Matthias Springer

Matthias Springer (born December 5, 1942 in Dresden ) is a German medieval historian .

Matthias Springer studied history and classical philology at the Humboldt University of Berlin (HUB) from 1961 to 1966 . In 1964 he was one of only six history students in the entire GDR history to be awarded the Karl Marx Scholarship . In 1966 he became a research assistant at the HUB, and between 1969 and 1983 he held various other professions outside the university and academy. During this time, Springer received his doctorate in 1978 with a thesis on the subject of the Germanic tribes in the "art of war" by Maurikios , reviewers were Johannes Irmscher , Heinz Grünert and Bernhard Töpfer . In 1983 he returned to the university and became a research assistant at the history section of the Magdeburg University of Education .

In April 1985, he received his doctorate B with the thesis Comparative Studies on Military History, primarily of the earlier Middle Ages , reviewers were again Irmscher, Siegfried Hoyer and Erika Uitz . Afterwards Springer became a senior scientific assistant in Magdeburg, 1986 university lecturer and in September 1988 full professor. Towards the end of the GDR he was a member of the Presidium of the GDR Historians' Society . After the conversion of the Pedagogical College into the University of Magdeburg , Springer taught as a full professor for the history of the Middle Ages at the Institute for History since 1993. He is a member of Emeritio . His focus is on the names and groups of people during the Migration Period and the Middle Ages, military history, early and high medieval Saxony and the medieval history of the areas united in the state of Saxony-Anhalt.

Fonts (selection)

Monographs

• The Saxons (= Kohlhammer-Urban pocket books. Vol. 598). Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 2004, ISBN 3-17-016588-7 .

Editorships

• with Albrecht Greule: Names of the early Middle Ages as linguistic evidence and as historical sources (= Reallexikon der Germanischen Altertumskunde. Supplementary volumes to the Reallexikon der Germanischen Altertumskunde. Vol. 66). De Gruyter, Berlin et al. 2009, ISBN 3-11-020815-6 .

literature

• Lothar Mertens : Lexicon of the GDR historians. Biographies and bibliographies on the historians from the German Democratic Republic. Saur, Munich 2006, ISBN 3-598-11673-X , p. 575.

Web links

• Publications by Matthias Springer in the Opac of the Regesta Imperii
• Springer website in the Saxony-Anhalt research portal