Werner Hechberger

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Werner Hechberger (born March 15, 1963 in Passau ) is a German historian . He teaches as a professor for medieval history and its didactics at the University of Koblenz-Landau in Koblenz .

Werner Hechberger studied Medieval and New History, Political Science and Sociology at the University of Passau and at the Free University of Berlin from 1983 to 1989 . From 1987 to 1990 he worked under Peter Steinbach on projects at the German Resistance Memorial Center . From 1992 to 2002 he was Egon Boshof's assistant at the University of Passau. During this time he worked for the DFG project "Edition of the Regests and Documents of the Bishops of Passau" and was involved in the edition of the inscriptions of the city of Passau as part of the project " The German Inscriptions ". In 1994 he received his doctorate summa cum laude from Boshof . The dissertation Staufer and Welfen 1125–1190. The East Bavarian Culture Prize was awarded for the use of theories in historical studies . In 2003, he completed his habilitation and was granted the license to teach medieval history and historical auxiliary sciences . From 2004 to 2007 Hechberger was senior assistant to Franz-Reiner Erkens at the University of Passau. In 2008 he accepted a call to the W 3 professorship for Medieval History and its Didactics at the University of Koblenz-Landau.

His main research interests are the nobility, ministerialism and knighthood in the Middle Ages, the political history of the high Middle Ages, theoretical problems in the science of history and the study of historical images. In his dissertation, Hechberger was able to prove that the idea of ​​a Staufer-Welf contrast in the 12th century was not contemporary, but a modern research construct. In his habilitation thesis he offered a critical overall presentation of research on medieval nobility. On the basis of this work he wrote the volume Adel, Ministerialität und Rittertum in the Middle Ages as part of the handbook series Enzyklopädie Deutscher Geschichte . In 2009, Hechberger and Florian Schuller published the contributions to a Munich conference of the Catholic Academy in Bavaria from February 2008 on the Staufer and Welfs.

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Monographs

  • Nobility, ministeriality and knighthood in the Middle Ages (= Encyclopedia of German History . Volume 72). Oldenbourg, Munich 2004, 2nd edition 2010, ISBN 978-3-486-59758-5 .
  • Nobility in the Frankish-German Middle Ages. On the anatomy of a research problem (= medieval research. Volume 17). Thorbecke, Ostfildern 2005, ISBN 3-7995-4268-X ( digitized version )
  • Staufer and Welfen 1125–1190. On the use of theories in historical science (= Passau historical research. Volume 10). Böhlau, Cologne et al. 1996, ISBN 3-412-16895-5 .

Editorships

  • with Florian Schuller: Staufer & Welfen. Two rival dynasties in the High Middle Ages (= themes of the Catholic Academy in Bavaria ). Pustet, Regensburg 2009, ISBN 978-3-7917-2168-2 .

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Remarks

  1. ↑ See the discussion by Knut Görich in: Das Historisch-Politische Buch 45, 1997, p. 370; Timothy Reuter in: German Archive for Research into the Middle Ages 55, 1999, pp. 306–307 ( online ); Immo Eberl in: Genealogy. German Journal for Family Studies 28 (2006/2007) pp. 88–89.
  2. ↑ See the reviews of Ulrich Köpf in: Journal for Bavarian Church History. 83, 2014, pp. 184-185; Gerhard Schmitz in: German Archive for Research into the Middle Ages . 63, 2007, pp. 773-774 ( online ).
  3. ↑ See the discussions by Steffen Krieb in: sehepunkte 5 (2005), No. 7/8 [15. July 2005], ( online ); Tobias Weller in: H-Soz-Kult , February 23, 2005, ( online )
  4. ↑ See the review by Gerhard Lubich in: sehepunkte 10 (2010), No. 6 [15. June 2010], ( online ); Rudolf Schieffer in: German Archive for Research into the Middle Ages. 65, 2009, pp. 750-751 ( online ); Florian Hartmann in: Sources and research from Italian archives and libraries . 90, 2010, pp. 541-543 ( online )
personal data
SURNAME Hechberger, Werner
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian
DATE OF BIRTH March 15, 1963
PLACE OF BIRTH Passau