Wilhelm Short

This article deals with the historian Wilhelm Kurz. For other people see Wilhelm Kurz .

Short picture that was handed out at his funeral

Wilhelm Kurz (born March 25, 1933 in Bochum ; † January 26, 2002 in the Arcidosso Castle ) was a German medieval historian and a research assistant at the German Historical Institute in Rome for over thirty years .

Kurz was a student of Gerd Tellenbach at the University of Freiburg and received his doctorate in 1962 with a thesis on the founders of the Hirsau Monastery , Counts Adalbert and Gottfried von Calw . In 1963 he followed Tellenbach to Rome in order to use the personal history methods pursued by the Freiburg working group to resume the research of the institute on the imperial history of Tuscany, which had been interrupted since the First World War. Briefly examined the early history of Camaldoli , then the Isola monastery with its donor family and also worked on reform monasteries, aristocratic monasteries and the early and high medieval royal monasteries in Tuscany, but also on Gregory of Catino and the Chartular Chronicle of the Farfa monastery in Sabina . He also began to edit the documents of the Imperial Monastery of San Salvatore on Monte Amiata . The edition was brought to a conclusion under Reinhard Elze by Mario Marrocchi on the basis of Kurze's notes for the historical introduction and published under Kurzes name. In 1997, Kurz retired, but remained active until his sudden cardiac death.

His library with the photographic archive was given to the library of the Corso in Conservazione e Gestione Beni Archeologici of the University of Siena , based in Grosseto , by his widow Helga Pellegrini kurz . In May 2009, the Siena State Archives , which preserves the documents of the San Salvatore Monastery on Monte Amiata, organized a study day on the results and perspectives of research. He was a corresponding member of the Accademia degli Intronati in Siena .

literature

• Hagen Keller : Wilhelm Kurz 1933–2002 . In: Sources and research from Italian archives and libraries 82, 2002, pp. XLI – XLIII. ( online at perspectivia.net )

Web links

• Literature by and about Wilhelm Kurz in the catalog of the German National Library
• Publications by Wilhelm Kurz in the Opac of the Regesta Imperii
• Obituary by Mario Ascheri on Iura communia
• Carlo Citter: Ricordo di Wilhelm short on the sides of the Corso in Conservazione e Gestione Beni Archeologici Grosseto

Remarks

1. ↑ On the research of Kurz see: Arnold Esch: Research in Tuscany. In: Reinhard Elze, Arnold Esch (eds.), The German Historical Institute in Rome 1888–1988, Tübingen 1990, pp. 191–209, here: p. 204.
2. ↑ Information on the website of the CCGBA Grosseto course ( Memento of the original from May 30, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
3. ↑ Announcement ( Memento from June 22, 2010 in the Internet Archive )