Ludwig Falkenstein

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Ludwig Falkenstein (born April 6, 1933 in Aachen ; † November 29, 2015 ) was a German historian and diplomat .

Ludwig Falkenstein attended elementary school in Aachen from 1939 and then the Kaiser-Karls-Gymnasium . Falkenstein studied in Bonn, Munich, Innsbruck and Cologne. Bernhard Bischoff was one of his academic teachers in Munich . In Rome, Falkenstein worked with the help of a three-year grant from the German Research Foundation at the Corpus Consuetudinum Monasticum company headed by Kassius Hallinger . The first volume, Initia consuetudinis Benedictinae, appeared in 1963. He received his doctorate from the University of Cologne in 1964. In his habilitation he worked on the Reims letter collection around 1170. Falkenstein taught from 1965 to 1998 at the Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule Aachen . He helped set up the historical institute, especially the library.

Falkenstein's research focus was the medieval history of Aachen. In his dissertation, supervised by Theodor Schieffer , he dealt with the transfer of the name “ Lateran ” to a building or a building complex in the Carolingian Palatinate in Aachen . The transfer of names plays a role in the question of the takeover of Roman tradition by Charlemagne . Older art historical research drew the conclusion that the Aachen Lateran must be built on the Roman model from the fact that the names were identical. According to Falkenstein, however, neither the written sources nor the archaeological findings show "that the Aachen Palatinate as a whole bore the name 'Lateran' and is to be understood as an imitation of the Roman patriarchy, however it may be understood." Rather, Falkenstein comes to the conclusion that the Aachen Lateran is to be understood as a building “which served the palace church as a secretarium and must therefore have been closely associated with it. As a secretarium it had the function of a sacristy and was used to store the church treasures, but also offered space for larger church gatherings ”. He published a work on Charlemagne and the emergence of the Aachen Marienstift (1981) as well as on Otto III. and Aachen (1998). He also wrote special studies on the Aachen Palatinate and Vicus Aachen in the Carolingian era.

Falkenstein was considered to be one of the best experts on medieval papal documents and canon law . He worked for the Gallia Pontificia (papal documents in France), a research project to index the issued early and high medieval papal documents, on the volumes for the dioceses of Reims and Châlons-en-Champagne . With his research on the interaction of the institutions of the ecclesiastical province of Reims with the papacy, he received a lot of attention in historical studies. He devoted numerous studies to Pope Alexander III. Falkenstein was a member of the Gesellschaft für Rheinische Geschichtskunde and, since 1993, an external corresponding member of the Société des antiquaires de France . In 2003 he gave a lecture on the Archbishop of Reims, Wilhelm von Blois, at the Société des antiquaires de France .

On November 18, 2016, a memorial colloquium in honor of Ludwig Falkenstein took place in Aachen with the conference Aachen, France and the Papacy, organized by RWTH Aachen in cooperation with the German Historical Institute in Paris .

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A list of publications appeared in: Lotte Kéry , Dietrich Lohrmann , Harald Müller (eds.): Licet preter solitum. Ludwig Falkenstein on his 65th birthday. Shaker, Aachen 1998, ISBN 3-8265-3636-3 , pp. 287-292. A list of publications after 1998 appeared in Jean-Loup Lemaître : Ludwig Falkenstein (1933–2015). In: Francia , Vol. 43 (2016), pp. 469–473, here: pp. 471–473.

  • Otto III. and Aachen (= Monumenta Germaniae historica. Vol. 22). Hahn, Hannover 1998, ISBN 3-7752-5722-5 .
  • Charlemagne and the emergence of the Aachen Marienstift (= sources and research from the field of history. NF, 3). Schöningh, Paderborn 1981, ISBN 3-506-73253-6 ( digitized version ).
  • The "Lateran" of the Carolingian Palatinate in Aachen (= Cologne historical treatises. Vol. 13). Böhlau, Cologne et al. 1966 (also Cologne, dissertation 1964).

literature

  • Jean-Loup Lemaître: Ludwig Falkenstein (1933–2015). In: Francia , Vol. 43 (2016), pp. 469-473 ( online ).
  • Lotte Kéry, Dietrich Lohrmann, Harald Müller (eds.): Licet preter solitum. Ludwig Falkenstein on his 65th birthday. Shaker, Aachen 1998, ISBN 3-8265-3636-3 .

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Remarks

  1. ↑ See the review by Nikolaus Grass in: Zeitschrift der Savigny-Stiftung für Rechtsgeschichte, Canonical Department 55, 1961, pp. 531–532.
  2. ^ Ludwig Falkenstein: The "Lateran" of the Carolingian Palatinate in Aachen. Cologne et al. 1966, p. 85.
  3. ^ Ludwig Falkenstein: The "Lateran" of the Carolingian Palatinate in Aachen. Cologne et al. 1966, p. 139.
  4. ^ Ludwig Falkenstein: Pfalz and "vicus" Aachen. In: Caspar Ehlers (Ed.): Places of rule. Medieval royal palaces. Göttingen 2002, pp. 131-181.
  5. ↑ Ludwig Falkenstein: Alexander III. and the dispute over the double election in Châlons-sur-Marne (1162–1164). In: German Archive for Research into the Middle Ages . Vol. 32 (1976), pp. 444-494 ( digitized version ); Ludwig Falkenstein: Alexander III. and the Corbie Abbey. A contribution to the customary law of exempt churches in the 12th century. In: Archivum historiae pontificiae. 27: 85-195 (1989); Ludwig Falkenstein: Alexander III. and the protection of the terminally ill. To an argument in Epernay. In: Francia. Vol. 38 (2011), pp. 33-60 ( digitized version ).
  6. ^ Ludwig Falkenstein: Guillaume aux Blanches Mains, archeveque de Reims et légat du Siège apostolique (1176–1202). In: Bulletin de la Société nationale des antiquaires de France , Vol. 2003 (2007), pp. 194-200.
personal data
SURNAME Falkenstein, Ludwig
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian
DATE OF BIRTH April 6, 1933
PLACE OF BIRTH Aachen
DATE OF DEATH November 29, 2015