Hans Eberhard Mayer
Hans Eberhard Mayer (2 February 1932 – 21 October 2023) was a German medieval historian who specialised in the Crusades.
Life and career
Hans Eberhard Mayer was born in Nuremberg on 2 February 1932. He was an international expert on the history of the Crusades. He was the Professor of Medieval and Modern History at the University of Kiel. He was elected to the American Philosophical Society in 1978.[1] He was honored in the work Montjoie: studies in Crusade history in honour of Hans Eberhard Mayer (1997).[2]
Mayer was a member of the Monumenta Germaniae Historica between 1956 and 1967. He was a visiting fellow at the German Historical Institute in Rome in 1961. He was a visiting fellow in 1965 and visiting scholar in 1970 to Dumbarton Oaks in Washington, D.C., lecturer at the University of Innsbruck between 1964 and 1967, visiting professor at Yale University in 1971, and member of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey, between 1972 and 1973.[3]
Mayer died in Klausdorf on 21 October 2023, at the age of 91.[4][5]
Works
The works of Mayer include the following.[6]
- Bibliographie zur Geschichte der Kreuzzüge (1960). A comprehensive bibliography of the Crusades.[7]
- Geschichte der Kreuzzüge (1968).[8]
- Select Bibliography on the Crusades (1989). Compiled with Joyce McLellan.[9] In Volume VI of the Wisconsin Collaborative History of the Crusades, edited by Kenneth M. Setton.[10]
- Die Kanzlei der lateinischen Könige von Jerusalem (1996).[11]
References
- ^ "APS Member History". search.amphilsoc.org. Retrieved 2022-07-15.
- ^ Mayer, H. E. (Hans Eberhard)., Riley-Smith, J. Simon Christopher., Ḳedar, B. Z., Hiestand, R. (1997). Montjoie: studies in Crusade history in honour of Hans Eberhard Mayer. Aldershot, Hampshire: Variorum.
- ^ Mayer, Hans Eberhard (1972). The Crusades. Oxford University Press. ISBN 0198730160.
- ^ "Society for the Study of the Crusades and the Latin East". twitter.com.
- ^ "Die Urkunden der lateinischen Könige von Jerusalem; 4 (2010)". KVK. Retrieved 25 January 2024.
- ^ Bibliothèque nationale de France {BnF Data}. "Hans Eberhard Mayer".
- ^ Mayer, H. E. (Hans Eberhard). (1960). Bibliographie zur Geschichte der Kreuzzüge. Hannover: Hahnsche Buchhandlung.
- ^ Mayer, H. E. (Hans Eberhard). (1968). Geschichte der Kreuzzüge. Stuttgart: Kohlhammer.
- ^ Mayer, H. E., and McLellan, J. (1989). In Volume VI. The Impact of the Crusades on Europe. "Select bibliography of the Crusades" (PDF).
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link) - ^ Setton, Kenneth M., ed. (1969-1989). A history of the Crusades. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press.
- ^ Mayer, H. E. (Hans Eberhard). (1996). Die Kanzlei der lateinischen Könige von Jerusalem. Hannover: Hahn.
