Markus A. Denzel

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Markus A. Denzel (born April 20, 1967 in Nuremberg ) is a German economic historian who primarily deals with late medieval and early modern economic history.

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Markus Denzel earned his master's degree in history at the Otto-Friedrich-Universität Bamberg in 1991 and received his doctorate in the 1993/1994 winter semester. From 1987 to 1992 he worked on DFG projects at the Bamberg Chair for Economic and Social History of Jürgen Schneider , and from 1992 to 1994 he was a fellow of the Cusanuswerk . After completing his doctorate, he was assistant to Karl Heinrich Kaufhold , his habilitation in Göttingen took place in 1997, and in 2000 he was appointed as an extraordinary professor. In addition to various professorships, he was visiting professor at the Free University of Bozen . Since 2002 Denzel has held the chair for social and economic history at the historical seminar at Leipzig University . From 2003 to 2005 he was dean of studies for the master’s degree courses at the Faculty of History, Art and Oriental Studies, and from 2005 to 2008 dean of the faculty.

He is particularly interested in international payments, the function of money and bills of exchange and currency history. He also examined the transfer system of the Roman curia and the role of the merchants serving as bankers, based on the Franconian area in the late Middle Ages.

He is a leading member of various national and international commissions and specialist societies ( Numismatic Commission of the Länder in the Federal Republic of Germany ; International Committee for Historical Metrology , Secretary General since 1997; Chairman of the Research Foundation for Comparative European Overseas History; Member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Istituto Internazionale di Storia Economica "F. Datini" ). In 2010 he was elected a member of the Academia Europaea . In 1998 he received the Heinz Maier-Leibnitz Prize .

Fonts (selection)

  • Curial payment transactions in the 13th and 14th centuries. Servitien- and Annate payments from the diocese of Bamberg (= contributions to economic and social history. Vol. 42). Steiner, Stuttgart 1991, ISBN 3-515-05980-6 (also: Bamberg, University, diploma thesis, 1990/91).
  • "La Practica della Cambiatura". European payment transactions from the 14th to the 17th century (= contributions to economic and social history. Vol. 58). Steiner, Stuttgart 1994, ISBN 3-515-06577-6 (also: Bamberg, Universität, Dissertation, 1994).
  • The price bidder of the trading house Pelloutier & Cie from Nantes (1763–1793) (= contributions to economic and social history. Vol. 73). Steiner, Stuttgart 1997, ISBN 3-515-07027-3 .
  • Professions and professionals. The Dachsberg folk description in the Electorate of Baiern (1771–1781) (= quarterly journal for social and economic history . Supplements. No. 139). Steiner, Stuttgart 1998, ISBN 3-515-07244-6 (also: Göttingen, Universität, habilitation paper, 1997).
  • Paying without cash: On the historical significance of cashless payment transactions for the development of a global economy. In: Treatises of the Braunschweigische Wissenschaftlichen Gesellschaft. Vol. 53, 2003, pp. 41-62 ( full text online )
  • The Bolzano fairs and their payment transactions (1633–1850) (= publications of the South Tyrolean Provincial Archives. Vol. 21). Athesia publishing house, Bozen 2005, ISBN 88-8266-394-9 .
  • The system of cashless payment transactions with European characteristics from the Middle Ages to 1914 (= quarterly journal for social and economic history. Supplements. No. 201). Steiner, Stuttgart 2008, ISBN 978-3-515-09292-0 .

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SURNAME Denzel, Markus A.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German economic historian
DATE OF BIRTH April 20, 1967
PLACE OF BIRTH Nuremberg