Stefan Petersen

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Stefan Petersen (* 1965 ) is a German historian . Petersen was appointed adjunct professor in 2016. Since 2018 he has been the deputy of Martina Hartmann , the President of Monumenta Germaniae Historica .

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Stefan Petersen studied history, German and historical auxiliary sciences at the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen . His academic teachers were Hartmut Hoffmann , Matthias Thiel , Norbert Kamp and Rudolf Pokorny . After passing the first state examination for teaching at grammar schools, he was a scholarship holder from 1996 to 1998 at the Göttingen Graduate College “Church and Society in the Holy Roman Empire of the 15th and 16th Centuries”. In Göttingen he was born in 1998 with one of Wolfgang Petkestimulated and supervised work. In the winter semester 1999/2000 and summer semester 2000 he had lectureships at the Department of Medieval and Modern History at the University of Göttingen. From 2001 to 2002 he was a research associate at the Max Planck Institute for History as part of the Germania Sacra project “The Hildesheim Bishops 1221–1504”. From November 2002 to August 2007 he was a research assistant (C1) at the chair for Franconian regional history at the Julius Maximilians University of Würzburg . From 2007 to 2009 he was head of the DFG project “The High Registry of Lorenz Fries . Internet edition of a chancellery from the 16th century ”. In July 2008 he completed his habilitation. In the winter semester 2011/12 and in the summer semester 2012 he was teaching at the Institute for Medieval History at the Philipps University in Marburg .

In the winter semester 2012/13 he was a research assistant at the Chair for Medieval History with Eva Schlotheuber at Heinrich Heine University in Düsseldorf . Petersen was from April 2013 to September 2014 and from March to July 2015 senior academic adviser (senior assistant) at the Institute for History at the Julius Maximilians University of Würzburg . He was professor at the Julius Maximilians University of Würzburg (October 2011 – September 2012) and at the Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt (winter semester 2014/15). In the winter semester 2014/15 he had a teaching position at the archive school in Marburg . From January to September 2016 he was a research assistant at the Institute for Building Research at the TU Braunschweig in the project "Evaluation of the archaeological excavations in Hildesheim Cathedral". In May 2016 he was appointed adjunct professor. From October 2016 to June 2018 he was a research assistant at the Saxon Academy of Sciences in Leipzig in the academy project “MGH Sachsenspiegelgloss”. Since July 2018 he has been the deputy of Martina Hartmann, the President of Monumenta Germaniae Historica.

His research interests are the ecclesiastical legal, social, constitutional and economic history, the relationship between papacy and regions, the Premonstratensians in German-speaking countries, the social and economic history of the city, the emergence of early modern statehood at the transition from the Middle Ages to the early modern period, the The history of science in the 19th century, the basic historical sciences (especially diplomacy and general editing techniques ) and comparative national history.

In his dissertation, using the example of the diocese of Ratzeburg , he dealt with the pastors '54 declarations of their income from 1319. Moving to Avignon increased the popes' financial needs. Petersen examines the way in which the papal collector Jacobus de Rota from 1317 to 1320 in the diocese of Ratzeburg received from Pope Johannes XXII. requested annates who wanted to collect the income of the new beneficiary. Ratzeburg chose Petersen because the sources with income taxation from 1319 and two benefit registers from 1344/47 and 1485/86 are "extremely cheap". In the process he came to new insights into clerical training and benefice income. On the basis of a diplomatic analysis of the external and internal characteristics of the appraisals, he was able to make clear that “as a result of the appraisal order of the papal collector [...] in mid-August 1319 an otherwise undetectable synod was held in the diocese of Ratzeburg, at which most beneficiaries presented their income ". With this income he was able to show that “the income from the Dotalhufen , which in Carolingian times had an outstanding position as a guarantor of a minimum income, only played a subordinate role in the late Middle Ages; the income from the oblations was the most important component of the annual income for rural parishes ”. An edition of the Ratzeburg Taxes from 1319 (pp. 177–232), the Benefit Register from 1344/47 (pp. 233–244) and the Benefit Register from 1485/86 (pp. 245–271) are attached to the work. He also dealt with the writing skills of clergy in the late medieval diocese of Ratzeburg. or using the example of Ratzeburg with methodological problems in the interpretation of benefit registers.

