Nikolas Jaspert

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Nikolas Jaspert (born December 28, 1962 in Melbourne ) is a German historian of medieval history.

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Nikolas Jaspert studied history, Hispanic studies, art history and English at the Free University of Berlin and in Madrid . In 1995 he received his doctorate at the Friedrich Meinecke Institute of the Free University of Berlin with a thesis supervised by Kaspar Elm . He then worked from 1995 to 1998 as a research assistant at the Free University. Subsequently, he was academic advisor at the chair for the history of the Middle Ages at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg until 2005 . From 2005 to 2013 he taught as a professor for the history of the Middle Ages with special emphasis on the late Middle Ages at the Ruhr University Bochum . Since October 2013 he has succeeded Stefan Weinfurter as Professor of Medieval History with a focus on the Early Middle Ages and basic historical sciences at Heidelberg University . Nikolas Jaspert is the brother of Robert Jaspert .

Jaspert has been co-editor of the Zeitschrift für Historische Forschung (ZHF) since 2009 and is also a member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the following journals: Anuario de Estudios Medievales, Imago Temporis, Aragón en la Edad Media, Medievalismo, Potestas; Edad Media. Revista de Historia; Espacio, Tiempo, Forma and Revue Mabillon. He is co-editor of the series “History and Culture of the Iberian World”, “Late Medieval Studies” and “Outremer”. Jaspert has been a member of the humanities section of the Catalan Academy of Sciences ( Institut d'Estudis Catalans ) since 2008, member of the Konstanz Working Group for Medieval History since 2009 and chairman since autumn 2019 . From 2010 to 2013 he was founding director of the Center for Mediterranean Studies at the Ruhr University in Bochum; From 2013 to 2017 he was President of the “Société Internationale des Historiens de la Méditerranée”.

In his publications and research projects, Jaspert deals with the Mediterranean, especially the Iberian history of the Middle Ages as well as with German-Spanish relations. He explores transcultural relationships, intercultural diplomacy, crusades and orders of knights. He also deals with the history of piety, orders and the church as well as mobility in the Roman-German Empire.

Jaspert is married and has three children.

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Monographs and editorships

  • [Editor, together with Franz J. Felten ]: Vita religiosa in the Middle Ages. Festschrift for Kaspar Elm on his 70th birthday (Berlin Historical Studies 31, Order Studies 13), Berlin 1999.
  • Die Kreuzzüge , Darmstadt: Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft 2003 (6th edition 2013). - English translation: The Crusades , London: Routledge 2006, Spanish translation: Las Cruzadas , Valencia: Publicacions de la Universitat de València 2010.
  • [Editor, together with Matthias Bley and Stefan Köck]: Discourses of Purity in Transcultural Perspective (300–1600) (Dynamics in the History of Religions 7), Leiden: Brill 2015.
  • [Editor, together with Mihran Dabag, Dieter Haller u. Achim Lichtenberger]: Handbook of Mediterranean Studies. Systematic Mediterranean Research and Disciplinary Approaches (Mediterranean Studies 8), Paderborn 2015.
  • [Editor, together with Sebastian Kolditz]: Pirates in the Mediterranean. Piracy, Corsairism and Maritime Violence from Antiquity to Modern Times (Mediterranean Studies 3), Paderborn 2013.
  • [Editor, together with Marc von der Höh and Jenny Rahel Oesterle]: Cultural Brokers at Mediterranean Courts (Mediterranean Studies 1), Paderborn: Fink-Schöningh 2013.
  • [Editor, together with Michael Borgolte ]: Maritime Middle Ages. Seas as communication spaces (lectures and research 83), Ostfildern 2016.
  • [Editor, together with Stefan Tebruck]: The crusade movement in the Roman-German Empire (11th – 13th centuries) , Ostfildern 2016.
  • [together with Mihran Dabag, Dieter Haller and Achim Lichtenberger]: New Horizons. Mediterranean Research in the 21st Century (Mittelmeerstudien 10), Paderborn 2016.
  • [Edited together with Sebastian Kolditz] : Entrepreneurs — Outcomers : Spaces, Modes and Agents of Indo-Mediterranean Connectivity , Heidelberg: Heidelberg University Publishing, 2018. DOI: 10.17885 / heiup.355.492 ( digitized ).
  • The Reconquista: Christians and Muslims in the Iberian Peninsula. Munich: CH Beck, 2019.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.uni-heidelberg.de/fakultaeten/philosophie/zegk/histsem/lösungen/ls_prof_jaspert/ls_jaspert_jaspert.html
  2. ↑ http://www.uni-heidelberg.de/fakultaeten/philosophie/zegk/histsem/lösungen/ls_prof_jaspert/ls_jaspert_forschung.html
personal data
SURNAME Jasper, Nikolas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian
DATE OF BIRTH December 28, 1962
PLACE OF BIRTH Melbourne