Hans Eberhard Mayer (born 2 February 1932 in

Nuremberg Nuremberg ( ; german: link=no, Nürnberg ; in the local East Franconian dialect: ''Nämberch'' ) is the second-largest city of the German state of Bavaria after its capital Munich, and its 518,370 (2019) inhabitants make it the 14th-largest ...

) is a German medieval historian, specializing in the

Crusades The Crusades were a series of religious wars initiated, supported, and sometimes directed by the Latin Church in the medieval period. The best known of these Crusades are those to the Holy Land in the period between 1095 and 1291 that were ...

Career

Hans Eberhard Mayer is an international expert on the history of the Crusades. He is currently the Professor of Medieval and Modern History at the

University of Kiel Kiel University, officially the Christian-Albrecht University of Kiel, (german: Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel, abbreviated CAU, known informally as Christiana Albertina) is a university in the city of Kiel, Germany. It was founded in ...

. He was elected to the

American Philosophical Society The American Philosophical Society (APS), founded in 1743 in Philadelphia, is a scholarly organization that promotes knowledge in the sciences and humanities through research, professional meetings, publications, library resources, and communit ...

in 1978. He was honored in the work ''Montjoie: studies in Crusade history in honour of Hans Eberhard Mayer'' (1997). He was a member of 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 Empir ...

between 1956 and 1967. He was a visiting fellow at the

German Historical Institute The German Historical Institutes (GHI), german: Deutsche Historische Institute, (''DHI'') are six independent academic research institutes of the Max Weber Foundation dedicated to the study of historical relations between Germany Germany ...

in Rome in 1961. He was a visiting fellow in 1965 and visiting scholar in 1970 to Dumbarton Oaks in Washington, D.C., lecturer at the

University of Innsbruck The University of Innsbruck (german: Leopold-Franzens-Universität Innsbruck; la, Universitas Leopoldino Franciscea) is a public research university in Innsbruck, the capital of the Austrian federal state of Tyrol, founded on October 15, 1669. ...

between 1964 and 1967, visiting professor at

Yale University Yale University is a private research university in New Haven, Connecticut. Established in 1701 as the Collegiate School, it is the third-oldest institution of higher education in the United States and among the most prestigious in the w ...

in 1971, and member of the

Institute for Advanced Study The Institute for Advanced Study (IAS), located in Princeton, New Jersey, in the United States, is an independent center for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. It has served as the academic home of internationally preeminent schola ...

in Princeton, New Jersey, between 1972 and 1973.

Works

The works of Mayer include the following. *''Bibliographie zur Geschichte der Kreuzzüge'' (1960). A comprehensive bibliography of the Crusades. *Geschichte der Kreuzzg̈e (1968). *Select Bibliography on the Crusades (1989). Compiled with Joyce McLellan. In Volume VI of the Wisconsin Collaborative History of the Crusades, edited by

Kenneth M. Setton Kenneth Meyer Setton (June 17, 1914 in New Bedford, Massachusetts – February 18, 1995 in Princeton, New Jersey) was an American historian and an expert on the history of medieval Europe, particularly the Crusades. Early life, education a ...

. * ''Die Kanzlei der lateinischen Könige von Jerusalem'' (1996).Mayer, H. E. (Hans Eberhard). (1996)
Die Kanzlei der lateinischen Könige von Jerusalem
Hannover: Hahn.

References

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