Thomas Vogtherr

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Thomas Vogtherr in June 2016 after a lecture in the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Library - Lower Saxony State Library

Thomas Vogtherr (born August 19, 1955 in Berlin-Steglitz ) is a German historian . Since 2001 he has been teaching as a professor for the history of the Middle Ages at the University of Osnabrück .

Life

Thomas Vogtherr attended elementary school II “Sternschule” in Uelzen from 1962 to 1966 and the Herzog-Ernst-Gymnasium Uelzen from 1966 to 1973 . He passed the school leaving examination in 1973. He then studied history, German literature and Eastern European history at the Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel from 1973 to 1982 and received his doctorate there in 1982 with the thesis “Economic and social change in the Lüneburg landed gentry during the late Middle Ages”, supervised by Hans Eberhard Mayer . From 1983 to 1985 he trained as an archivist at the Marburg Archive School . After brief employment from May to October 1985 as an archive assessor at the Lower Saxony State Archives in Stade , he worked from 1985 to 1993 at Kiel University. He was a scholarship holder at the Historical College in Munich in 1989/90. In his research project he dealt with the imperial abbeys of the Benedictines and the monarchy in the high Middle Ages. He completed his habilitation in Kiel in November 1990.

From 1985 to 1992 he was a university assistant at the history department of the Christian-Albrechts-Universität Kiel. From 1993 to 2001 Vogtherr was professor for historical auxiliary sciences at the University of Leipzig . In 2001 he succeeded Klaus Wriedt as Professor of Medieval History at the University of Osnabrück, where he also held the office of Vice President for Studies and Teaching from 2005 to 2009.

Vogtherr has been a member of the Historical Commission for Lower Saxony and Bremen since 1987 , was the spokesman for its Medieval History working group from 2003 to 2007 and was its chairman from 2006 to 2016. Since 2000 he has been a member of the Historical Commission of the Saxon Academy of Sciences in Leipzig , since 2003 a member of the Commission Internationale de Diplomatique des Comité Internationale des Sciences Historiques (International Association of Historians), has been a corresponding member of the Historical Commission for Westphalia since 2003 and since 2007 full member of the Braunschweig Scientific Society . In addition, he has been the Senator of the Lower Saxony Foundation since 2012 . He is also a member of the Medieval Association , the Association of Historians of Germany eV , the Association of German Archivists eV and numerous historical associations.

He is the brother of the art historian Christoph Martin Vogtherr .

Research priorities

Vogtherr's main areas of work are the history of Lower Saxony , the history of the Church in the Middle Ages and auxiliary historical sciences, particularly diplomacy . From 1979 to January 2019, Vogtherr submitted 12 monographs, 110 scientific articles, numerous lexicon articles, around 270 reviews and other smaller works of various kinds.

In his dissertation he dealt with the Lüneburg landed nobility in the late Middle Ages. In this way he also familiarized himself with the history and tradition of the Uelzen area. In 1988 Vogtherr submitted the document book of the city of Uelzen. The volume contains 752 documents in the period from the granting of city rights by Duke Johann von Lüneburg in 1270 to the Reformation in 1529. On the occasion of the 725th anniversary of the city rights being awarded to the city of Uelzen by Duke Johann I of Braunschweig-Lüneburg on December 13, 1270, he wrote a description about the medieval history of the city of Uelzen . The representation extends from the previous settlement of Oldenstadt in the 10th century to the Reformation of the city (1529). With Vogtherr's account, published in 1997, for the first time since Karl Janicke's history of the city of Uelzen from 1889, a work on the history of the city of Uelzen based on modern issues in urban history research is available again. With this presentation, Vogtherr's aim is to “reach readers who are not specially trained as well as their specialist colleagues”.

Vogtherr is one of the best experts on the history of the Verden diocese . In 1998 he published an edition on the Chronicle of the Verden Bishops. He certifies the chronicle “of modest quality and limited circulation”, but such a text “as an example of historical self-assurance” deserves an investigation. His aim with the edition is to "make available the historiographical text that is essential for research into the [Verden] diocese history [...]".

