Klaus Herbers

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Klaus Herbers

Klaus Herbers (born January 5, 1951 in Wuppertal - Elberfeld ) is a German historian of medieval history. From 1998 to 2019 he taught as a professor for medieval history and historical auxiliary sciences at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg . He is an expert on the history of Spain and the papacy in the early and high Middle Ages. Further fields of work are pilgrimage and hagiography .

Live and act

Klaus Herbers attended high school in Solingen . From 1969 to 1975 he studied history and Romance philology in Cologne , Poitiers and at Saarland University . In 1975 he passed the first state examination for teaching at grammar schools. In 1975 he became an assistant at the Technical University of Berlin. Herbers received his doctorate in 1980 with a thesis on the cult of St. James of the 12th century, supervised by Harald Zimmermann and Ernst Pitz . After working in legal clerkship from 1980 to 1982, Herbers was a research assistant at the Academy of Sciences in Mainz from 1983 to 1998, working on the Regesta Imperii in Tübingen. He completed his habilitation in 1994 at the University of Tübingen with a thesis on papal history in the 9th century. In the summer semester of 1996 he was a substitute professor at the Humboldt University in Berlin . From 1998 to 2019 he taught as the successor to Werner Goez as professor for medieval history and historical auxiliary sciences at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg. In 2008 he was visiting professor at the École pratique des hautes études in Paris, and in 2014 a fellow at the Cultural Studies College at the University of Konstanz . Together with the sinologist Michael Lackner , he heads the International College for Humanities Research in Erlangen from 2015 to 2021 “Fate, Freedom and Prediction. Coping Strategies in East Asia and Europe ”.

His work focuses on hagiography (especially the cult of St. James), pilgrimage and pilgrimage reports, the Iberian Peninsula in the Middle Ages and the history of the Pope in the Carolingian era. Herbers is one of the few experts in the Spanish Middle Ages in Germany. He was interested in pilgrims and flagellants from an early age. With French friends, he first moved to the Galician pilgrimage destination of Compostela in 1972 . During this trip he made the decision to do a doctorate on this subject. In his Berlin dissertation he dealt with the Liber Sancti Jacobi and the Jacobean cult in the 12th century. He wrote a book on the Camino de Santiago for a wider audience . Herbers published a history of Spain from the Visigothic period to the end of the Middle Ages.

Another major focus of work is the history of the papacy. Herbers is also known internationally as one of the most recognized experts on papal history in the early and high Middle Ages. In his Tübingen habilitation thesis he dealt with Pope Leo IV. After decades of research, in 2012 he presented a presentation on the history of the papacy in the Middle Ages. Herbers sees the “guidelines” of his presentation in “institutionalization, Europeanization, network formation, forms of communication, procedures, spiritual and secular rule”. Its presentation consists of eleven chapters and traces the history of the papacy from the 5th to the 16th century, from Leo I (440–461) to Leo X (1513–1521). He sees the time of Leo I as the possible beginning of the "era of the medieval papacy". For the 8th and 9th centuries he advocates the thesis of a “progressive detachment” of the Roman bishops from Byzantium. In his conclusion, Herbers emphasizes the adaptability of the papacy as a hallmark throughout its history. He interprets the history of the papacy as a "history of change and transformation". Herbers also worked on the papal gestures of the Carolingian era as part of the Regesta Imperii . In 2016 he published a comparative study of the contacts and coexistence of Christians and Muslims in early medieval Spain and Italy.

With Helmut Neuhaus he published a presentation about the Holy Roman Empire . According to the foreword, the author's concern was to "give an overview of the almost thousand-year history of this Holy Roman Empire, significantly including the locations, and to emphasize the local aspect again and again".

Herbers has been a corresponding member of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences since 2012 and a full member of the Mainz Academy of Sciences and Literature since 2013 . Since 2004 he has been secretary in the scientific management of the Pius Foundation for Papal Document Research . Since 2010 he has been deputy chairman and since November 2013 he has been chairman of the German Commission for the Processing of Regesta Imperii eV at the Academy of Sciences and Literature in Mainz. In 2009 he took over the deputy head of the International College for Research in the Humanities (IKGF) “Fate, Freedom and Prediction. Coping strategies in East Asia and Europe ”, located at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg. Since 2010 he has been the successor to Helmut Neuhaus and has been the editor of the journal Archiv für Kulturgeschichte . Since 2012 he has been Vice President of the German St. James Society and since 2016 he has been its President. Since 2014 he has also been a member of the Central Management of the Monumenta Germaniae Historica . He has been a corresponding member of the Real Academia de la Historia de Españia since 2020 .

