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Docent Tuomas Heikkilä, Ph.D.
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Docent of General History. Has had several different professional appontments at the Department of History since 1998.
Educated at the University of Helsinki as well as at the Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen in Germany and graduated in 1996. Lic. phil. in 1997. PhD-studies included one year at the Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana in Vatican. PhD in 2002 (doctor primus 2003). Appointed docent of General History in 2003.
Research Interests
Medieval history; saints, cults of saints and canonization processes. Medieval manuscripts, codicology and palaeography. Italy and Germany during the Middle Ages; history of the Papacy. Medieval Finland. Recently he has studied new methods in the field of stemmatology in close cooperation with the Department of Computer Science of the University of Helsinki and the Helsinki Institute for Information Technology.
Major Publications
Heikkilä, Tuomas, Vita s. Symeonis Treverensis. Ein hochmittelalterlicher Heiligenkult im Kontext. Annales Academiae Scientiarum Fennicae. Humaniora 326. Helsinki 2002. 330 pp.
Heikkilä, Tuomas, Das Kloster Fulda und der Goslarer Rangstreit. Annales Academiae Scientiarum Fennicae. Humaniora 298. Helsinki 1998. 222 pp.
Heikkilä, Tuomas – Lehmijoki-Gardner, Maiju, Keskiajan kirkko. Tietolipas 185. (SKS) Helsinki 2002. 432 pp. (2nd ed. 2004.)
Heikkilä, Tuomas - Niskanen, Samu, Euroopan synty - Keskiajan historia. Helsinki (Edita) 2004. 335 pp.
Forthcoming: Pyhän Henrikin legenda (October 2005, ca.350 pp.). In addition to the mentioned monographs Tuomas Heikkilä has published dozens of scientific and popular articles in several languages.
Other Activities
Teaches at the Department of History as well as at the Helsinki Open University. Has taken part in several projects editing medieval sources, like the Diplomatarium Fennicum of the Finnish National Archives. Since 2002 Tuomas Heikkilä is the Executive of the Foundation Institutum Romanum Finlandiae running the oldest Finnish scientific institute abroad, the Finnish Institute in Rome.