In 2008 Vogtherr presented an introduction to the doctrine of documents, which has its spatial focus on the (East) Franconian Empire. Vogtherr's introduction had generated mixed reactions in the professional world due to some volatility and inaccuracies. Since the published 1889-1931 Handbook of diplomatics for Germany and Italy of Harry Bresslau no attempt has been made in the German-speaking countries to present a summary view for diplomatics. With his work, Vogtherr did not want to put something comparable to the side of the Bresslauschen standard work, but rather the presentation should "show the interested person the way to the subject area, the questions, methods and results of modern diplomacy as a brief introduction to diplomacy". The first edition of his doctrine was sold out after a short time. A second “thoroughly revised edition” appeared in 2017. In 2008, he published a biography of Iso von Wölpe . In 2014 he published a brief introduction about the Guelphs from the Middle Ages to the present. He is working on the first scientific biography of the historian and archivist Georg Schnath .

Fonts (selection)

Monographs

  • Economic and social change in the Lüneburg nobility during the late Middle Ages (= publications of the historical commission for Lower Saxony and Bremen. 24 = studies on the class history of Lower Saxony. Vol. 5). Lax, Hildesheim 1983, ISBN 3-7848-2525-7 (also: Kiel, Universität, Dissertation, 1982).
  • The king and the saint. Heinrich IV., St. Remaklus and the monks of the double monastery Stablo-Malmedy (= writings of the historical college. Lectures. Vol. 25). Historisches Kolleg Foundation, Munich 1990 ( digitized version ).
  • Uelzen. History of a city in the Middle Ages. Becker, Uelzen 1997, ISBN 3-920079-42-6 .
  • The imperial abbeys of the Benedictines and royalty in the high Middle Ages. (900–1125) (= Medieval Research. Vol. 5). Thorbecke, Stuttgart 2000, ISBN 3-7995-4255-8 (at the same time: Kiel, University, habilitation paper, 1990/1991) ( digitized version ).
  • Time calculation. From the Sumerians to the Swatch (= Beck series. 2163). Beck, Munich 2001, ISBN 3-406-44763-5 .
  • Document doctrine. Basic knowledge (= Hahn's historical auxiliary sciences. Vol. 3). Hahn, Hannover 2008, ISBN 978-3-7752-6133-3
  • Iso von Wölpe, Bishop of Verden (1205–1231). Imperial prince, bishop, nobleman. A biography (= series of publications of the Landscape Association of the Former Duchies of Bremen and Verden. Vol. 31). Landscape Association of the Former Duchies of Bremen and Verden, Stade 2008, ISBN 978-3-931879-36-5 .
  • 600 years of the hospital in Uelzen. Klinikum Uelzen GmbH, Uelzen 2012, ISBN 978-3-920079-60-8 .
  • The Guelphs. From the Middle Ages to the present (= CH Beck Wissen. 2830). Beck, Munich 2014, ISBN 978-3-406-66177-8 .

Editions

  • Document book of the city of Uelzen (= Lüneburg document book. Section 14 = Publications of the Historical Commission for Lower Saxony and Bremen. 37 = Sources and studies on the history of Lower Saxony in the Middle Ages. Vol. 9). Lax, Hildesheim 1988, ISBN 3-7848-3018-8 .
  • Chronicon episcoporum Verdensium. = The Chronicle of the Verdend Bishops (= series of publications of the Regional Association of the Former Duchies of Bremen and Verden. Vol. 10). Landscape Association of the Former Duchies of Bremen and Verden, Stade 1998, ISBN 3-931879-03-8 .

