Klaus Herbers#
| Membership Number: | 7308 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | HISTORY & ARCHAEOLOGY |
| Elected: | 2025 |
| Main Country of Residence: | GERMANY |
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Present and Previous Positions
- 2019 - present Senior Professor, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg
- 2014 Fellowship at the Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities Konstanz, Cluster of Excellence "Cultural Foundations of Integration
- 2008 “Gastprofessur” (Visiting Professor), École Pratique des Hautes Études, Paris
- 1998 - 2019 Chair in Medieval History and Auxiliary Sciences, Friedrich- Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg
- 1996 “Lehrstuhlvertretung” (Interim Professor), Humboldt Universität zu Berlin
- 1994 - 1995 “Lehrstuhlvertretung” (Interim Professor), Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen
- 1983 - 1997/98 Research Assistant, Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Mainz, “Regesta Imperii”, Tübingen
- 1982 - 1983 Research Assistant, Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Mainz, „Regesta Imperii“, Marburg
- 1975 - 1980 Assistant Lecturer, Technische Universität Berlin.
Fields of Scholarship
- Hagiography
- History of prognostication
- History of Papacy
- Spanish history
- Cult of St. James
Honours and Awards
- Surveyor for the German Research Foundation, the European Research Council, the Volkswagen Foundation, the Humboldt Foundation, the Austrian and Swiss National Science Foundation, etc.
- 2008 Corresponding Member, Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur zu Mainz (Committees „Regesta Imperii“, „Inscriptions“, „Historical Committee“, „Church History “, „Art History“)
- 2012 Corresponding Member, “Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Göttingen”
- 2013 Full Member, Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur zu Mainz
- 2021 - 2025 President International Union of Academies (UAI)
- ECR Grant with Dr. Petra Schmidl
- Since 2020 Bearer of the Federal Cross of Merit on ribbon
