Dirk Alvermann


Dirk Alvermann is a German historian and archivist.

Early life and education

Born in Berlin, Alvermann is a son of the photographer Dirk Alvermann. From 1988 he studied archive science and history at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin and the Sapienza University of Rome. In 1993 he took his master's degree in Berlin. Alvermann was a scholarship holder of the German Historical Institute in Rome in 1994. In 1995, he received his doctorate in Berlin with a dissertation suggested by and supervised by Michael Borgolte on the integration of the Reich and the practice of rule under Kaiser, Otto II, Holy Roman Emperor

Career

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After his doctorate, Alvermann worked for the and the. Since 1998 he has been director of the. Alvermann is member of the Historical Commission for Pomerania and was from 2001 to 2011 as editor of the board member of the. Since 2011 he has been a member of the board of directors of the society

Research

Alvermann's research focuses on medieval diplomatics, archival studies, history of Pomerania and university history.
In his dissertation, Alvermann used the methods of itinerary analysis of Müller-Merten's "Reichtsstruktur und Herrschaftspraxis Otto II". He not only concentrated on the northern alpine region, but also included Italy in his analysis. Alvermann concluded that "the structural characteristics of the early medieval East Franconian German Empire, which Müller-Mertens described on the basis of Otto I's itinerarium, are also confirmed for Otto II's reign". However, there are "partial discontinuities with regard to the structure of the empire and the practice of rule". Thus, under Otto II, all of Thuringia became a close zone of royal rule. The two southern German duchies Bavaria and Swabia remained also under Otto II's far zones of the royal rule. Otto II visited the "political central areas" in the north, especially during the high church festivals. Italy was a "development and construction phase" both for Otto I's reign and for his son. The presence in Salerno is "perhaps the most striking sign of an intensification of rule in the Lombard south" under Otto II. Together with the historian Nils Jörn, Alvermann is editor of the Biographisches Lexikon für Pommern.

Publications

Monographs
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