Andreas Fahrmeir

Andreas Fahrmeir (born September 10, 1969 in Frankfurt am Main ) is a German historian .

Life

Andreas Fahrmeir attended the Kaiserin-Friedrich-Gymnasium in Bad Homburg vor der Höhe and graduated from high school in 1988. He first studied chemistry at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main , later Medieval and modern history, the history of natural sciences and English and completed his master’s degree in 1994. Was Doctorate Fahrmeir 1997 at Sidney Sussex College of the University of Cambridge . His doctoral thesis Citizens and Aliens. Foreigners and the Law in Britain and the German States, 1789–1870 was published in 2000. In 1999 he received the Thirlwall Prize and the Seeley Medal from the Faculty of History at the University of Cambridge.

After an employment at the German Historical Institute in London (1997-2001), Fahrmeir's habilitation followed in 2001/2002 with the work Ehrbare Speculanten. City constitution, economy and politics in the City of London (1688–1900) at Frankfurt University. In 2002 Fahrmeir worked briefly as a consultant for McKinsey & Company in Frankfurt am Main, after which he received funding from the Heisenberg program of the German Research Foundation until 2004 .

In 2003 Fahrmeir was awarded the Friedrich Sperl Prize for the Promotion of the Humanities by the Association of Friends and Sponsors of the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University. In 2004 Fahrmeir took up a professorship for European history of the 19th and 20th centuries at the University of Cologne . Since 2006 he has held the professorship for modern history at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main, with a special focus on the 19th century, as the successor to Lothar Gall, who retired in 2004/2005 .

In 2009 Fahrmeir was a Fellow of the Human Sciences Research College at Goethe University in cooperation with the Werner Reimers Foundation . He researches migration and migration control, the European elites, the political and cultural history of the European monarchies and the emergence and change of normative orders. He is a liaison professor at the German National Academic Foundation and is one of the editors of the historical journal and the online review journal Sehepunkte . In 2012, Fahrmeir turned down an offer from the University of Munich for a W3 professorship for modern and recent history and in the same year began working as a sub-project manager in the Frankfurt LOEWE focus on 'Extrajudicial and judicial conflict resolution'.

Fonts

Monographs

• Citizens and Aliens. Foreigners and the Law in Britain and the German States, 1789-1870 (= Monographs in German History. Vol. 5). Berghahn Books, New York a. a. 2000, ISBN 1-57181-717-4 ( review H-Soz-u-Kult ).
• Honorable speculators. City constitution, economy and politics in the City of London (1688–1900) (= publications of the German Historical Institute London. Vol. 55). Oldenbourg, Munich 2003, ISBN 3-486-56725-X .
• Citizenship. The Rise and Fall of a Modern Concept. Yale University Press, New Haven / London 2007, ISBN 1-57181-717-4 . ( Review see points ).
• Revolutions and reforms. Europe 1789–1850 (= CH Beck History of Europe ). CH Beck, Munich 2010, ISBN 978-3-406-59986-6 . ( Review sehepunkte) / ( Review H-Soz-u-Kult).
• Europe between restoration, reform and revolution 1815–1850 (= Oldenbourg Grundriss der Geschichte . Vol. 41). Oldenbourg, Munich 2012, ISBN 978-3-486-70939-1 ( review sehepunkte).

Editorships

• with Annette Imhausen : The variety of normative orders (= Normative orders. Vol. 8). Campus, Frankfurt am Main 2013, ISBN 3-593-39868-0 .
• Justification narratives. To justify normative order through narratives. Campus, Frankfurt am Main 2013, ISBN 3-593-39864-8 .
• with Sabine Freitag : Murder and other little things. Unusual criminal cases from six centuries (= Beck'sche Reihe. Vol. 1408). CH Beck, Munich 2001, ISBN 3-406-45948-X .

Web links

• Literature by and about Andreas Fahrmeir in the catalog of the German National Library
• Short biography and reviews of works by Andreas Fahrmeir at perlentaucher.de
• Presence on the homepage of the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University Frankfurt am Main
• Presence on the homepage of the Cluster of Excellence 243: The Formation of Normative Orders

Remarks

1. ↑ Andreas Fahrmeir on the homepage of the Frankfurt LOEWE focus area 'Extrajudicial and judicial conflict resolution' .