Werner Paravicini

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Werner Paravicini (born October 25, 1942 in Berlin ) is a German historian .

Paravicini taught from 1984 to 1993 as Professor of Medieval and Modern History and Historical Auxiliary Sciences at the University of Kiel . From 1993 to 2007 he was director of the German Historical Institute in Paris . Paravicini is one of the most important researchers in Burgundian history and the medieval nobility. As a scientist, he made particular efforts to the German-French and European historical science. Paravicini's work has placed the court as a social place for the exercise of representation and domination at the center of medieval research.

Live and act

The son of a graduate engineer studied history and Romance studies from 1961 to 1969 at the universities of Berlin ( FU Berlin with Wilhelm Berges ), Göttingen (with Hermann Heimpel ), Freiburg (with Karl Schmid and Joachim Wollasch ), Löwen (with Léopold Genicot ) and Mannheim (with Karl Ferdinand Werner ). He joined Werner in 1970 in Mannheim with a dissertation on Guy de Brimeu . The Burgundian state and its aristocratic leadership under Charles the Bold received his doctorate. From 1969 to 1984 he worked as a research assistant at the German Historical Institute in Paris (DHIP). Paravicini conducted his studies from Paris in close exchange with modern French, English and Dutch aristocratic research, including Philippe Contamine , Maurice Keen , Malcolme Vale , Wim Blockman and Johanna-Maria van Winter . He completed his habilitation with Fritz Trautz in 1982 in Mannheim on Die Preußenreisen. A study of the ways of life of the European nobility in the 14th century . After substituting Erich Meuthen at the University of Cologne , he was the successor of Hartmut Boockmann from 1984 to 1993 as professor for Medieval and Modern History and historical auxiliary sciences at the Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel . He has been an honorary professor there since 2004. From 1990 to 2014 he was chairman of the residency commission of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen and in this function published the residency research series . At the same time, he was head of the Kiel branch of the Residences Commission and played a key role in its development. The aim of the commission is "to create the basis for the scientific study of the long neglected phenomena of the courts and residences as new political, social and cultural centers in the realm of the late Middle Ages". Residences and farms in the late medieval empire (1200–1600) are researched in a European comparison. The work of the commission concentrated above all on the project of a three-part handbook of the "Courts and Residences in the Late Medieval Empire". Paravicini ensured that every two years the commission symposia were held from 1994 to 2006 together with the DHIP. As a result, French colleagues were able to get to know German residences and German colleagues. Paravicini remains on the commission as Vice-Chair.

From 1993 to 2007 he was director of the German Historical Institute in Paris (DHIP) at the Hôtel Duret de Chevry, which since 2002 has been part of the public law foundation “ German Humanities Institutes Abroad ” (DGIA), then Max Weber Foundation is. In this position he was responsible for Franco-German and international historians' conferences, the award of research grants, the publication of series on Western European history and the Francia magazine . As director, he also focused on late medieval Burgundy with the international Prosopographia Burgundica project . With this the documentary basis of the employment of Burgundy should be put on a new source basis. The Prosopographia Burgundica was published electronically as first publication in 2003, to a virtual Burgundy portal expanded in the fall of 2007. In October 2007, a large international colloquium on The Burgundian Court and Europe bundled the research. As early as 1999, the Science Council ruled that the institute had developed into a European center in the field of Burgundy research. In addition, Paravicini, together with Michael Werner, produced the long-planned German-French history book series .

Paravicini is an expert on the history of the Western European late Middle Ages , especially on the nobility , court, residences and knighthood in Europe from 1200 to 1600, with special emphasis on travel, the Hanseatic League and Burgundy. Paravicini presented an overview of the knightly courtly culture of the Middle Ages. Paravicini's goal of knowledge is “the intellectual and practical way of life of a certain upper class, not the explanation of an epoch in German literary history”. Paravicini did travel research. In his habilitation he dealt with the Prussian journeys of the European nobility (1320-1420). For the first time he undertook the task of collecting, classifying and evaluating the widely scattered sources. A comprehensive, older presentation was not yet available. Paravicini attributes this to "that the international character of this aristocratic phenomenon par excellence did not appeal to bourgeois national historiography, but also to lower-class research". The Prussian drivers came from all classes of the nobility. Paravicini comes to the conclusion: To Prussia “the nobility as a whole went from the highest to the lowest level”. In his analysis of the costs of traveling to Prussia, he comes to the conclusion that these were “always and always an economic loss for all those who pay for themselves”. The nobles came to fight the pagans or to celebrate. Trips to Prussia thus served the noble self-expression. For the year 1410 he noted a turning point in the Prussian trips. From then on, the trips went to Portugal, Burgundy and France.

In 1999 and 2000, two international colloquia took place in Paris and in the Villa Vigoni , which dealt with the forms, developments and functions of the journeys of the European nobility from the late Middle Ages to the end of the 18th century. Paravicini edited the total of 35 articles together with Rainer Babel in 2005. For the first time, a late medieval court trip and an early modern educational trip were brought together.

Paravicini has been awarded several honors and memberships for his research. Among other things, he has been a corresponding member of the Central Directorate of the Monumenta Germaniae Historica since 1995 , an external member of the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres in Paris (since 2002) and the Académie Royale de Belgique in Brussels (since 1995), a corresponding member of the Academy of Sciences zu Göttingen (since 1993), Corresponding Fellow of the Royal Historical Society in London and full member of the Historical Commission at the Bavarian Academy of Sciences (since 2002). He has been awarded the Federal Cross of Merit on Ribbon and the Knight's Cross of the Ordre national du Mérite .

Paravicini has been married since 1969 and has three sons and five grandchildren.

Fonts (selection)

Monographs

  • Guy de Brimeu. The Burgundian state and its noble ruling class under Charles the Bold (= Paris historical studies. Vol. 12). Röhrscheid, Bonn 1975, ISBN 3-7928-0344-5 (also: Mannheim, Universität, Dissertation, 1970).
  • The Prussian journeys of the European nobility (= supplements of Francia. Vol. 17). 2 volumes. Thorbecke, Sigmaringen 1989–1995, ISBN 3-7995-7317-8 (vol. 1), ISBN 3-7995-7348-8 (vol. 2), (online: part 1 ; part 2 ).
  • The knightly courtly culture of the Middle Ages (= Encyclopedia of German History . Vol. 32). Oldenbourg, Munich 1994, ISBN 3-486-55008-X (3rd edition expanded to include a supplement. Ibid 2011, ISBN 978-3-486-70416-7 ).
  • The historian's truth. Oldenbourg, Munich 2010, ISBN 978-3-486-70105-0 ( review ).
  • Colleoni and Karl der Kühne (= series of publications by the German Study Center in Venice. NF Vol. 12). With Karl Bittmann's lecture “Karl der Kühne and Colleoni” from 1957. Akademie Verlag, Berlin 2014, ISBN 978-3-11-034181-2 .

Collections of articles

  • People at the court of the Dukes of Burgundy. Collected Essays. Edited by Klaus Krüger, Holger Kruse and Andreas Ranft . Thorbecke, Stuttgart 2002, ISBN 3-7995-7171-X .
  • Nobles and merchants in Northern Europe. Edited by Jan Hirschbiegel, Andreas Ranft and Jörg Wettlaufer. Thorbecke, Ostfildern 2007, ISBN 978-3-7995-7172-2 .
  • Noblesse. Studies on aristocratic life in late medieval Europe. Edited by Ulf Christian Ewert , Andreas Ranft and Stephan Selzer . Thorbecke, Ostfildern 2012, ISBN 978-3-7995-0791-2 .
  • Honorable absence. Studies on noble travel in the later Middle Ages. Edited by Jan Hirschbiegel and Harm von Seggern. Editing Karolin Künzel, Lisa Leiber, Hauke ​​Schneider, Eva-Maria Wessela. Thorbecke, Ostfildern 2017, ISBN 978-3-7995-1245-9 .

