Mark Mersiowsky

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Mark Mersiowsky (born July 28, 1963 in Herford ) is a German historian and diplomat . He is professor for the history of the Middle Ages at the University of Stuttgart .

Life

Mark Mersiowsky attended primary school in Kabul from 1969 to 1973 and the Ravensberger Gymnasium Herford from 1973 to 1982 . In 1982 he began studying Middle and Modern History, auxiliary historical sciences and art history at the Westphalian Wilhelms University of Münster , the University of Vienna and the Philipps University of Marburg , from which he graduated in 1988 with a Magister Artium at the WWU Münster. From 1988 he was employed as a research assistant at the University of Münster. In 1992 he received his doctorate with a thesis on territorial accounting in the north-west of Germany in Münster under Peter Johanek . From 1998 to 2001 he had a post-doctoral fellowship from the German Research Foundation .

Since 1989 he has held teaching positions in Middle History and historical auxiliary sciences at the Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, the University of Paderborn and the Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen and completed his habilitation in 2002 at the Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, where he worked as a private lecturer in 2003/2004 was. In 2004 he was re-qualified at the University of Stuttgart. His teaching license ( Venia legendi ) covered medieval history, comparative national history and historical auxiliary sciences. Also in 2003 he was visiting professor at the École nationale des chartes in Paris and in 2006/07 he was a substitute professor at the University of Stuttgart and the Karl-Franzens University in Graz . In 2007 he was appointed adjunct professor at the University of Stuttgart. From 2003 to 2010 he was a research assistant at Monumenta Germaniae Historica , where he was responsible for diplomacy. Since February 1, 2010, he has been Professor of Medieval History and Historical Auxiliary Sciences at the University of Innsbruck, succeeding Josef Riedmann . Since August 2010 he has been a member of the Commission Internationale de Diplomatique . After a call to the University of Stuttgart for the W3 professorship for Medieval History as the successor to Folker Reichert , he initially held a vacancy replacement in the 2014 summer semester, and has been a professor there from November 1, 2014.

His research interests are medieval history with a focus on the Carolingian period , the Staufer period , edition of the diplomas of King Heinrich (VII.) For the MGH Diplomata and the late Middle Ages , aristocratic history, comparative city history, comparative regional history with a focus on Westphalia, Rhineland, Southwest Germany, Tyrol, Historical auxiliary sciences, in particular diplomatics and palaeography, medieval business records, invoices, but also the research history of diplomacy and palaeography.

Mersiowsky has been a corresponding member of the Historical Commission for Westphalia since 2019.

Fonts

Monographs

  • The beginnings of territorial accounting in the German northwest. Late medieval accounts, administrative practice, courtyard and territory. Stuttgart 2000 (Residency Research 9), ISBN 3-7995-4509-3 .
  • The certificate in the Carolingian era. Originals, document practice and political communication , 2 volumes, Wiesbaden 2015 (Monumenta Germaniae Historica Schriften 60), ISBN 978-3-447-10079-3 .
  • Together with Ellen Widder and Holger von Neuhoff: From the birth of Christ to the present: The history of Christianity. Two millennia of Christian history - numbers, facts, connections and 40 representations from the respective epoch. Bonn 2003 (monuments).
  • Together with Ellen Widder and Holger von Neuhoff: From the birth of Christ to the present: The history of Christianity. Two millennia of Christian history - numbers, facts, connections and 40 representations from the respective epoch. 3rd, updated edition Bonn 2007 (monumente)
  • Chartae Latinae Antiquiores. Facsimile-edition of the Latin Charters, 2nd series, ninth century, ed. By Guglielmo Cavallo, Giovanna Nicolaj. Part CXV: Germany IV, publ. by Mark Mersiowsky. Dietikon – Zurich 2019.

Editorships

  • Together with Ellen Widder, Maria-Theresia Leuker : Manipulus florum. From the Middle Ages, regional history, literature and historiography. Festschrift for Peter Johanek on the occasion of his 60th birthday, Münster 2000, ISBN 3-89325-743-8 .
  • Together with Ellen Widder, Peter Johanek: Vestigia monasteriensia: Westphalia - Rhineland - Netherlands , Bielefeld 1995, ISBN 3-89534-110-X .
  • Together with Christoph Haidacher: 1363–2013: 650 years of Tyrol with Austria . In memory of Ao. Univ.-Prof. Dr. Dedicated to Klaus Brandstätter † 23.8.2014 (publications of the Tyrolean State Archives, Volume 20), Innsbruck 2015, ISBN 978-3-7030-0851-1 .
  • Together with Peter Rückert, Nicole Bickhoff: Letters from the Late Middle Ages: Stately Correspondence in the German Southwest , Stuttgart 2015, ISBN 978-3-17-026340-6 .
  • Together with Anja Thaller , Joachim J. Halbekann : Writing - Managing - Keeping . New research on writing in late medieval Esslingen, (Esslinger Studien 49), Ostfildern 2018, ISBN 978-3-7995-1280-0 ).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.mittelalterliche-geschichte.de/mahist/index.php?id=52&lang=de&tpl=3
  2. ↑ http://cidipl.org/members/
  3. ↑ The transmission history of the diplomas of King Henry (VII.) ( Memento from December 28, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
personal data
SURNAME Mersiowsky, Mark
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian and diplomat
DATE OF BIRTH July 28, 1963
PLACE OF BIRTH Herford