Thomas Ertl (historian)

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Thomas Ertl (born October 27, 1968 in Innsbruck ) is an Austrian historian .

Thomas Ertl studied history at the University of Vienna between 1988 and 1995 and, at the same time, completed the training course for historical research and archival science at the Institute for Austrian Historical Research in Vienna between 1992 and 1995 . His academic teachers were Othmar Hageneder and Winfried Stelzer . From 1996 to 1999 he worked for the Vienna Diplomata department of the Monumenta Germaniae Historica . Ertl worked on the edition of the documents of Emperor Heinrich VI. With. In 1999 he started work at the University of Vienna with a thesis on the chancellery and documents of Emperor Heinrich VI, supervised by Winfried Stelzer and Werner Maleczek . PhD. In 2006 he completed his habilitation and was granted the license to teach medieval history at the Free University of Berlin .

From 1999 to 2005 he worked as a research assistant at the Friedrich Meinecke Institute of the Free University of Berlin with Matthias Thumser . From 2006 to 2007 he worked as a guest lecturer at the German Historical Institute in Rome and in the 2007 winter semester he was “Academic Assistant for Teaching Medieval History and Basic Historical Sciences” at Heidelberg University . In addition, between the summer semester 2008 and the summer semester 2009 he was a deputy professor at the Georg-August University of Göttingen and in the winter semester 2009/10 he was a deputy professor at the Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen .

From 2010 to 2011 he was employed in the third-party funded project “Seidenfieber” at the Free University of Berlin. From 2011 to 2018 he was university professor for economic and social history of the Middle Ages at the University of Vienna and from October 2015 to September 2017 he is the director of the Institute for Economic and Social History. Since October 2018 he has been Professor of the History of the High and Late Middle Ages at the Friedrich Meinecke Institute . He has been a member of the Constance Working Group for Medieval History since 2017 . He was co-editor of The Medieval History Journal (2010-2018) and is co-editor of the quarterly social and economic history (since 2018).

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Monographs

  • Studies on the chancellery and document system of Emperor Heinrich VI. (= Research on the history of the Middle Ages. Vol. 4; = Austrian Academy of Sciences: Memoranda. Vol. 303). Vienna 2002.
  • Religion and discipline. Self-interpretation and world order in early German Franciscanism (= work on church history. Vol. 96). Berlin / New York 2006.
  • Silk, pepper and cannons. Globalization in the Middle Ages (= story told. Vol. 10). Darmstadt 2008.
  • All roads led to Rome. Italy as the center of the medieval world. Ostfildern 2010.

Editorships

  • with Michael Limberger: Die Welt 1250–1500 (= global history. Die Welt 1000–2000. Vol. 2). Vienna 2009.
  • Pompa sacra. Lusso e cultura materiale alla corte papale nel basso medioevo (1420–1527) (= Nuovi Studi Storici. Vol. 86). Rome 2010.
  • Ötzi picks the edelweiss. Building blocks of Tyrolean identity. Innsbruck 2011.
  • Europe's rise. A search for traces in the late Middle Ages (= expansion, interaction, acculturation. Vol. 23). Vienna 2013.
  • Handling diversity. Comparative Perspectives on Medieval and Early-Modern India and Europe (= The Medieval History Journal. Vol. 16.2, Theme Issue). Sage, London / Los Angeles / New Delhi 2013.
  • with Andrea Komlosy, Hans-Jürgen Puhle: Europe as a world region. Center, model or province? (= Edition Weltregionen. Vol. 23). Vienna 2014.

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Remarks

  1. ↑ See the review by Theo Kölzer in: Rheinische Vierteljahrsblätter 68 (2004), pp. 274–276 ( online )
personal data
SURNAME Ertl, Thomas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian historian
DATE OF BIRTH October 27, 1968
PLACE OF BIRTH innsbruck