Wolfgang Metz (historian)

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Wolfgang Metz (born April 12, 1919 in Hildesheim , † April 12, 1992 in Speyer ) was a German librarian and historian .

Wolfgang Metz grew up in Eschwege in northern Hesse and studied German, history and geography at the University of Göttingen . He had to interrupt his studies for military service from 1942 to 1945. In 1947 he completed his studies with Hermann Heimpel with a doctorate on the subject of the intrusion of the bourgeoisie into the central administration of Hesse . Then Metz embarked on the library career. In 1954 he became a subject librarian and later a department head at the Lower Saxony State Library in Hanover . Since 1960 he has been teaching at the University of Göttingen. In 1964 he became head of the Palatinate State Library in Speyer. Since 1968 he has been at the University of Mainz and since 1971 honorary professor for social and economic history .

His scientific oeuvre encompasses the economic, social and constitutional history of the early and high Middle Ages, especially questions of research on imperial estates, manorial power and aristocracy. His books on the Carolingian and Hohenstaufen imperial estates and the high medieval servitium regis have become standard works. Metz published numerous articles in the German Archive for Research into the Middle Ages , the Blätter für Deutsche Landesgeschichte and the Historisches Jahrbuch .

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  • The servitium regis. To research the economic basis of the high medieval German royalty. Darmstadt 1978, ISBN 3-534-07431-9 .
  • To research the Carolingian imperial estate. Darmstadt 1971.
  • Staufer goods registers. Investigations into the constitutional and economic history of the 12th and 13th centuries. Berlin 1964.
  • The Carolingian Empire. A constitutional and administrative history investigation. Berlin 1960.

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SURNAME Metz, Wolfgang
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German librarian and historian
DATE OF BIRTH April 12, 1919
PLACE OF BIRTH Hildesheim
DATE OF DEATH April 12, 1992
Place of death Speyer