Kurt Reindel

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Kurt Reindel (born June 4, 1925 in Bremerhaven ; † January 21, 2011 in Munich ) was a German historian . From 1976 to 1990 he taught as a professor for medieval history and historical auxiliary sciences at the University of Regensburg . He made lasting contributions to the Monumenta Germaniae Historica by editing the letters of Petrus Damiani , which he published between 1983 and 1993 in four parts on a total of over 2,200 pages.

Live and act

Kurt Reindel was born the son of a timber wholesaler. The von Reindel family moved from Bremerhaven to Munich in 1941. In 1943 he passed the Abitur. After a short labor service, he began studying in 1943/44. He was particularly influenced by Rudolf von Heckel and Max Spindler . They brought him closer to mediaeval source research and Bavarian regional history. His dissertation in Munich (1949) on the written sources on the Luitpolders quickly developed into a standard work after its publication in 1953. After the Second World War, Reindel, like Karl Eberhard Henke , Gertrud Diepolder or Andreas Kraus, belonged to the first generation of students around Max Spindler at the Institute for Bavarian History . In November 1949 he became an employee of the Monumenta Germaniae Historica (MGH). He dealt with a collection of individual letters from the Carolingian to the Salier period . During this time, Reindel lived “without a permanent employment relationship with the Monumenta from their own resources”. From 1951 to 1953 he completed a study visit with Wolfram von den Steinen in Basel . In 1962 he completed his habilitation in Munich with the unpublished work The Change in the World View in the 11th Century, examined on the basis of the writings of Petrus Damiani and the granting of the venia legendi for Middle and Bavarian State History. Since 1962 he was a private lecturer. In 1964 he received a paid lectureship. In 1966 he turned down an appointment to Frankfurt. In 1967 Reindel became a full professor for medieval history and historical auxiliary sciences at the University of Regensburg . He was the first professor for medieval history at the newly founded University of Regensburg. In 1976 he became a full member of the Central Management of the Monumenta Germaniae Historica; since 1980 he was a full member of the Commission for Bavarian State History . After the end of the summer semester, he retired in 1990. Reindel's most important academic students included Stephan Freund and Peter Segl .

Reindel's research on the history of Bavaria focused on the early and high Middle Ages. Until the beginning of the 1960s, he published on Duke Arnulf and the Regnum Bavariae, the Lex Baiuvariorum , the Ostland in early medieval Bavaria and the rulership of Bavaria from the late eighth to the middle of the tenth century. For the Handbook of Bavarian History, Reindel wrote the part on the political history from the Agilolfingers to the end of the Welfs (1967). The presentation exerted a considerable influence on further research. Reindel contributed the sections from the beginnings of Christianity in Bavaria , Franconia and Swabia to the Worms Concordat to the handbook of the history of the Protestant churches in Bavaria . In the Handbuch der Europäische Geschichte (Handbook of European History) (1976) he treated the time of the Liudolfinger and early Salians in several chapters . In the 1950s and 1960s in particular, Reindel tried to make the medieval history of Bavaria known to a wider audience, and participated in over 100 broadcasts on Bavarian Radio .

Reindel's second research focus was the letters of Petrus Damiani , which he finally edited in a four-volume critical edition (1983-1993) for the MGH after extensive preliminary studies on their transmission history (1959–1962) .

Fonts (selection)

A list of writings appeared in: Günter Thaller: Directory of Kurt Reindel's writings. In: Lothar Kolmer, Peter Segl (eds.): Regensburg, Bavaria and Europe. Festschrift for Kurt Reindel on his 70th birthday. Universitätsverlag, Regensburg 1995, ISBN 3-930480-61-1 , pp. 453–456 and Kurt Reindel's list of publications since 1995. In: Heinz Dopsch , Stephan Freund, Alois Schmid (eds.): Bavaria and Italy. Politics, culture, communication (8th – 15th centuries). Festschrift for Kurt Reindel on his 75th birthday (= magazine for Bavarian regional history. Supplements 18). Beck, Munich 2001, ISBN 3-406-10818-0 , p. 499.

Source editions

Monographs

  • The Bavarian Luitpoldinger 893–989. Collection and explanation of the sources (= sources and discussions on Bavarian history, New Series. Volume 11). Beck, Munich 1953.
  • Bavaria in the Middle Ages. Beck, Munich 1970. ISBN 3-406-03320-2 .

Essays

  • Duke Arnulf and the Regnum Bavariae. In: Journal for Bavarian State History , Volume 17, 1953/54, pp. 187-252.
  • Studies on the transmission of the works of Petrus Damiani. In: German Archive for Research into the Middle Ages , Volume 15, 1959, pp. 23-102; ibid. Volume 16, 1960, pp. 73-154; ibid. Volume 18, 1962, pp. 317-417.
  • The diocese organization in the Alps-Danube region in late antiquity and in the early Middle Ages. In: Mitteilungen des Institut für Österreichische Geschichtsforschung , Volume 72, 1964, pp. 277-310.
  • The Bavarians. Sources, hypotheses, facts. In: German Archive for Research into the Middle Ages , Volume 37, 1981, pp. 451–473.

literature

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Remarks

  1. ^ Horst Fuhrmann: Instead of a laudation: Letter of homage to Kurt Reindel. In: Heinz Dopsch, Stephan Freund, Alois Schmid (eds.): Bavaria and Italy. Politics, culture, communication (8th – 15th centuries). Festschrift for Kurt Reindel on his 75th birthday. Munich 2001, pp. 1–5, here: p. 2.
  2. ↑ Rudolf Schieffer: Kurt Reindel. In: German Archive for Research into the Middle Ages , Volume 67, 2011, pp. 145–146, here: p. 145.
personal data
SURNAME Reindel, Kurt
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian
DATE OF BIRTH June 4, 1925
PLACE OF BIRTH Bremerhaven
DATE OF DEATH January 21, 2011
Place of death Munich