Arno Strohmeyer

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Arno Strohmeyer (born July 26, 1963 in Obergrafendorf , Lower Austria ) is an Austrian historian . Since 2007 he has held a chair for general history of modern times at the University of Salzburg . He has enriched political history methodically and theoretically with anthropological and cultural studies questions.

Live and act

Arno Strohmeyer studied history and ethnology at the University of Vienna from 1982 to 1986 . From 1987 to 1991 he was a research assistant at the historical commission at the Bavarian Academy of Sciences . He received his doctorate from the University of Vienna in 1991/92 with the thesis The European Balance of Power in the Early Modern Age: Idea and System . From 1996 to 2001 Strohmeyer was a research assistant at the Humanities Center for the History and Culture of East Central Europe in Leipzig. From 2001 to 2004 he was a research assistant at the Department of History at the University of Bonn at the Chair of the Early Modern Period with Maximilian Lanzinner . In 2003 he completed his habilitation with the thesis Confessional Conflict and Rule Order. Right of resistance among the Austrian estates (1550–1650) . From 2004 to 2007 he was senior research assistant at Lanzinner in Bonn. In the 2006 summer semester he taught as a visiting professor at the University of Vienna. Since 2007 he has been a full professor of general history in modern times at the University of Salzburg.

In 2012, he refused an offer at the University of Vienna for a chair in modern history with a focus on the early modern era. In 2013 he became a corresponding member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences . From 2009 to 2011 he was Deputy Head and from 2011 to 2015 Head of the History Department at the University of Salzburg. From 2015 to 2017 he was again Deputy Head. From 2011 to 2015 he was also a member of the Faculty Council of the Faculty of Culture and Social Sciences at the University of Salzburg. Since 2017 he has been Scientific Director and Deputy Director of the Institute for Modern and Contemporary History Research (INZ) of the Austrian Academy of Sciences (ÖAW) in Vienna. There he heads the research area "Cultural Heritage: Biographics and Editions". He is currently also leading two research projects: 1. “The Mediality of Diplomatic Communication: Habsburg Envoys in Constantinople in the Mid-17th Century” (University of Salzburg), 2. “Travelogues: Perceptions of the Other and the Orient in Modern Times A Mixed- method Approach for the Analysis of Large-scale Travel Account Series "(ÖAW).

His research interests include systems of rule and resistance, problems of securing peace, the interculturality of diplomacy, the intertwining of religion and politics, the history of historiography and source editions. In terms of time, he focuses on the early modern period, spatially on the Habsburg Monarchy, the Holy Roman Empire and the Ottoman Empire. Strohmeyer is working on an edition of the autobiography of Karl Brandi .

Strohmeyer took part in epee fencing at the Summer Olympics in 1984 and 1988 .

Fonts

Monographs

  • The Habsburg empires 1555–1740. Rule - Society - Politics. Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, Darmstadt 2012, ISBN 978-3-534-18757-7 ( review ).
  • Svoboda politike in moč vere. Študije o politični kulturi deželnih stanov habsburške monarhije v času verskih vojn (ok. 1550 - ok. 1650). Založba, Ljubljana 2011, ISBN 978-961-257-036-1 .
  • Denominational conflict and system of rule. Right of resistance among the Austrian estates. (1550–1650) (= publications of the Institute for European History Mainz. Bd. 201 = contributions to the social and constitutional history of the Old Empire. No. 16). von Zabern, Mainz 2006, ISBN 3-8053-3570-9 (At the same time: Bonn, University, habilitation paper, 2003; review ).
  • Theory of Interaction. The European Balance of Power in the Early Modern Era. Böhlau, Vienna et al. 1994, ISBN 3-205-98216-9 .

Source editions

  • with Wolfgang Wagner and Josef Leeb: German Reichstag files. Imperial assemblies 1556–1662. The Reichstag in Regensburg in 1567 and the Reichskreistag in Erfurt in 1567. Oldenbourg, Munich 2007, ISBN 978-3-486-58126-3 .
  • The correspondence between Ferdinand I, Maximilian II and Adam von Dietrichstein. 1563–1565 (= The correspondence of the emperors with their envoys in Spain. Vol. 1 = Studies on the history and culture of the Iberian and Ibero-American countries. Vol. 3). Publishing house for history and politics ao, Vienna ao 1997, ISBN 3-7028-0346-7 .

Anthologies

  • with Norbert Spannenberger : Peace and conflict management in intercultural spaces. The Ottoman Empire and the Habsburg Monarchy in the early modern period (= research on the history and culture of eastern Central Europe. Vol. 45). Steiner, Stuttgart 2013, ISBN 978-3-515-10434-0 .
  • with Guido Braun: Peace and Peacekeeping in the Early Modern Age. The Holy Roman Empire and Europe. Festschrift for Maximilian Lanzinner on his 65th birthday (= series of publications by the Association for Research into Modern History. 36). Aschendorff, Münster 2013, ISBN 978-3-402-14764-1 .
  • with Martin Scheutz: From Lier to Brussels. Key years in Austrian history (1496–1995). StudienVerlag, Innsbruck et al. 2010, ISBN 978-3-7065-5016-1 .
  • with Markus Völkel : Historiography at European courts (16th – 18th centuries). Studies on the court as a place of production of historiography and historical representation (= journal for historical research . Supplement. 43). Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2009, ISBN 978-3-428-13095-5 .
  • with Martin Scheutz: What does “Austrian” history mean? Problems, perspectives and spaces of modern research (= Viennese writings on the history of the modern age. Vol. 6). StudienVerlag, Innsbruck et al. 2008, ISBN 978-3-7065-4334-7 .
  • with Michael Rohrschneider : Perceptions of the Stranger. Difference experiences of diplomats in the 16th and 17th centuries (= series of publications of the Association for the Study of Modern History. Vol. 31). Aschendorff, Münster 2007, ISBN 978-3-402-05682-0 .
  • with Maximilian Lanzinner : The Reichstag 1486–1613. Communication - perception - publics (= series of publications of the historical commission at the Bavarian Academy of Sciences. Vol. 73). Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht, Göttingen 2006, ISBN 3-525-36066-5 .
  • with Joachim Bahlcke : The construction of the past. Historical thinking, tradition formation and self-portrayal in early modern East Central Europe (= journal for historical research. Supplement. 29). Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2002, ISBN 3-428-10795-0 .
  • with Joachim Bahlcke: Confessionalization in East Central Europe. Effects of religious change in the 16th and 17th centuries in the state, society and culture (= research on the history and culture of Eastern Central Europe. Vol. 7). Steiner, Stuttgart 1999, ISBN 3-515-07583-6 .

literature

  • Grete Walter-Klingenstein : Arno Strohmeyer. In: Austrian Academy of Sciences. Almanac 2013/2014, 163/164. Volume, Vienna 2015, p. 183.

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Remarks

  1. ↑ See the discussion by Hans-Wolfgang Bergerhausen in: Zeitschrift für Kirchengeschichte 119 (2008), pp. 415–417.
personal data
SURNAME Strohmeyer, Arno
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian historian
DATE OF BIRTH July 26, 1963
PLACE OF BIRTH Obergrafendorf , Lower Austria