Johannes Pahlitzsch

Johannes Pahlitzsch (born May 31, 1963 in Berlin ) is a German Byzantinist .

Johannes Pahlitzsch first studied church music and in 1989 passed the exam as a B church musician . From 1987 to 1993 he studied Medieval History, Arabic and Byzantine Studies at the Free University of Berlin . There he received his doctorate under Kaspar Elm in 1998 on the Greek Orthodox Patriarchate of Jerusalem at the time of the Crusades. He was a research fellow at the Free University of Berlin and at the Max Planck Institute for European Legal History . From 2005 to March 2009 he worked as a research assistant at the University of Mainz . His habilitation also took place in Berlin in 2008. In April 2009 he succeeded Günter Prinzing and has been teaching as Professor of Byzantine Studies at the University of Mainz since then.

His main research interests are the relationships between the various religious communities in the Eastern Mediterranean, primarily in the Mamluk period, the Islamic foundation system ( Waqf ) in comparison, and the Byzantine and Islamic memorial culture.

Fonts

• Graeci and Suriani in Crusader Palestine. Contributions and sources on the history of the Greek Orthodox Patriarchate of Jerusalem (= Berlin historical studies. Vol. 33 = Order studies. Vol. 15). Duncker and Humblot, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-428-09884-6 (also: Berlin, Freie Univ., Diss., 1998).

Web links

• Page from Pahlitzsch at the University of Mainz
• Pahlitzsch, Johannes .  Publications in the bibliographic database of the Regesta Imperii .