Herwig Wolfram

Herwig Wolfram ( born February 14, 1934 in Vienna) is an Austrian medievalist and professor emeritus at the University of Vienna.

Herwig Wolfram studied from 1952 to 1957 at the University of Vienna, the subjects of history and Latin. In 1957 he received his doctorate. In 1959, Wolfram Research Assistant at the Historical Institute of the University of Vienna. There, in 1966 and his habilitation. Wolfram was a professor from 1969 until his retirement in Medieval History and Auxiliary Historical Sciences at the University of Vienna. From 1983 to 2002 he was director of the Institute for Austrian Historical Research.

Research priorities tungsten are:

  • ( Early and high - ) Medieval and Auxiliary Historical Sciences
  • Ethno genesis; his work on the Goths, that in some respects the suggestions of Reinhard Wenskus follows, has become a standard work, although the Anglo-American world some resistance against the theses tungsten exist (see Peter J. Heather, Goths and Romans, Oxford 1991 )
  • Diplomatics
  • Early History of the Germanic peoples, the transformation of the Roman world and the emergence of the European peoples

Wolfram gave 1994-2006 out a 14-volume Austrian history and is editor of the book series CH Beck Early peoples.

Herwig Wolfram is a member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences (AAS ), corresponding member ( k level) of the Monumenta Historica Germaniae and worked for many years as delegated by the Academy member of their Central Directorate, M. k of the Medieval Academy of America, the British Academy and the Royal Historical Society and awarded the Austrian Medal of Honour for Science and Art ( 2000). 2011 tungsten was honored with the Cardinal Innitzer price.

Writings

  • Splendor Imperii (Vienna 1963).
  • Intitulatio I. (Vienna 1967) and II ( Vienna 1972)
  • History of the Goths. Draft historical ethnography, C. H. Beck, 1st edition (Munich, 1979), 2nd edition (1980 ) under the title: The Goths. From the beginning to the middle of the sixth century. 3rd and 4th edition (1990/ 2001), Italian, American, French and Russian translations. Revised and shortened as Beck's special edition (Munich 1983).
  • The Empire and the Germanic tribes. Between Antiquity and the Middle Ages, settlers, settlers Berlin 1990 German history. English translation of 1997.
  • Austrian History 378-907: boundaries and spaces. Austria's history prior to its creation. Ueberreuter, Vienna 1995.
  • Salzburg, Bavaria, Austria. The Conversio Bagoariorum et Carantanorum and the sources of their time Vienna 1995.
  • The Germans, C. H. Beck, Munich 1995 ( Beck series knowledge ninth revised edition 2009, ISBN 978-3-406-59004-7.
  • Conrad II, emperor of three kingdoms, CH Beck, Munich 2000. English Translation, Penn State Press, 2006.
  • The Goths and their history, CH Beck, Munich 2001 ( Beck series knowledge). Spanish translation.
  • Suddenly we were faced with Attila. A journey into the Hun Empire, Ueberreuter, Vienna 2002
  • Gothic studies. People and rule in the early Middle Ages. C. H. Beck, Munich 2005
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