Mag. Helmut W. Klug
My recent years of research have primarily been dedicated to German mediaeval studies. In my diploma thesis I have analysed the use of herbs in German poetic texts of the High Middle Ages. It was published in 2005: Kräuter in der deutschsprachigen Dichtung des Hochmittelalters: Vorkommen, Anwendung und Wirkung in ausgewählten Texten. Currently I am working for the Dictionary of Old English Plant Names Project under the supervision of Univ.Prof. i. R. Dr. Peter Bierbaumer and teaching courses at the University of Graz. Besides that I work on my PhD thesis which is, loosely put, about plants in the Middle Ages and this website plus the database behind it is in the center of it. The working title is: “Plants in German Literature of the Middle Ages: A Data-base Supported Stocktaking with an Analysis of Literary, Linguistic and Cultural Contexts.”
Mag. Roman Weinberger
I am a web and software developer. In addition to that I have an MSc degree in Psychology/Cognitive Sciences. My area of expertise are e-learning and knowlege management.
Students of a BA seminar, SS 2011 (510.431)
In the summer semester of 2011 students of the BA seminar (‘Mittelalterliche Küchenpraxis‘) held at the Institute of German studies (University of Graz) worked on MHG cooking recipe texts under the supervision of Dr. Karin Kranich-Hofbauer and with the (technical) help of Helmut W. Klug. They had the chance to experience fundamental research on a first-hand basis: based on the texts collected on the website they worked on the collation of select texts, and having a revised corpus, they researched the parallel transmission of recipe texts. Besides the theoretical introduction to ‘cooking in the Middle Ages’ the intensive work with the source texts is basis for the individual BA papers.
The lecturers and the website administrators want to thank these students for their valuable contribution: Astrid Böhm, Monika Csokay, Jürgen Ehmann, Monika Fikerment, Carmen Groeblacher, Tatiana Kokol, Mara Lerchner, Stefanie Reicht, Birte Sammtleben, Bruno Strozer, Kathrin Trattner, Sophie Trogbacher, Mariella Widauer, Pia Zaunschirm.