Knut Görich

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Knut Görich (born October 30, 1959 in Stuttgart ) is a German historian of medieval history. He has been teaching and researching since the 2001/02 winter semester as a professor for the history of the Early and High Middle Ages at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich . His research interests are in the age of the Ottonians and Staufers , early and high medieval historiography, the forms of communication and interaction in the Middle Ages and the cultural history of the political. Görich is one of the leading experts on the Hohenstaufen ruler Friedrich Barbarossa .

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Knut Görich graduated from high school in Leonberg in 1978 . Military service followed. Görich then studied history and German at the University of Tübingen and at the University of La Sapienza in Rome. In 1988 he passed his first state examination. He wrote his state examination thesis at Tilmann Schmidt about the activities of Dietrich von Silve-Benite as a consultant and envoy in the environment of Friedrich Barbarossa . In 1992 he was with Harald Zimmermann in Tübingen on the subject of Otto III. Romanus Saxonicus et Italicus: Imperial Rome politics and Saxon historiography doctorate. His habilitation took place in 2000 under Wilfried Hartmann in Tübingen with a thesis on The Honor of Friedrich Barbarossa . The presentation is considered to be "one of the most important milestones in modern Staufer research". In 2004 he was awarded the Science Prize of the Stauferstiftung Göppingen for this. After his appointment as a private lecturer, Görich took over a professorship at the University of Mannheim in the winter semester 2000/2001 . Since the 2001/02 winter semester, Görich has been teaching as the successor to Stefan Weinfurter as Professor of History of the Early and High Middle Ages at the University of Munich . Görich has been a full member of the Philosophical-Historical Class of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences since 2014 .

His main research interests are the Ottonian and Staufer times , early and high medieval historiography, the forms of communication and interaction in the Middle Ages, and the “political” mentality. In his dissertation on Otto III. he came to numerous new assessments of Otto's Rome and imperial politics. According to Görich's analysis of the historical works ( Brun von Querfurt , Vita Bernwardi , Thietmar von Merseburg , Quedlinburger Annalen and Hildesheimer Annalen ) the idea of ​​a specifically Saxon aversion to Rome is questionable. Rather, these impulses grew out of rivalries between aristocratic groups within Saxony. He was critical of Percy Ernst Schramm 's idea of ​​a “Roman idea of ​​renewal” as the real political driving force of the emperor. Rather, Görich sees church reform ambitions (liberation of the papacy from internal Roman power struggles or attempts at monastery reform) as the guiding principle.

Görich works on honor as a concept of order in the Staufer era ( Honor Imperii ). In his habilitation, published in 2001, he asked “whether injured honor was just as motivating for Friedrich Barbarossa and his contemporaries to act as the political or financial constraints that are more accessible to us today”. In the “unconditional preservation of the honor imperii”, he made the essential “action-guiding concept” in Friedrich Barbarossa's ruling behavior. In his habilitation he examined the conflicts with the Salzburg bishops in the schism (pp. 58–91), with the Popes Hadrian IV and Alexander III. (Pp. 92–185) and with the Lombard cities between 1153 and 1183 (pp. 186–302). The other chapters on legislation and jurisdiction as well as the connection between money and honor are more systematically oriented. In a contribution published in 2006 he examined the Hohenstaufen politics in Italy under the aspect of honor imperii et imperatoris .

In 2006 he published the overview of the Staufers about the Staufer. Rulers and Empire , the third edition of which appeared in 2011. In September 2011 he published a biography of the Hohenstaufen emperor Friedrich Barbarossa. The Barbarossa biography is considered a standard work. In his contributions he dealt several times with the appropriation of Barbarossa by older national tales. Görich sees his research as a contribution to a “cultural history of the political”.

