Johannes Mötsch

John Mötsch ( born July 8, 1949 in Bonn ) is a German archivist and historian.

Life

John Mötsch studied from 1970 to 1978 at the University of Bonn history and Latin Philology and received his doctorate in 1979. 1978 he began as a trainee teaching practice at the State Archives in Koblenz and visited the Archives to 1980 Marburg. Until 1993 he worked at the State Archives in Koblenz in 1989 and taught at Marburg Archives School. In 1993 he went to the Thuringian State Archives in Weimar, where he worked until 1997. In that year he took over the management of the Thuringian State Archives in Meiningen as director of archives.

He is a member of the Historical Commission for Thuringia.

Works (selection)

• Baldwin of Luxembourg. Archbishop of Trier - Elector of the Empire from 1285 to 1354. Festschrift on the occasion of the 700th birth year, ed. by Franz -Josef Heyen and John Mötsch ( springs and essays on the middle Rhine Church History 53), Mainz 1985
• Regesten the archive of the Counts of Sponheim 1065-1437, Part 1-5, edited by John Mötsch, National Archives Administration of Rhineland - Palatinate, 1987-1991
• Historical Atlas of the Rhineland, Supplement V / 4: The counties of Sponheim, Johannes Mötsch, Köln: Rheinland- Verlag, 1992
• The oldest Lehnsbücher of the Counts of Henneberg, edited by John Mötsch and Catherine Witter, Weimar: Böhlau, 1996 - ISBN 3-7400-1013-4
• Fuldische nunneries in Thuringia: Regesten the history of the monasteries Allendorf, Chapel village and Zella, the Rhön, Edit. and inlaid. John Mötsch, Munich, etc.: Urban and Fischer, 1999 - ISBN 3-437-31126-3
• The pilgrimage to Grimmenthal: documents, invoices, miracle book, edited by John Mötsch, Cologne, among other things: Böhlau, 2004 - ISBN 3-412-14004- X
• Regesten the archive of the Counts of Henneberg - Römhild, part Volumes 1 and 2, edited by John Mötsch, Cologne, among other things: Böhlau, 2006 - ISBN 978-3-412-35905-8