Herbers has been married since 1979. The marriage had four children.

Fonts (selection)

Monographs

  • Europe: Christians and Muslims in contact and confrontation. Italy and Spain in the long 9th century (= treatises of the humanities and social sciences class. No. 2). Steiner, Stuttgart 2016, ISBN 978-3-515-11441-7 .
  • History of the Popes in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance (= Reclams Universal Library. No. 19275). Reclam, Stuttgart 2014, ISBN 978-3-15-019275-7 .
  • History of the Papacy in the Middle Ages. WBG - Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, Darmstadt 2012, ISBN 978-3-534-23170-6 .
  • with Max Kerner : The Popess Johanna. Biography of a legend. Böhlau, Cologne et al. 2010, ISBN 978-3-412-20469-3 .
  • James - the saint of Europe. History and culture of the pilgrimages to Santiago de Compostela. Patmos, Düsseldorf 2007, ISBN 978-3-491-35012-0 .
  • History of Spain in the Middle Ages. From the Visigoth Empire to the end of the 15th century. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 2006, ISBN 3-17-018871-2 .
  • Way of St. James. History and culture of a pilgrimage (= Beck'sche Reihe 2394 CH Beck Wissen ). Beck, Munich 2006, ISBN 3-406-53594-1 .
  • with Norbert Ohler , Bernhard Schimmelpfennig , Bernhard Schneider and Peter Thorau: Pilgrimage routes in the Middle Ages. Published in cooperation with DAMALS - the magazine for history and culture. Scientific Book Society, Darmstadt 2005, ISBN 3-534-18760-1 .
  • with Helmut Neuhaus: The Holy Roman Empire. Scenes from a thousand years of history (843–1806). Böhlau, Cologne et al. 2005, ISBN 3-412-23405-2 .
  • Leo IV and the papacy in the middle of the 9th century. Possibilities and limits of papal rule in the late Carolingian period (= popes and papacy. Vol. 27). Hiersemann, Stuttgart 1996, ISBN 3-7772-9601-5 (also: Tübingen, University, habilitation paper, 1993).
  • The cult of St. James of the 12th century and the “Liber Sancti Jacobi”. Studies on the relationship between religion and society in the high Middle Ages (= historical research. Vol. 7). Steiner, Wiesbaden 1984, ISBN 3-515-03875-2 (also revised version: Berlin, Technical University, dissertation, 1980).

Editorships

  • with Gordon Blennemann: From martyrs to witnesses of faith? Forms and ideas of Christian martyrdom in transition (= contributions to hagiography. Vol. 14). Steiner, Stuttgart 2014, ISBN 978-3-515-10715-0 .
  • with Matthias Maser, Michele C. Ferrari and Hartmut Bobzin : From Mozarabs to Mozarabisms. On the diversity of cultural orders on the medieval Iberian Peninsula (= Spanish research by the Görres Society. Vol. 41). Aschendorff, Münster 2014, ISBN 978-3-402-14867-9 .
  • with Jochen Johrendt : The papacy and the diverse Italy. One hundred years of Italia Pontificia (= treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen. New series, vol. 5). de Gruyter, Berlin et al. 2009, ISBN 978-3-11-021467-3 .
  • with Wilfried Hartmann : The fascination of papal history. New approaches to the early and high Middle Ages (= research on the imperial and papal history of the Middle Ages. Vol. 28). Böhlau, Cologne et al. 2008, ISBN 978-3-412-20220-0 .
  • with Enno Bünz : The Jakobus cult in Saxony (= Jakobus studies. Vol. 17). Narr, Tübingen 2007, ISBN 978-3-8233-6332-3 .
  • The Upper German imperial cities and their cults of saints. Traditions and characteristics between the city, the order of knights and the empire (= James Studies. Vol. 16). Narr, Tübingen 2005, ISBN 3-8233-6192-9 .
  • with Nikolas Jaspert : "That seems Spanish to me". Own and foreign in the German-Spanish relations of the late Middle Ages (= history and culture of the Iberian world. Vol. 1). Lit, Münster 2004, ISBN 3-8258-8004-4 .
  • James and Charlemagne. From Einhard's Karlvita to Pseudo-Turpin (= Jakobus Studies. Vol. 14). Narr, Tübingen 2003, ISBN 3-8233-6018-3 .
  • with Dieter R. Bauer : The Jacobus cult in East Central Europe. Exchange - Influences - Effects (= Jakobus Studies. Vol. 12). Narr, Tübingen 2003, ISBN 3-8233-4012-3 .
  • Europe at the turn of the 11th to the 12th century. Contributions in honor of Werner Goez. Steiner, Stuttgart 2001, ISBN 3-515-07752-9 .
  • City and pilgrims. Social communities and cult of saints (= James Studies. Vol. 10). Narr, Tübingen 1999, ISBN 3-8233-4010-7 .

