Winfried Müller (historian)

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Winfried Müller (born January 31, 1953 in Grafrath ) is a German historian .

Life

Müller attended the Graf-Rasso-Gymnasium Fürstenfeldbruck and passed the Abitur there in 1973. He then began studying history , German and political science at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich , which he completed in 1980 with the first state examination and the academic degree of a Magister Artium . In 1983 Müller was there with a dissertation on the subject of "University and Order. The Bavarian State University of Ingolstadt between the abolition of the Jesuit order and the secularization 1773-1803 ”is doing his doctorate . Between 1983 and 1994 he worked as an assistant , academic adviser and senior assistant at the Institute for Educational and University History at LMU Munich. Meanwhile , Müller completed his habilitation in 1991 with a paper on "School policy in Bavaria in the area of ​​tension between the cultural bureaucracy and the military government 1945-1949" . In the same year he was given a teaching position at the University of Passau . This was followed by representations of the chair for medieval history and comparative national history at the LMU Munich (1995) and the chair for modern history at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn (1997).

As the successor to Karlheinz Blaschke , Müller was offered the chair for Saxon regional history at the Technical University of Dresden in 1999 , which he held until the 2018/19 winter semester. From 2000 to 2020 he was also director of the Institute for Saxon History and Folklore (ISGV).

Research activity

In his research, Winfried Müller mainly deals with the Age of Enlightenment in Germany (with special consideration of Saxony ), the constitutional history of the German territories and states, the school and university history in Central Germany , the history of the state's history and the historical anniversary culture . Another focus is the reform movements around 1900, especially the art education , youth and homeland movements .

Between 2000 and 2008, Müller headed the sub-project “The historic anniversary. Genesis, Order and Staging History of an Institutional Mechanism ” in the Collaborative Research Center 537 “ Institutionality and Historicity ” at the TU Dresden. From 2009 to 2014 he was the head of the sub-project “Discourses of Common Mind and Religious Formation between the Late Enlightenment and Vormärz (approx. 1770–1830)” in the Dresden Collaborative Research Center 804 “Transcendence and Common Sense” . Since 2018 he has been leading a project on the history of cinema , which uses Dresden as an example to focus on urban cinema topography, the film industry and film art discourses between 1896 and 1945. Furthermore, he was a member of the local committee for the implementation of the 47th German Historians' Day on the subject of “Inequality” (Dresden 2008), was involved in the scientific coordination of the 3rd Saxon state exhibition “Via regia - 800 years of movement and encounter” (Görlitz 2011) and the 1 . Brandenburg regional exhibition "Prussia and Saxony. Scenes from a Neighborhood ” (Doberlug Castle 2014) and acted as co-editor of publications accompanying events and exhibitions.

Müller is a member of the Historical Commission at the Saxon Academy of Sciences in Leipzig , the Commission for Bavarian State History at the Bavarian Academy of Sciences in Munich , the Academy of Charitable Sciences in Erfurt and the Academy of the Augustinian Canons of Windesheim . He is chairman of the scientific advisory board of the Sorbian Institute Bautzen / Cottbus and member of the board of the Dresden History Association , of which he was chairman from 2002 to 2009. He is also co-editor of the publications on Saxon history and folklore , the New Archive for Saxon History and the papers for German national history .

Works

Monographs

  • University and Order. The Bavarian State University of Ingolstadt between the abolition of the Jesuit order and the secularization 1773-1803. Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1986, ISBN 3-42-806135-7 (= Ludovico Maximilianea. Research. Volume 11). [At the same time: Diss. Phil., Munich 1983].
  • School policy in Bavaria in the field of tension between the cultural bureaucracy and the military government 1945-1949. Oldenbourg, Munich 1995, ISBN 3-48-656116-2 (= sources and representations on contemporary history. Volume 36). [At the same time: Habil.-Schr., Munich 1991].
  • The Enlightenment. Oldenbourg, Munich 2002, ISBN 3-48-655764-5 (= Encyclopedia of German History . Volume 61).
  • The German artist stone drawing 1896–1918. Colored original lithographs and the homeland and art education movement around 1900. Sandstein, Dresden 2019, ISBN 3-95498-520-9 (= search for traces . Special volume 1).

Editorships

  • In the run-up to secularization. Letters from Bavarian monasteries 1794-1803 (1812). Böhlau, Cologne / Vienna 1989, ISBN 3-41-221388-8 (= supplements to the archive for cultural history. Issue 30).
  • University and Education. Festschrift Laetitia Boehm on her 60th birthday. PS services for the humanities and media, Munich 1991, ISBN 3-928045-00-8 .
  • with Laetitia Boehm, Wolfgang J. Smolka, Helmut Zedelmaier : Biographical Lexicon of the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich. Volume 1: Ingolstadt - Landshut 1472-1826. Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1998, ISBN 3-428-09267-8 .
  • The historic anniversary. Genesis, order and staging history of an institutional mechanism. Lit Verlag, Münster 2004, ISBN 3-82-586597-5 (= history, research and science. Volume 3).
  • with Martina Schattkowsky : Between tradition and modernity. King John of Saxony 1801–1873. Leipziger Universitätsverlag, Leipzig 2004, ISBN 3-93-652286-3 (= writings on Saxon history and folklore. Volume 8).
  • Reform - sequestration - secularization. The settlements of the Augustinian Canons during the Reformation and at the end of the Old Kingdom. Augustiner-Chorherren-Verlag, Paring 2005, ISBN 3-93-619703-2 (= publications of the Academy of Augustinian Canons of Windesheim. Volume 6).
  • Perspectives on Reformation Research in Saxony. Honorary colloquium for the 80th birthday of Karlheinz Blaschke . Thelem, Dresden 2008, ISBN 3-939888-62-1 (= building blocks from the ISGV. Volume 1).
  • Martin Jehne , Peter E. Fäßler: Inequalities. 47th German Historians' Day in Dresden 2008. Report. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2009, ISBN 3-525-36387-7 .
  • with Lars-Arne Dannenberg , Edmund Pech, Swen Steinberg: Oberlausitz. Edition Leipzig, Leipzig 2011, ISBN 3-36-100646-5 (= cultural landscapes of Saxony. Volume 4).
  • with Swen Steinberg: People on the move. The Via Regia and its actors. Volume of essays on the 3rd Saxon State Exhibition from May 21 to October 31, 2011 in Görlitz. Sandstein, Dresden 2011, ISBN 3-942422-33-6 .
  • with Swen Steinberg: Economy and Community. Confessional and new religious models of common sense in the 19th and 20th centuries. Transcript, Bielefeld 2014, ISBN 3-8376-2406-4 (= Histoire. Volume 43).
  • with Frank Göse , Kurt Winkler, Anne-Katrin Ziesak : Prussia and Saxony. Scenes from a neighborhood. Catalog for the 1st Brandenburg State Exhibition from June 7th to November 2nd, 2014 at Doberlug Castle. Sandstein, Dresden 2014, ISBN 3-95498-084-3 .
  • with Enno Bünz , Martina Schattkowsky, Ira Spieker: Saxony: Cosmopolitan! Mobility - strangeness - tolerance. Thelem. Dresden 2016, ISBN 3-945363-51-9 (= search for traces . Volume 6).
  • with Dirk Syndram , Martina Schattkowsky: Elector August of Saxony. A post-Reformation “Prince of Peace” between territory and empire. Contributions to the scientific conference from July 9 to 11, 2015 in Torgau and Dresden. Sandstein, Dresden 2017, ISBN 3-95498-302-8 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 1918 as the axis year of mass culture. Cinema, film industry and film art discourses in Dresden before and after 1918. Institute for Saxon History and Folklore eV, accessed on November 1, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Müller, Winfried
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German regional historian
DATE OF BIRTH January 31, 1953
PLACE OF BIRTH Grafrath