Johannes Fried
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Johannes Fried | |
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 Fried in 2019 | |
| Born | 23 May 1942 Hamburg, Germany |
| Died | 17 January 2026 (aged 83) Heidelberg, Baden-Württemberg, Germany |
| Education | University of Heidelberg (PhD) |
| Occupations | German historian and medievalist |
Johannes Fried (23 May 1942 – 17 January 2026) was a German historian, academic and medievalist.
Fried was born on 23 May 1942. He studied at the University of Heidelberg, where he obtained his doctorate in 1970 and his habilitation in 1977. He was professor at the University of Cologne 1980–1983 and held the Chair of Medieval History at the University of Frankfurt am Main from 1983. He was a visiting Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton from 1995 to 1996.
He was a member of several learned societies and president of the Verband der Historiker und Historikerinnen Deutschlands (German Society of Historians) from 1996 to 2000.
Fried died in Heidelberg on 17 January 2026, at the age of 83.[1]
Theses
Johannes Fried considered Notger von Lüttich, not Johannes Canaparius, to be the author of Vita sancti Adalberti episcopi Pragensis on Adalbert of Prague (c. 956 – 997), written around 1000, which for the first time mentions Gdańsk (Danzig) as "urbs Gyddanyzc".
