Manfred Groten

Manfred Groten (born November 9, 1949 in Hemmerden ) is a German historian .

After graduating from the Theodor-Schwann-Gymnasium in Neuss , Manfred Groten studied history, English studies, archeology, art history and Middle Latin at the University of Cologne from 1970 to 1977 . In 1977 he received his doctorate with a thesis inspired by Odilo Engels on the history of the priors and cathedral chapters of Cologne in the High Middle Ages . From 1977 to 1979 he attended the archive school in Marburg and from 1979 to 1998 worked as an archivist at the historical archive of the city of Cologne. With a work on Cologne in the 13th century. Social change and constitutional development Groten completed his habilitation in 1991 in the subjects of medieval history and historical auxiliary sciences and has since taught at the University of Cologne. There he became Professor (C3) for Medieval History in 1998, with special emphasis on auxiliary sciences. In 1999, Groten accepted an offer from the University of Bonn . From 1999 to 2015 he taught there as a professor of medieval and modern history / Rhineland regional history. Since then he has headed the Institute for Historical Regional Studies of the Rhineland and, since 2005, its successor institution, the Department for Rhenish Regional History of the Institute for Historical Studies at the University of Bonn . Groten has been co-editor of the yearbook and the publications of the Cologne History Association since 1994 and co-editor of the Rheinische Vierteljahrsblätter and the Rheinische Archiv since 1999 . Since 2000 Groten has been a corresponding member of the Historical Commission for Westphalia .

His main research interests are European history from the 11th to the 13th century, above all the constitutional, church, intellectual and cultural history, the Rhineland regional history from the 11th to the 17th century, research into groups of people, the history of the city and sphragistics (Seal customer).

Fonts (selection)

• The German city in the Middle Ages (= Reclams Universal Library. Bd. 19066). Reclam, Stuttgart 2013, ISBN 978-3-15-019066-1 .
• Cologne in the 13th century. Social change and constitutional development. (= Urban research. Row A: Representations. Vol. 36). Böhlau, Cologne et al. 1995, ISBN 3-412-11294-1 (2nd, revised edition, special edition. Ibid 1998, ISBN 3-412-07998-7 ; also: Cologne, University, habilitation paper, 1990/1991).
• Prior college and cathedral chapter of Cologne in the High Middle Ages. On the history of the Archbishopric and Duchy of Cologne (= Rheinisches Archiv. Vol. 109). Röhrscheid, Bonn 1980, ISBN 3-7928-0422-0 (also: Cologne, University, dissertation, 1977).

literature

• Andreas Rutz , Tobias Wulf (eds.): O felix Agrippina nobilis Romanorum Colonia. New studies on Cologne history. Manfred Groten for his 60th birthday (= publications of the Cologne History Association, vol. 48). SH-Verlag, Cologne 2009, ISBN 978-3-89498-198-3 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Manfred Groten in the catalog of the German National Library
• Page from Groten at the University of Bonn