Timothy Alan Reuter (25 January 1947 – 14 October 2002), grandson of the former mayor ofBerlinErnst Reuter, was a German-British historian who specialized in the study of medieval Germany, particularly the social, military and ecclesiastical institutions of theOttonian andSalian periods (10th–12th centuries).^[1]

Professor Timothy Reuter FRHistS
Born	Timothy Alan Reuter 25 January 1947 Manchester,England
Died	14 October 2002(2002-10-14) (aged 55)
Occupation(s)	Historian and academic
Academic background
Education	Royal Grammar School, Newcastle upon Tyne
Alma mater	University of Cambridge (MA) University of Oxford (DPhil)
Thesis	The papal schism, the Empire and the West, 1159-1169 (1975)
Doctoral advisor	Karl Leyser
Academic work
Institutions	University of Exeter Monumenta Germaniae Historica University of Southampton

Born inManchester, Reuter attended a grammar school inNewcastle and studied atCambridge University.^[1] Reuter then pursued hisD.Phil. atOxford University in medieval history under the supervision ofKarl Leyser (d. 1992), another leading Anglophone scholar of German history. After a ten years lecturing at theUniversity of Exeter, Reuter spent more than a decade as aMitarbeiter (academic staff member) at theMonumenta Germaniae Historica in Munich, where he worked on editing the letters of the twelfth-century abbotWibald of Corvey and (with Dr. Gabriel Silagi) produced the database for aconcordance to the work of the medieval canonistGratian.

In 1994, Reuter was appointed to a professorship at theUniversity of Southampton, where he remained until his death in 2002. At Southampton, he headed a number of educational and research initiatives that promoted medieval history and scholarship.

In addition Reuter served as a liaison between the worlds of Anglo-American and German medieval studies. Among his contributions in this area were numerous book reviews in German and British publications, a translation ofGerd Tellenbach's monograph on the history of the church in the High Middle Ages (The Church in Western Europe from the tenth to the early twelfth century, Cambridge, 1993) and the posthumous editing and publishing of his mentor Karl Leyser's papers (Communications and Power in Medieval Europe, 2 vols., Hambledon & London, 1992). His own monograph,Germany in the Early Middle Ages, 800–1056 (Harlow, Essex & New York, 1991) remains a standard English-language survey of the subject.^[2]

At the time of his death of brain cancer, Reuter was working on a history of the medieval episcopacy. His collected papers are posthumously published asMedieval Polities and Modern Mentalities (Cambridge, 2006). In 2004 the University of Southampton established the annual Reuter Lecture in his memory.^[3]

The collectionChallenging the Boundaries of Medieval History: The Legacy of Timothy Reuter, edited byPatricia Skinner, was published in 2009 as volume 22 in the University of YorkStudies in the Early Middle Ages (Brepols, Turnhout, Belgium).

• Reuter, Timothy (1992).The Annals of Fulda. Manchester: Manchester University Press.ISBN 9780719034589.
• Reuter, Timothy (2013) [1991].Germany in the Early Middle Ages c. 800–1056. London and New York: Routledge.ISBN 9781317872399.

• Obituary for Timothy Reuter by fellow-medievalist Janet L. Nelson