Josef Fleckenstein

Josef Fleckenstein ( born February 18, 1919 in combs Ritz in cross- ford; † November 4, 2004 in Göttingen ) was a German historian.

Josef Fleckenstein put 1939 the High School in Mainz. He studied history 1940/41, in Leipzig under Hermann Heimpel and in hall at Martin Lintzel. During his studies he worked in the Reich Labour Service and in the German Air Force. In North Africa he got in 1943 for several years in captivity. The study of history, German literature, art history and Latin philology he could until the summer semester 1948 in Mainz and Freiburg in record time since 1949. Heimpel and Gerd Tellenbach were his most important academic teacher. In Freiburg he was in 1952 Tellenbach his doctorate with a thesis on the educational reform of Charlemagne. In the fifties he participated in the research of his teacher Tellenbach in the "Freiburger working group" on the early medieval nobility. In 1958 in Freiburg, Habilitation on "the court orchestra of the German kings ." In 1960 he spent a year as a professor at the Georg-August -Universität Göttingen. In 1962 Fleckenstein was offered a full professorship in Frankfurt, in 1965 as a successor Telle Bach to Freiburg. From 1971 to 1987 he was the successor Heimpels ago as director of the medieval section of the Max Planck Institute for History in Göttingen, where until 1987 he held also an honorary professor at the Faculty of 1971. His distinguished academic students were Fenske Lutz, Werner Rosener and Thomas Zotz. After his retirement in 1987 Fleckenstein taught in the winter semester 1988/89 as a visiting professor in Zurich. After a long illness Fleckenstein died just months after his wife on 4 November 2004 in Göttingen.

Fleckensteins research priorities were Carolingian period, imperial church and chivalry. In the professional world to him his two-volume work " The court orchestra of the German kings " (1959/1966) gave high reputation. The presentation examined the role of this institution in the Ottonian and Salian Reich Church until 1056. This research led to a number of more general representations. His monograph on Charlemagne was translated into Dutch and Italian. His description of "Principles and beginning of German history" ( 1974) appeared in English translation. He was also the author of the Ottonian of the classic textbook of German history, " Gebhardt " (1970). His presentation was there still influenced by the teachings of the 19th century. All activities of the king were geared towards their own power against the nobility and the church to strengthen. In Göttingen Fleckenstein dedicated to the Rittertumsforschung. From this work a number of individual studies and the anthologies " rule and subject" The gallant Turner in the Middle Ages "and" curialitas " went " out. Fleckenstein was through his studies of the foremost experts in the courtly culture. However, a comprehensive presentation of the history of chivalry in the Middle Ages he could no longer make. He has also written numerous life images of important historians of the 20th century.

Fleckenstein was often engaged in scientific organization. From 1980 to 1982 and again from 1984 to 1986 he was president of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen. Fleckenstein was CEO from 1968 to 1971 in Konstanz Working Group for medieval history and to 1993 on the board of the Working Group. He was a member of the Senate and the Committee of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft as well as a member and Chairman partially the Ministry of Culture of the Federal State of Mecklenburg -Vorpommern in the reconciliation commission. Fleckenstein was on the founding committee history at the University of Rostock

Fleckenstein were bestowed numerous honors. He was a corresponding member of the Dutch Maatschappij the Wetenschappen, the Monumenta Historica Germaniae (1968), Fellow of the British Academy ( 1971), member of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen (1973 ), corresponding member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences ( 1982), as well as a foreign member Academy of Sciences in Erfurt profit. In 1994, Fleckenstein Carl Friedrich Gauss Medal of Brunswick Scientific Society. To mark the 65th birthday him a Festschrift on the occasion of his 70th birthday and was dedicated to a collection of essays.

Writings

A list of fonts to 1988 includes: Josef Fleckenstein: Orders and shaping forces of the Middle Ages. Selected contributions. Cambridge University Press, Göttingen, 1989, pp. 547-587.

Monographs

• The educational reform of Charlemagne as the realization of Norma rectitudinis. Joseph printing, Bigge -Ruhr 1953 ( same time: Freiburg (Breisgau ), Univ, Diss, 1952. ).
• The court orchestra of the German kings ( = headings of the Monumenta Historica Germaniae. Vol 16, 1-2, ISSN 0080-6951 ). 2 vols. Hiersemann, Stuttgart 1959-1966 Volume 1: the foundation. The Carolingian court orchestra.
• Volume 2: The court orchestra under the Ottonian and Salian Reich Church.

Editorial Boards

• Rule and stand studies on the social history in the 13th century ( = Publications of the Max Planck Institute for History. Vol. 51). Cambridge University Press, Göttingen 1977, ISBN 3-525-35364-2.
• With Manfred Hellmann: The spiritual order of knights in Europe (. . = Constance Working Group for medieval history lectures and research Vol 26). Thorbecke, Sigmaringen 1980, ISBN 3-7995-6626-0.
• The knightly tournament in the Middle Ages. Contributions to a comparative forms and behavioral history of chivalry ( = Publications of the Max Planck Institute for History. Vol. 80). Cambridge University Press, Göttingen 1985, ISBN 3-525-35396-0.
• Curialitas. Studies in the fundamental questions of the courtly- chivalric culture ( = Publications of the Max Planck Institute for History. Vol. 100). Cambridge University Press, Göttingen 1990, ISBN 3-525-35637-4.