Petersen edited together with Franz Fuchs , Ulrich Wagner and Walter Ziegler the contributions to a conference on Lorenz Fries held in Würzburg in 2012. Petersen dealt with the source value of the high registry on the basis of the donations in Mergentheim to the Teutonic Order 1219-1224 described in detail there .

His habilitation was devoted to the papal documents of the Premonstratensian monasteries in Franconia ( Oberzell , Gerlachsheim , Schäftersheim , Veßra , Michelfeld in the Diocese of Würzburg , Frauenbreitungen in the Archdiocese of Mainz ) and Swabia ( Rot an der Rot , Weißenau , Marchtal , Adelberg , Schussenried in the Diocese of Konstanz , Ursberg and Roggenburg in the Diocese of Augsburg ) from its beginnings to the outbreak of the Great Schism in 1378. When analyzing the papal documents that have been handed down, Petersen systematically questions the “motive and reason for the impetration” as well as its “content and effect for the pen in question”. Petersen asks about those phases of “significant proximity or distance to the papal curia”. He made three phases of approaching the Curia for a papal charter. Until 1159, the reason for this was "consistently the concern for legal security in times of the formation of the order". In the second phase, the main motivation was “the detailed compilation of the donation titles”. In the third phase (from the end of the 12th / beginning of the 13th century) the pens turned to the curia primarily “for the protection of property and law in specific problematic situations”. Petersen comes to the conclusion that internal networks of Swabian and Franconian Premonstratensians hardly played a role in the acquisition of papal documents. In contrast to the Cistercians and the Teutonic Order, the Premonstratensians did not have their own procurator of the order, according to the evidence of the papal documents from southern German pens. Even a procurator , whose services were preferred, was missing. The Premonstratensian Pen "appeared at the Curia rather as autonomous institutions". The appendix to the work provides the " regests of the papal documents for Franconian and Swabian Premonstratensian pens up to 1378" (pp. 359–637 in chronological order). The work was recognized as an important contribution to premonstrate research.

Petersen also looked at the scant information about the life of Saint Walburga . He considers the previously assumed date of death 779 to be set too early, as Hugeburc's double vita was written a little later and nothing about the death of the abbess emerges from it. Rather, Walburga died during the pontificate of Gerhoh von Eichstätt (787 / 88-806?). He is currently working on a “ Glossary for Longer Lehnrechtsglosse - Dictionary for Early New High German Legal Language” ( MGH Fontes iuris Germanici antiqui, Nova Series 11 ) and the documents of Emperor Heinrich V and Queen Mathilde ( MGH Diplomata regum et imperatorum 7) for the MGH the Germania Sacra the Hildesheim bishops from 1398 to 1504 as well as the document book of the city of Dresden part I: the documents of the Dresden and old Dresden parish churches up to 1539 ( Codex diplomaticus Saxoniae Regiae II, 23) and the document book of the Premonstratensian monastery Windberg .

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Monographs

  • Benefit taxes on the periphery. Parish organization - benefice income - clerical education in the diocese of Ratzeburg (= publications of the Max Planck Institute for History. Vol. 166 = Studies on Germania Sacra. Vol. 23). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2001, ISBN 3-525-35312-X .
  • Premonstratensic ways to Rome. The papal documents of the Franconian and Swabian monasteries up to 1378 (= studies and preparatory work for Germania Pontificia. Vol. 10). Böhlau, Cologne et al. 2015, ISBN 3-412-22527-4 .

Editorships

  • Franz Fuchs, Stefan Petersen, Ulrich Wagner, Walter Ziegler (eds.): Lorenz Fries and his work. Balance sheet and classification (= publications of the Würzburg City Archives. Vol. 19). Schöningh, Würzburg 2014, ISBN 978-3-87717-852-2 .

