Carsten Goehrke

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Carsten Goehrke (born May 19, 1937 in Hamburg ) is a German Eastern European historian .

Life

Carsten Goehrke was born as the son of an administrative lawyer from Pomerania and grew up in Pomerania, after fleeing in 1945 in Münster . He studied history, geography, German and Slavic studies at the universities of Tübingen (from 1957) and Münster (from 1958). In 1963 he passed the scientific examination for teaching at schools and became an assistant with Manfred Hellmann . In 1967 he was with a dissertation on the desert in the Moscow Ruś. PhD studies on settlement, population and social history in Münster. Then he was a research assistant at the Department of Eastern European History in Münster.

In 1971 Goehrke was appointed to the University of Zurich as the first full professor of Eastern European history in Switzerland. He devoted himself in particular to ancient Russian history, social history and everyday history . From 1982 to 1994 he was President of the Swiss Social Archives .

In 2002 Goehrke retired .

Fonts

As an author
  • The theories about the origin and development of the me. Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 1964.
  • The Desolations in the Moscow Ruś: Studies of Settlement, Population and Social History. (= Sources and studies on the history of Eastern Europe. Volume 1). Steiner, Wiesbaden 1968 (dissertation, University of Münster, 1968).
  • with Manfred Hellmann and Peter Scheibert : Russia (= Fischer Weltgeschichte . Volume 31). Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 1972.
  • Early period of Eastern Slavery. Scientific Book Society, Darmstadt 1992.
  • Russia: A Structural History. NZZ Libro, Zurich 2010.
  • Russian everyday life. A story in nine time frames from the early Middle Ages to the present. 3 volumes. Chronos, Zurich 2003–2005.
As editor
  • with Werner G. Zimmermann: "Refuge Switzerland". Dealing with asylum problems in the 19th and 20th centuries. Rohr, Zurich 1994.
  • with Seraina Gilly: Transformations and historical legacy in the states of the European East. Lang, Bern 2000.
  • with Jürgen von Ungern-Sternberg : The Baltic States at the intersection of developments: past and present. Schwabe, Basel 2003.
  • with Bianka Pietrow-Ennker : Cities in Eastern Europe: On the problem of modernization and space from the late Middle Ages to the 20th century. Chronos, Zurich 2006.
  • Living worlds of Siberia. From the nature and history of the Yenisei Stromland. Chronos, Zurich 2016. ISBN 3-0340-1348-5

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Vademecum of the historical sciences. 3rd edition (1998/1999), p. 362.
  2. ↑ a b c d Nada Boškovska: Carsten Goehrke - 75 years . In: Jahrbücher für Geschichte Osteuropas , NF, Vol. 60 (2012), pp. 314–316, here p. 314.
  3. ↑ As a book published by Steiner, Wiesbaden 1968.
  4. ↑ Nada Boškovska: Carsten Goehrke - 75 years . In: Year books for the history of Eastern Europe , NF, vol. 60 (2012), pp. 314–316, here p. 315.
  5. ↑ Nada Boškovska: Carsten Goehrke - 75 years . In: Yearbooks for the history of Eastern Europe , NF, vol. 60 (2012), pp. 314–316, here p. 316.
personal data
SURNAME Goehrke, Carsten
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Eastern European historian
DATE OF BIRTH May 19, 1937
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg