Christoph Kampmann

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Christoph Kampmann (born July 1, 1961 in Bochum ) is a German historian .

Kampmann studied history , philosophy , constitutional law and Latin philology at the Universities of Bonn , Cologne and Balliol College of the University of Oxford . In 1991 he received his doctorate from the University of Bonn with a thesis on the Thirty Years War . Since 1991 he has been a research assistant at the University of Bayreuth , where he completed his habilitation in 1999 with a thesis on ideas about peace and peace policy in early modern Europe . From 1999 to 2001 he was a substitute professor at the University of Bonn.

After being appointed to the universities of Marburg and Graz , Kampmann has held a professorship for early modern history at the Philipps University of Marburg since 2003 . From 2007 to 2009 he was Dean of the Department of History and Cultural Studies, and from 2011 to 2013 he was Chairman of the “Working Group on the Early Modern Age” in the Association of Historians in Germany (VHHD). In 2012 he was elected a full member of the historical commission at the Bavarian Academy of Sciences . He is a member of the Historical Commission for Hesse. Since 2014 he has been the founding spokesman for the Collaborative Research Center “Dynamics of Security” of the DFG, supported by the Universities of Marburg, Gießen and the Herder Institute .

Kampmann's research focuses on the political history of early modern Europe, in particular international history (origin of war, peacemaking, conflict prevention and security) as well as the various aspects of the history of the Roman-German Empire and Great Britain in the 17th and 18th centuries.

Together with Thomas Brechenmacher, Kampmann is the managing editor of the Historical Yearbook and, together with Matthias Becher , Dominik Geppert and Joachim Scholtyseck, a member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Center for Historical Peace Research in Bonn.

Fonts (in selection)

Monographs

  • Imperial Rebellion and Imperial Eight. Political criminal justice in the Thirty Years' War and the proceedings against Wallenstein in 1634 (= series of publications by the Association for Research into Modern History. 21). Aschendorff, Münster 1993, ISBN 3-402-05672-0 (At the same time: Bonn, Universität, Dissertation, 1991/1992).
  • Arbiter and peacemaking. The dispute about the political arbiter in Europe in the early modern period (= sources and research from the field of history. NF 21). Schöningh, Paderborn et al. 2001, ISBN 3-506-73271-4 (at the same time: Bayreuth, University, habilitation paper, 1998–1999).
  • Europe and the Empire in the Thirty Years War. History of a European conflict. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 2008, ISBN 978-3-17-018550-0 (2nd edition, ibid 2013, ISBN 978-3-17-023667-7 ).

Editorships

  • with Katharina Krause , Eva-Bettina Krems and Anuschka Tischer : Bourbon - Habsburg - Oranien. Competing models in dynastic Europe around 1700. Böhlau, Cologne et al. 2008, ISBN 978-3-412-20152-4 .
  • with Holger Th. Gräf and Lena Haunert: War in America and Enlightenment in Hesse. The private letters (1772–1784) to Georg Ernst von und zu Gilsa (= studies and materials on constitutional and national history. 27). Hessian State Office for Historical Regional Studies, Marburg 2010, ISBN 978-3-921254-82-0 .
  • with Maximilian Lanzinner , Guido Braun and Michael Rohrschneider : L'art de la paix. Congresses and peacemaking in the age of the Peace of Westphalia (= series of publications by the Association for the Study of Modern History. 34). Aschendorff, Münster 2011, ISBN 978-3-402-14762-7 .
  • with Joachim Bahlcke : Wallenstein pictures in conflict. A historical symbol figure in historiography and literature from the 17th to the 20th century (= Stuttgart historical research. 12). Böhlau, Cologne et al. 2011, ISBN 978-3-412-20609-3 .
  • with Ulrich Niggemann: Security in the early modern era. Norm - practice - representation (= early modern impulses. 2). Böhlau, Cologne et al. 2013, ISBN 978-3-412-22129-4 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Website of the AG
personal data
SURNAME Kampmann, Christoph
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian
DATE OF BIRTH July 1, 1961
PLACE OF BIRTH Bochum