Karl Ferdinand Werner

Karl Ferdinand Werner ( born February 21, 1924 in Neunkirchen ( Saar), † December 9, 2008 in Tegernsee ) was a German historian.

Karl Ferdinand Werner ill in labor service in Ukraine tetany. He therefore was not used in the war. Since 1943, he studied at the University of Heidelberg in Fritz Ernst. At Ernst 1950 he received his doctorate with the work of Andreas Marchiennes and the Reditus regni Francorum ad stirpem Karoli. From 1951 to 1953 he studied at the École pratique des hautes études in Paris, where he specialized in the Middle Ages, especially the history of the Franks. In 1954 he was awarded an assistantship at the University of Heidelberg. In 1961 he qualified as a professor in Heidelberg with the work The Origin of the Principality (8th- 10th century). In his unpublished remaining Habilitation Werner refuted the opinion of the French historiography that after the collapse of the Carolingian Empire in the 9th and 10th centuries a " anarchy féodale " had occurred. Despite difficult source of poverty in the 9th and 10th centuries, Werner was able to prove the continuity of the nobility and state structures in these " dark centuries ". From 1965 to 1968 he was professor of medieval history at the University of Mannheim. His most important students were Hartmut Atsma, Jürgen Voss, Martin Heinzelmann and Werner Paravicini. From 1968 to 1989, Werner Director of the German Historical Institute (DHI, Institute historique allemand ) in Paris. In 1973 he founded the journal Francia.

His research focused on the medieval source study, the Western European history and the history of science. Emphasis in Werner's work was the search for the influences of German historiography of the 19th and 20th centuries on the development of National Socialism. With his pioneering work The Nazi view of history and the German historical science (1967 ) Werner showed for the first time to the close proximity of the leading historians to the National Socialist conception. In the prosopographic People Research Werner tried to capture long before electronic data processing systematically the entire surviving their name from Late Antiquity to the High Middle Ages with its Prosopographia regnorum occidentalium. The project reached approximately 270,000 documents and was discontinued mid-1970s. His work Naissance de la noblesse. L' essor of élites politiques en Europe he was able to publish in 1998. Other projects, including a monograph of Charlemagne failed due to a long illness.

Werner has been honored by the French side, with high honors. In 1986 he became a corresponding member and in 1991 Associé étranger ( foreign member ) of the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles Lettres. In 1988 he was made an honorary Doctor of the Sorbonne, and in 1996 the University of Orléans. In 1988, he received the Silver Medal of the Conseil national de la recherche scientifique. 65th and 75th Birthday Commemorative him were dedicated. On the German side it was established in 1988 corresponding member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences. In addition, Werner became a corresponding member of the Commission for Historical Geography and the Central Directorate of the Monumenta Historica Germaniae. 2000 Werner received the Arenberg Prize. In 2003 he was counted by a Parisian collective work of the nineteen most important historians of the 19th and 20th centuries. Since 2009, the Karl- Ferdinand Werner Fellowship of the DHI Paris recalls Werner, " of the Institute 1968-1989 decisively marked " " has acquired its commitment to the advancement of science relations and research exchange between Germany and France, lasting contribution " and.

Writings

Monographs

  • The Nazi view of history and the German historical scholarship. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 1967.
  • The origins of France to the year 1000. DVA, Stuttgart 1989, ISBN 3-421-06451-2.
  • Marc Bloch and the beginnings of European history. Lecture delivered on 16 June 1994 on the occasion of the return of the 50th anniversary of the death of the French medievalist Marc Bloch, University of the Saarland, Saarbrücken 1995.
  • Charlemagne and Charlemagne - From the timeliness of an outdated issue.. . Submitted by Horst Fuhrmann on 17 February 1995 Beck Verlag, Munich 1995 Series title: Bavarian Academy of Sciences of Humanities Class: meeting reports; Born in 1995, H. 4, ISBN 3-7696-1581-6.
  • Naissance de la noblesse. L' essor of élites politiques en Europe. Fayard, Paris 1998, ISBN 2-213-02148-1.
  • Unity of history. Studies on historiography. Thorbecke, Sigmaringen 1999, ISBN 3-7995-7347- X ( online at perspectivia.net ).

Editorial Boards

  • Hof, culture and politics in the 19th century. Acts of the 18th German - French historian colloquium Darmstadt 27 -. September 30, 1982 Röhrscheid, Bonn 1985, ISBN 3-7928-0481-6.
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