Editorships

  • Hanseatic merchants in Bruges. 6 volumes. Peter Lang, Frankfurt am Main et al. 1992–2011;
    • Volume 1: Klaus Krüger (Ed.): The Bruges Tax Lists 1360–1390 (= Kieler Werkstücke. Series D: Contributions to the European history of the late Middle Ages. Vol. 2). 1992, ISBN 3-631-44760-4 ;
    • Volume 2: Georg Asmussen: The Lübeck Flanders drivers in the second half of the 14th century. (1358–1408) (= Kieler Werkstücke. Series D: Contributions to the European history of the late Middle Ages. Vol. 9). 1999, ISBN 3-631-31938-X ;
    • Volume 3: Prosopographic catalog for the Bruges tax lists. (1360–1390) (= Kieler Werkstücke. Series D: Contributions to the European history of the late Middle Ages. Vol. 11). 1999, ISBN 3-631-34735-9 ;
    • Volume 4: Nils Jörn, Werner Paravicini, Horst Wernicke (eds.): Contributions to the international conference in Bruges, April 1996 (= Kieler Werkstücke. Series D: Contributions to the European history of the late Middle Ages. Vol. 13). 2000, ISBN 3-631-35845-8 ;
    • Volume 5: Renée Rößner: Hanseatic Memoria in Flanders. Everyday life and commemoration of the dead of the Easterlings in Bruges and Antwerp (13th to 16th centuries) (= Kieler Werkstücke. Series D: Contributions to the European history of the late Middle Ages. Vol. 15). 2001, ISBN 3-631-37491-7 ;
    • Volume 6: Anke Greve: Hansic merchants, hosteliers and hostels in Bruges in the 14th and 15th centuries (= Kieler Werkstücke. Series D: Contributions to the European history of the late Middle Ages. Vol. 16). 2012, ISBN 978-3-631-60951-4 .
  • European travelogues of the late Middle Ages. An analytical bibliography. 3 volumes. Peter Lang, Frankfurt am Main 1994–2000;
    • Volume 1: Christian Halm: German travel reports (= Kiel work pieces. Series D: Contributions to European history of the late Middle Ages. Vol. 5). 1994, ISBN 3-631-47130-0 ;
    • Volume 2: Jörg Wettlaufer: French travel reports (= Kiel work pieces. Series D: Contributions to the European history of the late Middle Ages. Vol. 12). 1999, ISBN 3-631-47685-X ;
    • Volume 3: Detlev Kraack, Jan Hirschbiegel: Dutch travel reports (= Kieler Werkstücke. Series D: Contributions to the European history of the late Middle Ages. Vol. 14). 2000, ISBN 3-631-47684-1 .
  • Comptes de l'Argentier de Charles le Téméraire, duc de Bourgogne (= Recueil des Historiens de la France. 10). 5 volumes in 6 parts. Boccard, Paris 2001-2014 ( digitized version );
    • Volume 1: Anke Greve, Émilie Lebailly: Année 1468. Le registre B 2068 of the Archives Départementales du Nord. 2001, ISBN 2-87754-122-3 ;
    • Volume 2: Anke Greve, Émilie Lebailly: Année 1469. Le registre CC 1924 of the archives générales du Royaume, Bruxelles. 2002, ISBN 2-87754-137-1 ;
    • Volume 3: Valérie Bessey, Véronique Flammang, Émilie Lebailly (eds.): Année 1470. Volume 1–2: Le registre CC 1925 des archives générales du Royaume, Bruxelles. 2008, ISBN 978-2-87754-198-5 ;
    • Volume 4: Sébastien Hamel, Valérie Bessey (eds.): Rôles mensuels et fragments des années 1471–1475 conservés aux archives départementales du Nord, Lille. 2009, ISBN 978-2-87754-218-0 ;
    • Volume 5: Valérie Bessey: Index général des matières des personnes et des lieux. 2014, ISBN 978-2-87754-295-1 .
  • Courtyards and residences in the late medieval empire (= residence research. 15). Edited by Jan Hirschbiegel and Jörg Wettlaufer. 4 volumes in 7 parts. Thorbecke, Ostfildern 2003–2012 ( full text );
  • with Reiner Marcowitz : Forgive and forget? Discourses of the past after occupation, civil war and revolution = Pardonner et oublier? (= Paris historical studies. Vol. 94). Oldenbourg, Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-486-59135-4 . ( Digitized version )

literature

  • Who is who? The German Who's Who. LI. Edition 2013/14. Schmidt-Römhild, Lübeck 2013, ISBN 978-3-7950-2054-5 , p. 834 f.
  • Paravicini, Werner. In: Kürschner's German Scholars Calendar. Bio-bibliographical directory of contemporary German-speaking scientists. Volume 3: M - Sd. 27th edition. de Gruyter, Berlin et al. 2012, ISBN 978-3-11-033717-4 , p. 2750 f.

