Robert L. Benson

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Robert Louis Benson (born August 21, 1925 in Portland , Oregon , † February 18, 1996 in Los Angeles , California ) was an American historian .

At the end of the 1940s, after attending high school and doing military service , the son of a doctor went to Berkeley to join Ernst Kantorowicz , who had a strong influence on his choice of research topics and his work style. At Princeton University he received his Masters in 1953 and his Ph.D. in 1958. In the meantime he was a Fulbright scholar at the Monumenta Germaniae Historica in Munich from 1954 to 1955 . In 1959 he became a professor at Wesleyan University and finally went in 1974 to succeed Gerhart B. Ladner at the University of California in Los Angeles, where he taught until 1995. In 1968 he published his only monograph, The bishop-elect , a fundamental representation of the legal status and rulership of the elect , an elected but not yet consecrated bishop.

Fonts

  • The bishop-elect. A study in medieval ecclesiastical office. Princeton 1968.

as editor

  • with Johannes Fried : Ernst Kantorowicz. Income from the double conference Institute for Advanced Study, Johann Wolfgang Goethe University, Frankfurt . Steiner, Stuttgart 1997.

literature

  • Horst Fuhrmann : An American in Munich: Robert L. Benson . In: Ders., Menschen und Meriten. A personal portrait gallery. Munich 2001, pp. 319–326, ISBN 3-406-47221-4 .
  • Horst Fuhrmann: Obituary Robert L. Benson . In: German Archive for Research into the Middle Ages , Volume 52, 1996, pp. 809–811.
  • Robert Charles Figueira (Ed.): Plenitude of power: the doctrines and exercise of authority in the Middle Ages. Essays in memory of Robert Louis Benson. Aldershot [u. a.] 2006.

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personal data
SURNAME Benson, Robert L.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Benson, Robert Louis
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American historian
DATE OF BIRTH August 21, 1925
PLACE OF BIRTH Portland , Oregon
DATE OF DEATH February 18, 1996
Place of death Los Angeles , California