Michel Parisse

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Michel Parisse (born May 1, 1936 in Void , Département Meuse , Lorraine , † April 5, 2020 in Paris ) was a French historian .

Michel Parisse attended high school in Metz. After the Agrégation d'histoire he was a teacher at a high school in Metz. He then became a research assistant at Jean Schneider's chair at the University of Nancy . His Thèse d'Etat (then habilitation in France) dealt with the nobility in Lorraine from the 11th to the 13th centuries. A little later he became professor of medieval history at the University of Nancy. There he was head of a research center for the history and editing of medieval texts (ARTEM). From 1985 to 1991 he was director of the Mission historique française en Allemagne in Göttingen . Together with the Max Planck Institute for History there , colloquia and conferences were held several times, thus intensifying the collaboration between German and French medieval studies . From 1993 until his retirement in 2002 he taught at the University of Paris I as a professor of medieval history.

Parisse was a full member of the Constance Working Group for Medieval History (since 1994), the Mainz Academy of Sciences (since 1997), corresponding member of the Central Directorate of the Monumenta Germaniae Historica (since 1999), the Académie de Stanislas and the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen ( since 2005) and member of the Académie nationale de Metz and the Société des antiquaires de France . Parisse was honored with the Federal Cross of Merit. In 2000 he was awarded an honorary doctorate by the Free University of Berlin , in particular for his service to German-French academic relations.

His specialties were medieval Lorraine , monasticism , diplomacy and medieval Germany. Parisse published numerous works on German constitutional, social and church history. He edited letters from Frothaire de Toul and diplomas from Theobald I , Duke of Lorraine. He presented a Latin-French edition of the Vita of Johannes von Gorze . His work made him a leading French expert on German history in the Middle Ages. In 2000, at the 43rd Historians' Day in Aachen, he headed the section “ Charlemagne between factuality and topicality”.

He died of COVID-19 during the COVID-19 pandemic in France in 2020 .

Fonts (selection)

  • Noblesse et chevalerie en Lorraine médiévale. Les familles nobles du XIe au XIIIe siècle (= Publications Université de Nancy. Vol. 2). Service des publications de l'Université de Nancy, Nancy 1982, ISBN 2-86480-127-2 .
  • L'Allemagne au XIIIe siècle. De la Meuse à l'Oder. Picard, Paris 1994, ISBN 2-7084-0471-7 .
  • Allemagne et Empire au Moyen Âge (= Collection Carré histoire. Vol. 57). Hachette, Paris 2002, ISBN 2-01-145175-2 .
  • Religieux et religieuses en Empire: du Xe au XIIe siècle (= Les médiévistes français. Vol. 11). Picard, Paris 2011, ISBN 978-2-7084-0908-8 .

literature

  • Michel Parisse. 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. 311-318 ( digitized version ).

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Remarks

  1. ↑ Member entry of Michel Parisse at the Academy of Sciences and Literature Mainz
  2. ^ Corresponding members of the central management
personal data
SURNAME Parisse, Michel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French historian
DATE OF BIRTH May 1, 1936
PLACE OF BIRTH Void
DATE OF DEATH April 5, 2020
Place of death Paris