Professor of Medieval History (Later Middle Ages) Prof. Dr. Romedio Schmitz-Esser

Contact

Prof. Dr. Romedio Schmitz-Esser

Floor 1, Room 148

Grabengasse 3-5

69117 Heidelberg

Tel.: +49 (0)6221-54-2293
E-Mail: romedio.schmitz-esser@zegk.uni-heidelberg.de

Publications

Portrait of Professor Romedio Schmitz-Esser

Office Hours

Starting in April 2025, PD Dr. Tobias Daniels will take over Prof. Dr. Romedio Schmitz-Esser’s teaching duties while he is on leave as part of an “Opus Magnum” grant of the Volkswagenstiftung. Office hours with Prof. Dr. Romedio Schmitz-Esser are available by appointment only.

PD Dr. Tobias Daniels

Academic Curriculum Vitae

2025–2026 Opus Magnum grant of the Volkswagenstiftung (Book Project: „The Buddha and the Medieval West“)

2023–2024 Fellow of the Marsiliuskolleg at the Ruprecht-Karls-University of Heidelberg

2020– Professor of Medieval History (Later Middle Ages), Ruprecht-Karls-University of Heidelberg

2017–2020 Professor of Medieval History and the Auxiliary Sciences of History, Karl-Franzens-University of Graz

2014–2016 Director of the German Study Center in Venice, visiting researcher at Università Ca' Foscari in Venice

2008–2014 Lecturer at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University of Munich, Habilitation in Medieval History and the Auxiliary Sciences of History (2013)

2011–2012 Feodor-Lynen-Fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, Duke University

2005–2008 City Historian, Urban Commune of Hall in Tirol

2004 Fellow of the Austrian Historical Institute in Rome

2002– Researcher in the project „The German Inscriptions“ (Vienna Series), Austrian Academy of Sciences

1998–2005 Studies in History and Art History at the Leopold-Franzens-University of Innsbruck, Mag. phil. (2002) and Ph.D. (2005)

The Buddha and the Medieval West

Academic Functions

2023– Equal Opportunities Officer of the Faculty of Philosophy at the Ruprecht-Karls-University of Heidelberg

2022–2024 Managing Director of the ZEGK (together with Christoph Flamm)

2021– Director of the Institut für Fränkisch-Pfälzische Geschichte und Landeskunde (with Jörg Peltzer)

2020– Member of the project committee "Deutsche Inschriften des Mittelalters und der Frühen Neuzeit", Bavarian Academy of Sciences

2019– Member of the Board of Trustees of the Gesellschaft für staufische Geschichte e.V., Göppingen

2018– Member of the Barbarossa Foundation Altenburg

Selected Publications

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	The Bright Side of Night. Nocturnal Activities in Medieval and Early Modern Times (Micrologus Library 123), hrsg. von Vitus Huber, Romedio Schmitz-Esser und Maria Weber, Florenz 2024.
	Um 1500. Europa zur Zeit Albrecht Dürers, Darmstadt 2023.
	The Corpse in the Middle Ages: Embalming, Cremating, and the Cultural Construction of the Dead Body, London–Turnhout 2021.
	Venezia nel contesto globale. Venedig im globalen Kontext (Venetiana 20), hrsg. Romedio Schmitz-Esser, Rom 2018.
	Der Leichnam im Mittelalter. Einbalsamierung, Verbrennung und die kulturelle Konstruktion des toten Körpers (Mittelalter-Forschungen 48), Ostfildern 2014 (2. Aufl. 2016).
	Die Inschriften der Politischen Bezirke Imst, Landeck und Reutte (Die Deutschen Inschriften 82: Die Inschriften des Bundeslandes Tirol 1), hrsg. gem. mit Werner Köfler, Wien 2013.
	Arnold von Brescia im Spiegel von acht Jahrhunderten Rezeption. Ein Beispiel für Europas Umgang mit der mittelalterlichen Geschichte vom Humanismus bis heute (LIT Geschichte 74), Wien–Berlin–Münster 2007.