Source works

  • with Lenka Jiroušková and Bernhard Vogel: Miracle reports of the early and high Middle Ages. = Miracula medii aevi usque ad saeculum XII (= Selected sources on German history in the Middle Ages. Freiherr-vom-Stein-Gedächtnisausgabe. Vol. 43). Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, Darmstadt 2005, ISBN 3-534-16475-X (text in German and Latin).
  • The regests of the empire under the Carolingians 751–918 (987). Volume 4: Papstregesten 800-911. Part 2: 844-872. Delivery 2: 858–867 (Nikolaus I) (= Johann Friedrich Böhmer: Regesta Imperii. 1). Böhlau, Vienna et al. 2012, ISBN 978-3-412-20813-4 .
  • The regests of the empire under the Carolingians 751–918 (926/962). Volume 4: Papstregesten 800-911. Part 2: 844-872. Delivery 1: 844-858 (= Johann Friedrich Böhmer: Regesta Imperii. 1). Böhlau, Cologne et al. 1999, ISBN 3-412-03198-4 .
  • German pilgrims to St. James and their reports (= St. James studies. Vol. 1). Narr, Tübingen 1988, ISBN 3-8233-4000-X .

Collections of articles

  • Pilgrims, popes, saints. Selected essays on European history in the Middle Ages. (Klaus Herbers on his 60th birthday). Edited by Gordon Blennemann, Wiebke Deimann, Matthias Maser and Christofer Zwanzig. Narr, Tübingen 2011, ISBN 978-3-8233-6616-4 .

literature

  • Claudia Alraum, Andreas Holndonner, Hans-Christian Lehner, Cornelia Scherer, Thorsten Schlauwitz, Veronika Unger (eds.): Between Rome and Santiago. Festschrift for Klaus Herbers on his 65th birthday. Contributions from his friends and companions, presented by his students. Winkler, Bochum 2016, ISBN 978-3-89911-239-9 .
  • Klaus Herbers In: Academy of Sciences and Literature, Mainz. Yearbook. 67, 2016, pp. 47-48.

Web links

Remarks

  1. ↑ Klaus Herbers In: Academy of Sciences and Literature, Mainz. Yearbook. 67, 2016, pp. 47–48, here: p. 47.
  2. ↑ See the reviews of Thomas M. Krüger in: Deutsches Archiv für Erforschung des Mittelalters 74 (2018), pp. 314–315; Florian Hartmann in: Sources and research from Italian archives and libraries 93 (2013), pp. 445–446 ( online ); Sebastian Scholz in: Historische Zeitschrift 297 (2013), pp. 461–462 ( online ); Bernward Schmidt in: Rottenburger Jahrbuch für Kirchengeschichte 30 (2011), pp. 230–231 ( online ).
  3. ↑ Klaus Herbers: History of the Papacy in the Middle Ages. Darmstadt 2012, p. 20 f.
  4. ↑ Klaus Herbers: History of the Papacy in the Middle Ages. Darmstadt 2012, p. 39.
  5. ↑ Klaus Herbers: History of the Papacy in the Middle Ages. Darmstadt 2012, p. 64.
  6. ↑ Klaus Herbers: History of the Papacy in the Middle Ages. Darmstadt 2012, p. 300.
  7. ↑ See the review by Clemens Gantner in: Mitteilungen des Institut für Österreichische Geschichtsforschung 126 (2018), pp. 172–174 ( online ).
  8. ↑ Cf. the review of the second edition by Rüdiger Meixner in: Nassauische Annalen. 119, 2008, pp. 573-575; Guntram Koch in: Rottenburger Jahrbuch für Kirchengeschichte 29 (2010), pp. 180–181 ( online ).
  9. ^ Member entry by Klaus Herbers at the Academy of Sciences and Literature Mainz
  10. ↑ Klaus Herbers In: Academy of Sciences and Literature, Mainz. Yearbook. 67, 2016, pp. 47–48, here: p. 48.
  11. ^ Review of the Festschrift by Hannes Obermair on The Medieval Review (Indiana University) on April 12, 2017 , accessed on May 3, 2017
personal data
SURNAME Herbers, Klaus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian
DATE OF BIRTH 5th January 1951
PLACE OF BIRTH Wuppertal - Elberfeld