Josef Fleckenstein


Josef Fleckenstein was a German historian and essayist. His central field of research was the Middle Ages. He did his doctorate and habilitation with Gerd Tellenbach in Freiburg. From 1962 to 1965 he was a professor at the Goethe [University Frankfurt|University of Frankfurt], then from 1965 to 1971 at the University of Freiburg as Tellenbach's successor. From 1971 to 1987 he directed the Max Planck Institute for History in Göttingen.

Works

  • 1953 Die Bildungsreform Karls des Großen
  • 1959 Die Hofkapelle der deutschen Könige, volume 1: Grundlegung. Die karolingische Hofkapelle
  • 1962 Karl der Große
  • 1966 Die Hofkapelle der deutschen Könige, volume 2: Die Hofkapelle im Rahmen der ottonisch-salischen Reichskirche
  • 1974 Grundlagen und Beginn der deutschen Geschichte
  • 2002 Rittertum und ritterliche Welt,