Thomas Wetzstein

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Thomas Wetzstein (born June 22, 1967 in Freiburg im Breisgau ) is a German historian . He taught as a professor for medieval history from 2013 to 2015 at the University of Rostock . Since April 2015 he has held the chair for Medieval History at the Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt .

Live and act

The son of a psychologist and an orthodontist graduated from high school in 1987 in Freiburg im Breisgau. From 1989 to 1997 he studied history and Romance studies at the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg . From 1994 to 1995 he obtained the “Diplôme Européen d'Etudes Médiévales” at the Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana in Rome. In 1997 he passed the state examination for higher teaching qualifications at grammar schools. In the 2001/2002 winter semester he received his doctorate in Heidelberg with a study on canonization procedures in the European late Middle Ages, supervised by Jürgen Miethke and Stefan Weinfurter . From 2002 to 2006 he worked at the Max Planck Institute for European Legal History in Frankfurt am Main. From 2003 to 2006 Wetzstein was a lecturer for medieval history at the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg and from 2007 to 2009 a research assistant at Weinfurter. His habilitation followed with a thesis on communication spaces in the European High Middle Ages. Wetzstein was a substitute professor for Medieval History in the summer semester 2011 at the University of Freiburg im Breisgau , in the winter semester 2011/12 to the summer semester 2012 at the Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt and in the winter semester 2012/13 for Medieval History at the University of Rostock. In 2013 he accepted a call for a W3 professorship at the University of Rostock and was appointed university professor for the history of the Middle Ages. A year later he accepted a professorship for Medieval History at the Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt, where he has been teaching since the 2015 summer semester.

His research focuses on communication and communication spaces in the European High Middle Ages, the change of rule in the European Middle Ages, the medieval piety and veneration of saints, the history of the diocese of Constance in the late Middle Ages, the history of the church and the papacy in the high and late Middle Ages as well as learned law and jurisprudence in the high and and late Middle Ages. In his dissertation he worked on the basics of source criticism for late medieval canonization acts and the hitherto unexplained relationship between learned medieval procedural law and canonization procedures. The first part is devoted to the basics of process forms (pp. 24–202). The second part of the thesis deals with the theory of the canonization procedure (pp. 203–353). The third part deals with the practice of the canonization procedure (354–499). The work is considered fundamental to questions of canonization in the 15th century.

Fonts

Monographs

  • Saints in court. The canonization process in the European late Middle Ages (= research on ecclesiastical legal history and canon law. Vol. 28). Böhlau, Cologne et al. 2004, ISBN 3-412-15003-7 .

Editorships

  • together with Ingrid Baumgärtner , Vincenzo Colli, Susanne Lepsius and Franz-Josef Arlinghaus : Practice of jurisdiction in European cities of the late Middle Ages (= jurisprudence. Vol. 23). Klostermann, Frankfurt am Main 2006, ISBN 3-465-04007-4 .
  • together with Susanne Lepsius: When the world got into the files. Trial documents in the European Middle Ages (= case law. Materials and studies. Publications of the Max Planck Institute for European Legal History Frankfurt am Main. Vol. 27). Klostermann, Frankfurt am Main 2008, ISBN 978-3-465-04028-6 . ( Review see points)

literature

  • Whetstone, Thomas. In: Kürschner's German Scholars Calendar. Bio-bibliographical directory of contemporary German-speaking scientists. Volume 4: SE-Z. 24th edition. de Gruyter, Berlin et al. 2012, ISBN 978-3-11-023524-1 , pp. 4371f.

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Remarks

  1. ↑ See the review by Stefan Samerski in: Zeitschrift für Kirchengeschichte 117 (2006), pp. 354–355; Lucas Burkart : in: sehepunkte 6 (2006), No. 10 [15. October 2006], ( online ); Gerhard Schmitz in: German Archive for Research into the Middle Ages 61 (2005), pp. 351–352 ( digitized version ); Gabriela Signori in: Journal for Historical Research 33 (2006), pp. 445–446; Michaela Wirsing in: Zeitschrift für Geschichtswwissenschaft 53 (2005), p. 176.
  2. ↑ Thomas Wetzstein: Saints in court. The canonization process in the European late Middle Ages. Cologne et al. 2004, p. 17.
personal data
SURNAME Whetstone, Thomas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian
DATE OF BIRTH June 22, 1967
PLACE OF BIRTH Freiburg in Breisgau