Michael Tangl

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Michael Tangl (born May 26, 1861 in Wolfsberg (Carinthia) , † September 7, 1921 in Klagenfurt ) was an Austrian historian and diplomat .

Life

The son of a baker's family studied history and classical philology at the University of Vienna from 1881 to 1885 . From 1885 to 1887 he was trained at the Institute for Austrian Historical Research in Vienna. From 1887 to 1891 he worked at Theodor von Sickel's suggestion at the Austrian Historical Institute in Rome. As a result of this stay, Tangl presented his main work The Papal Chancellery Regulations from 1200–1500 in 1894 , which received great attention and recognition.

Under the direction of Engelbert Mühlbacher Tangl worked on projects of the Monumenta Germaniae Historica (MGH): from 1892 on the publication of the documents of the early Carolingians, the first volume of which appeared after Mühlbacher's death under Tangl's direction in 1906; from 1903 he worked on the publication of the Placita and took over the management of the Epistolae department . In 1902 he was elected a member of the central management of the MGH. Since 1911 he was editor of the magazine of the MGH ( German archive , at that time still under the title Neues Archiv ). During the First World War , and on until 1919, he ran the MGH as acting director.

In 1892 and 1895 Tangl was a civil servant in the Austrian archive service. Habilitated at Mühlbacher in 1892 in the subjects of history of the Middle Ages and historical auxiliary sciences, he was appointed to the University of Marburg in 1895 to the recently founded seminar for historical auxiliary sciences . In connection with the seminar there was also the Prussian archivist training at the archive school, which still exists today .

As early as 1897 he was appointed to the Friedrich Wilhelms University in Berlin , where he was a full professor for historical auxiliary sciences and medieval history from 1900 until his death. One of his most loyal students was the archivist and historian Hermann Krabbo . From 1913 he was a corresponding member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences . In 1918 he was elected a full member of the Prussian Academy of Sciences .

In addition to his work on papal diplomacy and administrative history, Tangl published numerous source-critical studies on forgeries, chronology and his specialty, the Tironic Notes, as part of the edition of the Carolingian Diplomas . The first extensive palaeographic tables that he edited together with Wilhelm Arndt have gone down in the history of the subject “Tables for learning about Latin palaeography”. He founded the archive for document research as a journal for both diplomatic issues and historical research with documents.

Tangl fell ill in 1921 while on vacation in Klagenfurt an der Ruhr and died a few days later when he had just made new plans for the post-war period.

His daughter, the historian Georgine Tangl , made every effort to preserve the memory of her father. In the 1950s she was the driving force behind the publication of an anthology that summarized the most important essays of her father.

Works (selection)

Monographs

  • The papal chancellery regulations from 1200–1500 , Innsbruck 1894 (ND Aalen 1959).
  • together with Wilhelm Arndt: Tablets for learning about Latin palaeography , 3 vol., Berlin 3rd edition 1897 ff. 4th edition 1904/07 (ND Hildesheim 1976).
  • The documents of Pippin, Charlemagne and Charlemagne (Pippini, Carlomanni, Caroli Magni Diplomata) , edit. v. Engelbert Mühlbacher , Alfons Dopsch , Johann Lechner a. Michael Tangl, (ND Munich 1979), Hanover 1906 (= MGH Diplomata Karolinorum , 1).
  • The letters of Saint Boniface and Lullus , Berlin 1955 (= MGH Epistolae selectae , 1).
  • The Middle Ages in Source Studies and Diplomatics. Selected writings in two volumes , Graz 1966. The articles contained therein are in the following list i. d. Usually not listed.

Essays

  • The complete Liber cancellariae by Dietrich von Nieheim , in: MIÖG 10 (1889), pp. 464-466.
  • The Arabic numerals of the secret script , in: NA 41 (1919), pp. 738-740.
  • The authenticity of the Austrian Privilegium Minus , in: ZRG 38, Germanistische Department 25 (1904), pp. 258–286 ( digitized version ).
  • The falsifications Chrysostomus Hanthaler , in: MIÖG 19 (1898), p. 1ff.
  • The so-called Brevis nota about the Lyon Council of 1245 , in: MIÖG 12 (1891), p. 246ff.
  • The document of Ludwig the Pious for Fulda of August 4, 817, Mühlbacher 656 (642) , in: NA 27 (1902), pp. 9–34.
  • Charlemagne's documents for Bremen and Verden , in: MIÖG 18 (1897), p. 53ff.
  • Gregory VII of Jewish origin? , in: NA 31 (1906), pp. 159-179.
  • New research on the Liber cancellariae apostolicae , in: NA 43 (1922), pp. 551-578.
  • Backdating in papal documents , in: MIÖG 15 (1894), pp. 128–130.
  • Certificate for Fulda dated August 30, 834 , in: HV 5 (1902), p. 527ff.
  • On the building history of the Vatican , in: MIÖG 10 (1889), p. 428ff.

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SURNAME Tangl, Michael
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian historian and diplomat
DATE OF BIRTH May 26, 1861
PLACE OF BIRTH Wolfsberg (Carinthia)
DATE OF DEATH September 7, 1921
Place of death Klagenfurt