Benigna from Krusenstjern

Benigna von Krusenstjern (born September 10, 1947 in Clenze , Lüchow-Dannenberg district ) is a German historian .

Benigna von Krusenstjern was born as the daughter of the Baltic German editor Ewert von Krusenstjern and his wife Käte, nee. Majus, born. She attended high school in Bielefeld and Wiesbaden and since the winter semester 1966/67 studied history and German in Mainz and Munich . In 1972 she received her master's degree in Mainz, and in 1979 she received her doctorate there in the subject of Eastern European History with a thesis on the first Hungarian small farmers' party, supervised by Gotthold Rhode . From 1972 to 1975 she worked as an editor at the German Society for Foreign Policy . From 1980 until its closure in 2007, she was a research assistant at the Max Planck Institute for History in Göttingen .

Her work focuses on the 17th and 20th centuries. In 1997 she published a paper on self-testimonies as historical sources during the Thirty Years' War . In the same year, an international conference was held at the Max Planck Institute for History in Göttingen to mark the 350th anniversary of the Peace of Westphalia . The 26 articles published together with Hans Medick deal with a. a. the technical factors of warfare, the role of soldiers and women in war, self-testimonies, literature and music to the aftermath of the war in later centuries. The conference proceedings appeared in 1999. In 2009, she published the first scientific biography of Adam von Trott zu Solz , the opponent of Hitler and co-conspirator of July 20, 1944 .

Fonts

Monographs

• Philip Crusius von Krusenstiern (1597–1676). His work in Livonia as a Russian expert, diplomat and state politician (= scientific contributions to the history and regional studies of Eastern Central Europe. Vol. 102). J.-G.-Herder-Institut, Marburg 1976, ISBN 3-87969-137-1 (= Master's thesis, University of Mainz, 1972).
• The Hungarian Small Farmers Party (1909–1922 / 1929) (= Studia Hungarica. Writings of the Hungarian Institute in Munich. Vol. 18). Trofenik, Mainz 1981, ISBN 3-87828-145-5 (At the same time: Mainz, University, dissertation, 1979).
• Testimonies from the Thirty Years' War. Descriptive directory (= personal testimonies of modern times. Vol. 6). Akademie Verlag, Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-05-002743-6 .
• "That it makes sense to die - to have lived". Adam von Trott zu Solz. 1909-1944. Biography. Wallstein Verlag, Göttingen 2009, ISBN 978-3-8353-0506-9 .

Editorships

• with Hans Medick: Between Everyday Life and Catastrophe - The Thirty Years' War up close (= publications by the Max Planck Institute for History. Vol. 48). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 1999, ISBN 3-525-35463-0 .
• with Hans Erich Bödeker and Michael Matthiesen : Rudolf Vierhaus. The past as history (= publications of the Max Planck Institute for History. Vol. 183). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2002, ISBN 978-3-525-35179-6 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Benigna von Krusenstjern in the catalog of the German National Library
• Short biography and reviews of works by Benigna von Krusenstjern at perlentaucher.de
• Presentation on the Lichtenberg Kolleg website

Remarks

1. ↑ Benigna von Krusenstjern, Hans Medick (ed.): Between everyday life and catastrophe - The Thirty Years' War up close. Göttingen 1999.
2. ^ Review by Erik Lommatzsch in: Zeitschrift für Geschichtswwissenschaft 58 (2010), pp. 667–669.