Born 1932, Vienna (Austria)

Studied history at the universities of Vienna and Göttingen, and at the Centre d’Etudes Supérieures de Civilisation Médiévale, Poitiers

Doctorate of the University of Vienna

Diploma of the Institut für österreichische Geschichtsforschung,
Vienna

Member of the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton (2002-2003)

Fellow of the Notre Dame Institute for Advanced Study, Notre Dame, Indiana, fall semester 2011

Correspondante de l’Ahloma - Groupe d’anthropologie historique du long moyen âge, École des Hautes Études en Sciences sociales, Paris