Wolfgang Stürner

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Wolfgang Stürner (born December 25, 1940 in Stuttgart ) is a German historian .

Wolfgang Stürner studied history, German, Latin and philosophy in Tübingen and Freiburg i. Br. In Tübingen he received his doctorate in 1968 with Horst Fuhrmann 's work The Sources of Fides Konstantins in the Constitutum Constantini . In 1973 the habilitation took place with the work Nature and Society in Thinking of the High and Late Middle Ages in Stuttgart. Subsequently, from 1974 until his retirement in 2006, he was Professor of Middle and Modern History at the Historical Institute of the University of Stuttgart and, since 1988, head of the Department of Historical Auxiliary Sciences there. In February 2006, Stürner held his farewell lecture on the myth and personality of Frederick II. From 2004 to 2012, Stürner was President of the Society for Staufer History . In November 2014 he was awarded the Science Prize of the Stauferstiftung Göppingen for his life's work.

For years, Stürner has been a leading expert on the history of the Staufer Emperor Friedrich II. Since his essay on the Prooemium of the Melfi Constitutions , published in 1983 in the German Archives , Stürner has been researching Friedrich II. A large number of essays and lectures followed in the coming decades. In 1996, Stürner published Frederick II's Constitutions for the Kingdom of Sicily as an edition and wrote a two-volume biography (1992/2000) of the emperor, which replaced the standard work published by Ernst Kantorowicz in 1927 . In contrast to Kantorowicz, Stürner's comprehensive presentation is unpathetically sober. The biography meets the highest scientific requirements and at the same time reaches a wide audience. Stürner praised Friedrich in his epilogue as a highly gifted and versatile ruler. In March 2007 the sixth volume about the 13th century, written by Stürner, was published in the Neues Gebhardt . In 2013, his most important essays on Friedrich II were published in an anthology by Folker Reichert .

Publications (selection)

Monographs

  • Nature and society in the thinking of the high and late middle ages. Scientific power concepts and the motivation of political action in texts from the 12th to 14th centuries (= Stuttgart contributions to history and politics. Volume 7, text volume). Klett, Stuttgart 1975, ISBN 3-12-907440-6 (partial print from: Stuttgart, Univ., Habil.-Schr., 1972/1973.).
  • Friedrich II. (= Figures of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. ). 2 volumes. Scientific Book Society, Darmstadt 1992–2000;
  • Late antiquity to the end of the Middle Ages. Thirteenth century. 1198–1273 (= Gebhardt. Handbuch der deutschen Geschichte. Vol. 6. 10., completely revised edition). Klett-Cotta, Stuttgart 2007, ISBN 978-3-608-60006-3 .
  • The Hohenstaufen. A medieval ruling dynasty. Volume 1: Rise and Power Development (975–1190). Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 2020, ISBN 978-3-17-022590-9 .

Editorships

literature

  • Folker Reichert: Laudation for the awarding of the science prize to Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Stürner. In: The Staufer and Northern Germany (= writings on Staufer history and art. Vol. 35). Society for Staufer History, Göppingen 2016, ISBN 978-3-929776-27-0 , pp. 163–169.

Web links

Remarks

  1. ^ Wolfgang Stürner: Rerum necessitas and divina provisio. On the interpretation of the Proemium of the constitutions of Melfi (1231). In: German Archive for Research into the Middle Ages 39 (1983), pp. 467–554 ( digitized version ).
  2. ↑ Wolfgang Stürner: Friedrich II. Part 2. The Emperor 1220-1250. 3rd, bibliographically updated edition in one volume, Darmstadt 2009, p. 594.
  3. ↑ Wolfgang Stürner Staufer Middle Ages. Selected essays on rulership practice and personality of Frederick II. Edited by Folker Reichert. Cologne u. a. 2012.
personal data
SURNAME Stürner, Wolfgang
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian
DATE OF BIRTH December 25, 1940
PLACE OF BIRTH Stuttgart