Josef Fleckenstein (18 February 1919 in Kämmeritz bei Querfurt - 4 November 2004 in Gottingen) was a German

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and

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. His central field of research was the

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. He did his doctorate and habilitation with

Gerd Tellenbach Gerd Tellenbach (17 September 1903 – 12 June 1999) was a German historian and scholar of medieval social and religious history, particularly of the Papacy and German church during the Investiture Controversy and reform movements of the eleventh ...

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. From 1962 to 1965 he was a professor at the University of Frankfurt, then from 1965 to 1971 at the University of Freiburg as Tellenbach's successor. From 1971 to 1987 he directed the

Max Planck Institute for History The Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity (German language, German: ''Max-Planck-Institut zur Erforschung multireligiöser und multiethnischer Gesellschaften'') is located in Göttingen, Germany. It is one of 83 ins ...

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.Rudolf Schieffer: Nachruf Josef Fleckenstein. In: ''Deutsches Archiv für Erforschung des Mittelalters'' (DA) 61, 2005, p. 433–434.
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Works

*1953 ''Die Bildungsreform Karls des Großen'' *1959 ''Die Hofkapelle der deutschen Könige'', volume 1: ''Grundlegung. Die karolingische Hofkapelle'' (= ''Schriften der Monumenta Germaniae Historica'', vol. 16, 1-2 ) *1962 ''Karl der Große'' (= ''Persönlichkeit und Geschichte.'' vol. 28, ) *1966 ''Die Hofkapelle der deutschen Könige'', volume 2: ''Die Hofkapelle im Rahmen der ottonisch-salischen Reichskirche'' (= ''Schriften der Monumenta Germaniae Historica'', vol. 16, 1-2 ) *1974 ''Grundlagen und Beginn der deutschen Geschichte'' (= ''Deutsche Geschichte.'' vol. 1, ) *2002 ''Rittertum und ritterliche Welt'', (The cavalry and the world of chivalry. Includes a study of Spanish cavalry Jesús Rodríguez-Velasco . Madrid, 2006.)

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1919 births 2004 deaths German male essayists 20th-century German historians 20th-century German essayists 20th-century German male writers Officers Crosses of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany {{Germany-writer-stub