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 here¹.

C.V.

since 2021 Spokesperson for "Power and Domination. Bonn Center for Premodern Orders and their forms of communication²" and head of the DFG-project "Stützen der Königsherrschaft. Königinnen und Mittelgewalten im ostfränkisch-deutschen Reich (9. bis Anfang des 12. Jahrhunderts)"³
since 2019 Principal Investigator for the Bonn Center for Dependency and Slavery Studies⁴, University of Bonn
since 2016 (to 2020 Founding) Spokesperson for the Transdisciplinary Research Area Past Worlds and Modern Questions - Cultures Across Time and Space⁵
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 Paderborn⁶ (1999)
Canossa 1077 – Erschütterung der Welt. Geschichte, Kunst und Kultur am Aufgang der Romanik⁷ (2006)
Für Königtum und Himmelreich. 1000 Jahre Bischof Meinwerk von Paderborn⁸ (2009)
CREDO. Christianisierung Europas im Mittelalter⁹ (2013)
Campus Galli - Karolingische Klosterstadt Meßkirch¹⁰ (since 2013)
919 - plötzlich König. Heinrich I. in Quedlinburg¹¹ (2019)
Museale Neugestaltung des Stiftsbergensembles Quedlinburg¹² (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

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