Theo Koelzer

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Theo Kölzer (born November 17, 1949 in Steckenstein , Altenkirchen district ) is a German historian and diplomat .

Live and act

Theo Kölzer passed his Abitur in knowledge in 1968 and studied history, English and pedagogy at the University of Gießen from 1970 to 1976 . In 1976 he received his doctorate from Carlrichard Brühl in Giessen . From 1976 to 1981 he was a research assistant at the University of Giessen and worked on the Codex diplomaticus regni Siciliae . From 1981 to 1987 he was a university assistant at the University of Giessen. It was there that he completed his habilitation in 1987 . In Heidelberg (1988/89) and Marburg (1990/91) he was a substitute professor. In 1990 he was a lecturer at the Marburg Archive School . From 1992 until his retirement he taught as a full professor for Middle and Modern History, historical auxiliary sciences and archival studies at the University of Bonn . In 1996 he turned down an offer at Heidelberg University . In 1997 he was a visiting fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. Martin Clauss and Andrea Stieldorf were among his academic students in Bonn . He gave his farewell lecture on the beginnings of the Saxon dioceses in the Carolingian era .

Kölzer's academic work focuses on diplomacy, the history of the early and high Middle Ages (Germany, France and Italy), in particular constitutional and church history, as well as church legal history. Kölzer is one of the few medievalists who are closely related to auxiliary science . He is one of the best connoisseurs of early medieval diplomacy. In 1990 he presented an edition of the Empress Konstanze's documents . For almost twenty years he researched the Merovingian documents . In 2001 he published an almost 1000-page annotated edition on the documents of the Merovingian kings in two volumes. Kölzer was able to declare two thirds of the 196 Merovingian documents to be forged. In 2016 Kölzer published a critical edition of the documents of Ludwig the Pious . The edition comprises 418 authentic documents (92 of them originals), 231 deperdita (references to lost documents), 21 letters and 52 so-called "Formulas imperiales" (sample texts after lost copies in regesta form ) from over 200 archives and libraries. The edition considerably improves the source base for the Carolingian era and revises numerous older research opinions, for example about the composition and working methods of the Carolingian chancellery. Above all, the edition provides a better understanding of Ludwig's rule as a whole. Kölzer criticized the research concept of a tightly organized and strictly structured law firm of Ludwig the Pious. Kölzer stated that, with the exception of a protection and immunity privilege for Paderborn, all other documents from Ludwig are problematic for Saxon recipients. This has "far-reaching consequences for our understanding of mission and the establishment of church structures in Saxon". In a contribution published in 2012, Kölzer was able to prove that the diploma of Ludwig the Pious from 819 for the Visbek mission cell was a forgery. According to Kölzer, this document could no longer be used "as a central testimony to the Christianization of the Oldenburger Münsterland". The proof of forgery sparked a lively debate about the process of proselytizing in Carolingian Saxony. Thomas Vogtherr then called for new considerations on mission and church organization in Carolingian Saxony. According to Kölzer's diplomatic analysis, the founding document of Emperor Ludwig the Pious for the Archdiocese of Hamburg from 834 is also a forgery, which was probably made between 889 and 893.

Together with Rudolf Schieffer, Kölzer organized a Reichenau conference of the Constance Working Group for Medieval History on the subject of "From late antiquity to the early Middle Ages: continuities and breaks, concepts and findings". The articles were published in 2009. Between 2002 and 2014, together with Walter Koch, Kölzer was editor of the Archive for Diplomatics , the most important journal for historical auxiliary sciences. Kölzer was awarded numerous scientific honors and memberships for his research. Kölzer is a member of the Central Directorate of Monumenta Germaniae Historica and is a member of the Konstanz Working Group for Medieval History (since 1999), a corresponding member of the North Rhine-Westphalia (since 2015) and a full member of the Historical Commission at the Bavarian Academy of Sciences (since 2006 ). From 2001 to 2010 he was President of the Commission Internationale de Diplomatique (International Commission of Diplomats) and has been its Honorary Chairman since August 2010. Since 2010 he has been a corresponding member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences . Kölzer received the dissertation award from the University of Gießen (1976), the award from the Justus Liebig University Gießen (1990) and the Brothers Grimm Award from the Philipps University of Marburg (2008). In 2017 he was awarded the Wedekind Prize for German History by the Göttingen Academy of Sciences for his edition of the documents of Ludwig the Pious .

Fonts

Source editions

  • with Carlrichard Brühl: The table goods directory of the Roman king (Ms. Bonn p. 1559). Cologne / Vienna 1979, ISBN 3-412-00979-2 .
  • Collectio canonum Regesto Farfensi inserta (= Monumenta iuris canonici, Series B: Corpus collectionum. 5). Città del Vaticano 1982, ISBN 88-210-0570-4 .
  • Constantiae imperatricis et reginae Siciliae diplomata (1195–1198). (= Codex diplomaticus regni Siciliae, 2: Diplomata regum e gente Suevorum 1.2). Cologne / Vienna 1983, ISBN 3-412-03282-4 .
  • The documents of the Empress Konstanze (Constantiae imperatricis diplomata). (= Monumenta Germaniae Historica Diplomata regum et imperatorum Germaniae 11.3). Hanover 1990, ISBN 3-7752-5335-1 .
  • The Merovingian documents. 2 volumes (= MGH Diplomata regum Francorum e stirpe Merovingica. 1–2). Hannover 2001, ISBN 3-7752-5464-1 .
  • The documents of Louis the Pious. 3 volumes (= MGH Diplomata Karolinorum. 2). Wiesbaden 2016, ISBN 3-447-10091-5 .

