Britta Kägler

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Britta Kägler is a German historian and deals primarily with the history of the early modern period .

Britta Kägler studied history, German and political science at the Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt , at the American University in Washington, DC and at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich . She received her doctorate in 2009 at the Institute for Bavarian History under Ferdinand Kramer with a dissertation on women at the Munich court in the period from 1651 to 1756, which was awarded the Research Prize of the General Association of German History and Antiquity Associations in 2010 .

From 2007 to 2010 Kägler was a research assistant with Ferdinand Kramer at the Institute for Bavarian History . She then worked as a research assistant at the German Historical Institute in Rome until 2013 as part of the interdisciplinary research project "Musici". From 2013 to 2017 Kägler returned to the LMU Munich as a temporary academic advisor before accepting a professorship for early modern history at the Technical and Natural Sciences University of Norway (NTNU) in 2017 . In 2020 she accepted an offer at the University of Passau for the W2 professorship for Bavarian State History and European Regional History and will teach there from August.

Britta Kägler was admitted to the Advisory Board of the Görres Society in 2013 . Since 2018 she has been a member of the scientific advisory board of the Roman Quarterly for Christian Classics and Church History (RQ).

Her main research interests are the history of the court and aristocracy, the cultural history of the modern age (1500–1800) with special consideration of social and cultural transfers between the old empire and Italy, the architectural and economic history of the baroque and religious history of the modern age

Fonts

Monographs

  • with Gesa zur Nieden: “The most beautiful music to be heard.” European musicians in baroque Rome. Scientific Book Society, Darmstadt 2012, ISBN 978-3-534-23904-7 .
  • Women at the Munich Court (1651–1756) (= Munich Historical Studies: Department of Bavarian History. Vol. 18). Lassleben, Kallmünz 2011, ISBN 978-3-7847-3018-9 .
  • with Anne Dreesbach and Susann Vers: History of the dogs. From the empire until today. Kosmos, Stuttgart 2007, ISBN 978-3-440-10870-3 .

Editorships

  • with Bettina Scherbaum and Ferdinand Kramer: The last and the first days. End of war and occupation in Bad Aibling. Traunstein and Vaterstetten 2009.

Web links

Remarks

  1. ↑ See the reviews of Helen Watanabe-O'Kelly in: Francia-Recensio 2012/4 ( online ); Michael Pölzl in: Communications from the Institute for Austrian Historical Research . 121, 2013, pp. 516-518; Katrin Keller in: Journal for Historical Research . 40, 2013, pp. 344-346 ( online ); Axel Gotthard in: Historical magazine . 298, 2014, pp. 499-500.
  2. ↑ Page of Kägler of Engineering and Norwegian University of Science
personal data
SURNAME Kägler, Britta
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian
DATE OF BIRTH 20th century