Matthias Thumser

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Matthias Thumser (born September 24, 1953 in Hof ) is a German historian .

Matthias Thumser studied history, German and geography in Würzburg. From 1981 to 1992 he was a research assistant and university assistant in Marburg with Jürgen Petersohn . In 1986 he received his doctorate under Otto Meyer . His habilitation took place in Marburg in 1992. From 1994 to 1997 Thumser was a research assistant in Marburg and Gießen. From 1998 to 2018 he taught in the successor of Dietrich Kurz as a professor of medieval history at the Free University of Berlin . In 1996 he was awarded the Science Prize of the Stauferstiftung Göppingen . In 2007, Thumser succeeded Gert von Pistohlkors as chairman of the Baltic Historical Commission .

His main research interests are the papacy and Rome in the high and late Middle Ages, the letter culture in the 13th century and Livonia in the Middle Ages. Thumser leads research projects on the collection of letters from Thomas von Capua , on the letters of Pope Clement IV and on the Liv, Est and Courland document books (1472–1494).

Fonts (selection)

Monographs

  • Rome and the Roman nobility in the late Staufer period (= library of the German Historical Institute in Rome. Vol. 81). Niemeyer, Tübingen 1995, ISBN 3-484-82081-0 (at the same time: Marburg, University, habilitation paper, 1992).
  • Hertnidt vom Stein (approx. 1427–1491). Bamberg Cathedral Dean and Margravial Brandenburg Council. Career between church and prince service (= publications of the Society for Franconian History. Series 9: Representations from Franconian history. Vol. 38). Degener, Neustadt an der Aisch 1989, ISBN 3-7686-9103-9 (also: Würzburg, University, dissertation, 1985/1986).

Editorships

  • Historiography in medieval Livonia (= writings of the Baltic Historical Commission. Vol. 18). Lit, Berlin et al. 2011, ISBN 978-3-643-11496-9 ( review ).
  • with Annegret Wenz-Haubfleisch and Peter Wiegand: Studies on the history of the Middle Ages. Jürgen Petersohn on his 65th birthday. Theiss, Stuttgart 2000, ISBN 3-8062-1448-4 .
  • Writing culture and national history. Studies on the southern Baltic region from the 12th to the 16th century (= Central German Research. Vol. 115). Böhlau, Cologne et al. 1997, ISBN 3-412-05697-9 .

literature

  • Walter Koch : For the presentation of the scientific Staufer Prize to private lecturer Dr. Matthias Thumser (laudation). In: The Reichskleinodien. Signs of rule of the Holy Roman Empire (= writings on Staufer history and art. 16). Society for Staufer History, Göppingen 1997, ISBN 3-929776-08-1 , pp. 216-221.

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personal data
SURNAME Thumser, Matthias
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian
DATE OF BIRTH September 24, 1953
PLACE OF BIRTH court