Martin Wihoda

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Martin Wihoda (born February 14, 1967 in Opava ) is a Czech historian . He is Professor of Medieval History at Masaryk University in Brno . His work provided new impulses for Medieval Studies on the constitutional and historical foundations of Bohemia and Moravia under the Přemyslids .

life and work

Martin Wihoda attended high school in Opava. He studied at the universities of Brno , Würzburg and Marburg . From 1990 he worked as an assistant and lecturer. He received his PhD in 1999. His habilitation, presented in Brno in 2004, was published in Czech in 2005 on the Sicilian Golden Bulls of 1212 . Since April 2010 he has been teaching as professor of medieval history at Masaryk University . He has been a corresponding member of the Central Management of Monumenta Germaniae Historica since 2019 .

Wihoda deals with the changes in Central and Eastern Europe in the early and high Middle Ages. His focus is on the Europeanization of the medieval gentes, which are located on the eastern edge of the Roman-German Empire . He emerged with various studies on Moravia in the 11th and 12th centuries. In 2010 he published an account of Moravia’s history that extends from 906 to 1197. With this he presented the first modern history of Moravia. He published a biography of the Moravian margrave Vladislav Heinrich , who died in 1222 , in 2007, which was revised and expanded in English in 2015. Because of the narrow source base for this margrave, it is not so much a biography in the classical sense, but Wihoda traces the extensive changes in Moravia during the protagonist's lifetime. In 2015 he published an account of the first Bohemian kingdoms.

His account of the Sicilian Golden Bulls of 1212 was published in German in 2012. The documents were of great importance for posterity for the Czech national consciousness and the Czech statehood. Wihoda tried to demythologize the documents. However, he provided no diplomatic analysis in its investigation, but gave details of the relations of the Czech rulers to the Empire of the Ottos to the time of Charles IV. After a result, the documents were neither immediately after its exhibition (about 1216 in confirming the choice of King's son Wenceslas became King of Bohemia through Frederick II), still under Charles IV. Decisive for the political work of the Bohemian rulers. The fact that the documents were able to become an "undoubted monument of the Bohemian statehood" is mainly due to the school books of the last 100 years. He states that "the Sicilian golden bull was sacrificed on the altar of national disputes in which the meaning of the events of 1212 was lost".

In October 2015 he and Knut Görich organized a conference at the Institute for History of the Philosophical Faculty of Masaryk University in Brno on the question of how Emperor Friedrich I Barbarossa was perceived by the national historiography of the 19th and 20th centuries in Central and Eastern Europe . The results of the lectures by historians from Germany, Poland and the Czech Republic were published in an anthology in 2017. At a conference held in Brno in 2017, the consequences of the political relations between Friedrich Barbarossa and the secular and spiritual elites of Central Eastern Europe for the political figure of Eastern Central Europe in the 12th century were questioned. The conference results from German, Polish, Czech and Hungarian historians were published in an anthology by Görich and Wihoda in 2019.

Fonts

Monographs

  • Zlatá bula sicilská. Podivuhodný příběh ve vrstvách paměti (= Edice Historické myšlení. Vol. 26). Argo, Prague 2005, ISBN 80-7203-682-3 .
    • The Sicilian Golden Bulls of 1212: Emperor Frederick II. Privileges for the Přemyslids in the commemorative discourse (= research on the imperial and papal history of the Middle Ages. Vol. 33). Böhlau, Vienna et al. 2012, ISBN 978-3-205-78838-6 .
  • Vladislav Jindřich (= Knižnice Matice Moravské. Vol. 21). Matice Moravská, Brno 2007, ISBN 978-80-86488-00-4 .
    • Vladislaus Henry: The Formation of Moravian Identity (= East Central and Eastern Europe in the Middle Ages 450-1450. Vol. 33). Translated by Kateřina Millerová. Brill, Leiden et al. 2015, ISBN 978-90-04-25049-9 .
  • Morava w době knížeci 906–1197 (= Česká historie. Vol. 21). Nakl. Lidové Noviny, Prague 2010, ISBN 978-80-7106-563-0 .
  • První česká království (= Edice Česká historie. Vol. 32). Nakladatelství Lidové noviny. Prague 2015, ISBN 978-80-7422-278-8 .

