Stefan Weiß (historian)

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Stefan Otto Walter Weiß (born May 25, 1960 in Düsseldorf ; † December 27, 2016 in Strasbourg ) was a German historian of medieval history .

Weiß studied in Düsseldorf , where he received his doctorate from Rudolf Hiestand in 1991/92 with a thesis on legacy documents from the Middle Ages . From 1995 to 2003 he was Bernhard Schimmelpfennig's assistant at the University of Augsburg . In July 2000, he was with a study on the food supply of the papal court in Avignon habilitation and then the lecturers appointed.

Weiß was a scholarship holder at the German Historical Institute in Rome and at the German Historical Institute in Paris . He represented professorships at the University of Saarbrücken , the University of Zurich and the University of Vechta . In the last years of his life he lived as a freelance translator in Strasbourg. So he translated z. B. in a blog column articles by David P. Goldman in German. In addition, he edited the papal documents of the Archdiocese of Arles for the Gallia Pontificia .

Weiss was a recognized expert on medieval papal history, but also published on economic history, French and English medieval history, and Otto Brunner and Paul Kehr . Together with Ilse Nagelschmidt and Jochanan Trilse-Finkelstein , he edited a conference volume on Goethe's first Weimar decade, in which he supported Ettore Ghibellino's controversial theses about the existence of a love affair between Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and Duchess Anna Amalia von Sachsen-Weimar and Eisenach .

White was married to the economist and university professor in Strasbourg, Hélène Rainelli-Weiß . He died of cancer.

Fonts

Monographs

  • The documents of the papal legates of Leo IX. until Celestine III. (1049-1198)  (= research on the imperial and papal history of the Middle Ages. Supplements to JF Böhmer, Regesta Imperii 13), Böhlau, Cologne a. a. 1995, ISBN 3-412-13094-X .
  • The supply of food to the papal court in Avignon (1316-1378). Studies on the social and economic history of a medieval court. Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 2002, ISBN 3-05-003640-0 . 
  • The royal merchant. Or how to rehabilitate a kingdom. Primus, Darmstadt 2006, ISBN 978-3896783240 .
  • Accounting and bookkeeping of the Avignonese papacy (1316-1378). Eine Quellenkunde (= Monumenta Germaniae Historica. Aid 20), Hahn, Hannover 2003, ISBN 3-7752-1127-6 .

Editorships

  • together with Georg Kreuzer : Bernhard Schimmelpfennig: Papacy and Saints. Canon Law and Ceremonial. Selected essays. ars et unitas, Neuried 2005, ISBN 3-936117-62-4 .
  • Regnum et imperium. Franco-German Relations in the 14th and 15th Centuries (Paris Historical Studies 83), Oldenbourg, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-486-58179-9 .
  • together with Ilse Nagelschmidt and Jochanan Trilse-Finkelstein: Goethe's first Weimar decade. Anna Amalia and Goethe. Denkena, Weimar 2010, ISBN 978-3-936177-15-2 .

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personal data
SURNAME White, Stefan
ALTERNATIVE NAMES White, Stefan Otto Walter (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian of medieval history
DATE OF BIRTH May 25, 1960
PLACE OF BIRTH Dusseldorf
DATE OF DEATH December 27, 2016
Place of death Strasbourg