Wolfgang Eric Wagner

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Wolfgang Eric Wagner (born July 1, 1966 in Erfurt ) is a German historian .

Wolfgang Eric Wagner passed his Abitur in 1985 in Berlin. From 1988 to 1993 he studied German and history at the Humboldt University in Berlin . From 1997 to 1999 he worked as a research assistant at Michael Borgolte's chair in Medieval History in the DFG project “Source corpus for medieval foundations”. In 1999 he received his doctorate in Berlin with the thesis supervised by Michael Borgolte University Foundation and College in Prague, Vienna and Heidelberg . In the same year he was a research assistant in the DFG project "The Foundations of the Franconian and German Kings and their Realities". Between 1999 and 2001, Wagner worked as a research assistant at the Institute for the Comparative History of Europe in the Middle Ages at the Humboldt University. He then moved to the Historical Institute of the University of Rostock , where he worked as a research assistant from 2001 to 2006, from 2006 to 2012 as a junior professor for history of the Middle Ages and historical auxiliary sciences. He completed his habilitation in Rostock in 2009 with a thesis on brotherhood in prayer and the image of rulers in the early Middle Ages . In the summer semester 2011 and winter semester 2011/12 he taught as a substitute professor for Frank Rexroth at the University of Göttingen . Since 2012 he has been teaching as a university professor for medieval history at the University of Münster .

His main research interests are historiographic history, historical auxiliary sciences, comparative history, remembrance, commemorative and commemorative culture ( memoria ) and university history. Among other things, he is a member of the Association of Historians in Germany , the Society for University and Scientific History (GUW), the Austrian Society for University and Scientific History, Association for Mecklenburg History and Archeology , the Association for Rostock History and, since 2017, a member of the Historical Commission for Mecklenburg . In 2007 he received the sponsorship award for teaching from the Society of Sponsors of the University of Rostock.

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Monographs

  • University foundation and college in Prague, Vienna and Heidelberg. A comparative study of late medieval foundations in the area of ​​tension between rule and cooperative society (= Europe in the Middle Ages. Treatises and contributions to historical comparative literature. Volume 2). Akademie, Berlin 1999, ISBN 3-05-003428-9 (dissertation, HU Berlin, 1999).
  • The liturgical presence of the absent king. Brotherhood of prayer and image of rulers in the early Middle Ages (= Brill's Series on the Early Middle Ages. Volume 19). Brill, Boston / Leiden 2010, ISBN 978-90-04-18923-2 (revised habilitation thesis, University of Rostock, 2008/2009).

Editorships

  • The library of the Historical Society of Johann Gustav Droysen (1860–1884). A book collection in the history branch library of the Humboldt University in Berlin. Listed and commented on by Wolfgang Eric Wagner. Academy, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-05-008697-2 .
  • “Observantia lectionum in universitate Rostochiensi” (1520). The oldest printed lecture program of the University of Rostock (= New something from learned Rostock things, for good friends. Sources and explanations on the history of learned life in Rostock. Volume 1). Kovač, Hamburg 2011, ISBN 978-3-8300-5126-8 .

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Remarks

  1. See the reviews by Harald Müller in: H-Soz-Kult , May 4, 2001, ( online ); Hans-Rudolf Hagemann in: Journal of the Savigny Foundation for Legal History, German Department. 119, 2002, pp. 632-634.
  2. See the reviews by Herbert Schneider in: Deutsches Archiv für Erforschung des Mittelalters 69, 2013, pp. 317–318 ( online ); Hans-Werner Goetz in: H-Soz-Kult , October 5, 2011, ( online ); Rolf Kuithan in: Sehepunkte 13 (2013), No. 12 [15. December 2013], ( online ).