Rudolf Schieffer (31 January 1947 – 14 September 2018) was a German historian specializing in
medieval history. From 1994 to 2012 he was president of the
Monumenta Germaniae Historica
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Biography
Rudolf Schieffer was the son of the historian
Theodor Schieffer. He graduated from high school (''Abitur'') in 1966, and studied history and Latin between 1966 and 1971 at the
Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn and the
Philipps-Universität Marburg
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. He received his doctorate in 1975 in Bonn, his dissertation, ''Die Entstehung von Domkapiteln in Deutschland'', supervised by
Eugen Ewig. From 1975 to 1980 he worked at the
Monumenta Germaniae Historica
The ''Monumenta Germaniae Historica'' (''MGH'') is a comprehensive series of carefully edited and published primary sources, both chronicle and archival, for the study of Northwestern and Central European history from the end of the Roman Empire ...
(MGH). His
habilitation
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, for ''Die Entstehung des päpstlichen Investiturverbots für den deutschen König'', took place in 1979 at the
University of Regensburg. In 1980 he was appointed professor of medieval and modern history at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn, and in 1994 went to the
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München to take charge of the MGH.
Schieffer's specialism was the political, legal, and religious history from the late antique to the high middle ages, and particularly the era of the Carolingians. He was awarded the
Eike-von-Repgow-Preis in 2008. Schieffer was a member of
, the
Royal Historical Society, the
Konstanzer Arbeitskreis für mittelalterliche Geschichte, the
Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Göttingen, and the
Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften. Since 2012 he was a member of the board of directors of the Roman Institute of the
Görres Society.
Publications
Source studies
*''Hinkmar von Reims, De ordine palatii'' (= ''Monumenta Germaniae Historica Fontes iuris Germanici antiqui in usum scholarum separatim editi'' 3). Hannover 1980, . With Thomas Gross.
Digitalisat
*''Die Streitschriften Hinkmars von Reims und Hinkmars von Laon 869–871.'' (= ''Monumenta Germaniae Historica Concilia'' 4, supp. 2). Hannover 2003, .
Digitalisat
Monographs
*''Die Entstehung von Domkapiteln in Deutschland'' (= ''Bonner Historische Forschungen'' 43). Bonn 1976, .
*''Die Entstehung des päpstlichen Investiturverbots für den deutschen König'' (= ''Schriften der MGH'' 28). Stuttgart 1981, .
*''Die Karolinger'' (= ''Urban-Taschenbücher'' 411). Stuttgart 1992, fifth revised edition Stuttgart 2014, .
* ''Papst Gregor VII. Kirchenreform und Investiturstreit'' (= ''Beck'sche Reihe'' 2492). C. H. Beck, München 2010, .
* ''Christianisierung und Reichsbildungen. Europa 700–1200'' (= ''Beck'sche Reihe'' 1981). C. H. Beck, München 2013, .
Edited collections
*''Die deutschsprachige Mediävistik im 20. Jahrhundert.'' (= ''Vorträge und Forschungen'' Band 62). Ostfildern 2005, . With
Peter Moraw
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* ''Beiträge zur Geschichte des Regnum Francorum.'' Referate beim Wissenschaftlichen Colloquium zum 75. Geburtstag von Eugen Ewig am 28. Mai 1988 (= ''Beihefte der Francia'' Volume 22). Thorbecke, Sigmaringen 1990, .
Online auf perspectivia.net
References
* "Rudolf Schieffer", in Jürgen Petersohn (ed), ''Der Konstanzer Arbeitskreis für mittelalterliche Geschichte. Die Mitglieder und ihr Werk. Eine bio-bibliographische Dokumentation'' (''Veröffentlichungen des Konstanzer Arbeitskreises für Mittelalterliche Geschichte aus Anlass seines fünfzigjährigen Bestehens 1951–2001'', Vol 2). Stuttgart 2001, , S. 341–347.
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External links
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Publications by Rudolf Schiefferim Opac der
Regesta Imperii
Rudolf Schiefferat the
MGH
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2018 deaths
1947 births
20th-century German historians
German medievalists
University of Bonn alumni
University of Marburg alumni
Academic staff of the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich
Place of birth missing
German male non-fiction writers
Corresponding Fellows of the Medieval Academy of America
Writers from Mainz