Jörg Jarnut (1 March 1942 – 6 March 2023)^[1] was a German historian who was Chair ofMedieval History at theUniversity of Paderborn from 1983 to 2007.

Jörg Jaranut
Born	(1942-03-01)1 March 1942 Weimar,Gau Thuringia,Germany
Died	6 March 2023(2023-03-06) (aged 81) Lippstadt,North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
Nationality	German
Academic background
Alma mater	University of Bonn
Academic advisors	Egen Ewig
Academic work
Discipline	History
Sub-discipline	Medieval studies
Institutions	Paderborn University
Main interests	Kingdom of the Lombards

Jörg Jarnut was born inWeimar, Germany on 1 March 1942. He gained hisPhD at theUniversity of Bonn under the supervision ofEugen Ewig in 1970 with a dissertation on theprosopography of theKingdom of the Lombards. He gained hishabilitation under Ewig in 1977 with a thesis on the history ofBergamo. Since 1980, Jarnut was an associate professor at the University of Bonn. From 1983 to 2007, Jarnut was Chair of Medieval History at thePaderborn University. Jarnut specialized in the study of the history of theEarly Middle andHigh Middle Ages.

• Prosopographische und sozialgeschichtliche Studien zum Langobardenreich in Italien (568–774). Bonn: Ludwig Röhrscheid Verlag. 1972.ISBN 3-7928-0312-7.
• Bergamo 568–1098: Verfassungs-, Sozial- und Wirtschaftsgeschichte einer lombardischen Stadt im Mittelalter. Wiesbaden: Franz Steiner Verlag. 1979.ISBN 3-515-02789-0.
• Geschichte der Langobarden. Stuttgart: Kohlhammer Verlag. 1982.ISBN 3-17-007515-2.
• Agilolfingerstudien. Untersuchungen zur Geschichte einer adligen Familie im 6. und 7. Jahrhundert. Stuttgart: Anton Hiersemann. 1986.ISBN 3-7772-8613-3.

• "Herr Prof. Dr. Jörg Jarnut".University of Paderborn. Retrieved6 September 2020.