Wolfgang Giese

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Wolfgang Heinrich Martin Giese (born February 6, 1939 in Regensburg ) is a German historian .

The son of a Protestant dean passed his matriculation examination at the Melanchthon-Gymnasium in Nuremberg in 1960 and studied history and German studies from 1960, first in Erlangen and from 1961/62 in Munich. Giese received his doctorate in Munich with Johannes Spörl on the history of the Richer von Reims . In 1977 he received his habilitation in Munich with the thesis The Tribe of the Saxons and the Empire in Ottonian and Salian Times . Giese initially worked as an assistant in Munich. From 1980 until his retirement in 2004 he taught medieval history as a professor at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich . Giese took on a variety of tasks in academic self-administration. He was temporarily chairman of the graduate promotion committee and deputy chairman of the doctoral committee as well as a member of the faculty council and managing director of the historical seminar.

His main research interests are Richer von Reims , medieval historiography, the role of Saxony in the medieval empire, the problems of succession in the medieval empires and the history of Venice and the Crusades . In 2008 he published a biography on Heinrich I.

Fonts

A list of publications appeared in: Hubertus Seibert (Ed.): From Saxony to Jerusalem. People and institutions through the ages. Festschrift for Wolfgang Giese on his 65th birthday. Munich 2004, pp. 397-399.

  • Heinrich I. founder of the Ottonian rule. Primus-Verlag, Darmstadt 2008, ISBN 978-3-534-18204-6 .
  • The Goths (= Kohlhammer-Urban pocket books. Vol. 597). Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 2004, ISBN 3-17-017670-6 .
  • The Saxon tribe and the empire in Ottonian and Salian times. Studies on the influence of the Saxon tribe on the political history of the German Empire in the 10th and 11th centuries and on their position in the empire structure with an outlook on the 12th and 13th centuries. Steiner, Wiesbaden 1979, ISBN 3-515-02787-4 (also: Munich, University, habilitation paper, 1977).
  • "Genus" and "Virtus". Studies on the history of the judges of St. Remi. Munich 1969, (Munich, University, Dissertation, 1969).

literature

  • Hubertus Seibert , Gertrud Thoma (ed.): From Saxony to Jerusalem. People and institutions through the ages. Festschrift for Wolfgang Giese on his 65th birthday. Utz, Munich 2004, ISBN 3-8316-0312-X ( review ).

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Remarks

  1. ↑ See the reviews of Tilman Struve in: Historische Zeitschrift 232 (1981), pp. 138-139; Gerhard Köhler in: Journal of the Savigny Foundation for Legal History, German Department 98 (1981), p. 320; Herbert Zielinski in: Blätter für deutsche Landesgeschichte 119 (1983), pp. 450–452 ( online ); Matthias Werner in: German Archive for Research into the Middle Ages 37 (1981), pp. 379-380 ( online ).
  2. ↑ See the discussions by Stefan Schröder in: Mittelalter 16 (2011), pp. 181–182; Claudia Moddelmog: in: H-Soz-Kult , May 14, 2008 ( online ); Rudolf Schieffer in: German Archive for Research into the Middle Ages 65 (2009), p. 304 ( online ).
personal data
SURNAME Giese, Wolfgang
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Giese, Wolfgang Heinrich Martin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian
DATE OF BIRTH February 6, 1939
PLACE OF BIRTH regensburg