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Remarks

  1. ↑ See the discussions by Arnd Reitemeier in: Historische Zeitschrift 275 (2002), pp. 738–739; Harm Klueting in: Journal of the Savigny Foundation for Legal History: Canonical Department 88 (2002), pp. 488–490; Andreas Mayer in: German Archive for Research into the Middle Ages . 58 (2002), pp. 267-268 ( digitized version ); Oliver Auge in: sehepunkte 2 (2002), No. 6 [15. June 2002], ( online ); Thomas Willich in: H-Soz-Kult , August 3, 2001, ( online ); Daniela Durissini Studi medievali 46 (2005), pp. 991-992.
  2. ↑ Stefan Petersen: Benefit taxation on the periphery. Parish organization - benefice income - clerical education in the diocese of Ratzeburg Göttingen 2001, p. 171.
  3. ↑ Stefan Petersen: Benefit taxation on the periphery. Parish organization - benefice income - clerical training in the diocese of Ratzeburg Göttingen 2001, p. 172.
  4. ↑ Stefan Petersen: Benefit taxation on the periphery. Parish organization - benefice income - clerical training in the diocese of Ratzeburg Göttingen 2001, p. 173.
  5. ↑ Stefan Petersen: The writing ability of clergy in the late medieval diocese of Ratzeburg. In: Enno Bünz, Klaus-Joachim Lorenzen-Schmidt: Clergy, Church and Piety in Late Medieval Schleswig-Holstein. Neumünster 2006, pp. 215-237.
  6. ↑ Stefan Petersen: On methodical problems of the interpretation of benefit registers: The example of Ratzeburg. In: Sönke Lorenz, Andreas Meyer: Stift und Wirtschaft. Funding Spiritual Life in the Middle Ages. Ostfildern 2007, pp. 143–161.
  7. ^ Stefan Petersen: The high registry. A chancellery as evidence of efficient administration in the early modern state of the Würzburg bishops. In: Franz Fuchs, Stefan Petersen, Ulrich Wagner, Walter Ziegler: Lorenz Fries and his work. Balance sheet and classification. Würzburg 2014, pp. 269–293.
  8. ↑ Cf. on this work the reviews of Sandra Groß in: H-Soz-Kult , January 27, 2016 ( online ); Étienne Doublier in: Francia-Recensio , 2016-2 ( online ); Herwig Weigl in: Mitteilungen des Institut für Österreichische Geschichtsforschung 125 (2017), pp. 428–430; Ingrid Ehlers-Kisseler in: Rheinische Vierteljahrsblätter , 80 (2016), pp. 293–294 ( online ); Rudolf Schieffer in: German Archive for Research into the Middle Ages . 72 (2016), pp. 245-246 ( digitized version ); Wilfried Schöntag in: Zeitschrift für Württembergische Landesgeschichte 75 (2016), pp. 464–467 ( online )
  9. ^ Stefan Petersen: Premonstratensian ways to Rome. The papal documents of the Franconian and Swabian monasteries until 1378. Cologne et al. 2015, p. 11.
  10. ^ Stefan Petersen: Premonstratensian ways to Rome. The papal documents of the Franconian and Swabian monasteries until 1378. Cologne et al. 2015, p. 12.
  11. ^ Stefan Petersen: Premonstratensian ways to Rome. The papal documents of the Franconian and Swabian monasteries until 1378. Cologne et al. 2015, p. 327.
  12. ^ Stefan Petersen: Premonstratensian ways to Rome. The papal documents of the Franconian and Swabian monasteries until 1378. Cologne et al. 2015, p. 335.
  13. ^ Stefan Petersen: Premonstratensian ways to Rome. The papal documents of the Franconian and Swabian monasteries until 1378. Cologne et al. 2015, p. 337.
  14. ^ Stefan Petersen: Premonstratensian ways to Rome. The papal documents of the Franconian and Swabian monasteries until 1378. Cologne et al. 2015, p. 356.
  15. ↑ See the review by Sandra Groß in: H-Soz-Kult , January 27, 2016 ( online )
  16. ↑ Stefan Petersen: When did Saint Walburga die? On the life and death of the last abbess of Heidenheim. In: Studies and communications on the history of the Benedictine order and its branches 116 (2005), pp. 7-18.
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SURNAME Petersen, Stefan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian
DATE OF BIRTH 1965