Christiane Eisenberg

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Christiane Eisenberg (born August 28, 1956 in Bielefeld ) is a historian and professor of British history at the Great Britain Center of the Humboldt University in Berlin . She became known, among other things, with her works and books on the history of football.

Studies and career

From 1975 to 1981 she completed a degree in history and social sciences at Bielefeld University and then worked as a research assistant at the Faculty of History there until 1985. After receiving her doctorate in 1985/86, she moved to the Center for Interdisciplinary Research at Bielefeld University.

From 1987 to 1988 she worked as a fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton (New Jersey) , after which she took up a position as a university assistant at the University of Hamburg . After an interruption of the assistantship to take up a DFG habilitation grant in the years 1993-1995, the habilitation took place in 1996 at the history seminar of the University of Hamburg.

She then worked as a visiting scholar in various research contexts and finally took over a professorship for British history at the Great Britain Center at Humboldt University in October 1998. In this institute she alternates between the office of director and deputy director (rotation procedure).

Research interest

Christiane Eisenberg's research deals with questions of German and British social, economic and cultural history as well as methodological problems. She works in an international comparative way and has examined cultural transfers. Her main topics include the history of industrial relations, modern sport (especially football) and the market society as a structural principle of modern societies.

In her youth she was a competitive swimmer herself.

It mainly dealt with English sport since the mid-19th century. She has published several books on the history of football , including football, soccer, and calcio. An English Sport on its Way Around the World (1997), FIFA 1904–2004. 100 years of world football (2004, together with Pierre Lanfranchi , Tony Mason and Alfred Wahl ) and Special issue: Football history (2006, with Pierre Lanfranchi).

Fonts

  • England's way into the market society. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2009 (= Critical Studies in History , Vol. 187), ISBN 978-3-525-37008-7 .
  • FIFA 1904-2004. 100 years of world football. The workshop, Göttingen 2004, ISBN 3-89533-442-1 .
  • "English sports" and German citizens. A history of society 1800–1939. Schöningh, Paderborn 1999, ISBN 3-506-72220-4 .
  • Football, soccer, calcio. An English sport on its way around the world. dtv, Munich 1997, ISBN 3-423-04709-7 .
  • German and English trade unions. Origin and early development up to 1878 in comparison , Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 1986 (= Critical Studies in History , Vol. 72), ISBN 978-3-647-35733-1 .
  • Early labor movement and cooperatives. Theory and Practice of Productive Cooperatives in German Social Democracy and the Trade Unions of the 1860s / 1870s , Neue Gesellschaft, Bonn 1985, ISBN 3-87831-402-7 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Eckhard Fuhr: Christiane Eisenberg. In: welt.de . August 24, 2007, accessed October 7, 2018 .
  2. ↑ For the time before cf. Arnd Krüger : The sport before the "English sport" in England and on the continent. In: Christian Becker, Cornelia Regin , Anton Weise (eds.): “When sport came to Hanover”. History and reception of a cultural transfer between England and Northern Germany from the 18th to the 20th century. Lit, Münster 2015, ISBN 978-3-643-13152-2 , pp. 36–54.
personal data
SURNAME Eisenberg, Christiane
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian, professor at the Humboldt University in Berlin
DATE OF BIRTH August 28, 1956
PLACE OF BIRTH Bielefeld