Karl-Heinz Spieß

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Karl-Heinz Spieß (born December 4, 1948 in Großbockenheim ) is a German historian . From 1994 to 2014, Spieß held the chair for general history of the Middle Ages and historical auxiliary sciences at the Ernst-Moritz-Arndt University of Greifswald .

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Karl-Heinz Spieß attended the Jakob Böshenz elementary school in Bockenheim from 1955 to 1959 and the Leininger grammar school in Grünstadt from 1959 to 1967 . He graduated from high school in 1967 and studied history, English, education and philosophy at the universities of Aberdeen and Mainz from 1967 to 1972/73 . In November 1972 he passed the scientific examination for teaching at grammar schools in history and English. From 1972 to 1993, Spieß was a scientific employee and academic councilor at the University of Mainz. In 1977 he received his doctorate in Middle and Modern History under Alois Gerlich in Mainz. In 1978 he received the Diether von Isenburg Prize from Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz for his dissertation. From 1977 to 1994 he was a member of the board (secretary) of the Institute for Historical Regional Studies at the University of Mainz eV In December 1991 he was appointed to the academic council. In the same year his habilitation, supervised by Gerlich, took place in Mainz. From April 1993 to March 1994 he was a substitute professor at the University of Kassel . From April 1994 to September 2014 Karl-Heinz Spieß was Professor of General History of the Middle Ages and Historical Auxiliary Sciences at the University of Greifswald . He was appointed as the first historian from the old federal states. In 1995, Spieß became the spokesman for the Greifswald Medieval Center, an association of over 20 scientists from all faculties. In 1998 he turned down an appointment at the University of Bonn .

His main research interests are the social and constitutional history of the nobility, the comparative history of the country, the peasant society and the rural sources of law (especially the feudal system ). Already in his legal and territorial-historical dissertation he dealt with the feudal system of the Count Palatine near Rhine from 1209 to 1401. Spieß supplemented his dissertation with an edition of the oldest feudal book of the Count Palatine near Rhine from 1401. Spieß published a presentation on the feudal system in 2002, which appeared in 2009 in the second and improved edition. The work consists of the three parts A) presentation, B) sources and C) theses of research. In 2002, Spieß presented a collection of sources on fiefdom. The 67 texts in the volume cover the period from the 11th to the end of the 15th century. In spring 2011 he organized a Reichenau conference of the Constance working group for medieval history on the subject of training and spreading feudalism in the empire and in Italy in the 12th and 13th centuries. Spieß understands the feudal system to be "the entirety of the legal provisions for the relationship between feudal lord and vassal and their effects on state and social structures". On the subject of feudal affairs, Spieß wrote numerous articles for the concise dictionary on German legal history .

Spieß conceived and organized further conferences of the Konstanz working group for medieval history. Together with Neithard Bulst , Spieß organized the spring meeting of the working group on the social effectiveness of the medieval hospital in 2002. In the spring of 2005, a spring conference of the Konstanz Working Group for Medieval History, led by Spieß, was devoted to the topic of families in medieval society.

His habilitation thesis Family and Relatives in the German Non-Princely High Nobility of the Late Middle Ages, published in a second edition in 1993 and 2015, gave nobility research in Germany lasting impulses. With this work, Spieß presented the first study in decades that deals with the noble families in the late Middle Ages. In this study, Spiess selected 15 families of the count and lords who were resident in Franconia, Hesse, on the Middle and Upper Rhine, such as Eppstein, Hohenlohe, Nassau, Katzenelnbogen or Leiningen. In Greifswald he set up a large project on nobility research with “Principes”. For comparison, he examined the group of the highest nobility across Europe. In 2000 there was a big conference on Principes in Greifswald . Hosted dynasties and courts in the late Middle Ages . The results were published in 2002 in the prestigious “Residence Research” series. Numerous qualification papers resulted from this research project. These include the habilitation theses by Cordula Nolte on family, court and rule at the Zollern and by Oliver Auge on the scope of action of the princes in the northeast of the empire, as well as several dissertations. For the Greifswald Medieval Center, Spieß organized conferences on the subject of “Strangeness and Travel in the Middle Ages” (1995) and the “Processes of Norm Formation and Norm Change in Medieval Europe” (1998). In 1998 he organized and headed the section “Europe and Germany in the Perspective of American Medievalists” at the Frankfurt Historians' Day. In 2000 he organized a conference at the University of Greifswald on the subject of “Dynasties and Courts in Late Medieval Europe”. On the occasion of the 150th anniversary of the Historical Institute at Greifswald University, Spieß edited an anthology on historical studies in Greifswald together with Niels Hegewisch and Thomas Stamm-Kuhlmann in 2015. In the foreword of the publication, the editors express their intention to trace the "lines of tradition in Greifswald historical studies from the early 19th to the 21st century".

