Walter Pohl

Walter Pohl (* December 27, 1953 in Vienna) is an Austrian historian and Professor of Medieval History and Auxiliary Historical Sciences at the University of Vienna.

Life

Walter Pohl studied history at the University of Vienna, in 1984 she received her doctorate in Herwig Wolfram on the Avars. From 1985 to 1990 Pohl was employed by the research focus on " New Ways of early historical research " at the Institute for Austrian Historical Research. 1989 and his habilitation for Medieval History at the University of Vienna; 2001 Habilitation for Auxiliary Historical Sciences at the University of Vienna. Since 2004, Pohl is director of the Institute for Medieval Studies of the Austrian Academy of Sciences and in 2000 was elected a corresponding member, 2004 to the real member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences. Since summer 2002 he has also Austrian representative in the Standing Committee for the Humanities of the European Science Foundation ( ESF) and delegate to the General Assembly of the ESF. In 2004 he was awarded the Wittgenstein Prize, 2010, he received one of the prestigious ERC Advanced Grants from the European Commission.

His research focuses on the transformation of the Roman world and the kingdoms of the early Middle Ages, the ethnic processes and identities between antiquity and the Middle Ages, the " Great Migration " and other migrations that history and its tradition, the early medieval law books, the history of the peoples of the steppes and the history and cultural history of Italy to 1000.

He belongs to the editorial board of the journal Networks and Neighbours.

Writings

  • The Avar in Europe 558-700. Gentile and imperial policy. PhD thesis, University of Vienna, 1984.
  • The Avars. A steppe people in Central Europe, 567-822 AD Beck, Munich 1988; Second, updated edition in 2002.
  • The Germans ( = Olden Bourg's Encyclopedia of German history. Vol. 57). Oldenbourg, München 2000.
  • Workshop of memory: Montecassino and the design of the Lombard past ( = messages of the Institute for Austrian Historical Research Supplement 39. ). Oldenbourg, Vienna / Munich 2001 ( Habilitation thesis, University of Vienna, 2000).
  • The migration of peoples. Conquest and integration. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart / Berlin / Cologne 2002; Second, enlarged edition 2005.
  • Several encyclopedia articles, for example in the lexicon of the Middle Ages and in the Lexicon of Germanic archeology.
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