Prof. Dr. Matthias Becher
Address
Department of Medieval History
Konviktstraße 11
53113 Bonn
Room: 1.005
Phone: +49 (0) 228 73-5160 (Office -5383)
E-Mail: matthias.becher@uni-bonn.de
Office hours
Office hours: Tue 3-4 p.m. usually at the Institute for History. Please sign in here.
© Matthias Becher
C.V.
- since 2021 Spokesperson for "Power and Domination. Bonn Center for Premodern Orders and their forms of communication" and head of the DFG-project "Stützen der Königsherrschaft. Königinnen und Mittelgewalten im ostfränkisch-deutschen Reich (9. bis Anfang des 12. Jahrhunderts)"
- since 2019 Principal Investigator for the Bonn Center for Dependency and Slavery Studies, University of Bonn
- since 2016 (to 2020 Founding) Spokesperson for the Transdisciplinary Research Area Past Worlds and Modern Questions - Cultures Across Time and Space
- 2016 to 2021 Spokesperson for the DFG Collaborative Research Center (SFB 1167) "Macht und Herrschaft: Vormoderne Konfigurationen in transkultureller Perspektive" ["Macht" and "Herrschaft": Premodern Configurations in a Transcultural Perspective)]
- 2008 to 2019 Spokesperson for the Bonn Center of Medieval Studies
- 2006 Offer of professorship at the University of Zurich, Switzerland (declined)
- since 1998 Professor for Medieval and Modern History at the University of Bonn
- 1996/7 Acting professor in Tübingen
- 1995 Acting professor in Regensburg
- 1995 Ignaz-Theodor-Liborius-Meyer-Prize for habilitation by the Association for History and Classical Studies of Westphalia, Paderborn Division
- 1995 Habilitation and Venia Legendi in Medieval History, University of Paderborn, Germany
- 1991 Dissertation prize from the Constance County Council for the promotion of young academics at the University of Constance 1990
- 1990 Ph.D. in Medieval History, University of Constance, Germany
- 1989 to 1998 Research Associate, University of Paderborn, Germany
- 1980 to 1986 M.A. in History and Political Sciences, University of Constance, Germany
- born in 1959
Memberships
- 1999 Co-editor of the series „Bonner Historische Forschungen“, since 2001 chief editor
- 2001 Co-editor of the series „Historische Studien“, since 2009 chief editor
- 2003 Historical Commission of Westphalia (corresponding)
- 2008 Konstanzer Arbeitskreis für mittelalterliche Geschichte
- 2008 DFG Review Board 102 History (until 2012)
- 2013 North Rhine-Westphalian Academy of Sciences, Humanities and the Arts
- 2013 Central board of directors of the MGH Monumenta Germaniae Historica
Scientific advisory board for larger exhibitions
- 799 – Kunst und Kultur der Karolingerzeit. Karl der Große und Papst Leo III. in Paderborn (1999)
- Canossa 1077 – Erschütterung der Welt. Geschichte, Kunst und Kultur am Aufgang der Romanik (2006)
- Für Königtum und Himmelreich. 1000 Jahre Bischof Meinwerk von Paderborn (2009)
- CREDO. Christianisierung Europas im Mittelalter (2013)
- Campus Galli - Karolingische Klosterstadt Meßkirch (since 2013)
- 919 - plötzlich König. Heinrich I. in Quedlinburg (2019)
- Museale Neugestaltung des Stiftsbergensembles Quedlinburg (since 2021).
Research interests
- Cultural history of the Politics in the Middle Ages
- Comparative and transcultural history
- History of power and domination
- Strategies of communication and integration
- Kingship in the early and high Middle Ages
- History of realm and rule in Merovingian, Carolingian and Ottonian times
- Implementation of historical research in exhibitions