Wolfgang Petke

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Wolfgang Petke (born October 30, 1941 in Spremberg ) is a German historian and diplomat .

Wolfgang Petke grew up in Solingen . After graduating from high school, Petke studied history and German philology at the universities of Tübingen and Göttingen . With Hans Goetting in Göttingen he received his doctorate in 1969 on the Counts of Wöltingerode Wohldenberg , a noble family that had a major impact on the history of southern Lower Saxony in the 12th and 13th centuries. Petke's habilitation took place with a thesis on the chancellery , chapel and royal curia under Lothar III. Since 1983 he has been a lecturer in Middle and Modern History and historical auxiliary sciences at the University of Göttingen . From 1997 to 2007 Petke was head of the collection of the traditional diplomatic apparatus at the University of Göttingen.

Petke researched nobility and rule in the Middle Ages. His Göttingen habilitation thesis deals with “the people who were responsible for the making of political decisions at the court of Emperor Lothar III. were involved ”and“ who were close to the king as advisers, confidants and helpers ”. With his habilitation and as the editor of the Regesta Imperii from 1125 to 1137, he ensured a better understanding of the reign of Süpplingenburg 's Lothars III. Petke presented relevant works on the medieval parish and was able to win numerous students in Göttingen who published fundamental studies on the medieval parish. Petke also published important papers on diplomacy in the field of historical auxiliary sciences.

Fonts

A list of publications appeared in: Sabine Arend, Daniel Berger, Carola Brückner et al. (Ed.): Diversity and Actuality of the Middle Ages. Festschrift for Wolfgang Petke on the occasion of his 65th birthday (= publications by the Institute for Historical Research at the University of Göttingen. Vol. 48). Publishing house for regional history, Bielefeld 2006, ISBN 3-89534-608-X , pp. 739–741.

  • Chancellery, chapel and royal curia under Lothar III. (1125–1137) (= research on the history of the emperors and popes in the Middle Ages. Vol. 5). Böhlau, Cologne 1985 (at the same time: Göttingen, University, habilitation paper, 1982/83).
  • The Counts of Wöltingerode-Wohldenberg. Aristocratic rule, royalty and sovereignty in the northwest Harz in the 12th and 13th centuries (= publications by the Institute for Historical Research at the University of Göttingen. Vol. 4). Lax, Hildesheim 1971 (at the same time: Göttingen, Universität, Dissertation, 1969).
  • with Hermann Jakobs : Papal document research and history. From the Germania Pontificia Halberstadt and Lüttich (= studies and preliminary work on Germania pontificia. Vol. 9). Böhlau, Cologne et al. 2008, ISBN 978-3-412-20024-4 .

literature

  • Sabine Arend, Daniel Berger, Carola Brückner and others (eds.): Diversity and topicality of the Middle Ages. Festschrift for Wolfgang Petke on the occasion of his 65th birthday (= publications by the Institute for Historical Research at the University of Göttingen. Vol. 48). Publishing house for regional history, Bielefeld 2006, ISBN 3-89534-608-X .

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Remarks

  1. ^ Wolfgang Petke: Chancellery, chapel and royal curia under Lothar III. (1125-1137). Cologne 1985, p. 1 Cf. the reviews of Brigide Schwarz in: Niedersächsisches Jahrbuch für Landesgeschichte 60 (1988), pp. 321–323.
  2. ^ Sabine Graf: The lower church system of the imperial city of Goslar in the Middle Ages. Göttingen 1998; Stefan Petersen: Benefit taxation on the periphery. Parish organization, benefice income, clerical education in the diocese of Ratzeburg. Göttingen 2001; Peter Vollmers: The Hamburg parishes in the Middle Ages. The parochial organization of the Hanseatic city until the Reformation. Hamburg 2005; Bengt Büttner: The parishes of the island of Rügen. From Christianization to the Reformation. Cologne 2007.
personal data
SURNAME Petke, Wolfgang
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian
DATE OF BIRTH October 30, 1941
PLACE OF BIRTH Spremberg