Jörg Peltzer#
Membership Number: | 5045 |
Membership type: | ORDINARY |
Section: | HISTORY & ARCHAEOLOGY |
Elected: | 2019 |
Main Country of Residence: | GERMANY |
Homepage(s): | https://www.uni-heidelberg.de/fakultaeten/philosophie/zegk/histsem/mitglieder/ls_prof_peltzer/peltzer.html |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2017/09 - 2018/07 John Rassweiler Founders’ Circle Member, Institute of Advanced Study, Princeton, USA
- 2014/09 - 2015/03 Visiting Fellow, Clare Hall, University of Cambridge; Visiting Scholar, History Faculty, University of Cambridge
- since 2013/09 Director, Institut für Fränkisch-Pfälzische Geschichte und Landeskunde (FPI), Heidelberg University.
- since 2012/12 Professor (W3) of Comparative Regional History in a European Perspective (with a particular focus on the Late Middle Ages) and Director, History Department, Heidelberg University
- 2009/10 - 2010/09 Senior Research Associate, Peterhouse, University of Cambridge, UK
- 2008/10 - 2014/09 PI of research group RANK (ERC-Starting grant), FPI, Heidelberg University
- 2007/12 - 2010/12 PI of research group 'Rang und Ordnung' (DFG, Emmy Noether-programme), FPI, Heidelberg University
- 2004/04 - Dez. 2007/12 Academic management director (wissenschaftlicher Geschäftsführer), FPI, Heidelberg University
- 2003/10 - 2004/09 Research Fellow (elected for three years), Peterhouse, Cambridge, UK
Fields of Scholarship
- Theory and practice of canon law
- Career patterns
- Family structures
- Medieval European History, 1000-1500
- Comparative history
- History of Rank
- Episcopal elections
- History of knowledge in relation to state formation
- Social and political configurations
- Conquests in Medieval Times
Honours and Awards
- 2019/03 Directeur d'études invité, École Pratique des Hautes Études, Paris, France
- 2017/09 - 2018/07 John Rassweiler Founders’ Circle Member, Institute of Advanced Study, Princeton, USA
- 2016/04 - März 2017/03 PLACE-Fellow, Heidelberg School of Education, Heidelberg University, Germany
- 2016: Nomination to the Scientific Council of the Commission of the Parlament for the History of the State of Rhineland-Palatinate ('Wissenschaftlicher Ausschuss der Kommission des Landtags für die Geschichte des Landes Rheinland-Pfalz')
- 2014/09 - 2015/03 Visiting Fellow, Clare Hall, University of Cambridge; Visiting Scholar, History Faculty, University of Cambridge
- 2013 Nomination to the Commission for Historical Regional Studies Baden-Württemberg ('Kommission für geschichtliche Landeskunde Baden-Württemberg')
- 2013 'Pfalzpreis für Pfälzische Geschichte und Volkskunde’ (10 000 Euros) for the book 'Der Rang der Pfalzgrafen bei Rhein. Die politisch-soziale Ordnung des Reichs im 13. und 14. Jahrhundert' (RANK. Politisch-soziale Ordnungen im mittelalterlichen Europa 2) (Ostfildern, 2013)
- 2012 Founding Member, Young Academy of Europe (board member 2012-2015; chair SH-section 2014-5; since 2017 member of advisory board)
- 2007 with effect of 2008: ERC Starting Grant
- 2007 Emmy Noether-Grant, German Research Foundation