Web links

Remarks

  1. ^ Andreas Ranft: Nobility, court and residence in the late Middle Ages. In: Archiv für Kulturgeschichte 89 (2007), pp. 61–90, here: pp. 61 f.
  2. ^ Werner Paravicini: growth, bloom, new houses. The institute from 1968–2007. Croissance, floraison, demeures nouvelles: l'institut pendant les années 1968–2007. In: Rainer Babel, Rudolf Große (Ed.): The German Historical Institute Paris. L'Institut historique allemand 1958–2008. Ostfildern 2008, pp. 85–169, here: pp. 115 f.
  3. ^ Werner Paravicini: growth, bloom, new houses. The institute from 1968–2007. Croissance, floraison, demeures nouvelles: l'institut pendant les années 1968–2007. In: Rainer Babel, Rudolf Große (Ed.): The German Historical Institute Paris. L'Institut historique allemand 1958–2008. Ostfildern 2008, pp. 85–169, here: p. 113.
  4. ^ Werner Paravicini: growth, bloom, new houses. The institute from 1968–2007. Croissance, floraison, demeures nouvelles: l'institut pendant les années 1968–2007. In: Rainer Babel, Rudolf Große (Ed.): The German Historical Institute Paris. L'Institut historique allemand 1958–2008. Ostfildern 2008, pp. 85–169, here: pp. 101 f.
  5. ^ Werner Paravicini: growth, bloom, new houses. The institute from 1968–2007. Croissance, floraison, demeures nouvelles: l'institut pendant les années 1968–2007. In: Rainer Babel, Rudolf Große (Ed.): The German Historical Institute Paris. L'Institut historique allemand 1958–2008. Ostfildern 2008, pp. 85–169, here: p. 115.
  6. ↑ Werner Paravicini: The knightly courtly culture of the Middle Ages. 3rd edition extended by a supplement. Munich 2011, p. 2.
  7. ^ Werner Paravicini: The Prussian journeys of the European nobility. Part 1, Sigmaringen 1989, p. 12.
  8. ^ Werner Paravicini: The Prussian journeys of the European nobility. Part 1, Sigmaringen 1989, p. 157.
  9. ^ Werner Paravicini: The Prussian journeys of the European nobility. Part 2, Sigmaringen 1995, p. 165.
  10. ↑ Werner Paravicini: turning point. Nobles from the Order of Prussia and Livonia in Western Europe in the 15th century. In: Paul-Joachim Heinig (Ed.): Empire, regions and Europe in the Middle Ages and modern times. Festschrift for Peter Moraw . Berlin 2000, pp. 413-442.
  11. ^ Rainer Babel, Werner Paravicini (ed.): Grand Tour. Noble travel and European culture from the 14th to the 18th century. Stuttgart 2005.
  12. ^ Werner Paravicini: growth, bloom, new houses. The institute from 1968–2007. Croissance, floraison, demeures nouvelles: l'institut pendant les années 1968–2007. In: Rainer Babel, Rudolf Große (Ed.): The German Historical Institute Paris. L'Institut historique allemand 1958–2008. Ostfildern 2008, pp. 85–169, here: p. 115.
  13. ↑ Werner Paravicini: The German Historical Institute Paris in 2001–2002 (September 1, 2001 - August 31, 2002). In: Francia 30/1 (2003), pp. 395-422, here: p. 399. ( digitized version ).
  14. ^ Werner Paravicini: growth, bloom, new houses. The institute from 1968–2007. Croissance, floraison, demeures nouvelles: l'institut pendant les années 1968–2007. In: Rainer Babel, Rudolf Große (Ed.): The German Historical Institute Paris. L'Institut historique allemand 1958–2008. Ostfildern 2008, pp. 85–169, here: p. 124.
personal data
SURNAME Paravicini, Werner
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian and medievalist
DATE OF BIRTH October 25, 1942
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin