorf as a professor of medieval history. His research focus was the history of the 10th to 12th centuries.

Live and act

Johannes Laudage studied history, Catholic theology and historical auxiliary sciences at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn and at the University of Cologne . Since 1979 he has been sponsored by the Cusanuswerk . In 1983, at the age of 24, he received his doctorate under Odilo Engels in Cologne ; In 1989 he completed his habilitation with a thesis on Pope Alexander III. and Friedrich Barbarossa . After teaching and researching at universities in Cologne , Mainz , Braunschweig , Heidelberg , Bonn and Munich , Laudage was appointed to the Chair of Medieval History at the Heinrich Heine University in Düsseldorf in 1999 . In 2008 he was killed in a traffic accident. He left behind his wife and six children. His wife Christiane, journalist and historian, published a history of the antipopes in 2012 and a history of indulgences in the Middle Ages and in the early modern period in 2016.

The main focus of Laudage's research was the history of the 10th to 12th centuries. Questions relating to the history of the Church and the history of the spirit served him as a starting point for a more comprehensive perspective, while accents of legal and military history rounded off the overall picture. Laudage was a member of the scientific advisory board of the Paderborn exhibition "Canossa 1077 - Shaking the World" and a member of the Society for Rhenish History . In his dissertation, Laudage argued that the generally known elements of the church reform of the 11th century accepted by research should be expanded to include the emergence of a new “priestly image”. This clerical ideal was characterized by the emphasis on the cultic purity of the priest, the insistence on celibacy and the fact that church offices (cf. simony ) and services ( sacraments ) cannot be bought. International research has largely subscribed to these positions; they have found their way into the most important handbooks on church reform and the investiture dispute in the 11th century. In his habilitation, he pursued the goal of “by combining questions from modern legal and constitutional history with those from political history, to gain more detailed information about the factors that determined the great conflict between papacy and empire in the years 1159–1177 ". Laudage worked out in particular that the different interpretations of the provisions of the alleged Constantinian donation were an essential part of the longstanding conflict between the imperial and papal parties. It was the dispute between Barbarossa and Pope Alexander III. accordingly above all about a conflict of interests about the secular claims to rule of the opponents in Italy and less about the question of the top position of emperor and pope in a (world) order encompassing the whole of Christendom (according to the tenor of the older research).

Laudage was best known through numerous works on the investiture controversy , but also through his biography of Emperor Otto I published in 2001. In 2006 he published a brief introduction to the Salians . Also in 2006, Laudage and his colleagues Lars Hageneier and Yvonne Leiverkus published a “reading book” on the Carolingians. The book is not primarily aimed at specialists, but is intended to bring the Carolingians closer to a wider audience. At the beginning of 2009 his last work was published posthumously, a biography of Friedrich Barbarossa, which was edited by Lars Hageneier and Matthias Schrör from the estate. Laudage could not finish the presentation about Barbarossa completely. There is a big gap between the Bamberg Court Day (1169) and the Peace of Venice (1177). Laudage was less concerned with whether and to what extent a biography of a person from the Middle Ages was even possible. He considered an “integrative understanding approach” to be necessary. According to the laudage, the “art of historical understanding” consisted in “recognizing the internal consistency and coherence of certain bundles of events”. In Laudage, this often meant that a certain process was “not surprising”.

Fonts

Monographs

  • Image of priests and reform papacy in the 11th century (= archive for cultural history. Supplements 22). Böhlau, Cologne et al. 1984, ISBN 3-412-05484-4 (also: Cologne, University, dissertation, 1983).
  • Gregorian reform and investiture dispute (= income from research. Vol. 282). Scientific Book Society, Darmstadt 1993, ISBN 3-534-08566-3 .
  • Alexander III and Friedrich Barbarossa (= research on the imperial and papal history of the Middle Ages. Vol. 16). Böhlau, Cologne et al. 1997, ISBN 3-412-15495-4 (also: Cologne, university, habilitation thesis, 1996).
  • Otto the Great (912–973). A biography. Pustet, Regensburg 2001, ISBN 3-7917-1750-2 (3rd edition. Regensburg 2012).
  • The Salians. The first German royal family (= Beck series. C.-H.-Beck-Wissen 2397). Beck, Munich 2006, ISBN 3-406-53597-6 (4th, revised and updated edition, Munich 2017).
  • with Lars Hageneier and Yvonne Leiverkus: The time of the Carolingians. Scientific Book Society, Darmstadt 2006, ISBN 3-534-15830-X .
  • Friedrich Barbarossa. (1152-1190). A biography. Edited by Lars Hageneier and Matthias Schrör . Pustet, Regensburg 2009, ISBN 978-3-7917-2167-5 .

Editorships

  • with Matthias Schrör: The Investiture Controversy. Sources and materials (= UTB. Vol. 2769). 2nd, completely revised and greatly expanded edition. Böhlau, Cologne et al. 2006, ISBN 3-8252-2769-3 .

literature

  • Oliver Junge: Constructed narratives. On the death of the medievalist Johannes Laudage. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , January 30, 2008, No. 25, p. 39.

Web links

Remarks

  1. ^ Obituary in: Romerike Berge. Journal for the Bergisches Land. Vol. 58, Issue 1, 2008, ISSN  0485-4306 , p. 50.
  2. ↑ Johannes Laudage: Alexander III. and Friedrich Barbarossa. Cologne et al. 1997, p. 239. Cf. the reviews of Rudolf Schieffer in: Deutsches Archiv für Erforschung des Mittelalters 54 (1998), pp. 308–309 ( online ); Johannes Heil in: Zeitschrift für Geschichtswwissenschaft 46 (1998), pp. 938–939; Ingrid Baumgärtner in: Historisches Jahrbuch 119 (1999), p. 404.
  3. ↑ See the reviews of Rudolf Schieffer in: Deutsches Archiv für Erforschung des Mittelalters 57 (2001), pp. 733–734; Christian Hillen in: H-Soz-Kult , July 10, 2002 ( online ).
  4. ↑ See the review by Rudolf Schieffer in: Deutsches Archiv für Erforschung des Mittelalters 62 (2006), p. 766 ( online )
  5. ↑ Johannes Laudage, Lars Hageneier and Yvonne Leiverkus: The time of the Carolingians. Darmstadt 2006, p. 8.
  6. ↑ See the reviews of Rudolf Schieffer: Deutsches Archiv für Erforschung des Mittelalters 63 (2007), p. 265 ( online ); Bernd Schütte in: Das Historisch-Politische Buch 54 (2006), pp. 473–474.
  7. ↑ Reviews of Michael Borgolte in: Das Historisch-Politische Buch 57 (2009), pp. 449–451; Bernd Schütte in H-Soz-Kult , October 7, 2009 ( online ); Gianluca Raccagni in: German Historical Institute London Bulletin . Vol. XXXII (2010), 2, pp. 47-51 ( online ); Knut Görich in: see points 9 (2009), no. 7/8 [15. July 2009] ( online ); Knut Görich in: German Archives for Research into the Middle Ages 65 (2009), pp. 752–753 ( online ).
  8. ^ Johannes Laudage: Friedrich Barbarossa. (1152-1190). A biography. Edited by Lars Hageneier and Matthias Schrör. Regensburg 2009, p. 52.
  9. ^ Johannes Laudage: Friedrich Barbarossa. (1152-1190). A biography. Edited by Lars Hageneier and Matthias Schrör. Regensburg 2009, p. 264.
personal data
SURNAME Laudage, Johannes
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian
DATE OF BIRTH February 23, 1959
PLACE OF BIRTH Menden (Sauerland)
DATE OF DEATH January 26, 2008
Place of death Nattenheim