Heinrich Fichtenau

Heinrich Fichtenau ( born December 10, 1912 in Linz, † June 15, 2000 in Vienna ) was an Austrian historian and Diploma sufferers. His focus was the study of the Middle Ages.

Heinrich Fichtenau was the only child of Henry of Fichtenau officials and of Mary of Fichtenau, born Schachermeyr, a sister of the Ancient Historian Fritz Schachermeyr. Since 1931, he studied history and art history in Vienna and graduated in 1935 from the Institute for Austrian Historical Research from. In 1936 he became assistant to Hans Hirsch at the edition of the diplomas of Conrad III. for the Monumenta Historica Germaniae. He received his doctorate in Vienna with a thesis on the country's sovereignty in the Dauphiné and Savoy. 1940 drafted into the army, he managed to complete his habilitation for people and writing in the Middle Ages under the most adverse conditions in 1942. After two more years of war in the Ukraine in 1944 he was " provided indispensable " and witnessed the collapse of 1945 in Vienna.

At the initiative of Leo Santi Fallers Fichtenau 1950 was appointed extraordinary professor of Medieval History at the University of Vienna. From 1962 until his retirement in 1983, he was Professor of Medieval History and Auxiliary Historical Sciences and also Head of the Institute for Austrian Historical Research. In 1979 he was awarded the Wilhelm Hartel Prize and in 1986 the Culture Prize of the Province of Upper Austria. His Austrian Decoration for Science and Art was awarded in 1989. In 1962 he became a corresponding member of the Monumenta Historica Germaniae, 1969 Member of the Medieval Academy of America and added to the British Academy in 1970.

Fichtenau was the author of numerous monographs and articles fundamental to both the history as well as to the historical auxiliary sciences. Several of his books have been translated into English and made ​​him in the Anglophone region into one of the bestrezipierten Austrian medievalists of his time. Characteristic of Fichtenau it to exemplify history of anecdotes and always to be understood as historical anthropology, which says a lot about human thought and behavior was.

Writings

Monographs

  • Man and writing in the Middle Ages. Universe, Vienna, 1946 ( = Publications of the Institute for Austrian Historical Research. Band 5).
  • Broad history of the Middle Ages. Universe, Vienna, 1947 ( Universe library of knowledge 23).
  • The Carolingian Empire. Social and mental problems of an empire. . Fretz & Wasmuth, Zurich and Geitner, Vienna, 1949 ( English under the title The Carolingian Empire:. ., The Age of Charlemagne Translated by Peter Munz Toronto, London 1957. )
  • Erich Zöllner: Document book on the history of Babenberg in Austria. Part 1 and 2 Holzhausen, Vienna 1950 and 1955.
  • Harangue. Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages in the mirror of document formulas. Böhlau, Graz, Cologne 1957 ( releases of the Institute for Austrian Historical Research ( MIÖG ) Supplementary Volume 18).
  • The official documents in Austria from 8th to early 13th century. Böhlau, Vienna, Cologne, Graz, 1971 ( MIÖG Supplementary Volume 23).
  • Orders of life of the 10th century. Studies of thinking and existence in the former Carolingian Empire. Hiersemann, Stuttgart 1984. Reprints: Munich ( dtv. Scientific Series Volume 4577. ) 1992.
  • English under the title Living in the Tenth Century: Mentalities and Social Orders. Translated by Patrick J. Geary. Chicago, London 1991 ..

Small fonts

  • Collection of up to 1975/77/86 appeared small fonts: Articles for Medieval Studies. Volume 1: General History. . Stuttgart 1975 Volume 2: document research.. Stuttgart 1977 Volume 3: rules of life - Certificate Research - Medieval Latin. Stuttgart 1986.
  • Research on document formulas. A report. In: Reports of the Institute for Austrian Historical Research. ( MIÖG ) 94, 1986, pp. 285-339.
  • " Dei gratia " and King anointing. In: History and its sources. Festschrift for Friedrich Hausmann. Graz 1987, p 25-35.
  • To investigate the heresies of the 11th and 12th century. In: Roman Historical Releases. 31, 1989, p 75-91.
  • Documentary sources. In: Austria in the Middle Ages ( 907-1246 ). (Commission publications on the history of Austria 17, Vienna, 1991 ), pp. 33-48.
  • Diploma and certificate sufferers researchers. In: Reports of the Institute for Austrian Historical Research. 100, 1992, pp. 9-49.
  • " Urban Planning " in the early Middle Ages. In: Karl Brunner, Brigitte Merta (ed.): ethnogenesis and tradition ( = Publications of the Institute for Austrian Historical Research Volume 31. ). Vienna among others 1994, pp. 232-249.
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