Matthias Thiel

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Matthias Thiel (born April 21, 1929 in Trier-Ehrang ; † January 30, 2015 in Göttingen ) was a German historian and diplomat .

Göttingen-Weende, cemetery of the Evangelical Lutheran parish of St. Petri Weende: Urn grave by Matthias Thiel (2017)

Live and act

The son of a farmer attended elementary school in his hometown until 1941. Then he went to the humanistic Friedrich-Wilhelm-Gymnasium in Trier. He lost his father when he was thirteen. In July 1949 he passed the Abitur.

From the winter semester of 1949/50 until the end of the summer semester of 1952, he first studied Catholic theology at the University of Trier . From the winter semester 1952/53 he continued his studies at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität in Munich with the subjects Classical Philology, Latin Philology of the Middle Ages, Historical Auxiliary Sciences and History of the Middle Ages. Since March 1956 he had an employee position at the Commission for Bavarian State History . In 1956 he passed the exam. In spring 1961 he received his doctorate under Bernhard Bischoff with a thesis on the basics and form of the knowledge of Hebrew in the early Middle Ages.

Thiel, who specializes in diplomacy , completed his studies and received his doctorate as Dr. phil. initially the archivist career. Until the summer of 1964 he completed his training for the higher archival service at the main state archive in Munich . Thiel was archivist, from 1965 archivist and until 1968 at the Nuremberg State Archives . He then moved to the main state archive in Munich. There he became senior government archivist and later archivist in October 1968. On behalf of the Bavarian State Archives, Thiel took over the reorganization, inventory and edition of numerous documents, files, invoices, maps and plans.

In 1970, with the support of Peter Herde , he completed his habilitation at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main and received the Venia Legendi for Middle Latin Philology. In the 1970s, Thiel also worked in the research group on palaeography and diplomatics, sphragistics and heraldry at the University of Hamburg , before he accepted an appointment as a full professor for historical auxiliary sciences at the Georg-August University in Göttingen in the 1977 summer semester . There he researched and taught until his retirement on September 30, 1997. At the same time, he was head of the Diplomatic Apparatus founded by Johann Christoph Gatterer , a teaching collection of original documents that had existed since 1802.

Using the example of St. Emmeram's Abbey in Regensburg Thiel proved that in the tradition of carrying the advent of Seal certificate in the late 12th century by the gradual development and directly the document register evolve from the traditional book. He worked out a theory about the change in traditional books in the 13th century to discontinuation and document registers for the monastic manors.

Enno Bünz certified that Thiel had "set new standards for diplomacy" with his 1986 edition of the document book of the collegiate church of St. Peter and Alexander zu Aschaffenburg.

Most recently, Thiel worked on an edition of the documents of Heinrich V and Queen Mathilde for the Monumenta Germaniae Historica . Martina Hartmann published nine studies on Heinrich V's documents from the estate in 2017.

Publications (selection)

  • The traditions, documents and records of the Weltenburg monastery (= sources and discussions on Bavarian history. New series, vol. 14). Beck, Munich 1958.
  • Basics and form of knowledge of Hebrew in the early Middle Ages. Spoleto 1973. (first published in 1969)
  • Archive of the Barons Stromer von Reichenbach at Grünsberg Castle. Part 1: Certificates. Neustadt / Aisch 1972
  • The documents of the collegiate foundation S [ank] t Johann in Regensburg up to the year 1400. Beck, Munich 1975.
  • The privilege of Pope Lucius III. for the Aschaffenburg Abbey from 1184. History and Art Association, Aschaffenburg 1984.
  • Document book of the S [ank] t Peter and Alexander monastery in Aschaffenburg. Vol. 1: 861-1325. History and Art Association, Aschaffenburg 1986.
  • The land register of the collegiate monastery St. Johann in Regensburg (= sources and discussions on Bavarian history. New series, vol. 28,2). Beck, Munich 1996, ISBN 3-406-10387-1 .
  • Studies on the documents of Heinrich V (= studies and texts. Vol. 63). Edited by Martina Hartmann with the assistance of Sarah Ewerling and Anna Claudia Nierhoff. Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 2017, ISBN 978-3-447-10860-7

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Remarks

  1. ^ Marianne Popp: The archive of the collegiate monastery St. Johann in Regensburg. In: Paul Mai (Hrsg.): 850 years collegiate foundation for Saints Johannes Baptist and Johannes Evangelist in Regensburg. 1127-1977. Festschrift. Munich 1977, pp. 115–130, here: p. 119.
  2. ^ Vademecum of German teaching and research institutions. Published by the Stifterverband für die Deutsche Wissenschaft. Volume 7, 1978, p. 433.
  3. ^ Joachim Wild: The chancellery documents - manifestations in a differentiated administration. In: The Princely Chancellery of the Middle Ages. Beginnings of secular and spiritual central administration in Bavaria. Exhibition of the Bavarian Main State Archives on the occasion of the VI. International Congress for Diplomatics, Munich, October 25th-18th December 1983. Neustadt an der Aisch 1983, pp. 87-88, here: p. 88.
  4. ^ Heinrich Wanderwitz: Traditional books of Bavarian monasteries and monasteries. In: Archiv für Diplomatik 24 (1978), pp. 359-380, here: p. 363.
  5. ^ Review of Enno Bünz on Walter Scherzer ( arrangement ): Documents and registers of the St. Gumbert monastery and monastery in Ansbach 786–1400. Neustadt / Aisch 1989. In: Würzburger Diözesangeschichtsblätter 57 (1995), pp. 424-425, here: p. 424.