Walter Pohl

Walter Pohl (born December 27, 1953 in Vienna ) is an Austrian historian and professor for history of the Middle Ages and historical auxiliary sciences at the University of Vienna .

Life

Walter Pohl studied history at the University of Vienna, followed in 1984 by Herwig Wolfram's doctorate on the Avars . From 1985 to 1990 Pohl was employed at the research focus “New Paths in Early History Research” at the Institute for Austrian Historical Research. In 1989 he received his habilitation in medieval history at the University of Vienna, and in 2001 the habilitation in historical auxiliary sciences at the University of Vienna.

Since 2004 Pohl has been director of the Institute for Medieval Research at the Austrian Academy of Sciences . In 2000 he was elected a corresponding member and in 2004 a full member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences . Since summer 2002 he has been the Austrian representative in the Standing Committee for the Humanities of the European Science Foundation (ESF) and a delegate in the General Assembly of the ESF. In 2004 he was awarded the Wittgenstein Prize , in 2010 he received one of the renowned ERC Advanced Grants from the European Commission. Pohl is on the editorial board of Networks and Neighbors magazine . Together with Andre Gingrich he heads the special research area Visions of Community (Viscom). He has been a full member of the Academia Europaea since 2013 .

His research interests are the transformation of the Roman world and the empires of the early Middle Ages , the ethnic processes and identities between antiquity and the Middle Ages, the " migration of peoples " and other migrations, historiography and its transmission, the early medieval law books, the history of the steppe peoples and history and Cultural history of Italy until 1000.

Fonts

• The Avar Empire in Europe, 558–700. Gentile and imperial politics. Vienna 1984 (Vienna, university, dissertation, 1984).
• The Avars. A steppe people in Central Europe 567–822 AD. Beck, Munich 1988, ISBN 3-406-33330-3 (2nd, updated edition, ibid. 2002, ISBN 3-406-48969-9 ).
• The Teutons (= Encyclopedia of German History . Vol. 57). Oldenbourg, Munich 2000, ISBN 3-486-55705-X .
• Workshop of memory. Montecassino and the shaping of the Longobard past (= messages from the Institute for Austrian Historical Research. Supplementary Volume 39). Oldenbourg, Vienna et al. 2001, ISBN 3-7029-0453-0 (At the same time: Vienna, University, habilitation paper, 2000).
• The Great Migration. Conquest and Integration. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart et al. 2002, ISBN 3-17-015566-0 (2nd, expanded edition. Ibid 2005, ISBN 3-17-018940-9 ).
• Several lexicon articles, for example in the Lexicon of the Middle Ages and in the Reallexikon der Germanischen Altertumskunde .

Web links

• Literature by and about Walter Pohl in the catalog of the German National Library
• Publications by Walter Pohl in the Opac of the Regesta Imperii
• Walter Pohl on Academia.edu
• Page at the Austrian Academy of Sciences
• The 'ethnic turn' of the early Middle Ages and its consequences

Individual evidence

1. ^ "ERC Advanced Grant" for historian Walter Pohl , article in the online university newspaper; Article in standard .
2. ↑ Networks and Neighbors ( Memento from February 8, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
3. ↑ How religions shape identity. In: DiePresse.com. February 6, 2015, accessed January 7, 2018 . 
4. ↑ Directory of members: Walter Pohl. Academia Europaea, accessed on August 2, 2017 .