University of Vienna (PhD, 1957; Dr. habil., 1966)
Influences
Reinhard Wenskus
Academic work
Discipline
History
Sub-discipline
Medieval History
School or tradition
Vienna School
Institutions
University of Vienna
Institute of Austrian Historical Research [de]
Doctoral students
Walter Pohl
Roland Steinacher
Main interests
Early Middle Ages
Germanic peoples
Germanic-Roman contacts
Goths
History of Austria
Late Antiquity
Notable works
History of the Goths (1988)
The Roman Empire and Its Germanic Peoples (1997)
Notable ideas
Ethnogenesis
Traditionskern
Influenced
Patrick J. Geary
Ian N. Wood
Herwig Wolfram (born 14 February 1934) is an Austrian historian who is Professor Emeritus of Medieval History and Auxiliary Sciences of History at the University of Vienna and the former Director of the Institute of Austrian Historical Research [de]. He is a leading member of the Vienna School of History, and internationally known for his authoritative works on the history of Austria, the Goths, and relationships between the Germanic peoples and the Roman Empire.
HerwigWolfram (born 14 February 1934) is an Austrian historian who is Professor Emeritus of Medieval History and Auxiliary Sciences of History at the...
politician Herwig Wolfram (born 1934), Austrian historian Surname: Bob Herwig (1914–1974), American football player Conrad Herwig (born 1959), American...
and the third Century, London, New York 1998. HerwigWolfram: Die Goten, Beck, Munich ³1990. HerwigWolfram: Kniva, Reallexikon der Germanischen Altertumskunde...
University of Kansas alternatively puts Ulfila's birth c. 310. Historian HerwigWolfram places the date of his ancestors' capture by Danubian Goths in 257....
Greuthungi. Scholarly opinions are divided about this connection. Historian HerwigWolfram sees these as two names for one people as will be discussed below. Peter...
"triu", equivalent to English "tree", and thus means "forest people". HerwigWolfram agrees with the older position of Franz Altheim that such geographical...
against the Huns, but this is rejected by modern historians such as HerwigWolfram and Hyun Jin Kim. The latter believes that this is a forged story and...
of Durostorum leading a persecution of Gothic Christians in 347/348. HerwigWolfram noted that "alliteration, variation, and rhythm in the line of names...
Thrasamund, Gesalec fled to Aquitania, where he remained for a year. HerwigWolfram notes that although Aquitania had been conquered by the Franks following...
(RGA) article on Oium, for example, proposes, based upon a proposal by HerwigWolfram, that the uncrossable river with a broken bridge might be the Dnieper...
Aquitania and the greater part of an as-yet undivided Gallia Narbonensis. HerwigWolfram opens his chapter on the eighth Visigothic king, "Alaric's reign gets...
ISBN 978-0816049646. Wolfram, Herwig (1988). History of the Goths. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press. ISBN 0-520-05259-5. Wolfram, Herwig (1997)...
of the empire (translated as "judge", Latin iudex, Greek δικαστής). HerwigWolfram suggested the position was different from the Roman definition of a...
during the Barbarian Invasions has elicited discussion among scholars. HerwigWolfram, a historian of the Goths, in discussing the equation of migratio gentium...
language were described as Germanic by the poet Sidonius Apollinaris. HerwigWolfram has interpreted this as being because they had entered Gaul from Germania...
disarray. "More serious than the destruction of the Gothic army," writes HerwigWolfram, "than the loss of both Aquitanian provinces and the capital of Toulose...
"Baltha, which [in Gothic] means bold" (Baltha, qui est audax). Historian HerwigWolfram theorizes that the name may derive from Pliny the Elder's island of...
University of Vienna. It is closely associated with Reinhard Wenskus, HerwigWolfram and Walter Pohl. Partly drawing upon ideas from sociology and critical...
Revolt of Alaric I Gothic Revolt of Tribigild HerwigWolfram, History of the Goths (1979) 1988:138; Wolfram's summary of the career of Gainas and Tribigild:...
legends. Modern historians disagree on the size of Ermanaric's realm. HerwigWolfram postulates that he at one point ruled a realm stretching from the Baltic...
compelled to make restitution. Conrad named his son Henry, Duke of Bavaria. HerwigWolfram suggests that Bruno's appointment as young Henry's guardian was in anticipation...
have had Marcomanni in their ancestry. According to historians such as HerwigWolfram: The Marcomanni and the Quadi gave up their special names after crossing...
the Barbarians, CA. 375–425 A.D. Bloomington and Indianapolis (1994). HerwigWolfram, History of the Goths (1979) 1988, "Radagaisus and his contribution...
people living near a borderland. In more recent times scholars such as HerwigWolfram have often accepted this latter idea, interpreting the name Sciri to...
Iron Age are hypothesized to be the origin of the Germanic languages. HerwigWolfram locates the initial stages of Grimm's Law here.[citation needed] Gold...
from the (poorly documented) duchies under the Merovingian monarchs. HerwigWolfram (1971) denied any real distinction between older and younger stem duchies...
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