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Prof. Dr. Torsten Hiltmann

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Academic Education

2000 - 2005Ph.D., Medieval History (Très Honorable avec les félicitations du jury à l’unanimité) École Pratique des Hautes Études Paris / Technical University Dresden Undertaken as a French-German thèse en co-tutelle, co-supervised by Michel Pastoureau (Paris) and Gert Melville (Dresden) Dissertation: "Zwischen Heroldsamt und Adel. Die Kompendien des office d’armes im französischen und burgundischen Spätmittelalter"
1994 - 2000M.A., Medieval History, Philosophy, Psychology Technical University Dresden

Work Experience

since 2013Principal investigator of an independant reserarch project funded by the VolkswagenStiftung, hosted by the University of Münster: "The performance of coats of arms. The history of heraldic communication in late medieval culture and society (12th to 15th centuries)"
2010 - 2013Principal Investigator of an independent research project funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG), hosted by the University of Münster: “The ‘other’ Kings. The Notion of Kingship beyond Politics in France and Germany at the End of the Middle Ages (13th to 16th centuries)”
2009Postdoctoral Researcher and Teaching Fellow at the University of Münster
2008 - 2009Guest Researcher at the University of Münster with a Research Grant from the Foundation of German Humanities Institutes Abroad for the project: “The ‘other’ Kings. Preparing Studies for a Cultural History of Kingship in Late Medieval and Early Modern France”
2005 - 2008Research Fellow at the German Historical Institute in Paris, Representative of the Late Middle Ages, Coordinator of the research group “Prosopographia Burgundica”, Coordinator of the database project “Heralds of Arms in Burgundian Sources”
2003 - 2005Freelance at the German Historical Institute in Paris
2000 - 2003Member of the International Research Training Group 625, “Institutional Orders, Writing and Symbols” (TU Dresden / ÉPHÉ Paris)

Functions and Memberships

since 2013Verband Deutscher Historikerinnen und Historiker, AG Digitale Geschichtswissenschaft im VDH
since 2013SIGILLVM Network for research - Seals and Sealing: History, Art, Preservation
since 2012Mediävistenverband
since 2012Centre Européen des Études Bourguignonnes
since 2011Interdisziplinäres Frankreichforum an der WWU Münster (iff)

Publications

Hiltmann Torsten (2017)
In: Brown Michael H. , Lachaud Fréderique , Penman Michael (eds.), Absentee Authority in the Medieval West. Woodbridge: (no publisher available).
Type of Publication: Research article (book contribution)
Hiltmann Torsten (2016)
In: Moeglin Jean-Marie (eds.), La guerre des Cents Ans. (no publisher available).
Type of Publication: Entry in encyclopedia (book contribution)
Hiltmann Torsten (2016)
In: Bartholyens Gil, Bourin Monique ,Dittmar Pierre-Olivier (eds.), Image de soi dans l'univers domestique. (no publisher available).
Type of Publication: Research article (book contribution)
Hiltmann Torsten (2016)
In: Le Moyen Age. Revue d'histoire et de philologie, 0000
Type of Publication: Research article (journal)
Hiltmann Torsten (2016)
In: Kühtreiber Thomas (eds.), Kontinuitäten, Umbrüche und Zäsuren. Die Konstruktion von Epochen in Mittelalter und früher Neuzeit in interdisziplinärer Sichtung. Heidelberg: (no publisher available).
Type of Publication: Research article (book contribution)
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Projects

Duration: 05/05/2015 - 07/05/2015
Funded by: Deutsches Historisches Institut in Rom
Type of project: Scientific Event
Duration: 01/03/2015 - 31/12/2017
Funded by: Volkswagen Foundation - Dilthey-Fellowship
Type of project: Individual project
Duration: since 01/10/2014
Type of project: Own resources project
Duration: 25/03/2014 - 31/12/2015
Funded by: Fondation pour la protection du Patrimoine Culturel, Historique et Artisanal
Type of project: Individual project
Duration: since 01/03/2013
Type of project: Own resources project
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Prizes

Dilthey-Fellowship
Awarded by: VolkswagenStiftung, Fritz Thyssen Stiftung
Award given to: Hiltmann, Torsten
Date of awarding: 15/05/2012
Type of distinction: Research award or other distinction