Burghart Schmidt (historian)

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Burghart Schmidt (born March 1, 1962 in Hamburg ) is a German historian . He is President of the University of Vechta . Previously, he was Vice-President of the Paul-Valéry Montpellier III University in France , where he was also Professor of Early Modern History, Director of International Relations and Head of the Language Institute.

Life

Burghart Schmidt spent his childhood and school days in Bremen . From 1982 to 1987 he studied history, geography and philosophy at the Michel de Montaigne Bordeaux III University in France. In 1998 he received his doctorate summa cum laude from the University of Hamburg on the history of Hamburg in the age of the French Revolution and Napoleon Bonaparte , and in 2004 he completed his habilitation there with a paper on Ludwig Bechstein and the literary reception of early modern witch persecution in the 19th century. A long-time employee of Arno Herzig , he briefly took over his chair as a substitute after his retirement, before moving to the Helmut Schmidt University / University of the Federal Armed Forces in Hamburg in 2005 . In 2006 he became Professor of Early Modern History at the Paul-Valéry Montpellier III University, and in 2008 Vice-President of the same.

Between 2003 and 2006 he was visiting professor at the Universities of Michel de Montaigne Bordeaux III and Bretagne-Sud . In 2001 he founded the working group for North German witchcraft and crime research. Since 2008 he has been a member of the interdisciplinary research center CRISES. In February 2009 he was appointed Chevalier dans l´Ordre des Palmes académiques by the French government for outstanding services to Franco-German cooperation in the field of higher education .

Schmidt has been President of the University of Vechta since January 2016 .

Fonts (selection)

  • Hamburg in the age of the French Revolution and Napoleon 1789-1813. 2 volumes, Association for Hamburg History, Hamburg 1998, ISBN 3-923356-87-0 .
  • Turning times. Domination, self-assertion and integration between the Reformation and liberalism. Announcement for Arno Herzig on his 65th birthday. (with the collaboration of Sven Beckert and others), Lit, Hamburg 2002, ISBN 3-8258-6140-6 .
  • Reality and myth. Witch hunt in the early modern period. (Ed. with Katrin Möller), DOBU, Hamburg 2003, ISBN 3-934632-04-1 .
  • Early modern resistance movements of the North German lower classes in the field of tension between war, occupation and foreign rule. DOBU, Hamburg 2004, ISBN 3-934632-07-6 .
  • Les relations entre la France et les villes hanséatiques de Hambourg, Brême et Lübeck (Moyen-Âge - XIXe siècle). (Ed. with Isabelle Richefort), Brussels 2006, ISBN 90-5201-286-5 . (French)
  • Images of man-human rights from antiquity to the present. DOBU, Hamburg 2006, ISBN 3-934632-10-6 .
  • Medium-sized economy, craft and culture in the Baltic region. DOBU, Hamburg 2006, ISBN 3-934632-13-0 .
  • Bordeaux - Hamburg. Two cities and their history (edited with Bernard Lachaise). DOBU, Hamburg 2007, ISBN 3-934632-20-3 .
  • Multi-dimensional working environments in the Baltic region. From history to the present and future. (Ed. with Jürgen Hogeforster), DOBU, Hamburg 2007, ISBN 3-934632-22-X .
  • Knowledge transfer and innovations around the Mare Balticum. From history to the present and future. DOBU, Hamburg 2007, ISBN 3-934632-26-2 .
  • Witches, witch-hunts and magical imaginaries in modern Africa. (Ed. with Rolf Schulte), DOBU Wissenschaftlicher Verlag - Documentation and Book, Hamburg 2008, ISBN 3-934632-15-7 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Prof. Dr. Burghart Schmidt is the new President of the University of Vechta | Nds. Ministry of Science and Culture. In: www.mwk.niedersachsen.de. Retrieved January 17, 2017 .
personal data
SURNAME Schmidt, Burghart
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian
DATE OF BIRTH March 1, 1962
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg