Volkhard Huth

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Volkhard Rainer Huth (born August 16, 1959 in Rüsselsheim ) is a German historian . He teaches as a university lecturer at the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg and (since 2012) at the TU Darmstadt . In research, Huth deals with the history of knowledge transfer, genealogy , regional history and political symbolism in the Middle Ages and early modern times .

biography

Huth passed his Abitur in 1978. From 1980 to 1984 he studied history and German at the University of Freiburg and at the Catholic University of Leuven. After graduating in 1985, he worked for the Donaueschingen city ​​administration and also gave courses at the local adult education center. In 1989 he was at the University of Freiburg with a thesis on the history of the city Donaueschingen at Karl Schmid Dr. phil. PhD . In Freiburg he was a postdoctoral fellow of the German Research Foundation for the next four years . In the course of this, Huth began teaching in Freiburg in 1992 and spent 1993/94 as a scholarship holder at the German Historical Institute in Paris . In addition, he dealt with the focus on “Europe- Byzantium ” as part of the “The World in the Year 1000” project set up by the Volkswagen Foundation for the Expo 2000 .

After his habilitation in 2001 in Freiburg, several teaching positions followed as a guest lecturer or professor at the universities of Basel , Heidelberg and Zurich . In 2004 he received the Staufer Prize of the Stauferstiftung Göppingen for his habilitation thesis on the Augustinian Canons' Monastery of Marbach . He also worked from 2003 to 2005 as a specialist lecturer for the Institute for the International Education of Students . Since 2006, Huth has headed the Institute for Personal History in the city of Bensheim full-time . In 2007 he was appointed adjunct professor in Freiburg ; 2012 also at the Technical University of Darmstadt.

Awards

  • 2004: Staufer Prize from the Göppingen Staufer Foundation

Publications (selection)

  • Donaueschingen - city at the origin of the Danube. A place in its historical development. Thorbecke, Sigmaringen 1989, ISBN 3-7995-4120-9 . (also dissertation)
  • with Ewald M. Hall (Ed.): Aasen. Contributions to the history of an old Baar village. Donaueschingen 1996.
  • Time was created with the sky: on the trail of the archaic conception of time. Universitäts-Verlag Konstanz, Konstanz 2003, ISBN 3-87940-785-1 .
  • Staufer "Reich historiography" and scholastic intellectuality: The Alsatian Augustinian canons of Marbach in the field of tension between regional tradition and universal horizon. Thorbecke, Ostfildern 2004, ISBN 3-7995-4265-5 . (also habilitation thesis)
  • with R. Johanna Regnath (Ed.): The Baar as a royal landscape . Alemannic Institute Freiburg i. Br., Ostfildern 2010, ISBN 978-3-7995-0851-3 .

literature

  • Author portrait, in: Ernst Zimmermann (Ed.): Pfohren - The first village on the young Danube. From the history of a Baar community. Konstanz 2001, ISBN 3-00-008750-8 , p. 411.
  • Author portrait, in: Heinrich Maulhardt, Thomas Zotz (Eds.): Villingen 999–1218. Aspects of its becoming a town and history up to the end of the Zähringer era in a supraregional comparison (= publications by the town archive and the town museums Villingen-Schwenningen. Volume 27 = publication by the Alemannic Institute Freiburg i. Br. Volume 70). Waldkirch 2003, ISBN 3-87885-352-1 , pp. 277f.
  • Walter Koch : For the presentation of the scientific Staufer Prize to private lecturer Dr. Volkhard Huth (laudation). In: Everyday life in the Middle Ages (= writings on Hohenstaufen history and art. Vol. 24). Society for Staufer History, Göppingen 2005, ISBN 3-929776-17-0 , pp. 176-180.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Heinrich Maulhardt, Thomas Zotz (ed.): Villingen 999-1218. Aspects of its development and history up to the end of the Zähringer era in a national comparison. (= Publications of the City Archives and the City Museums Villingen-Schwenningen, Volume 27 = Publication of the Alemannic Institute Freiburg i. Br., Volume 70). Waldkirch 2003, ISBN 3-87885-352-1 , p. 277.
  2. ^ District archive and district archeology: Staufer Prize 2004 (accessed on July 3, 2013, PDF, 1.4 MB)
personal data
SURNAME Huth, Volkhard
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Huth, Volkhard Rainer (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH August 16, 1959
PLACE OF BIRTH Ruesselsheim