Reinhard Elze

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Reinhard Elze (born June 28, 1922 in Rostock ; † November 8, 2000 in Munich ) was a German historian and university professor .

Reinhard Elze came from a family of scholars. He was the son of the anatomy professor Curt Elze and older brother of the theology professor Martin Elze . A distant cousin was the military historian Walter Elze . After graduating from high school in 1940, he studied ancient languages ​​and history in Freiburg and Göttingen. He completed his studies in Göttingen in 1944 with the state examination in history, Latin and Greek. He began his dissertation with Hans-Walter Klewitz , who however died in 1943. Elze then moved to Göttingen. There he received his doctorate in 1944 under Karl Brandi . Because of Bechterew's disease , Elze was exempt from military service . Hermann Heimpel , Percy Ernst Schramm and Wilhelm Berges left a lasting impression on him in Göttingen . From 1944 to 1950 he worked as a research assistant in Göttingen. From 1948 to 1950 he was an employee and since 1968 a full member of the Central Management of the Monumenta Germaniae Historica (MGH). The German Research Foundation granted him a multi-year Italian grant in 1950. Elze was assistant to Walther Holtzmann and then to Helmut Beumann in Bonn . It was there that he completed his habilitation in 1958. Elze met his wife in Bonn. From 1961 to 1972 he taught as the successor to Walter Schlesinger as a professor at the Free University of Berlin . In 1972 he succeeded Gerd Tellenbach as director of the German Historical Institute in Rome, and in 1988 he retired.

One focus of his research interests was the medieval constitutional history , especially the liturgical forms of the assumption of rule by king and pope. The studies on the coronation ordines , the rulers' laudes and the Iron Crown of Monza bear witness to this . For the Monumenta Germaniae Historica, he presented the Edition Ordines for Consecration and Coronation of the Emperor and Empress in 1960 . The three-volume Pontificale Romano-Germanicum emerged from the collaboration with the Strasbourg theology professor Cyrille Vogel , a collection of ritual and mass texts prepared around the middle of the 10th century in the monastery of St. Alban . With Konrad Repgen he created a history study book . The sixth edition of the textbook was published in 2001.

Elze died at the age of 78 in November 2000 in Munich. Part of his reference library could be acquired by the MGH.

Fonts

  • Popes, emperors, kings and the medieval symbolism of rule. Selected essays. Published by Bernhard Schimmelpfennig, Ludwig Schmugge. (= Variorum collected studies series. Vol. 152). Variorum Reprints, London 1982, ISBN 0-86078-098-8 .

literature

Web links

Remarks

  1. ↑ Horst Fuhrmann : Reinhard Elze June 28, 1922 - November 8, 2000. In: Bavarian Academy of Sciences. Yearbook 2001. Munich 2002, pp. 301–309, here: p. 302.
  2. ↑ Horst Fuhrmann: Reinhard Elze June 28, 1922 - November 8, 2000. In: Bavarian Academy of Sciences. 2001 yearbook . Munich 2002, pp. 301-309, here: p. 303.
  3. ↑ Selection of rare books from his estate
personal data
SURNAME Elze, Reinhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian
DATE OF BIRTH June 28, 1922
PLACE OF BIRTH Rostock
DATE OF DEATH November 8, 2000
Place of death Munich