How it should have been
From many point-of-view the speech of proffesor Thomas Nägler answers, after almost one century, to the question of Nicolae Iorga which he put to himself in the volume Villages and monasteries from Romania , Bucharest, Minerva Publishing House, 1955, about Biertan, the village situated in the county of Sibiu, known to most of the inhabitants of Romania for its evanghelic church and its fortified tow. The volum Marktort und Bischofssitz Birthälm in Siebenbürgen answers to many questions of the history of Biertan and is a guide to everybodywho wants a better knowledge of the place.
Keywords: Biertan, Thomas Nägler, Transylvanian history, Sibiu county.
* Thomas Nägler, Marktort und Bischofssitz Birthälm in
Siebenbürgen. Im Auftrag der Heimatortsgemeinschaft
Birthälm, München, Verlag der Siebenbürgisch-
Sächsichen Stiftung
1. Dicţionar enciclopedic vol. I A-C, Bucureşti, Edit.
Enc., 1993, p. 214.
2. Între altele, este autorul unor lucrări consacrate în
istoriografia contemporană: Die Ansiedlung der
Siebenbürger Sachsen, Bukarest, „Kriterion”, 1979 (cu
două ediţii româneşti, 1981, 1992); Românii şi saşii până
la 1848 (Relaţii economice, sociale şi politice), Sibiu,
„Thausib”, 1997; Istoria Imperiului Bizantin. Note de
curs, Sibiu, Edit. Univ., 2003; Europa în secolele X-XVI,
Sibiu, Edit. Univ., 2007. Cf. şi Enciclopedia istoriografiei
româneşti, Bucureşti, Edit. Şt. şi Enc., 1978, p. 232.
3. Aspect surprins şi în capitolele redactate pentru
Istoria Transilvaniei Vol. I (de la 1541 până la 1711), Cluj
Napoca, „CST”, 2005.