Editorships

  • with Knut Görich : Friedrich Barbarossa in the national histories of Germany and East Central Europe (19th – 20th centuries). Böhlau, Cologne 2017, ISBN 3-412-50454-8 .
  • with Knut Görich: Kinship - friendship - enmity. Political ties between the Reich and East Central Europe in the time of Frederick Barbarossa. Böhlau, Cologne et al. 2019, ISBN 978-3-412-51207-1 .

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Remarks

  1. ↑ See Karel Hruza: Zlatá bula sicilská: sic transit gloria? K nové knize Martina Wihodi. In: Časopis Matice Moravské 125 (2006), pp. 145–157; Review by Karel Hruza in: H-Soz-Kult , March 16, 2006 ( online ); Karel Hruza: The three "Sicilian Golden Bulls" of Frederick II from 1212 for the Přemyslids. On a new book, diplomatic questions and a “historians' debate” in Czech research. In: Archiv für Diplomatik 53 (2007), pp. 213–249.
  2. ↑ See the reviews by Karel Hruza in: H-Soz-Kult , September 7, 2011, ( online ); Ivan Hlaváček in: German Archive for Research into the Middle Ages 68 (2012), p. 796 ( online ); Pavel Spunar in: Listy filologické. Folia philologica. 136, (2013), pp. 284-286.
  3. ↑ See the reviews by Roman Zehetmayer in: Mitteilungen des Institut für Österreichische Geschichtsforschung 124, 2016, pp. 478–480 ( online ); Jonathan R. Lyon in: Early Medieval Europe 25 (2017), pp. 411-413.
  4. ↑ See the review by Martin Nodl in: Bohemia 58 (2018), pp. 156–159 ( online )
  5. ↑ Cf. the meetings of Daniel Bagi in. Sehepunkte . 15 (2015), No. 3 [15. March 2015], ( online ); Daniel Bagi in: Journal for East Central Europe Research 63 (2014), pp. 573–575 ( online ); Knut Görich in: German Archive for Research into the Middle Ages 71 (2015), pp. 227–228 ( online ); Bettina Pferschy-Maleczek in: Mitteilungen des Institut für Österreichische Geschichtsforschung 122 (2014), pp. 474–476 ( online ); Christian Friedl in: Bohemia 53 (2013), pp. 188-190 ( online ).
  6. ↑ Karel Hruza: The three "Sicilian Golden Bulls" Frederick II from 1212 for the Přemyslids. On a new book, diplomatic questions and a “historians' debate” in Czech research. In: Archiv für Diplomatik 53 (2007), pp. 213–249, here: p. 223.
  7. ↑ Martin Wihoda: The Sicilian Golden Bulls of 1212: Emperor Frederick II. Privileges for the Přemyslids in the memory discourse . Vienna et al. 2012, p. 257.
  8. ↑ Karel Hruza: The three "Sicilian Golden Bulls" Frederick II from 1212 for the Přemyslids. On a new book, diplomatic questions and a “historians' debate” in Czech research. In: Archiv für Diplomatik 53 (2007), pp. 213–249, here: p. 216.
  9. ↑ Knut Görich, Martin Wihoda: Introduction. In this. (Ed.): Friedrich Barbarossa in the national histories of Germany and East Central Europe (19th – 20th centuries). Cologne 2017, pp. 7–11, here: p. 7.
  10. ↑ See the reviews by Alheydis Plassmann in: Rheinische Vierteljahrsblätter 83 (2019), p. 342 ( online ); Ferdinand Opll in: Communications from the Institute for Austrian Historical Research. 127 (2019), pp. 252-254 ( online ).
  11. ↑ See the review by Tomasz Jurek in: Roczniki Historyczne 85 (2019), pp. 239–241 ( online )
personal data
SURNAME Wihoda, Martin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Czech historian
DATE OF BIRTH February 14, 1967
PLACE OF BIRTH Opava