Andreas Pečar

Andreas Pečar (* 1972 in Freiburg im Breisgau ) is a German modern historian and professor at the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg .

Pečar studied history and German at the Albert Ludwigs University of Freiburg and the University of Cologne with a master's degree in 1997. From 1999 to 2001 he was a research assistant at the University of Cologne. He was in 2002 with a work on the court nobility at the imperial court of Charles VI. PhD. His academic teacher was Johannes Kunisch . From 2001 to 2009 he was an assistant at the University of Rostock and in 2005/06 he was a Fedor Lynen Fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation at Queen Mary College . After his habilitation and a substitute professorship (from Markus Völkel ) in Rostock and a substitute professorship in Halle, he became Professor of Early Modern History in Halle in 2010. In 2014 he became the spokesman for the state research focus on Enlightenment - Religion - Knowledge .

He is a member of the Historical Commission for Saxony-Anhalt and is on the board of trustees of the Leucorea Foundation. He was a fellow of the German National Academic Foundation and a Heisenberg fellow of the DFG. In 2007/08 he was at the Excellence Cluster Cultural Basics of Integration in Konstanz.

He deals with political cultural history (legitimation of power, political biblicism, representation of power, court culture, aristocratic history) and Enlightenment research (with a focus on the self-staging of the Enlightenment and the deconstruction of the Enlightenment). Among other things, he dealt with Friedrich II as a writer.

On February 1, 2019, Andreas Pečar was elected chairman of the Saxony-Anhalt Historical Commission.

Fonts

• as editor with Michael Kaiser: The second man in the state. Top officials and favorites among the imperial princes in the early modern period (= journal for historical research. Supplement. 32). Duncker and Humblot, Berlin 2003, ISBN 3-428-11116-8 .
• The economy of honor. The court nobility at the imperial court of Charles VI. (1711-1740). Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, Darmstadt 2003, ISBN 3-534-16725-2 (also: Cologne, University, dissertation, 2001).
• A prince of the blood on the siding. Prince Heinrich as a politician. In: Foundation Prussian Palaces and Gardens Berlin-Brandenburg. Yearbook. 4, 2001/2002, ISSN  2192-4538 , pp. 113-124 .
• Was there a court society in the empire? Rank and status competition within the imperial nobility in the first half of the 18th century. In: Harm Klueting , Wolfgang Schmale (ed.): The empire and its territorial states in the 17th and 18th centuries. Aspects of coexistence, coexistence and opposition (= Historia profana et ecclesiastica. History and Church History between Middle Ages and Modernity. 10). Lit, Münster 2004, ISBN 3-8258-7414-1 , pp. 183-205.
• The court ceremony as a ruling technique? Critical objections and methodological considerations using the example of the imperial court in Vienna (1660–1740). In: Ronald G. Asch , Dagmar Freist (ed.): State formation as a cultural process. Structural change and legitimation of rule in the early modern period. Böhlau, Cologne et al. 2005, ISBN 3-412-11705-6 , pp. 381-404.
• Signs of aristocratic excellence. Court ceremonial and self-portrayal of the court nobility at the imperial court (1648–1740). In: Marian Füssel , Thomas Weller (Ed.): Order and Distinction. Practices of social representation in the corporate society (= symbolic communication and social value systems. 8). Rhema, Münster 2005, ISBN 3-930454-55-6 , pp. 181-197.
• The symbolic capital of the ancestors. Genealogical staging of Duke Ulrichs von Mecklenburg in Güstrow. In: Kornelia von Berswordt-Wallrabe (ed.): Güstrow Castle. Prestige and Art 1556–1636. State Museum Schwerin, Güstrow 2006, ISBN 3-86106-091-4 , pp. 38–43 u. 218–219, (exhibition catalog).
• On the edge of the Old Kingdom? Mecklenburg's position in the old empire using the example of country representation and imperial influence. In: Matthias Manke , Ernst Münch (ed.): Constitution and reality of life. The regional constitutional hereditary comparison of 1755 in its time (= publications of the Historical Commission for Mecklenburg. Series B: Writings on Mecklenburg history. NF 1). Schmidt-Römhild, Lübeck 2006, ISBN 3-7950-3742-5 , pp. 201-223.
• as editor with Kai Trampedach : The Bible as a political argument. Prerequisites and consequences of biblical power legitimation in the premodern era (= historical journal . Supplement. NF 43). Oldenbourg, Munich 2007, ISBN 978-3-486-64443-2 .
• Power of writing. Political biblicism in Scotland and England between the Reformation and the Civil War (1534–1642) (= publications of the German Historical Institute, London. 69). Oldenbourg, Munich 2011, ISBN 978-3-486-70101-2 (also: Rostock, Universität, habilitation paper, 2009).
• Authority through authority? Friedrich II as a military writer. Inaugural lecture, held on January 18, 2012 (= Hallesche Universitätsreden. 4). Universitätsverlag Halle-Wittenberg, Halle (Saale) 2013, ISBN 978-3-86977-067-3 .
• with Damien Tricoire: false friends. Was the Enlightenment really the birth of modernity? Campus, Frankfurt am Main et al. 2015, ISBN 978-3-593-50474-2 .
• as editor with Holger Zaunstöck , Thomas Müller-Bahlke : How pietistic can the nobility be? Halle Pietism and imperial nobility in the 18th century (= sources and research on the history of Saxony-Anhalt. 10). Mitteldeutscher Verlag, Halle (Saale) 2016, ISBN 978-3-86977-067-3 .
• Andreas Erb, Andreas Pečar and Frank Kreißler (eds.): Our Franz - The image of Prince Franz von Anhalt-Dessau in the judgment of posterity (1817–1945) . Mitteldeutscher Verlag, Halle (Saale) 2018. ISBN 978-3-96311-027-6 .

Web links

• Page from Pečar at the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Entry in the Cluster of Excellence Cultural Foundations of Integration , Constance