Görich has been President of the Society for Staufer History in Göppingen since March 2012 . In March 2013 a conference took place in Altenburg, Thuringia . The focus was on the directly contemporary pictorial representations of the Hohenstaufen emperor Friedrich I. Barbarossa. The 19 contributions were edited by Görich and Romedio Schmitz-Esser in 2014 in an anthology. The aim of the conference and the anthology was "a synopsis of the earliest pictorial representations of the Staufer Emperor Friedrich I. Barbarossa, who died in 1190 on the Third Crusade ". In 2017 Görich edited together with Romedio Schmitz-Esser and Jochen Johrendt an anthology of a conference held in December 2015 at the German Study Center in Venice . Using Venice as an example, the "topics of adventus and the meeting of rulers" should be treated in the sense of "a new cultural history of the political". In contrast to traditional political history, the focus was less on political ideas and supposedly objective power structures, but rather on symbolic representation and its perception. Görich dealt with the visit of Emperor Otto III. in 1001.

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Monographs

Editorships

  • with Jochen Johrendt , Romedio Schmitz-Esser: Venice as a stage. Organization, staging and perception of visits to European rulers (= study series of the German Study Center in Venice. Vol. 16). Schnell & Steiner, Regensburg 2017, ISBN 978-3-7954-3222-5 .
  • with Martin Wihoda : Friedrich Barbarossa in the national histories of Germany and East Central Europe (19th – 20th centuries). Böhlau, Cologne 2017, ISBN 3-412-50454-8 .
  • with Romedio Schmitz-Esser: conference proceedings Barbarossabilder. Contexts of origin, horizons of expectation, contexts of use. Schnell & Steiner, Regensburg 2014, ISBN 978-3-7954-2901-0 .
  • with Jan Keupp , Theo Broekmann: Rulers , Rulership Practice and Communication in the Time of Frederick II (= Munich Contributions to Historical Studies . Vol. 2). Herbert Utz Verlag, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-8316-0756-3 .

literature

  • Bernd Schneidmüller : Laudation for the awarding of the science prize to Prof. Dr. Knut Görich. In: Everyday life in the Middle Ages (= writings on Hohenstaufen history and art. Vol. 24). Society for Staufer History, Göppingen 2005, ISBN 3-929776-17-0 , pp. 170–175.

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Remarks

  1. ↑ Bernd Schneidmüller: Laudation for the awarding of the science prize to Prof. Dr. Knut Görich. In: Everyday Life in the Middle Ages (Writings on Staufer History and Art 24), Göppingen 2005, pp. 170–175, here: p. 170.
  2. ^ Page by Görich at the Bavarian Academy of Sciences
  3. ↑ Knut Görich: The honor of Friedrich Barbarossas. Communication, Conflict, and Political Action in the 12th Century. Scientific Book Society, Darmstadt 2001, p. 16.
  4. ↑ Knut Görich: The honor of Friedrich Barbarossas. Communication, Conflict, and Political Action in the 12th Century. Scientific Book Society, Darmstadt 2001, p. 376.
  5. ↑ Knut Görich: Honor as a factor of order. Recognition and stabilization of rule under Friedrich Barbarossa and Friedrich II. In: Bernd Schneidmüller, Stefan Weinfurter (Hrsg.): Configurations of order in the high Middle Ages. Ostfildern 2006, pp. 59–92.
  6. ↑ Cf. Barbara Stollberg-Rilinger: What does cultural history of the political mean? Introduction. In: Barbara Stollberg-Rilinger (Ed.): What does cultural history of the political mean? Berlin 2005, pp. 9–24.
  7. ↑ Knut Görich: BarbarossaBilder - findings and problems. An introduction. In: Knut Görich, Romedio Schmitz-Esser (ed.): BarbarossaBilder - origins, horizons of expectation and contexts of use. Regensburg 2014, pp. 9–29, here: p. 9.
  8. ^ Romedio Schmitz-Esser, Knut Görich and Jochen Johrendt: Venice as a stage. Organization, staging and perception of visits to European rulers. This. (Ed.): Venice as a stage. Organization, staging and perception of visits to European rulers. Regensburg 2017, pp. 7–15, here: p. 9.
  9. ↑ Knut Görich: Secret meeting of rulers: Emperor Otto III. visits Venice (1001). In: Romedio Schmitz-Esser, Knut Görich and Jochen Johrendt (eds.): Venice as a stage. Organization, staging and perception of visits to European rulers. Regensburg 2017, pp. 51–66.
personal data
SURNAME Goerich, Knut
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian
DATE OF BIRTH October 30, 1959
PLACE OF BIRTH Stuttgart