Andreas Gestrich

Andreas Gestrich (born July 3, 1952 in Ravensburg ) is a German historian .

Gestrich studied history, Latin and Russian at the Free University of Berlin and at the Universities of Tübingen and Bristol from 1973 to 1979 . In 1979 he finished his studies with the 1st state examination for teaching at grammar schools in the subjects of history and Latin. Instead of going to school, Gestrich became a research assistant in a DFG project on the social history of childhood, youth and family at the Institute for Educational Science at the University of Tübingen. In 1983 the doctorate followed. phil. in history at the University of Tübingen. In the same year he moved to the University of Stuttgart , where he also completed his habilitation in 1992 .

From 1992 to 1997 he held substitute professorships in Würzburg , Karlsruhe and Trier . Since 1997, Gestrich was Professor of Modern History at the University of Trier. In September 2006 he took over the management of the German Historical Institute in London . In February 2006, Gestrich was awarded the Order of Merit of the State of Rhineland-Palatinate .

His main research interests include a. historical peace research, media history, the social history of religion, historical migration research, British history and the history of poverty (see Collaborative Research Center 600 “Strangeness and Poverty” ).

Publications (selection)

• with Susanne Mutschler: Ohmenhausen. Childhood, Youth and Family in the 19th Century . Reutlingen City Administration, Reutlingen 1984.
• Traditional youth culture and industrialization. Social history of youth in a rural workers' community in Württemberg, 1800–1920 (= critical studies on historical science . Volume 69). Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht, Göttingen 1986 (also: Dissertation, University of Tübingen 1982/1983), ISBN 3-525-35728-1 .
• Absolutism and the public. Political communication in Germany at the beginning of the 18th century (= critical studies on historical science. Volume 103). Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht, Göttingen 1994, ISBN 3-525-35766-4 (also: habilitation thesis, University of Stuttgart 1992), ISBN 3-525-35766-4 .
• History of the family in the 19th and 20th centuries (= Encyclopedia of German History . Volume 50). Oldenbourg, Munich 1999, ISBN 3-486-55755-6 , 3rd edition 2013, ISBN 978-3-486-71410-4 .
• Socializations of man. Introduction to historical research on socialization . Ed. diskord, Tübingen 1999, ISBN 3-8929-5667-7 .
• with Rainer Smiling (Ed.): Johann Jacob Moser. Politician - Pietist - Publicist. Braun, Karlsruhe 2002, ISBN 3-7650-9055-7 .
• with Jens-Uwe Krause, Michael Mitterauer : History of the Family (= European Cultural History , Volume 1), Kröner, Stuttgart 2003, ISBN 3-520-37601-6 .
• with Hermann Both: Revolutions in Europe: 1789 - 1917 - 1989. Unity or division of Europe through revolutions? (= History course books ) Cornelsen, Berlin 2004 (textbook).
• with Lutz Raphael : Inclusion - Exclusion. Studies on strangeness and poverty from antiquity to the present. Peter Lang, Frankfurt a. M. et al. 2008, ISBN 978-3-631-56573-5 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Andreas Gestrich in the catalog of the German National Library
• Page by Gestrich at the University of Trier ( Memento from June 17, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
• CV at the German Historical Institute in London