Walter Berschin

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Walter Berschin (born June 17, 1937 in Augsburg ) is a German philologist for Middle Latin .

After studying Romance studies, history and art history in Munich, Cologne, Tübingen and Rome, he received his doctorate in 1966 under Horst Fuhrmann at the history seminar of the Eberhard Karls University in Tübingen with the thesis “Bonizo von Sutri. Life and work". In 1967 he worked as an assistant at the Department of Medieval Latin Philology at the University of Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg with Johanne Autenrieth . After his habilitation in 1971, Berschin was appointed to the full professorship at the seminar for Medieval and Modern Latin Philology at the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg as the successor to Walther Bulst , where he has been teaching and researching since 1973. As a member of the advisory board and co-editor of the journals Journal of Medieval Latin and Mittellateinisches Jahrbuch (until 2015). He is the editor of the edition series "Editiones Heidelbergenses", the "Reichenau Texts and Pictures", the "Sources and Studies on Latin Philology of the Middle Ages" and the "Library of Middle Latin Literature". He is also a member of the Commission for Historical Regional Studies in Baden-Württemberg , Fellow of the British Academy , member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences and the Reial Acadèmia de Bones Lletres de Barcelona . He was President of the International Association of Medieval Latinists (IAML) (1988–1999) and in 1988 organized the 1st International Medieval Latin Congress in Heidelberg.

Special research focuses are literary history (based on research into manuscripts), the genre history of biography (the starting point for the decades of research was a prize-winning assignment from the Bavarian Academy of Sciences in 1964), literary landscapes such as Reichenau and St. Gallen , and the use of Greek in the Latin Middle Ages and the manuscript edition of Middle Latin texts. His abbreviation, well-known in the professional world, is WB In 2007 he received an honorary doctorate from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki . Berschin's students who have received a professorship are Michele Camillo Ferrari (Erlangen) and Matthias M. Tischler (Barcelona).

Fonts (selection)

  • Bonizo from Sutri. Life and work (= contributions to the history and source studies of the Middle Ages. Vol. 2). de Gruyter, Berlin a. a. 1972, ISBN 3-11-001758-X (In Italian: Bonizone di Sutri. La vita e le opere (= Medioevo-traduzioni. Vol. 1, ZDB -ID 2289383-0 ). Centro Italiano di Studi sull'Alto Medioevo , Spoleto 1992).
  • Greco-Latin Middle Ages. From Hieronymus to Nikolaus von Kues. Francke, Bern a. a. 1980, ISBN 3-7720-1459-3 . English translation by Jerold C. Frakes: Greek Letters and the Latin Middle Ages: from Jerome to Nicholas of Cusa . Washington: Catholic University Press, 1988.
  • as editor: Vitae sanctae Wiboradae. The oldest descriptions of the life of St. Wiborada. (= Communications from the Association for Patriotic History. Vol. 51). Introduction, critical edition and translation. Historical Association of the Canton of St. Gallen, St. Gallen 1983, ISBN 3-906395-30-8 .
  • Biography and epoch style in the Latin Middle Ages. 5 volumes. Hiersemann, Stuttgart 1986-2004;
    • Volume 1: From the “Passio Perpetuae” to the “Dialogi” of Gregory the Great. (= Sources and studies on the Latin philology of the Middle Ages. Vol. 8). 1986, ISBN 3-7772-8612-5 ;
    • Volume 2: Merovingian biography, Italy, Spain and the islands in the early Middle Ages. (= Sources and studies on the Latin philology of the Middle Ages. Vol. 9). 1988, ISBN 3-7772-8810-1 ;
    • Volume 3: Carolingian biography. 750–920 AD (= sources and investigations on the Latin philology of the Middle Ages. Vol. 10). 1991, ISBN 3-7772-9102-1 ;
    • Volume 4: Ottonian biography. The high middle ages. 920–1220 AD Half Volume 1: 920–1070 AD (= sources and studies on the Latin philology of the Middle Ages. Volume 12, half volume 1). 1999, ISBN 3-7772-9921-9 ;
    • Volume 4: Ottonian biography. The high middle ages. 920–1220 AD. Half volume 2: 1070–1220 AD (= sources and studies on the Latin philology of the Middle Ages. Volume 12, half volume 2). 2001, ISBN 3-7772-0128-6 ;
    • Volume 5: Brief Topics and Hermeneutics of Middle Latin Biography. Register for the complete works (= sources and investigations on Latin philology of the Middle Ages. Vol. 15). 2004, ISBN 3-7772-0409-9 .
  • Eremus and Insula. St. Gallen and Reichenau in the Middle Ages - a model of a Latin literary landscape. Reichert, 2nd expanded edition Wiesbaden 2005, ISBN 3-89500-433-2 .
  • The palatina in the Vaticana. A German library in Rome. Belser, Stuttgart a. a. 1992, ISBN 3-7630-2087-X .
  • as editor with Angelika Häse: Gerhard von Augsburg: Vita Sancti Uodalrici. The oldest biography of St. Ulrich (= Editiones Heidelbergenses. Vol. 24). Latin-German. With the canonical document of 993. Introduction, critical edition and translation. Winter, Heidelberg 1993, ISBN 3-8253-0018-8 .
  • as editor with Heinrich Schipperges : Hildegard von Bingen: Symphonia. Poems and chants. Latin and German. Schneider, Gerlingen 1995, ISBN 3-7953-0930-1 .
  • as editor: Hrotsvit: Opera omnia. (= Bibliotheca scriptorum Graecorum et Romanorum Teubneriana ). Saur, Munich a. a. 2001, ISBN 3-598-71912-4 .
  • Middle Latin Studies. 3 volumes. Mattes-Verlag, Heidelberg u. a. 2005-2017, ISBN 3-930978-75-X (Vol. 1), ISBN 978-3-86809-009-3 (Vol. 2), ISBN 978-3-86809-107-6 (Vol. 3).
  • Introduction to the Latin Philology of the Middle Ages. A lecture , ed. by Tino Licht. Mattes, Heidelberg 2012, ISBN 978-3-86809-063-5
  • with Ulrich Kuder : Reichenauer wall painting 840–1120. Goldbach - Reichenau-Oberzell St. Georg - Reichenau-Niederzell St. Peter and Paul. Mattes, Heidelberg 2012, ISBN 978-3-86809-052-9
  • with Ulrich Kuder : Reichenauer book painting 850–1070. Reichert, Wiesbaden 2015, ISBN 978-3-95490-129-6

literature

  • Dorothea Walz (Ed.): Scripturus vitam. Latin biography from ancient times to the present. Festival ceremony for Walter Berschin on his 65th birthday. Mattes, Heidelberg 2002, ISBN 3-930978-15-6

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Remarks

  1. ↑ On the academic career and work up to 1997 cf. Dagmar Drüll, Heidelberg Gelehrtenlexikon 1933–1886. Berlin 2009, p. 110; Lothar Stiehm (Ed.): Walter Berschin, Bibliography 1964–1997. Heidelberg 1997, pp. 11-13.
  2. ↑ Walter Berschin (Ed.): Latin culture in the Xth century (= Middle Latin Yearbook. Vol. 24/25, 1989/90). Files of the I. International Middle Latin Congress, Heidelberg, 12. - 15. IX. 1988. Hiersemann, Stuttgart 1991, ISBN 3-7772-9137-4 .
personal data
SURNAME Berschin, Walter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German philologist for Middle Latin
DATE OF BIRTH June 17, 1937
PLACE OF BIRTH augsburg