Axel Gotthard

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Axel Gotthard (born April 21, 1959 in Schwäbisch Gmünd ) is a German historian .

Axel Gotthard completed his community service and studied German and history at the universities of Würzburg and Tübingen in the 1980s . During his studies he worked as a journalist and was a research assistant for the Württemberg State Museum in Stuttgart. He created part of the exhibition "Baden and Württemberg in the Age of Napoleon". Gotthard received his doctorate in Tübingen in 1992 with a thesis supervised by Volker Press on the foreign policy of Württemberg under Duke Johann Friedrich . His habilitation took place in 1998 with a thesis supervised by Helmut Neuhaus in Erlangen on the electors in the early modern imperial association. Gotthard teaches as a professor of modern history at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg .

His main research interests are historical peace and conflict research, premodern spatialization practices, the importance of denomination and secularization processes for European history as well as the political, cultural and constitutional history of the Old Kingdom . In his two-volume habilitation, he describes the history of the Reich from a political standpoint. In this way he breaks away from the model of dualism between emperor and prince. His Introduction to the Old Kingdom in the Early Modern Era, published in 2003, was published in its fifth edition in 2013. In 2004 he published a comprehensive account of the peace in Augsburg and religion . Two years later he presented an overview of the Thirty Years War . For Gotthard "the Thirty Years' War was a struggle for confessional possessions, over which weights in the political system of the empire threatened to shift and to which further European great power rivalries accumulated".

Fonts

  • The Thirty-Year War. An introduction. Böhlau, Cologne 2016, ISBN 978-3-8252-4555-9 .
  • Dear and dearest Fried. Concepts of war and ideas of neutrality in the early modern period (= research on ecclesiastical legal history and canon law. Vol. 32). Böhlau, Cologne et al. 2014, ISBN 978-3-412-22142-3 .
  • The Old Empire 1495–1806. 5th, revised and bibliographically supplemented edition. Scientific Book Society, Darmstadt 2013, ISBN 978-3-534-15118-9 ( review by Christine Roll )
  • The Augsburg Religious Peace. Aschendorff, Münster 2004, ISBN 3-402-03815-3 ( review by Heinhard Steiger ).
  • Pillars of the empire. The Electors in the Early Modern Reich Association. Matthiesen, Husum 1999, ISBN 3-7868-1457-0 (also: Erlangen-Nürnberg, Universität, habilitation paper, 1998).
  • Confession and reason of state. The foreign policy of Württemberg under Duke Johann Friedrich (1608–1628) (= publications of the Commission for Historical Regional Studies in Baden-Württemberg. Vol. 126). Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 1992, ISBN 3-17-011964-8 (also: Tübingen, University, dissertation, 1991).

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Remarks

  1. ↑ See the reviews of Winfried Dotzauer in: Nassauische Annalen 111 (2000), pp. 507–508; Alexander Jendorff in: Hessisches Jahrbuch für Landesgeschichte 51 (2001), pp. 304–307.
  2. ↑ See the review by Alexander Jendorff in: Hessisches Jahrbuch für Landesgeschichte 51 (2001), pp. 304–307.
  3. ↑ See the discussions by Gottfried Seebaß in: Zeitschrift für Kirchengeschichte 117 (2006), pp. 377–380; Alexander Jendorff in: Hessisches Jahrbuch für Landesgeschichte 57 (2007), pp. 256-257.
  4. ↑ See the review by Michael Rohrschneider in: Journal for Historical Research 45, 2018, pp. 192–194 ( online )
  5. ↑ Axel Gotthard: The Thirty Years War. An introduction. Cologne 2016, p. 291.
personal data
SURNAME Gotthard, Axel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian
DATE OF BIRTH April 21, 1959
PLACE OF BIRTH Schwäbisch Gmünd