Professor Dr. Gerhard Althoff
Current affiliations
- Centre for Early Medieval Studies
Curriculum Vitae (CV)
- Functionalities of Medieval statehood
- Rituals of Conflict and Peace in the Late Middle Ages
- Formen und Rahmenbedingungen öffentlicher Kommunikation (Forms and Frameworks of Public Communication in the Middle Ages)
- Group cohesions
Academic Education | |
| since 1997 | Professor of Medieval History in Münster |
| since 1997 | Head of the Institute for Early Medieval Studies, Münster; supervisor (until 1999) of the graduate school "Schriftkultur und Gesellschaft im Mittelalter" (Written Culture and Society in the Middle Ages); subsequently supervisor of the graduate school “Gesellschaftliche Symbolik im Mittelalter” (Social Symbolism in the Middle Ages) |
| 2007 - 2011 | Speaker of the cluster of excellence “Religion and Politics on Modern and Pre-Modern Cultures” |
| 1997 - 2003 | Co-initiator and speaker of SFB (collaborative research centre) 496 "Symbolic Communication and Social Value Systems from the Middle Ages to the French Revolution"; subsequently deputy speaker |
| 1998 | Paris, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (Professeur invité/visiting professor) |
| 1991 - 1998 | Peer reviewer of the DFG (German Research Foundation) |
| 1995 | Professor of Medieval History in Bonn |
| 1995 | Berkeley/California (Distinguished Visiting Professor) |
| 1991 - 1995 | Co-initiator and supervisor of the graduate school “Mittelalterliche und Neuzeitliche Staatlichkeit” (Medieval and Modern Statehood), Gießen; subsequently associate member |
| 1988 - 1991 | Project head at SFB (collaborative research centre) 231: “Träger, Felder, Formen pragmatischer Schriftlichkeit im Mittelalter” (Mediums, Domains, Forms of Pragmatic Script in the Middle Ages), Münster |
| 1990 | Professor of Medieval History in Gießen |
| 1986 | Professor of Medieval History in Münster |
| 1981 | Postdoctoral lecture qualification at the University of Freiburg/Breisgau (venia legendi for Medieval and Recent History) |
| 1974 - 1980 | Assistant lecturer at the University of Freiburg/Breisgau |
| 1974 | PhD at the University of Münster |
| 1965 - 1970 | Study of History/German Studies at the universities of Münster and Heidelberg |
| 1963 | Abitur (German university entrance qualification) at Amtsgymnasium Ibbenbüren (classical track) |
Publications
Althoff, Gerd (2023) In: Witthöft, Christiane (eds.), Kompromissfindung in der Literatur und Kultur des Mittelalters: Strategien und Narrative zwischen Zweifel, Dissens und Aporie. Berlin/Boston: De Gruyter. Type of Publication: Research article (book contribution) | |
Althoff, Gerd (2022) Darmstadt: wbg. Type of Publication: Book (monograph) | |
Althoff, Gerd (2022) In: Zeit-Geschichte. Epochen. Menschen. Ideen, 6 Type of Publication: Research article (journal) | |
Althoff, Gerd (2021) In: Sigurðsson, Jón Viðar; Orning, Hans Jacob (eds.), Medieval and Modern Civil Wars. A Comparative Perspective. Leiden/Boston: Brill | Schöningh. Type of Publication: Research article (book contribution) | |
Althoff, Gerd (2021) In: Garnier, Claudia (eds.), Konzepte und Funktionen der Gewalt im Mittelalter. Berlin; Münster: LIT Verlag. Type of Publication: Research article (book contribution) |
Projects
Duration: 01/01/2019 - 31/12/2025 | 1st Funding period Funded by: DFG - Cluster of Excellence Type of project: Subproject in DFG-joint project hosted at University of Münster | |
Duration: 01/11/2012 - 31/12/2018 | 1st Funding period Funded by: DFG - Cluster of Excellence Type of project: Subproject in DFG-joint project hosted at University of Münster | |
Duration: 10/07/2008 - 31/12/2008 Funded by: DFG - Publication Grants Programme Type of project: Individual project | |
Duration: 01/11/2007 - 31/10/2012 | 1st Funding period Funded by: DFG - Cluster of Excellence Type of project: Subproject in DFG-joint project hosted at University of Münster | |
Duration: 01/11/2007 - 31/10/2012 | 1st Funding period Funded by: DFG - Cluster of Excellence Type of project: Main DFG-project hosted at University of Münster |
Doctorates
| Provokation und Prestige. Politische Einsatzfelder witziger und ironischer Rede im normannisch-angevinischen England (1066-1259) Candidate: Beyer, Katrin | Supervisors: Althoff, Gerhard Period of time: 01/10/2006 - 09/10/2010 Doctoral examination procedure finished at: Doctoral examination procedure at University of Münster | |
| Dynastie als Herrschaftspraxis. Strategien fürstlicher Selbstbehauptung im 15. Jahrhundert. Das Beispiel der Hohenzollern Candidate: Bourree, Katrin | Supervisors: Althoff, Gerhard Period of time: 01/04/2005 - 20/05/2010 Doctoral examination procedure finished at: Doctoral examination procedure at University of Münster | |
| Laus inimicorum oder Wie sag' ich's dem König? Erzählstrukturen der ottonischen Historiographie und ihr Kommunikationspotential Candidate: Vaerst, Katharina | Supervisors: Althoff, Gerhard Period of time: 01/10/2006 - 14/05/2010 Doctoral examination procedure finished at: Doctoral examination procedure at University of Münster | |
| Zwischen König und Reich. Träger, Formen und Funktionen von Gesandtschaften zur Zeit Sigmunds von Luxemburg (1410-1437) Candidate: Daldrup, Oliver | Supervisors: Althoff, Gerhard Period of time: 01/04/2006 - 01/12/2009 Doctoral examination procedure finished at: Doctoral examination procedure at University of Münster | |
| Pro bono pacis et concordia. Kommunikationsstrukturen im Umgang zwischen König und Fürsten im deutschen Thronstreit (1198-1218) Candidate: Mamsch, Stefanie | Supervisors: Althoff, Gerhard Period of time: 01/10/2003 - 15/09/2009 Doctoral examination procedure finished at: Doctoral examination procedure at University of Münster |