Curriculum Vitae

Michael H. Gelting, Professor, Senior Research Archivist, Mag.art., fil.dr. h.c.

20 October 2007 awarded Honorary Doctorate (fil.dr. h.c.) at the Philosophical Faculty, University of Göteborg (Sweden).
External Professor of Early Scandinavian Studies at the University of Aberdeen from 1 August 2007.
External lecturer in Medieval History, Department of History, University of Copenhagen, October 2001-June 2002.
Assistant Professor in Medieval History, Department of History, University of Copenhagen, August 1997 - September 2001 (on leave from the Danish National Archives).
On research leave for a project relating to the effects of the Black Death on society in the castellany of Maurienne (Savoy, France), May-July 1985 and September 1993-August 1995.
Senior research archivist 1997.
Archivist at the Danish National Archives, Copenhagen, since 1 December 1980, serving in the former 1st Dept. (Reading Room Services and Archives of the Central Civil Services until 1848) 1980-1981; in the Administrative Department 1981-1993 (1985-1993 as Acting Head Archivist); in the Department of Access and Communication (Reading Room, All Collections, Historical Research) since 1993.
Post-doc. scholarship at the Department of History, University of Copenhagen, September-November 1980.
Research Assistant at the Danish National Archives, February-August 1980.
Mag.art. (equivalent to Ph.D.) in History, Aarhus University, 1979.
Instructor at the Department of History, Aarhus University, 1975-1976 and 1979-1980.
Born 13 July 1951 in Copenhagen, Denmark.

Teaching

In connection with my research subjects + historical writing in the Middle Ages.