Born 1953 in Vienna
Dr. Phil. 1984 (University of Vienna)
1989 Habilitation for Medieval History, University of Vienna
1985 –1990 research assistant, Institut für Österreichische Geschichtsforschung, Vienna
from 1990 researcher at the Austrian Academy of Sciences
from 1998 Director of the Institute for Medieval Research, Austrian Academy of Sciences
Visiting professor at Ishevsk (Russia, 1991), Los Angeles (UCLA, 1993), Budapest (CEU, 1995) and Leiden (Rijksuniversiteit, 1996)
2000 corresponding fellow, 2004 fellow of the Austrian Academy
2004 awarded Wittgenstein Prize
2006 Professor of Medieval History, University of Vienna
Bibliography (Monographies):
- Die Awaren. Ein Steppenvolk in Mitteleuropa, 567-822 n.Chr. (München 1988, 22002, english translation forthcoming), 529 S.
- Die Germanen (Enzyklopädie der deutschen Geschichte 57, München 2000, 22004), 160 S.
- Le origini etniche dell’Europa. Barbari e Romani tra antichità e medioevo (Rom 2000), 325 S.
- Werkstätte der Erinnerung. Montecassino und die langobardische Vergangenheit (MIÖG Erg. Bd. 39, Wien 2001), 262 S.
- Die Völkerwanderung. Eroberung und Integration (Stuttgart-Berlin-Köln 2002, 22005), 266 S.
A few recent articles:
- Gender and ethnicity in the early middle ages, in: Gender in the Early Medieval World: East and West, 300-900, ed. Leslie Brubaker/Julia Smith (Cambridge 2004) 23-43.
- Aux origines d’une Europe ethnique: Identités en transformation entre antiquité et moyen âge, in: Annales: Histoire, Sciences sociales 60/1 (2005) 183-208.
- Heresy in Secundus and Paul the Deacon, in: The Crisis of the Oikoumene. The Three Chapters and the Failed Quest for Unity in the Sixth-Century Mediterranean., ed. Celia Chazelle/Catherine Cubitt (Studies in the Early Middle Ages 14, Turnhout 2007) 243-64.
- Alienigena coniugia: Bestrebungen zu einem Verbot auswärtiger Heiraten in der Karolingerzeit, in: Die Bibel als politisches Argument, ed. Andreas Pečar/Kai Trampedach (Historische Zeitschrift, Beiheft 43, München 2007) 159-88.
- Liturgie di guerra nei regni altomedievali, in: Rivista di Storia del Cristianesimo 5, 1 (2008) 29-44.