Paul-Joachim Heinig

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Paul-Joachim Heinig (born February 3, 1950 in Lüdenscheid ) is a German historian and diplomat .

Paul-Joachim Heinig studied history, German, philosophy and journalism at the Universities of Münster and Giessen . In 1978 he received his doctorate with Peter Moraw in Gießen with the thesis Imperial Cities and Free Cities and Kings 1400-1450 . At the University of Giessen the work was awarded the prize for the best dissertation within the section “Dr. phil and Dr. rer. soc. ”of the academic year 1978/79. 1993 followed with a work suggested by Moraw on Friedrich III. the habilitation in Giessen. Since 1999 he has taught as an adjunct professor for medieval history and historical auxiliary sciences at the University of Giessen. Heinig was deputy professor in Bielefeld and Frankfurt. Since 2001 he has been secretary and managing director of the "German Commission for the Processing of Regesta Imperii eV at the Academy of Sciences and Literature , Mainz". He retired on January 1, 2015.

Heinig's research focuses on constitutional, legal, economic and social history, the cultural history of the Middle Ages and the early modern period, church history, regional history, city history, the history of kingship and empire, the auxiliary sciences. In his dissertation he examined the importance of four imperial cities (Augsburg, Frankfurt, Nuremberg and Ulm) and four “free cities” (Cologne, Mainz, Regensburg and Strasbourg) for the period between the city wars of 1388/89 and 1449/50.

Along with Heinrich Koller, Heinig is one of the leading experts for the time of Friedrich III. In his three-volume habilitation thesis with more than 1300 pages, Heinig analyzed the system of rule of Friedrich III based on the court. Among other things, Heinig was able to show that the regional effectiveness of the ruling court was greatest in the regions that were also decisive as a recruiting landscape. With significant participation Heinig be under the Regesta imperil the Regesten Frederick III. published. Heinig's research led to a better understanding of the long neglected period of the reign of the Habsburg rulers and the 15th century.

Heinig wrote a comprehensive article about the Mainz church in the late Middle Ages for the Handbuch der Mainz Kirchengeschichte .

Fonts

  • Emperor Friedrich III. (1440-1493). Court, government and politics (= research on the imperial and papal history of the Middle Ages. Vol. 17). 3 volumes. Böhlau, Cologne et al. 1997, ISBN 3-412-15595-0 (At the same time: Gießen, Universität, habilitation paper, 1993).
  • Imperial cities, free cities and royalty 1389–1450. A contribution to the German constitutional history (= publications of the Institute for European History, Mainz. Vol. 108 = contributions to the social and constitutional history of the Old Empire. Vol. 3). Steiner, Wiesbaden 1983, ISBN 3-515-03531-1 (At the same time: Gießen, Universität, Dissertation, 1978 under the title: Imperial cities and free cities and royalty 1400-1450. ).

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Remarks

  1. ↑ See the review by Peter Eitel in: Zeitschrift für Württembergische Landesgeschichte 44, 1985, p. 433.
  2. ↑ See the reviews of Winfried Dotzauer in: Nassauische Annalen. 110, 1999, pp. 411-413; Christine Reinle in: Historical magazine . 270, 2000, pp. 464-466.
  3. ↑ See the review by Christine Reinle in: Historische Zeitschrift. 270, 2000, pp. 464-466, here: p. 466.
  4. ^ Paul-Joachim Heinig: The Mainz Church in the Late Middle Ages (1305–1484). In: Friedhelm Jürgensmeier (Hrsg.): Handbuch der Mainz Kirchengeschichte. Vol. 1/1, Würzburg 2000, pp. 416-554.
personal data
SURNAME Heinig, Paul-Joachim
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian
DATE OF BIRTH 3rd February 1950
PLACE OF BIRTH Ludenscheid