Arndt Brendecke

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Arndt Brendecke (born January 4, 1970 in Traunstein ) is a German historian .

Life

Brendecke, who grew up overseas on the Chiemsee , studied modern and medieval history as well as political science at the University of Munich , then worked until 2006 as a research assistant and research assistant at the chair for early modern history at this university with Winfried Schulze . During this time he received his PhD in Modern History in 1999. In 2000 he was one of the founding members of the Collaborative Research Center 573 'Pluralization and Authority in the Early Modern Age', of which he was deputy spokesman from 2007 to 2009. In 2006 he received a Dilthey Fellowship from the 'Pro Geisteswissenschaften' funding initiative. The habilitation followed in 2008.

After being appointed (2009) to the Extraordinariat for History and Cultures of Latin America at the University of Bern, he taught there until summer 2011 and was director of the Center for Global Studies at the Bern Institute of Advanced Study, University of Bern . In 2010 his habilitation thesis was awarded the Habilitation Prize / Carl Erdmann Prize of the Association of Historians in Germany.

In 2011 Brendecke accepted a call to the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich, where he is the successor to Winfried Schulze and holds the chair for early modern history.

Fonts (selection)

  • The turn of the century. A story of their perception and effect. Study edition . Frankfurt am Main 2000. ISBN 978-3-593-36610-4 .
  • Ed. Together with Ralf-Peter Fuchs and Edith Koller: The Authority of Time in the Early Modern Age . Münster 2007. ISBN 978-3-8258-0804-4 .
  • Ed. Together with Susanne Friedrich and Markus Friedrich: Information in the early modern times. Status, stocks, strategies . Münster 2008. ISBN 978-3-8258-1671-1 .
  • Empire and empiricism. Functions of knowledge in Spanish colonial rule . Cologne 2009. ISBN 978-3-412-20399-3 .
  • Ed. Practices of the Early Modern Age. Actors - procedures - artifacts (= early modern impulses 3). Cologne u. a. 2015. ISBN 978-3-412-50135-8 .
  • The Empirical Empire: Spanish Colonial Rule and the Politics of Knowledge . Berlin, Boston 2016. ISBN 978-3110375046 .
  • Ed. Together with Peter Vogt: The End of Fortuna and the Rise of Modernity . Berlin, Boston 2017. ISBN 978-3110450422 .

Awards

  • 2010: Habil Prize from the Association of Historians in Germany
  • 2016: Member of the Academia Europaea

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Arndt Brendecke in: Kürschner's German Scholars Calendar 2020. De Gruyter, Berlin 2019 (online edition)
  2. ^ Press release of the Association of Historians DE
personal data
SURNAME Brendecke, Arndt
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian
DATE OF BIRTH 4th January 1970
PLACE OF BIRTH Traunstein