Josef Joachim Menzel (born 19 June 1933 in Miłowice, Opole Voivodeship, died 29 August 2020 in

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) was a German historian. He was born on June 19, 1933 in Mühlsdorf near Neustadt,

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(nowadays Miłowice, Opole Voivodeship, Poland).Traueranzeigen von Josef Joachim Menzel
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Menzel, Josef Joachim
In: Kulturportal West-Ost He graduated from high school in Recklinghausen, then he studied history, classical philology and German at the

University of Münster The University of Münster (german: Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, WWU) is a public university, public research university located in the city of Münster, North Rhine-Westphalia in Germany. With more than 43,000 students and over ...

and

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. Later Menzel worked at the

Institut für Österreichische Geschichtsforschung The Institute for Austrian Historic Research (german: Institut für Österreichische Geschichtsforschung, acronym IÖG) is a history research institution in Vienna, Austria. Established in 1854, since 2016 it is part of the University of Vienna ...

. He obtained his PhD in 1962. In 1966 he moved to Mainz, where he worked as an assistant of

Ludwig Petry Ludwig Petry (b. 3 June 1908 in Alzey, d. 25 November 1991 in Mainz) was a German historian. Petry was born into lawyer's family and grew up in Darmstadt.

. He passed his habilitation in 1970. The topic of his habilitation thesis was ''Die schlesischen Lokationsurkunden des 13. Jahrhunderts''. He became an adjunct professor in 1972 and university professor in 1978. Menzel taught medieval history and historical auxiliary sciences at the

University of Mainz The Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (german: Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz) is a public research university in Mainz, Rhineland Palatinate, Germany, named after the printer Johannes Gutenberg since 1946. With approximately 32,000 stu ...

until 1998. The spectrum of his research included the history of the

Merovingians The Merovingian dynasty () was the ruling family of the Franks from the middle of the 5th century until 751. They first appear as "Kings of the Franks" in the Roman army of northern Gaul. By 509 they had united all the Franks and northern Gauli ...

, the

Hanseatic League The Hanseatic League (; gml, Hanse, , ; german: label=Modern German, Deutsche Hanse) was a medieval commercial and defensive confederation of merchant guilds and market towns in Central and Northern Europe. Growing from a few North German to ...

, the emergence of the

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and history of

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. He was editor or co-editor of ''Schlesischen Urkundenbuches'', the three-volume ''Geschichte Schlesiens'', ''Schlesischen Lebensbilder'' and the ''Jahrbuchs der Schlesischen Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität zu Breslau''. He died on August 29, 2020 in Mainz.

Publications

*Jura ducalia. Die mittelalterlichen Grundlagen der Dominialverfassung in Schlesien. Würzburg 1964, OCLC 1072396189. *Die schlesischen Lokationsurkunden des 13. Jahrhunderts. ''Studien zum Urkundenwesen, zur Siedlungs-, Rechts- und Wirtschaftsgeschichte einer ostdeutschen Landschaft im Mittelalter''. Würzburg 1977, OCLC 4373262. *with Wolfgang Stribrny and Eberhard Völker: ''Alternativ-Empfehlungen zur Behandlung der deutsch-polnischen Geschichte in den Schulbüchern''. Mainz 1979, . * co-editor with Lothar Bossle, Gundolf Keil and Eberhard Günter Schulz: ''Schlesien als Gegenstand interdisziplinärer Forschung''. Sigmaringen 1986 (= Schlesische Forschungen. Band 1). *''Der Aufbruch Europas nach Osten im Mittelalter''. Abschiedsvorlesung gehalten am 7. Juli 1998 im Philosophicum der Johannes-Gutenberg-Universität zu Mainz. Mainz 1998, .

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