Hubert Mordek (8 May 1939, Namslau - 17 March 2006, Karlsbad-Langensteinbach) was a

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Biography

Mordek studied history, Latin, and philosophy 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 ...

, the

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, and the

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. He received his doctorate in 1969 with ''Die Rechtssammlungen der Handschrift von Bonnveal - ein Werk der karolingischen Reform'', directed by

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. In the early 1970s he was an assistant at the German Historical Institute in Rome. His

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followed in 1975, with ''Kirchenrecht und Reform in Frankenreich. Die Collectio Vetus Gallica, die älteste systematische Kanonessammlung des fränkischen Gallien. Studien und Edition'', which was praised as "arguably the most significant contribution to the study of canonical collections in the past half century." From 1978 until his emeritate he taught at the

University of Freiburg The University of Freiburg (colloquially german: Uni Freiburg), officially the Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg (german: Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg), is a public university, public research university located in Freiburg im Breisg ...

. His main areas of research were the ecclesiastical and legal history of the Middle Ages,

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. He was an editor for 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 ...

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texts and

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. He died before he could finish his last project, an edition of the

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, which was finally published in 2012 (with

Klaus Zechiel-Eckes Klaus Zechiel-Eckes (12 May 1959 in Pforzheim – 23 February 2010 in Cologne) was a German historian and medievalist. Klaus Zechiel-Eckes graduated high school in 1978. From 1979 to 1990 he studied history and Romance and Middle Latin philology i ...

and Michael Glatthaar).

Select publications

;Monographs * ''Studien zur fränkischen Herrschergesetzgebung. Aufsätze über Kapitularien und Kapitulariensammlungen ausgewählt zum 60. Geburtstag'', Frankfurt am Main 2000, . * ''Kirchenrecht und Reform in Frankenreich. Die Collectio Vetus Gallica, die älteste systematische Kanonessammlung des fränkischen Gallien. Studien und Edition'', Berlin 1975, . ;Edited collections * ''Aus Archiven und Bibliotheken. Festschrift für Raymund Kottje zum 65. Geburtstag'', Frankfurt am Main 1992, . * ''Papsttum, Kirche und Recht im Mittelalter. Festschrift für Horst Fuhrmann zum 65. Geburtstag'', Tübingen 1991, .

Bibliography

* Horst Fuhrmann: "Nachruf auf Hubert Mordek." '' Deutsches Archiv für Erforschung des Mittelalters'' 62, 2006, pp. 877–879. * Oliver Münsch and Thomas Zotz, eds.: ''Scientia veritatis. Festschrift für Hubert Mordek zum 65. Geburtstag'', Ostfildern 2004, . * Thomas Martin Buck, ed.: ''Quellen, Kritik, Interpretation. Festgabe zum 60. Geburtstag von Hubert Mordek'', Frankfurt am Main 1999, .

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Mordek, Hubert German medievalists Academic staff of the University of Freiburg 1939 births 2006 deaths German male non-fiction writers People from Namysłów People from the Province of Silesia