Matthias Werner (historian)

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Matthias Werner (born January 23, 1942 in Strasbourg ) is a German historian .

The son of the early medieval archaeologist Joachim Werner passed his school leaving examination at the Maximiliansgymnasium in Munich in 1960 . From 1960 to 1967 he studied history, Latin and philosophy in Munich , Freiburg , Berlin (FU), Marburg and Göttingen . In 1967 he passed the state examination in history, Latin and philosophy at the University of Marburg. There he received his doctorate in 1971 under Walter Schlesinger . From 1971 to 1984 Werner was a scientific employee, academic councilor and senior councilor. During his work at the Hessian State Office for Historical Regional Studies in Marburg, he also completed his habilitation in 1982. From 1984 to 1993 he taught Medieval History at the University of Cologne , and in the 1993 summer semester he was appointed to the Chair of Medieval History and Thuringian Regional History at the Friedrich Schiller University in Jena. In 2007 he retired.

His main research interests include the history of the early Middle Ages, the regional history of Thuringia, Hesse, Lorraine and the Rhineland in the Middle Ages, the religious movements in the Middle Ages, the genesis of the Thuringian national consciousness, the development of rule of the Ludowingers as landgraves and their role in the empire, the late medieval regional historiography and hagiography. Werner is a member of the Historical Commission for Hesse (1981), the Society for Rhenish History (1985), the Historical Commission for Thuringia (1994), the Historical Commission for Saxony-Anhalt (1995), the Constance Working Group for Medieval History (since 1995), the Saxon Academy of Sciences (1996) and the Academy of Charitable Sciences in Erfurt (2002). Werner was largely responsible for the conception and implementation of a conference at the Wartburg in 1997 about Heinrich Raspe . Werner published the results of this conference in 2003 as an anthology. In April 2000 he organized a Reichenau conference of the Constance Working Group for Medieval History on the subject of “Late Medieval National Consciousness in Germany”. The results of the Spring 2000 meeting were published in 2005. In 2007 he was responsible for large parts of the Elisabeth von Thuringia exhibition . On April 30, 2008 he was awarded the Thuringian Order of Merit by the Prime Minister of the Free State of Thuringia .

literature

  • Inge Auerbach (edit.): Catalogus professorum Academiae Marburgensis. = The academic teachers at the Philipps University of Marburg. Volume 3: From 1971 to 1991. Part 1: Department 01–19 (= publications of the Historical Commission for Hesse. Vol. 15, 3). Elwert, Marburg 2000, ISBN 3-7708-1159-3 , p. 172 f.
  • Enno Bünz (ed.): Religious movements in the Middle Ages. Festschrift for Matthias Werner on the occasion of his 65th birthday ( publications of the Historical Commission for Thuringia. Kleine Reihe 24, publication series of the Friedrich Christian Lesser Foundation, vol. 19). Böhlau Cologne et al. 2007, ISBN 978-3-412-20060-2 .
  • Matthias Werner. In: Jürgen Petersohn (Ed.): The Constance Working Group for Medieval History. The members and their work. A bio-bibliographical documentation (= publications of the Constance Working Group for Medieval History on the occasion of its fiftieth anniversary 1951–2001. Vol. 2). Thorbecke, Stuttgart 2001, ISBN 3-7995-6906-5 , pp. 439-442 ( online ).

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Remarks

  1. ↑ See the review by Harald Winkel in: Hessisches Jahrbuch für Landesgeschichte 55 (2005), pp. 323-325.
personal data
SURNAME Werner, Matthias
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian
DATE OF BIRTH January 23, 1942
PLACE OF BIRTH Strasbourg