Spieß was awarded numerous scientific honors and memberships for his research. Spieß has been a member of the Hessian Historical Commission in Darmstadt since 1980, member of the Historical Commission for Nassau since 1983, member of the Association for Constitutional History since 1996 , member of the Konstanz Working Group for Medieval History since 1999, member of the Historical Commission for Pomerania since 2001 and since 2008 Corresponding member of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen . Spieß was also a co-founder of the scientific publication series Contributions to the History of the University of Greifswald , in which he was co-editor of numerous volumes. In 2012 he was honored with the badge of honor "Silver Greif" by the University and Hanseatic City of Greifswald and with the entry in the city's book of honor for the long-term organization of the lecture series "University in the Town Hall". At the series of events founded by Spieß in 2004, scientists report on current research in their respective subject in the town hall of Greifswald's town hall. In 2016, the Lord Mayor awarded him the Rubenow Medal, the city of Greifswald's highest distinction, for special services to the cooperation between the city and the university.

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Monographs

  • Together with Michael Hecker and Karl-Ulrich Meyn : The Ernst Moritz Arndt University in times of upheaval. Contemporary witnesses remember. Sardellus Verlagsgesellschaft, Greifswald 2018, ISBN 978-3-9813402-8-0 .
  • Princes and courts in the Middle Ages. Primus-Verlag, Darmstadt 2008, ISBN 978-3-534-15402-9 .
  • The feudal system in Germany in the high and late Middle Ages . With the assistance of Thomas Willich. Steiner, Stuttgart 2002 (3rd edition: 2011), ISBN 978-3-515-10069-4 .
  • Family and relatives in the German nobility of the late Middle Ages. 13th to the beginning of the 16th century (= quarterly for social and economic history. Supplements. No. 111). Steiner, Stuttgart 1993 (2nd, corrected edition with an introduction: 2015), ISBN 978-3-515-11097-6 (also: Mainz, University, habilitation paper, 1991/1992).
  • The oldest feudal book of the Count Palatine near Rhine from the year 1401. Edition and explanations (= publications of the Commission for historical regional studies in Baden-Württemberg. Series A: Sources. Vol. 30). Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 1981, ISBN 3-17-005785-5 .
  • Feudal rights, feudal politics and feudal administration of the Count Palatine near the Rhine in the late Middle Ages (= historical regional studies. Vol. 18). Steiner, Wiesbaden 1978, ISBN 3-515-02744-0 (also: Mainz, University, dissertation, 1977).

