Andreas Gotzmann

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Andreas Gotzmann (* 1960 in Karlsruhe ) is a German historian and religious scholar with a research focus on Jewish history and culture. His chair for Jewish studies and religious studies at the University of Erfurt , founded in 1999, is the first and only institution for research and teaching in the field of Judaism and Jewish history in the Free State of Thuringia.

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Studied Jewish Studies (with a focus on: Jewish History, Rabbinica and Codices and Jewish Art History) at the University for Jewish Studies in Heidelberg, founded in 1979; at the same time studies at the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg . From 1990 to 1995: Studies and research fellow in New York and Jerusalem. He received his doctorate in 1995 in Jewish Studies from the Free University of Berlin . From 1994 to 1999 he was a research assistant, then research assistant in Jewish studies at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main . Since 1999 he has been Professor of Jewish Studies and Religious Studies at the newly founded University of Erfurt.

Member of numerous national and international professional associations, scientific advisory boards, collaborations and research groups. Among other things, from 2002 to 2006 board member of the Association of Judaists in the Federal Republic of Germany. For many years on the board of the Scientific Working Group of the International Leo Baeck Institute.

research

There are scientific publications by Andreas Gotzmann, particularly on German-Jewish history. As a specialist in early modern and modern Jewish history, his work extends from the 16th century to contemporary history. The focus of the cultural studies-oriented historical work is in particular questions about the structure and significance of cultural change and cultural social stabilization processes. In addition to overarching analyzes that range from legal history, religious and social history to aspects of mentality, ideas and action history, there are above all questions about identity formation, the formation, structure and consolidation of the Jewish community as well as independent cultural models of interpretation, the Gotzmanns Work through. Another research focus is the history of science.

Since 2003 he has been the spokesman for the 'Jewish Holy Roman Empire' project cluster.

Awards (selection)

  • 2010: Rosl and Paul Arnsberg Prize of the Polytechnic Society Foundation for the book Jewish Autonomy in the Early Modern Age. Law and Community in German Judaism (2008)

Works (selection)

Monographs:

  • Jewish law in the cultural process. The Perception of Halacha in 19th Century Germany. Tübingen 1997.
  • Individuality and unity. Discourses of modernization in German Jewry during the emancipation period. Leiden 2002.
  • Jewish autonomy in the early modern period. Law and Community in German Judaism. Göttingen 2008.

Editorships:

  • with Rainer Liedtke, Till van Rahden : Jews - Citizens - Germans. On diversity and borders in Germany. Tübingen 2001.
  • with Vasilios Makrides, Jamal Malik, Jörg Rüpke : Religious Pluralism in Europe. Marburg 2001.
  • Kehilat Friedberg. 2 volumes. Friedberg (Hessen) 2002; Vol. 1: Cilli Kasper-Holtkotte: Jewish life in Friedberg (16th – 18th centuries) ; Vol. 2: Stefan Litt: Protocol book and statutes of the Jewish community Friedberg (16th-18th centuries) .
  • with Christian Wiese : Modern Judaism and Historical Consciousness: Identities - Encounters - Perspectives. Boston 2007.
  • with Michael Brenner , Yfaat Weiss : Germans - Jews - Czechs. The Case of the Czech Lands (= Bohemia. 46,1 / special edition). Munich 2005.
  • with Stephan Wendehorst: Jews in Law. New approaches to the legal history of the Jews in the Old Reich (= Journal for Historical Research . Supplement 39). Berlin 2007.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ u. a. of the Jüdisches Museum Franken Jüdisches Museum Franken , the Center for German-Jewish Studies at the University of Sussex
  2. ↑ LEO BAECK INSTITUTE LONDON: ABOUT US . leobaeck.co.uk. Retrieved April 15, 2012.
  3. ^ Awarded the Rosl and Paul Arnsberg Prize . sptg.de. August 18, 2010. Retrieved April 15, 2012.
personal data
SURNAME Gotzmann, Andreas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian and religious scholar
DATE OF BIRTH 1960
PLACE OF BIRTH Karlsruhe