Raffaello Morghen (historian)

Raffaello Morghen (born September 19, 1896 in Rome , † May 26, 1983 ibid) was an Italian historian who focused on the history of the Middle Ages.

His academic teacher was Pietro Fedele . Morghen had a Roman lectureship and then worked in Perugia and Palermo. He taught from 1948 until his retirement as the successor to Pietro Fedele as professor of medieval history at the University of Rome . He was also president of the Istituto Storico Italiano per il Medio Evo from 1953 to 1982 . He was a corresponding member from 1947 and from 1960 as a real member of the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei . In 1957 he was elected a corresponding member abroad by the Austrian Academy of Sciences . In 1958 he became a corresponding member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences . In his studies he mainly dealt with the medieval history of Italy and with Dante . He was editor-in-chief of Nuova Antologia and Rivista Storica Italiana . In 1953 he became president of the "Istituto Storico Italiano per il Medioevo".

Fonts

• Medioevo cristiano . Bari 1951 (3rd edition 1991)
• Civiltà europea , Palermo 1949 ff.
• Dante profeta , Milan 1983.

literature

• Raffaello Morghen e la storiografia del Novecento. Atti del Convegno, Roma, 19-20 giugno 2003 , a cura di Ludovico Gatto ed Eleonora Plebani, Roma 2005, ISBN 88-87242-68-2
• Inventario del Fondo Raffaello Morghen (1916–1983) , a cura di Cristina Farnetti e Lucia R. Petese, Roma 2009, ISBN 978-88-6060-207-7 .
• Horst Fuhrmann : Raffaello Morghen September 19, 1896– May 26, 1983. In: Bavarian Academy of Sciences , Yearbook 1984, Munich 1984, pp. 221–223 ( online ).
• Adam Wandruszka : Raffaello Morghen †. In: Mitteilungen des Institut für Österreichische Geschichtsforschung 91, 1983, pp. 552–553.