Editorships

  • with Niels Hegewisch and Thomas Stamm-Kuhlmann : History in Greifswald. Festschrift for the 150th anniversary of the Historical Institute of the University of Greifswald (= contributions to the history of the University of Greifswald. Vol. 11). Steiner, Stuttgart 2015, ISBN 978-3-515-10946-8 .
  • with Dirk Alvermann : Sources on the constitutional history of the University of Greifswald. (= Contributions to the history of the University of Greifswald. Vol. 10, 1–3). 3 volumes. Steiner, Stuttgart 2011–2014;
    • Volume 1: Benjamin Müsegades, Sabine-Maria Weitzel: From the founding of the university to the Peace of Westphalia. 1456-1648. 2011, ISBN 978-3-515-09655-3 ;
    • Volume 2: Marco Pohlmann-Linke, Sabine-Maria Weitzel: The time of the Swedish great power until the end of the Great Northern War 1649-1720. 2012, ISBN 978-3-515-09834-2 ;
    • Volume 3: Sabine-Maria Weitzel, Marco Pohlmann-Linke: From the time of freedom to the transition to Prussia 1721-1815. 2014, ISBN 978-3-515-10420-3 .
  • Education and dissemination of feudalism in the empire and in Italy in the 12th and 13th centuries (= Constance working group for medieval history. Vol. 76). Thorbecke, Ostfildern 2013, ISBN 978-379-95687-6-0 ( digitized version ).
  • with Immo Warntjes: Death at court. Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 2012, ISBN 978-3-447-06760-7 .
  • Landscapes in the Middle Ages. Steiner, Stuttgart 2006, ISBN 3-515-08579-3 .
  • Media of communication in the Middle Ages (= contributions to the history of communication. Vol. 15). Steiner, Stuttgart 2003, ISBN 3-515-08034-1 .

literature

  • Karl-Heinz Spieß. In: Jörg Schwarz: The Constance Working Group for Medieval History 1951-2001. The members and their work. A bio-bibliographical documentation (= publications of the Constance Working Group for Medieval History on the occasion of its fiftieth anniversary 1951–2001. Vol. 2). Edited by Jürgen Petersohn . Thorbecke, Stuttgart 2001, ISBN 3-7995-6906-5 , pp. 411-415 ( digitized version )
  • Oliver Auge (Ed.): King, Empire and Princes in the Middle Ages. Final conference of the Greifswald “Principes project”. Festschrift for Karl-Heinz Spieß (= contributions to the history of the University of Greifswald. Vol. 12). Steiner, Stuttgart 2017, ISBN 3-515-10895-5 .

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Remarks

  1. ↑ Oliver Auge: King, Empire and Princes in the Middle Ages - an introduction. In: Oliver Auge (Ed.): King, Empire and Prince in the Middle Ages. Final conference of the Greifswald “Principes project”. Festschrift for Karl-Heinz Spieß. Stuttgart 2017, pp. 13–21, here: p. 14.
  2. ↑ See the review by Julia Eulenstein in: Nassauische Annalen Vol. 122 (2011), pp. 492–493.
  3. ^ Karl-Heinz Spieß: For the introduction. In: Ders .: Formation and spread of feudalism in the empire and in Italy in the 12th and 13th centuries. Ostfildern 2013, pp. 9–16, here: p. 10; Karl-Heinz Spieß with the assistance of Thomas Willich: The feudal system in Germany in the high and late Middle Ages. 3. Edition. Stuttgart 2011, p. 16.
  4. ↑ See the list of positive reviews in Karl-Heinz Spieß: Family and Relatives in the German High Nobility of the Late Middle Ages. 13th to early 16th century. 2nd, corrected and introduced edition. Stuttgart 2015, S. Vf.
  5. ↑ See the review by Michaela Laichmann in: Mitteilungen des Institut für Österreichische Geschichtsforschung . 105: 501-502 (1997); Further review by Wilhelm Störmer in: Journal for Bavarian State History 59 (1996), pp. 1010-1013 ( online ).
  6. ^ Cordula Nolte: Family, court and rule. The relational relationship and communication network of the imperial princes using the example of the Margraves of Brandenburg-Ansbach (1440–1530). Ostfildern 2005
  7. ↑ Oliver Auge: Scope of action for princely politics in the Middle Ages. The southern Baltic region from the middle of the 12th century to the early Reformation period. Ostfildern 2009.
personal data
SURNAME Spit, Karl-Heinz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian
DATE OF BIRTH 4th December 1948
PLACE OF BIRTH Großbockenheim