Josef Joachim Menzel Explained
Josef Joachim Menzel (born 19 June 1933 in Miłowice, Opole Voivodeship, died 29 August 2020 in Mainz) was a German historian.
He was born on June 19, 1933, in Mühlsdorf near Neustadt, Germany (nowadays Miłowice, Opole Voivodeship, Poland).[1] After 1945 he lived with his family in Münsterland.[2] He graduated from high school in Recklinghausen, then he studied history, classical philology and German at the University of Münster and Heidelberg University.[2] Later Menzel worked at the Institut für Österreichische Geschichtsforschung.[2] He obtained his PhD in 1962.[2]
In 1966 he moved to Mainz, where he worked as an assistant of Ludwig Petry.[2] He passed his habilitation in 1970. The topic of his habilitation thesis was Die schlesischen Lokationsurkunden des 13. Jahrhunderts.[2] He became an adjunct professor in 1972 and university professor in 1978.[2] Menzel taught medieval history and historical auxiliary sciences at the University of Mainz until 1998.[2]
The spectrum of his research included the history of the Merovingians, the Hanseatic League, the emergence of the Swiss Confederation and history of Silesia.[2] He was editor or co-editor of Schlesischen Urkundenbuches, the three-volume Geschichte Schlesiens, Schlesischen Lebensbilder and the Jahrbuchs der Schlesischen Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität zu Breslau.[2]
He died on August 29, 2020, in Mainz.[1]
Publications
- Jura ducalia. Die mittelalterlichen Grundlagen der Dominialverfassung in Schlesien. Würzburg 1964, OCLC 1072396189.
- Die schlesischen Lokationsurkunden des 13. Jahrhunderts. Studien zum Urkundenwesen, zur Siedlungs-, Rechts- und Wirtschaftsgeschichte einer ostdeutschen Landschaft im Mittelalter. Würzburg 1977, OCLC 4373262.
- with Wolfgang Stribrny and Eberhard Völker: Alternativ-Empfehlungen zur Behandlung der deutsch-polnischen Geschichte in den Schulbüchern. Mainz 1979, .
- co-editor with Lothar Bossle, Gundolf Keil and Eberhard Günter Schulz: Schlesien als Gegenstand interdisziplinärer Forschung. Sigmaringen 1986 (= Schlesische Forschungen. Band 1).
- Der Aufbruch Europas nach Osten im Mittelalter. Abschiedsvorlesung gehalten am 7. Juli 1998 im Philosophicum der Johannes-Gutenberg-Universität zu Mainz. Mainz 1998, .
Bibliography
Further reading
- Herbert Gross: Josef Joachim Menzel, In: Bedeutende Obeschlesier, Dülmen 1995, p. 407.
- Harald Zimmermann: Schlesienforschung als Lebensaufgabe, In: Kulturpolitische Korrespondenz No. 876 from 5.06.1993, pp. 5–7.
- Opuscula Silesica. Eds. Winfred Irgang, Hubert Unverricht, Stuttgart 1998.
- Eberhard G. Schulz: Geschichtswissenschaft und Glaube, In: Kulturpolitische Korrespondenz No. 1168 from 30.05.2003, p. 9.
- Herbert Hupka: Historiker und Anwalt Schlesiens, In: Schlesische Nachrichten 12/2003 from 15.06.2003
Notes and References
- https://www.vrm-trauer.de/traueranzeige/josef-joachim-menzel Traueranzeigen von Josef Joachim Menzel
- Karsten Eichner: Menzel, Josef Joachim. In: Kulturportal West-Ost
