Herwig Wolfram (born 14 February 1934) is an Austrian historian who is Professor Emeritus of Medieval History and Auxiliary Sciences of History at the...
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2006), p. 462. Herwig Wolfram, The Roman Empire and Its Germanic Peoples, (University of California Press, 1997), 91. Herwig Wolfram, History of the...
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politician Herwig Wolfram (born 1934), Austrian historian Surname: Bob Herwig (1914–1974), American football player Conrad Herwig (born 1959), American...
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Aquitania and the greater part of an as-yet undivided Gallia Narbonensis. Herwig Wolfram opens his chapter on the eighth Visigothic king, "Alaric's reign gets...
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Thrasamund, Gesalec fled to Aquitania, where he remained for a year. Herwig Wolfram notes that although Aquitania had been conquered by the Franks following...
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University of Kansas alternatively puts Ulfila's birth c. 310. Historian Herwig Wolfram places the date of his ancestors' capture by Danubian Goths in 257....
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"triu", equivalent to English "tree", and thus means "forest people". Herwig Wolfram agrees with the older position of Franz Altheim that such geographical...
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against the Huns, but this is rejected by modern historians such as Herwig Wolfram and Hyun Jin Kim. The latter believes that this is a forged story and...
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Greuthungi. Scholarly opinions are divided about this connection. Historian Herwig Wolfram sees these as two names for one people as will be discussed below. Peter...
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to historian Herwig Wolfram, he therefore wanted to establish an alliance with the Heruli king Rodulf. As a result, according to Wolfram, Rodulf "probably...
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disarray. "More serious than the destruction of the Gothic army," writes Herwig Wolfram, "than the loss of both Aquitanian provinces and the capital of Toulose...
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of Durostorum leading a persecution of Gothic Christians in 347/348. Herwig Wolfram noted that "alliteration, variation, and rhythm in the line of names...
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(RGA) article on Oium, for example, proposes, based upon a proposal by Herwig Wolfram, that the uncrossable river with a broken bridge might be the Dnieper...
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of the empire (translated as "judge", Latin iudex, Greek δικαστής). Herwig Wolfram suggested the position was different from the Roman definition of a...
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and the third Century, London, New York 1998. Herwig Wolfram: Die Goten, Beck, Munich ³1990. Herwig Wolfram: Kniva, Reallexikon der Germanischen Altertumskunde...
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Justin Wolfram (1919–2003), American religious leader Gary L. Wolfram, American economist Herwig Wolfram (born 1934), Austrian historian Hugo Wolfram (1925–2015)...
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language were described as Germanic by the poet Sidonius Apollinaris. Herwig Wolfram has interpreted this as being because they had entered Gaul from Germania...
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"Baltha, which [in Gothic] means bold" (Baltha, qui est audax). Historian Herwig Wolfram theorizes that the name may derive from Pliny the Elder's island of...
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ISBN 0-12-728270-X. Wolfram, Herwig (1988). History of the Goths. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press. ISBN 0-520-05259-5. Wolfram, Herwig (1997)...
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people living near a borderland. In more recent times scholars such as Herwig Wolfram have often accepted this latter idea, interpreting the name Sciri to...
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(Cambridge University Press, 2000), 67–68. ISBN 0-521-42018-0 According to Herwig Wolfram, History of the Goths, in 494 Sigismund married Ostrogotha, the illegitimate...
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last of the Balti dynasty, Theudis was elected king. Renown historian Herwig Wolfram believes one factor that led to his selection was support of fellow...
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Ildibad's wife, who felt insulted by the lavish lifestyle of Uraias' wife. Herwig Wolfram suggests that this is an invention by Procopius to "personalize" the...
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from the (poorly documented) duchies under the Merovingian monarchs. Herwig Wolfram (1971) denied any real distinction between older and younger stem duchies...
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legends. Modern historians disagree on the size of Ermanaric's realm. Herwig Wolfram postulates that he at one point ruled a realm stretching from the Baltic...
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compelled to make restitution. Conrad named his son Henry, Duke of Bavaria. Herwig Wolfram suggests that Bruno's appointment as young Henry's guardian was in anticipation...
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duchies which were vassal-states of the Merovingian monarchs. Historian Herwig Wolfram denied any real distinction between older and younger stem duchies,...
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Patrick J. Geary described the position as a "super-royal judge". Herwig Wolfram suggested that the term also equated with the Burgundian hendinos and...
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during the Barbarian Invasions has elicited discussion among scholars. Herwig Wolfram, a historian of the Goths, in discussing the equation of migratio gentium...
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army arrived to relieve the Burgundian siege of Arles. According to Herwig Wolfram, the Burgundians were "the real victims of the Ostrogothic counteroffensive"...
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