Carlrichard Brühl

Carl Richard Bruehl ( born February 23, 1925 in Frankfurt am Main, † January 25, 1997 in Dusseldorf ) was a German historian of medieval history.

Life

Carl Richard Bruehl presented in Berlin in 1943, the school leaving examination. Since 1946, studying Brühl history, historical auxiliary sciences and art history in Frankfurt am Main, where he was particularly influenced by Paul Kirn and Harald Keller. He received his Ph.D. in 1949 in Frankfurt bei Kirn on the subject Reims as the coronation city of the French king to the exit of the 14th century. After a jurisprudential complement studies in Bonn and Paris was his habilitation with the work Fodrum, gistum, Servitium registered in Cologne in 1961 by Theodor Schieffer. In this work, Bruehl provides an overall picture of the medieval King Tung gas as a necessary basis of the travel rule in the rule of three major associations Germany, France and Italy. Brühl taught as the successor of Peter Classen 1966-1990 Medieval and Modern History at the Justus -Liebig- University of Giessen. Brühl received high recognition especially abroad. He was Directeur d' études at the École pratique des hautes études, and from 1975 a corresponding member of the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles Lettres in Paris and since 1980 of the Istituto di Studi Siciliano Bizantini. Bruehl was, inter alia, "Visiting research Fellow" of Merton College, Oxford in 1978, "Visiting Member" of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton ( 1981/1982 ). The École Pratique des Hautes Études, awarded him an honorary doctorate. To Brühl academic students, among others heard Theo Kölzer.

His main research focus was the Frankish Empire and the successor dominions France, Italy and Germany. Brühl has authored numerous studies on the economic foundations of medieval kingship in a comparative European perspective to the sites of the exercise of power, the travel routes of medieval rulers, the problem of urban continuity between antiquity and the Middle Ages, as well as to places and coronation coronation custom. Brühl was also active as a record of researchers. He led a long time the "Codex diplomaticus regni Siciliae " within which he himself the Latin documents of King Roger II issued. With his lecture "When the German story begins " on May 6, 1972 before back the Frankfurt Scientific Society he wrote the History of Science in the discussion of the conditions on the forms and the beginnings of European nations. In his most popular work of Germany - France, the birth of two nations. (1990 ) sees the emergence of Germany and France as a simultaneous process. After Brühl state formation of the two Carolingian rule heirs is parallel and must therefore be seen in sync. It was not until about 1025 would " Germany and France are grasped as a mature, independent political variables. " This entire 10th century must therefore be " considered late phase of Frankish history " as. Brühl wrote on the history of philately a standard work.

Writings

Monographs

  • The birth of two nations. German and French (9th - 11th century). With a foreword by Theo Kölzer. Böhlau, Cologne et al 2001, ISBN 3-412-13300-0.
  • Studies on the Merovingian royal charters. Edited by Theo Kölzer. Böhlau, Cologne et al 1998, ISBN 3-412-01598-9.
  • Germany - France. The birth of two nations. Böhlau, Cologne, among other things, 1990, ISBN 3-412-18189-7 (2nd, revised edition. Ibid. 1995, ISBN 3-412-08295-3 ).
  • From the Middle Ages and diplomacy. Collected Essays. 3 volumes. Weidmann, Hildesheim, inter alia, 1989-1997; Volume 1: Studies on constitutional history and urban topography. 1989, ISBN 3-615-00053-6;
  • Volume 2: Studies on diplomacy. 1989, ISBN 3-615-00054-4;
  • Volume 3: Studies on constitutional history and diplomatics (1984, 1988-1996 ). 1997, ISBN 3-615-00182-6.
  • Volume 1: Gaul. 1975, ISBN 3-412-11375-1;
  • Volume 2: I Belgica, Germania and Raetia II, both 1990, ISBN 3-412-21788-3.

Editorial Boards

  • With Bernd Schneidmüller: Contributions to the medieval empire and nation-building in Germany and France ( = Historical Journal Supplements NF Vol 24. ). Oldenbourg, Munich 1997, ISBN 3-486-64422- X.
  • Rogerii II regis diplomata Latina ( = Codex Diplomaticus Regni Siciliae Series 1:. . Diplomata regum et principum e gente Normannorum Tome 2, 1). Böhlau, Cologne et al, 1987, ISBN 3-412-02584-4.
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