Monographs

  • Between tradition and innovation: The documents of Emperor Ludwig the Pious (814–840) (= treatises of the North Rhine-Westphalian Academy of Sciences and Arts. Vol. 128). Schöningh, Paderborn et al. 2014, ISBN 978-3-506-76649-6 .
  • Emperor Ludwig the Pious (814-840) reflected in his documents (= North Rhine-Westphalian Academy of Sciences. Lectures G 401). Schöningh, Paderborn et al. 2005, ISBN 3-506-72969-1 .
  • Merovingian Studies II. (= MGH Studies and Texts. Vol. 26). Hahn, Hannover 1999, ISBN 3-7752-5726-8 .
  • Merovingian Studies I. (= MGH Studies and Texts. Vol. 21). Hahn, Hannover 1998, ISBN 3-7752-5721-7 .
  • Documents and chancellery of Empress Konstanze, Queen of Sicily (1195–1198) (= studies on the Norman-Hohenstaufen rulers' documents in Sicily. Vol. 2). Böhlau, Cologne 1983, ISBN 3-412-03482-7 .
  • Studies on the forgery of documents of the St. Maximin monastery in front of Trier (10th - 12th centuries). (= Lectures and research. Special volume 36). Thorbecke, Sigmaringen 1989, ISBN 3-7995-6696-1 ( online ).

Editorships

  • with Rudolf Schieffer : From Late Antiquity to the Early Middle Ages. Continuities and breaks, concepts and findings (= lectures and research. Vol. 70). Thorbecke, Ostfildern 2009, ISBN 978-3-7995-6870-8 ( digitized version ).
  • with Franz-Albrecht Bornschlegel, Christian Friedl, Georg Vogeler (eds.): De litteris, manuscriptis, inscriptionibus ... Festschrift for the 65th birthday of Walter Koch. Böhlau, Vienna et al. 2006, ISBN 3-205-77615-1 .
  • Petrus de Ebulo, Liber ad honorem Augusti sive de rebus Siculis. Codex 120 II of the Burgerbibliothek Bern. A pictorial chronicle of the Staufer period. Thorbecke, Sigmaringen 1994, ISBN 3-7995-4245-0 .
  • The Hohenstaufen in the south. Sicily and the Empire. Thorbecke, Sigmaringen 1996, ISBN 3-7995-4249-3 .

literature

  • Franz Gundlach: Catalogus professorum academiae Marburgensis . Part 3, 1: Inge Auerbach: From 1971 to 1991. Department 01-19 . (= Publications of the Historical Commission for Hesse. 15). Elwert, Marburg 2000, ISBN 3-7708-1159-3 , p. 161.
  • Theo Koelzer. In: Jürgen Petersohn (Ed.): The Constance Working Group for Medieval History. The members and their work. A bio-bibliographical documentation . Thorbecke, Stuttgart 2001, ISBN 3-7995-6906-5 , pp. 225-229 ( online ).
  • Andreas Meyer: Laudation for Theo Kölzer (= Marburg University Speeches . Vol. 26). Philipps University, Marburg 2009, pp. 3–9 ( online ).

Web links

Remarks

  1. ^ Theo Kölzer: The beginnings of the Saxon dioceses in the Carolingian era. In: Archiv für Diplomatik Vol. 61 (2015) pp. 11–38.
  2. ^ Hans-Werner Goetz : Modern Medieval Studies. Status and perspectives of medieval research. Darmstadt 1999, p. 157.
  3. ↑ See the discussions by Yanick Strauch in: Hessisches Jahrbuch für Landesgeschichte 67 (2017), pp. 265–266 ( online ); Carsten Woll in: Das Historisch-Politische Buch 66 (2018), p. 375; Paul Bertrand in: Revue d'histoire ecclésiastique 111 (2016), p. 660; Charles West in: Rheinische Vierteljahrsblätter 83 (2019), pp. 242–244.
  4. ^ Theo Kölzer: The documents of Ludwig the Pious. Wiesbaden 2016, pp. XXVI – XXXIV.
  5. ^ Theo Kölzer: The documents of Ludwig the Pious. Wiesbaden 2016, S. LXXV.
  6. ^ Theo Kölzer: The documents of Ludwig the Pious for Halberstadt (BM2 535) and Visbek (BM2 702) and a serious misunderstanding. In: Archiv für Diplomatik Vol. 58 (2012), pp. 103–123, here: p. 114.
  7. ↑ Thomas Vogtherr: Visbek, Münster, Halberstadt: New considerations on mission and church organization in Carolingian Saxony. In: Archiv für Diplomatik Vol. 58 (2012) pp. 125–146.
  8. ^ Theo Kölzer: The forged "founding document" of Emperor Ludwig the Pious for Hamburg. In: Rainer-Maria Weiss, Anne Klammt (ed.): Myth Hammaburg. Archaeological discoveries from the beginnings of Hamburg. Hamburg 2014, pp. 257-261; Theo Kölzer: Ludwig the Pious "founding document" for the Archdiocese of Hamburg. In: Archiv für Diplomatik 60 (2014), pp. 33–66.
  9. ^ Page of the Commission Internationale de Diplomatique , accessed on July 22, 2014.
  10. ^ Bavarian Academy of Sciences elects new members. Press release in Informationsdienst Wissenschaft from March 5, 2010, accessed on September 22, 2012.
  11. ^ Theo Kölzer: Editio finita - causa aperta. On the edition of the documents of Emperor Ludwig the Pious. In: Yearbook of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences 2017. Göttingen 2018, pp. 119–126 ( online ).
personal data
SURNAME Koelzer, Theo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian
DATE OF BIRTH November 17, 1949
PLACE OF BIRTH Steckenstein district of Altenkirchen