Web links

Remarks

  1. ↑ Historical College - Thomas Vogtherr
  2. ^ Thomas Vogtherr - Publications
  3. ↑ See the reviews of Ingo Schwab in: Niedersächsisches Jahrbuch für Landesgeschichte 56 (1984), pp. 285–287 ( online ); Uta Reinhardt in: Journal of the Association for Hamburg History 71, 1985, p. 231f. ( online ); Ulrich Schwarz in: Historische Zeitschrift 242, 1986, p. 419; Harald Witthöft in: Vierteljahrschrift für Sozial- und Wirtschaftsgeschichte 73, 1986, p. 289f .; Kurt Andermann in: Journal for Historical Research 14, 1987, p. 473f .; Anneliese Sprengler-Ruppenthal in: Yearbook of the Society for Lower Saxony Church History 86, 1988, p. 213f .; Diedrich Saalfeld in: Blätter für deutsche Landesgeschichte 125, 1989, p. 519f. ( online ).
  4. ↑ See the reviews by Karin Gieschen in: Niedersächsisches Jahrbuch für Landesgeschichte 62, 1990, pp. 431–435 ( online ); Alfred Gawlik in: German Archive for Research into the Middle Ages 47, 1991, pp. 227–228 ( online ); Herbert Schwarzwälder in: Hansische Geschichtsblätter 107, 1989, p. 128f .; Andreas Roth in: Journal of the Savigny Foundation for Legal History 107, 1990, p. 528f.
  5. ↑ See the reviews by Michael Scholz in: Der Heidewanderer 74, 1998, p. 70f .; Herbert Schwarzwälder in: Hansische Geschichtsblätter 117, 1999, p. 233f .; Brigitte Streich in: Der Heidewanderer 75, 1999, p. 151f .; Heinrich Holze in: Yearbook of the Society for Lower Saxony Church History 97, 1999, pp. 287–290; Sabine Graf in: Niedersächsisches Jahrbuch für Landesgeschichte 71, 1999, pp. 459–461 ( online ); Margarethe Schindler in: Stader Jahrbuch 89/90, 1999/2000, pp. 252f .; Klaus Naß in: German Archive for Research into the Middle Ages 56, 2000, p. 773 ( online ); Rudolf Holbach in: Oldenburger Jahrbuch 100, 2000, p. 225f .; Klaus Richter in: Journal of the Savigny Foundation for Legal History. German Department 117, 2000, pp. 715f.
  6. ↑ Thomas Vogtherr: Uelzen. History of a city in the Middle Ages. Uelzen 1997, p. 14.
  7. ↑ See the reviews of Brigitte Streich in: Hessisches Jahrbuch für Landesgeschichte. 51, 2001, pp. 272-274; Michel Sot in: Francia 28/1 (2001), pp. 387-388 ( online ).
  8. ↑ See the discussions by Mark Mersiowsky in: Deutsches Archiv für Erforschung des Mittelalters 65, 2009, pp. 200f. ( online ); Monika Gussone in: H-Soz-Kult October 7, 2009 ( online ); Peter Worm in: Der Archivar 62, 2009, p. 433f .; Gustav Pfeifer in: Geschichte und Region / Storia e Regione 18, 2009, pp. 193–195; Paul Herold in: Mitteilungen des Institut für Österreichische Geschichtsforschung 119, 2011, pp. 190–192.
  9. ↑ Thomas Vogtherr: Certificate doctrine. Basic knowledge. Hanover 2008, p. 7.
  10. ^ Thomas Vogtherr: Introduction to the doctrine of documents. 2nd, revised edition. Stuttgart 2017, p. 10.
  11. ↑ See de discussions by Daniel Berger in: Hessisches Jahrbuch für Landesgeschichte 69 (2019), pp. 237–238 ( online ); Daniel Götte in: Das Mittelalter 24 (2019), pp. 506–508; Bernhard Theil in: Journal for Württemberg State History 78 (2019) pp. 635–636 ( online ).
  12. ↑ See the reviews of Heinrich Kröger in: Der Heidewanderer 85, 2009, p. 24; Walter Jarecki in: Stader Jahrbuch 99, 2009, pp. 269–271; Adolf Hofmeister in: Bremisches Jahrbuch 88, 2009, p. 290 f .; Immo Eberl in: Ellwanger Jahrbuch 42 (2008/2009) pp. 655–656.
  13. ↑ Scientific projects. In: ThomasVogtherr.de .
personal data
SURNAME Vogtherr, Thomas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian
DATE OF BIRTH August 19, 1955
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin-Steglitz