Timothy Reuter

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Timothy Reuter (1947 – 2002), grandson of the former mayor of Berlin Ernst Reuter, was a British historian who specialized in the study of medieval Germany, particularly the social, military and ecclesiastical institutions of the Ottonian and Salian periods (10th-12th centuries). Reuter received his D.phil from Oxford in medieval history under the supervision of Karl Leyser (d. 1992), another leading Anglophone scholar of German history. After a brief stint lecturing at the University of Exeter, Reuter spent more than a decade as a Mitarbeiter (academic staff member) at the Monumenta Germaniae Historica in Munich, where he worked on editing the letters of the twelfth-century abbot Wibald of Corvey and (with Dr. Gabriel Silagi) produced an important electronic database that served as the basis for a concordance to the work of the medieval canonist Gratian.

In 1994, Reuter was appointed to a professorship at the University of Southampton, where he remained until his death in 2002. At Southampton, he spearheaded a number of educational and research initiatives that promoted medieval history and scholarship.

In addition to his careful and insightful research, pioneering work on computer-assisted text editing methods and professional contributions to the historical academy in the UK and Germany, Reuter served as an important liaison between the worlds of Anglo-American and German medieval studies. Among his important contributions in this area were numerous book reviews in German and British publications, a highly-regarded translation of Gerd Tellenbach's monograph on the history of the church in the High Middle Ages (The Church in Western Europe from the tenth to the early twelfth century, Cambridge, 1993) and the posthumous editing and publishing of his mentor Karl Leyser's papers (Communications and Power in Medieval Europe, 2 vols., Hambledon & London, 1992). His own monograph, Germany in the Early Middle Ages, 800-1056 (Harlow, Essex & New York, 1991) remains the standard English-language survey of the subject.

At the time of his death, he was working on a history of the medieval episcopacy.

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Ernst Rudolf Johannes Reuter (July 29 1889–September 29 1953) was the mayor of West Berlin from 1948 to 1953, during the time of the Cold War.

Early years

Reuter was born in Apenrade (which was then in Germany), now Aabenraa, Denmark.
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Motto
"Dieu et mon droit" [2]   (French)
"God and my right"
Anthem
"God Save the Queen" [3]
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The Ottonian dynasty was a dynasty of Germanic Kings (919-1024), named after its first emperor but also known as the Saxon dynasty after the family's origin. The family itself is also sometimes known as the Liudolfings
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Salian dynasty was a dynasty in the High Middle Ages of four German Kings (1024-1125), also known as the Frankish dynasty after the family's origin and role as dukes of Franconia.
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The University of Exeter (usually abbreviated as Exon. for post-nominals) is a leading red brick university in the South West of England. Most of its activities are located in the city of Exeter, in Devon, where it is the principal higher education institution.
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The Monumenta Germaniae Historica (frequently abbreviated MGH in bibliographies and lists of sources) is a comprehensive series of carefully edited and published sources for the study of German history (broadly conceived) from the end of the Roman Empire to 1500.
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Wibald (Latin: Wibaldus abbas Stabulensis et Corbeiensis; early 1098 – 19 July, 1158) was a 12th century Abbot of Stavelot (Stablo) and Malmedy, both in present-day Belgium, and of Corvey in Germany.
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Concordance can mean:
  • Concordance (publishing) — a list of words used in a body of work, with their immediate contexts.
  • Concordance system in politics.

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Gratian
Emperor of the Western Roman Empire

A coin of Gratian. The legend shows Gratian's titles, D N GRATIANVS P F AVG , Dominus Noster Gratianus Pius Felix Augustus, "Our Lord Gratian, Pious and Serene Augustus
Reign
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University of Southampton is a university situated in the city of Southampton, on the south coast of England. The university is a member of the Russell Group and of the Worldwide Universities Network .
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Gerd Tellenbach (1903–1999) was a German historian and scholar of medieval social and religious history, particularly of the Papacy and German church during the Investiture Controversy and reform movements of the eleventh and twelfth centuries.
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