Walter Schlesinger (April 28, 1908, Glauchau - June 10, 1984, Weimar-Wolfshausen, near Marburg) was a German historian of medieval social and economic institutions, particularly the history of power and the nobility, colonization and settlement of the Slavic frontiers and urban development. Schlesinger is widely recognized as one of the most influential and prolific scholars of medieval social history in the post-war period. His work was characterized in particular by theories of German history and identity that relied strongly on ideas about the persistence of ancient Germanic cultural and social structures in the medieval period.
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