Étienne François

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Étienne François, 2012

Étienne François (born May 3, 1943 in Bois-Guillaume , Normandy ) is a French - German historian .

Live and act

Etienne François went to school in Nancy and graduated from high school ( Baccalauréat philosophie ) in 1960 . From 1964 to 1970 he studied history and geography at the École normal supérieure (ENS) in Paris and Nancy . He graduated in geography from the Sorbonne in 1966 with the License d'Histoire et de Géographie and a year later he also graduated from the Sorbonne with the Diplôme d'Etudes Supérieures d'Histoire . In 1968 François received his Agrégation d'Histoire .

In 1974, François was at the University of Paris X with the theme: Population et société à Coblence au XVIIIe siècle for Doctorat de Troisième Cycle d'Histoire doctorate . 1986 followed the habilitation to Doctorat d'Etat d'Histoire at the University of Strasbourg (University of Strasbourg II - Marc Bloch) with the topic: La frontière invisible. Protestants et catholiques à Augsbourg, 1648–1806 .

His professional career began in 1970 as a university assistant in the Department of History at the University of Nancy II . In 1977 he was appointed university assistant before he took on the position of head of the French Historical Research Center ( Mission Historique Française en Allemagne ) in Göttingen on behalf of the French Foreign Ministry in 1979 , which he held until 1986. In 1984/85 he taught in the Department of History at the University of Göttingen , where he completed his habilitation in 1985.

From 1986 to 1989, Étienne François was Professor of History at the University of Nancy II and, in the 1989 summer semester, DVA Endowed Professor at the University of Stuttgart . From 1989 until his retirement in 2003 he taught as a professor of history at the Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne . In 1991/1992 he was a fellow at the Berlin Wissenschaftskolleg , and from 1992 to 1999 founding director of the Center Marc Bloch in Berlin, a Franco-German research center for social sciences .

From 1999 to 2006 Etienne François was Professor of History at the France Center of the TU Berlin and since the 2001/02 winter semester also Managing Director there. He then taught at the France Center of the Free University of Berlin from 2007 and was a member of the Friedrich Meinecke Institute . On July 14th, 2008 he gave his last lecture there.

François works equally in the field of French and German social and cultural history of the early modern period . A main role in his research is the investigation of national and cultural mentalities in their historical change, also from a transcultural perspective, especially with regard to Franco-German history. The paradigm of the place of memory ( lieu de mémoire ) is of particular importance to him . He is one of the few historians who publish in both French and German. The German Places of Remembrance he published (together with Hagen Schulze ) made him famous beyond academic boundaries .

Office and dignity

Etienne François is or was a member of the following institutions:

  • Scientific advisory board of the Center for Contemporary History Research in Potsdam
  • German-French cultural council in Saarbrücken
  • Foreign advisory board of the Maison des Sciences de l'Homme , Paris
  • Comité National de la Recherche Scientifique of the 33rd Section of History in Paris
  • Mission Historique Française en Allemagne in Göttingen
  • Advisory board of the Center Interdisciplinaire d'Etudes et de Recherches sur l'Allemagne in Paris
  • Board of Trustees of the European Enlightenment Research Center in Potsdam
  • Council of the Humanities Section in the Berlin Classical Working Group of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences (full member since 2001)

Awards

  • 1990: Prix ​​France-Allemagne
  • 1991: Strasbourg Prize from the FVS Foundation
  • 1995: Honorary Professor for Modern History at the Free University of Berlin (awarded on February 13, 1995)
  • 1996: Winner of the Federal Cross of Merit, 1st class (awarded on June 14, 1996)
  • 1997: Winner of the Knight's Cross of the French Order of Merit ( ordre national du mérite ) (awarded on November 10, 1997)
  • 2001: Winner of the Knight's Cross of the French Legion of Honor ( Légion d'Honneur ) (awarded on April 18, 2001)
  • 2017: Prix ​​de l'Académie de Berlin

Fonts

Monographs

  • Population et société à Coblence au XVIIIe-siècle . Hachette, Paris 1975 (also dissertation, University of Nancy 1975).
  • Protestants et catholiques en Allemagne. Identités et pluralisme, Augsbourg 1648-1806 (= L'évolution de l'humanité ). Michel, Paris 1993, ISBN 2-226-06093-6 .
    • The invisible border. Protestants and Catholics in Augsburg (= treatises on the history of the city of Augsburg. Volume 33). Thorbecke, Sigmaringen 1991, ISBN 3-7995-6943-X (translation by Angelika Steiner-Wendt).

Editorships

  • The limit as space, experience and construction. Germany, France and Poland from the 17th to the 20th centuries . Campus-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 978-3-593-38212-8 .
  • with Uwe Puschner : Days of Remembrance - turning points in history from antiquity to the present . Beck, Munich 2010, ISBN 978-3-406-57752-9 .

Magazines

  • German-French cultural library . Leipziger Universitätsverlag, Leipzig Volume 1 (1993) ff. ISSN  0944-3649
  • Histoire de l'Education . INRP, Paris Volume 1 (1978) ff, ISSN  0221-6280 .
  • Border crossings. Contributions to modern Romance studies . Leipziger Universitätsverlag, Leipzig Volume 1 (1994) - Volume 17 (2010) ISSN  0944-8594 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Wolf Lepenies: Looking for European identity? Here she is! In: welt.de. January 15, 2018, accessed May 26, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME François, Étienne
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Franco-German historian
DATE OF BIRTH May 3, 1943
PLACE OF BIRTH Bois-Guillaume , France