Wolfgang Neugebauer (historian, 1953)

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Wolfgang Neugebauer (born May 1, 1953 in Berlin ) is a German historian .

Life

Wolfgang Neugebauer studied history , political science , law and economics and graduated in 1978 with a Magister Artium . It was in 1983 when Otto Büsch to Dr. phil. did his doctorate and then worked for the Historical Commission in Berlin . In 1991 he completed his habilitation at the Free University of Berlin . In 2000 he was offered a chair for modern history at the University of Würzburg . From 2010 to 2018 he held the Alfred Freiherr von Oppenheim Endowed Professorship for the History of Prussia at the Humboldt University in Berlin . Today Neugebauer is Prof. i. R., his former chair has been closed.

Neugebauer is a full member of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities and heads the “Prussia - Berlin” center there. Since 2004 he has headed the academy project Prussia as a cultural state located there . Together with Frank-Lothar Kroll, Neugebauer publishes the historical journal Research on Brandenburg and Prussian History , the organ of the Prussian Historical Commission .

Fonts (selection)

  • Absolutist state and school reality in Brandenburg-Prussia . de Gruyter, Berlin / New York 1985 (Diss.).
  • Political change in the east: East and West Prussians from the old estates to constitutionalism . Steiner, Stuttgart 1992 (habilitation paper 1991).
  • The Prussian Cabinet in Potsdam. A constitutional study of the princely central sphere in the time of absolutism . In: Yearbook for Brandenburg State History , 44, 1993, pp. 69–115.
  • The Hohenzollern . Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 1996-2003.
    • Vol. 1: Beginnings, state state and monarchical autocracy until 1740 . 1996.
    • Vol. 2: Dynasty in Secular Change , 2003.
  • Gustav Schmoller, Otto Hintze and the work on the Acta Borussica . In: Jahrbuch für Brandenburgische Landesgeschichte , 48, 1997, pp. 152-202.
  • Residence - administration - representation. The Berlin Palace and its historical functions from the 15th to the 20th century . Publishing house for Berlin-Brandenburg, Potsdam 1999.
  • Central province in absolutism. Brandenburg in the 17th and 18th centuries . Berlin-Verlag Spitz, Berlin 2001.
  • History of Prussia . Hildesheim u. a. 2004 (TB edition, Piper, Munich / Zurich 2006)
  • Prussia in the historiography. Epochs and research problems in Prussian history . In: Handbook of Prussian History . Vol. 1, Berlin / New York 2009, pp. 3–109.
  • Brandenburg-Prussia in the early modern period. Politics and State Building in the 17th and 18th Centuries . In: Handbook of Prussian History . Vol. 1, Berlin / New York 2009, pp. 113–408.
  • Friedrich as a risk? Frederick the Great in the eyes of subjects and historians . In: Yearbook for the History of Central and Eastern Germany , 56, 2010.
  • Why Prussian History in the 21st Century? (= Lectiones Inaugurales , Volume 2). Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3-428-13874-6 (with a list of his scientific publications).
  • Otto Hintze. Thinking spaces and social worlds of a historian in globalization 1861-1940. Schöningh, Paderborn 2015.
  • Prussian history as a social event. Historiography from the Middle Ages to the year 2000. Schöningh, Paderborn 2018, ISBN 978-3-506-78917-4 .

Editorships

  • School and absolutism in Prussia. Files on the Prussian elementary school system up to 1806 . Berlin / New York 1992 (= publications of the Historical Commission in Berlin , Volume 83).
  • Handbook of Prussian History . Vol. 3. de Gruyter, Berlin / New York 2001.
  • The subject of “Prussia” in science and science policy in the 19th and 20th centuries . Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2006.
  • Handbook of Prussian History . Vol. 1. de Gruyter, Berlin / New York 2009.
  • Cultural state and civil society: Prussia, Germany and Europe in the 19th and early 20th centuries . Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 2010.
  • Oppenheim lectures on the history of Prussia at the Humboldt University in Berlin and the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences. Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2014, ISBN 978-3-428-14361-0 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Marlon Maschkiwitz: former chair of Prussian history - Prussian history. Retrieved February 18, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Neugebauer, Wolfgang
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian
DATE OF BIRTH May 1, 1953
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin