Valentin Groebner

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Valentin Groebner, 2013 in Frankfurt am Main

Valentin Groebner (born May 9, 1962 in Vienna ) is an Austrian historian of medieval history.

Valentin Groebner studied at the Universities of Vienna , Marburg and Hamburg . In 1991 he received his doctorate from the University of Bielefeld with the thesis Economy without a House: On the Economics of Poor People in Nuremberg at the End of the 15th Century . He worked as an assistant at the University of Basel , where he completed his habilitation in 1998 with the work dangerous gifts: ritual, politics and the language of corruption in the Confederation in the late Middle Ages and at the beginning of the modern era . Since 1997 he has been co-editor of the historical anthropology journal . In 1999/2000 he was visiting professor at Harvard University . Since 2004 he has been professor of general and Swiss history of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance at the University of Lucerne, succeeding Guy P. Marchal . He has been a member of the German Academy for Language and Poetry since 2017 . He is a member of the Swiss Society for Economic and Social History and co-editor of the magazine for the history of ideas .

Fonts

Monographs

  • Who is talking about purity? A little conceptual history. Passagen Verlag, Vienna 2019, ISBN 978-3-70920-359-0 .
  • Retroland. History tourism and the longing for the authentic. S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2018, ISBN 978-3-10-397366-2 .
  • with Michael Blatter: Wilhelm Tell, Import - Export: A hero on the move. Hier + Jetzt, Baden 2016, ISBN 978-3-03919-387-5 .
  • I-posters: A story of the face as an attention machine. S. Fischer. Frankfurt am Main 2015, ISBN 978-3-10-002403-9 .
  • Science language. A manual. Konstanz University Press, Konstanz 2012, ISBN 978-3-86253-025-0 .
  • The Middle Ages don't stop. About historical telling. CH Beck, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-406-57093-3 .
  • The cultures of cultural history. Part 2: Einstein Forum, Potsdam, June 2002, Video-CD-ROM, 29 minutes (= Content-TV-Edition. Volume 7). Avinus, Berlin 2005, ISBN 978-3-930064-34-2 (English).
  • The appearance of the person. Profile, identification and control in Europe in the Middle Ages. CH Beck, Munich 2004, ISBN 3-406-52238-6 .
    • in English: Who are you? Identification, deception, and surveillance in early modern Europe. Translated by Mark Kyburz and John Peck. Zone Books, Brooklyn NY 2007, ISBN 978-1-89095-172-6 .
    • in Italian: Storia dell'identità personale e della sua certificazione. Scheda segnaletica, documento di identità e controllo nell'Europa moderna (= Biblioteca di Storia. Volume 9). Traduzione di Andrea Michler. Casagrande, Bellinzona 2008, ISBN 978-88-7713-493-6 .
    • in Swedish: Personbevis. Passets födelse i medeltidens Europa (= Mediehistoriskt Bibliotek. Volume 5). Efterord: Maria Johansen. Översättning från tyskan: Tommy Andersson. Editor: Thomas Götselius. Glänta Production, Göteborg 2009, ISBN 978-91-86133-07-8 .
  • with Peter Geimer: Lone appearance: do you actually like going to lectures? Edited by Julia Blume and Karl Bose. Lecture at the Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst Leipzig (= Allaphbed. Volume 10). Institute for Book Art, Leipzig 2006, ISBN 3-932865-43-X .
  • Shapeless. The visual culture of violence in the Middle Ages. Hanser, Munich et al. 2003, ISBN 3-446-20373-7 .
  • Dangerous gifts. Ritual, politics and the language of corruption in the Confederation in the late Middle Ages and the beginning of the modern era (= conflicts and culture, historical perspectives. Volume 4). UVK Universitätsverlag Konstanz, Konstanz 2000, ISBN 3-87940-741-X (complete at the same time: Basel, Universität, habilitation paper, 1998).
  • Economy without a house. On the economy of poor people in Nuremberg at the end of the 15th century (= publications of the Max Planck Institute for History. Volume 108). Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht, Göttingen 1993, ISBN 3-525-35645-5 (also: Bielefeld, University, dissertation, 1991).

Editorships

  • War economy and economic wars / Economie de guerre et guerres économiques (= Swiss Society for Economic and Social History. Volume 23, Volume 23). Chronos, Zurich 2008, ISBN 978-3-03-400902-7 .
  • with Bernhard Jussen , Gadi Algazi : Negotiating the Gift: Pre-Modern Figurations of Exchange (= publications of the Max Planck Institute for History. Volume 188). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2003, ISBN 978-3-525-35186-4 .

Web links

Commons : Valentin Groebner  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Remarks

  1. ↑ See the discussions by Werner Trossbach in: Blätter für deutsche Landesgeschichte 131 (1995), pp. 573-575 ( online ); Pierre Monnet in: Francia 23 (1996), pp. 363–365 ( online )
  2. ^ Membership page at the German Academy for Language and Poetry
personal data
SURNAME Groebner, Valentin
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Groebener, Valentin (incorrect spelling)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian Medievalist
DATE OF BIRTH May 9, 1962
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna