Anton Schindling

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Anton Schindling (born January 20, 1947 in Frankfurt am Main ; † January 4, 2020 in Tübingen ) was a German historian . He held chairs at the Universities of Eichstätt (1985–1987), Osnabrück (1987–1995) and Tübingen (1995–2015). Thematically, he worked on the history of education, the age of denominationalization and the Old Kingdom . He was one of the leading early modern researchers in Germany.

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The son of a master carpenter attended primary school in Frankfurt-Höchst from 1953 to 1957 and the new language Leibniz grammar school in Frankfurt-Höchst from 1957 to 1966 . He graduated from high school there in 1966. From 1966 to 1974 he studied history, art history, philosophy and political science at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main . In 1971 he passed the state examination for teaching at grammar schools in history and political science.

From 1968 to 1974 Schindling was initially a research assistant and from 1971 a research assistant for the historical commission at the Bavarian Academy of Sciences . He worked on the edition of the German Reichstag Acts - Middle Series (Reichstag 1512) with Friedrich Hermann Schubert . From 1969 to 1974 he worked as Schubert's doctoral student on the dissertation on high school and academy in Strasbourg from 1538 to 1621 . After Schubert's death Johannes Kunisch took over the supervision of the work. At Kunisch he received his doctorate in 1974. From August 1974 he was the administrator of a research assistant position at the Institute for History at the University of Würzburg at the Chair of Modern History under Peter Baumgart . From January 1976 he worked as a research assistant. His habilitation took place in 1983 at the Julius Maximilians University of Würzburg about the beginnings of the Perpetual Reichstag in Regensburg. The work published in 1991 became the standard work. From 1975 to 1980 he devoted himself regularly to archival work in Vienna in the house, court and state archives during the lecture-free period. In July 1983, he was appointed temporary senior academic councilor.

In the winter semester 1983/84 and the summer semester 1984 he worked as a private lecturer in Würzburg. From the 1985/86 winter semester to the 1986/87 winter semester, Schindling taught as a professor at the University of Eichstätt. From the 1987 summer semester to the 1995 summer semester, Schindling taught as a professor of early modern history at the University of Osnabrück. In March 1990 he turned down a professorship for Medieval and Modern History as the successor to Konrad Repgen at the University of Bonn . From the 1995/96 winter semester until his retirement in 2015 , Schindling taught as Professor of Medieval and Modern History in Tübingen, succeeding Volker Press . In January 2000, he turned down an appointment to the University of Würzburg to succeed Peter Baumgart. In the 2006/07 winter semester he was an Erasmus exchange professor at the Jagiellonian University in Krakow . Schindling was appointed senior professor at the University of Tübingen. In 2017 he donated his extensive private library to the Hungarian Academy of Sciences.

His main areas of work were the history of the early modern period, the political and constitutional history of the Holy Roman Empire, comparative urban and regional history, comparative denominational history and educational history (school and university history). For the Encyclopedia of German History he wrote the volume on education and science from the Peace of Westphalia to the end of the empire. In recent years he has focused on the history of East Central Europe . He intensified the contacts that Volker Press had already made at the end of the Cold War .

Schindling was awarded numerous scientific honors and memberships for his research. For his dissertation on the Strasbourg University, Schindling was awarded the Strasbourg Prize of the “FVS Foundation” in 1974 and the Schongau Prize of the Académie d'Alsace in 1981 . In 2014 he was awarded the Knight's Cross of the Hungarian Order of Merit. In 2016 he received the gold medal from the University of South Bohemia in Budweis . From 1998 he was an extraordinary member of the Commission for Bavarian State History at the Bavarian Academy of Sciences . From 1983 he was a member of the Society for Franconian History , from 1985 a member of the Frankfurt Historical Commission and the Association for Constitutional History and from 1988 a member of the Historical Commission for Lower Saxony and Bremen . In addition, he was a member from 1996, from 2002 a member of the board and from 2005 to 2015 chairman of the commission for historical regional studies in Baden-Württemberg . From 1997, Schindling was co-editor of the historical yearbook .

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A list of publications can be found on the website of the University of Tübingen [as of October 2015]

Monographs

  • The beginnings of the everlasting Reichstag in Regensburg. Class representation and statecraft after the Peace of Westphalia (= publications of the Institute for European History, Mainz. Vol. 143). von Zabern, Mainz 1991, ISBN 3-8053-1253-9 (also: Würzburg, University, habilitation paper, 1982-1983).
  • Education and science in the early modern period: 1650–1800 (= Encyclopedia of German History. Vol. 30). 2nd Edition. Oldenbourg, Munich 1999, ISBN 3-486-55036-5 .

Editorships

  • with Walter Ziegler : The Emperors of Modern Times 1519–1918. Holy Roman Empire, Austria, Germany. Beck, Munich 1990, ISBN 3-406-34395-3 .
  • with Walter Ziegler: The Territories of the Reich in the Age of Reformation and Confessionalization. Country and confession 1500–1650. Volume 1-7. Münster 1990–1997.
  • with Gyula Kurucz, Márta Fata: Peregrinatio Hungarica. Students from Hungary at German and Austrian universities from the 16th to the 20th century (= Contubernium. Vol. 64). Steiner, Stuttgart 2006, ISBN 3-515-08908-X .
  • with Franz Brendle : Religious Wars in the Old Kingdom and in Old Europe. Aschendorff, Münster 2006, ISBN 3-402-06363-8 .
  • with Matthias Asche , Werner Buchholz : The Baltic Countries in the Age of Reformation and Confessionalization. Livonia, Estonia, Ösel, Ingermanland. Courland and Letgal. City, country and denomination 1500–1721. Part 1–4, Aschendorff, Münster 2009–2012, ISBN 978-3-402-11087-4 .
  • with Márta Fata: Luther and the Evangelical Lutheran in Hungary and Transylvania. Augsburg Confession, Education, Language and Nation from the 16th Century to 1918 (= Reformation History Studies and Texts. Vol. 167). Aschendorff, Münster 2017, ISBN 978-3-402-11599-2 .

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Remarks

  1. ↑ See the reviews by Eike Wolgast in: Historische Zeitschrift 259, 1994, pp. 826–827; John G. Gagliardo in: The American Historical Review . 98, 1993, p. 517 ( online ); Adolf Laufs in: Journal of the Savigny Foundation for Legal History, German Department. 113, 1996, pp. 553-555; Karl Härter in: Ius Commune 19, 1992, pp. 458-461; Peter Rauscher in: In: Communications from the Austrian State Archives. 45, 1997, pp. 353-354.
  2. ^ Anton Schindling: Experience report on my stay as an Erasmus exchange professor at the Jagiellonian University in Krakow in January 2007. In: Circular No. 9 of the History Association at the University of Tübingen, e. V. Tübingen 2007, pp. 13-16 ( online ).
  3. ↑ Joachim Brüser: A library for Budapest Senior Professor Schindling donates his books. In: Newsletter No. 19 of the History Association at the University of Tübingen, e. V., Tübingen 2017, p. 26 f. ( online ).
  4. ↑ See the review by Michael Stolleis in: Historische Zeitschrift 260, 1995, pp. 887–889.
  5. ↑ Knight's Cross to Dr. Fata and Prof. Schindling . Retrieved February 15, 2019.
  6. ^ Václav Bůžek: Laudation ku příležitosti udělení Pamětní medaile Filozofické fakulty Jihočeské univerzity panu prof. Dr. Antonu Schindlingovi. In: Opera Historica. Časopis pro dějiny raného novověku. Volume 17, 2016, No. 2, p. 295 ff.
personal data
SURNAME Schindling, Anton
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian
DATE OF BIRTH January 20, 1947
PLACE OF BIRTH Frankfurt am Main
DATE OF DEATH 4th January 2020
Place of death Tübingen