1. Reinhard Wenskus was a German historian who was Professor of Medieval History at the University of Gottingen.
11 Facts About Reinhard Wenskus
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Reinhard Wenskus was born in Saugen, East Prussia, Germany on 10 March 1916.
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Reinhard Wenskus served as a soldier in the German Army during World War II.
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Reinhard Wenskus received his PhD in 1954 under the supervision of Helmut Beumann.
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Reinhard Wenskus subsequently worked as a research assistant, and gained his habilitation at Marburg in 1959 with the thesis Stammesbildung und Verfassung.
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In 1963, Reinhard Wenskus succeeded Percy Ernst Schramm as Professor of Medieval History at the University of Gottingen.
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Reinhard Wenskus became a Member of the Gottingen Academy of Sciences and Humanities in 1969.
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Reinhard Wenskus retired from Gottingen in 1981, but continued to teach and research.
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Reinhard Wenskus specialized in medieval history, particularly that of Prussia and the Teutonic Order, and the history, historiography and constitution of medieval Germanic peoples.
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Reinhard Wenskus theorized that the "barbarian" peoples of the Migration Period maintained ethnic identities distinguishing them from the Romance peoples, and referred to this ideology of "barbarian" ethnic identity as Gentilismus.
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Reinhard Wenskus' ideas have been highly influential on modern understanding on "barbarian" identity.