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

historian A historian is a person who studies and writes about the past and is regarded as an authority on it. Historians are concerned with the continuous, methodical narrative and research of past events as relating to the human race; as well as the st ...

and

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. His central field of research was the

Middle Ages In the history of Europe, the Middle Ages or medieval period lasted approximately from the late 5th to the late 15th centuries, similar to the post-classical period of global history. It began with the fall of the Western Roman Empire ...

. He did his doctorate and habilitation with Gerd Tellenbach in

Freiburg Freiburg im Breisgau (; abbreviated as Freiburg i. Br. or Freiburg i. B.; Low Alemannic: ''Friburg im Brisgau''), commonly referred to as Freiburg, is an independent city in Baden-Württemberg, Germany. With a population of about 230,000 (as o ...

. 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 in

Göttingen Göttingen (, , ; nds, Chöttingen) is a university city in Lower Saxony, central Germany, the capital of the eponymous district. The River Leine runs through it. At the end of 2019, the population was 118,911. General information The ori ...

.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.)

References

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