Dagmar Freist

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Dagmar Freist (born March 22, 1962 in Wolfenbüttel ) is a German historian and professor of early modern history at the University of Oldenburg .

Dagmar Freist in spring 2019

School and study

Dagmar Freist passed her Abitur in 1981 at the Ratsgymnasium Goslar . She then studied history, English and theology at the universities of Heidelberg , Cambridge and Freiburg and graduated in 1987 with the first state examination in history and English from the University of Freiburg .

Scientific career

After graduating Dagmar Freist returned as a fellow of the Evangelical Studies Villigst back to the University of Cambridge, where it in 1992 with a thesis on "The Formation of Opinion and the Communication Network in London in 1637-c.1645" doctorate was. In 1991 and 1992 she was a trainee teacher at the district high school in Gundelfingen / Freiburg im Breisgau .

Then Dagmar Freist moved to the bishop's department of the Evangelical High Church Council in Karlsruhe as a research assistant . Here she was in charge of the women's decade, the task of which was to prepare the position of a women's representative in the regional church. In 1995 she returned to historical studies, which in turn took her to England. Here she worked as a Research Fellow at the German Historical Institute in London and began her research on the habilitation topic “Denominational Politics and Tolerance: Religiously Mixed Marriages in the Early Modern Period 1555- c.1806”. Until 1998 Dagmar Freist was also a freelancer at the Evangelical Academy Baden in Bad Herrenalb , for which she held a series of conferences.

In 1998 Dagmar Freist moved to the University of Osnabrück , where she completed her habilitation as a research assistant at Ronald G. Asch's chair . After completing her habilitation, Dagmar Freist was appointed senior assistant in 2003 and represented the vacant Chair for Early Modern History at the University of Osnabrück for two semesters . Since the winter semester of 2004, Dagmar Freist has been teaching and researching as a professor of early modern history at the University of Oldenburg . Her work focuses on research into the public and political culture, religious pluralization, diaspora, networks and translocal societies in north-western Europe and England. Since 2018 Dagmar Freist has been heading the “ Prize Papers ” project, funded by the academy program of the Union of German Academies of Sciences. In this project, the Prize Papers stored in the UK National Archives will be digitized and made available to the public in a database.

Personal

Dagmar Freist is married, has four children and lives in Oldenburg.

Ongoing research (selection)

  • DFG graduate college 1608/1/2 “Self-education. Practices of subjectification "(co-applicant and deputy spokesperson)
  • Reformation freedom space (2012-2017)
  • Academy project Prize Papers, funding 2018–2037

Fonts (selection)

Monographs

  • Faith - love - discord. Religious and denominational mixed marriages in the early modern period (= Old Kingdom library , vol. 14). De Gruyter, Munich 2017, ISBN 978-3-486-85824-2 .
  • Governed by opinion. Politics, Religion and the Dynamics of Communication in Stuart London 1637-1645 (= International Library of Historical Studies. 10). Tauris Academic Studies, London et al. 1997, ISBN 1-86064-110-5 .
  • Absolutism (= controversies about history. ). Scientific Book Society, Darmstadt 2008, ISBN 978-3-534-14724-3 .

Editorships

  • with Ronald G. Asch : State formation as a cultural process. Structural change and legitimation of rule in the early modern period. Böhlau, Cologne et al. 2005, ISBN 3-412-11705-6 .
  • with Gunilla Budde and Hilke Günther-Arndt : history. Study, science, job. Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-05-004435-4 .
  • with Scott Dixon and Mark Greengrass: Living with Religious Diversity in Early-Modern Europe (= St. Andrews Studies in Reformation History. ). Ashgate, Farnham et al. 2009, ISBN 978-0-7546-6668-4 .
  • with Thomas Alkemeyer and Gunilla Budde: Self-Formations. Social and cultural practices of subjectification (= practices of subjectification. Vol. 1). Transcript-Verlag, Bielefeld 2013. ISBN 978-3-8376-1992-8 .
  • Discourses - Bodies - Artifacts. Historical praxeology in early modern research , transcript: Bielefeld 2015 ( = Practices of Subjectivation , Vol. 5).
  • with Susanne Lachenicht : Connecting Worlds and People. Early modern Diasporas, Routledge: London 2017.
  • with Sabine Kyora and Melanie Unseld : Transcultural multiple affiliation as a cultural-historical phenomenon. Spaces - Materialities - Memory , transcript: Bielefeld 2019 (= Practices of Subjectivation Volume 13). ISBN 978-3-8376-4528-6

Essays

  • "The Staple of Newes". Spaces, media and the availability of knowledge in early modern London. In: Gerd Schwerhoff (Hrsg.): City and the public in the early modern times (= urban research. Publications of the Institute for Comparative Urban History in Münster. Vol. 83). Böhlau, Cologne et al. 2011, ISBN 978-3-412-20755-7 , pp. 97-123.
  • Popery in Perfection. The Experience of Catholicism - Henrietta Maria between Private Practice and Public Discourse. In: Michael J. Braddick, David L. Smith (Eds.): The Experience of Revolution in Stuart Britain and Ireland. Essays Presented to John Morrill. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge et al. 2011, ISBN 978-0-521-86896-9 , pp. 33-51.
  • Dutch calvinist refugees in Europe since the early modern period . In: Klaus J. Bade (Ed.): The encyclopedia of migration and minorities in Europe: from the 17th century to the present . Cambridge University Press, Cambridge u. a. 2011, pp. 319-325.
  • Southern Dutch Calvinist refugees in Europe since the early modern period . In: Klaus J. Bade, Pieter C. Emmer, Leo Lucassen and Jochen Oltmer (eds.): Migration - Integration - Minorities since the 17th century. A European encyclopedia . Paderborn, Munich [u. a.]: Schöningh; Munich: Fink, 2007, pp. 1019-1029.
  • Law and Legal Practice in the Age of Enlightenment using the example of the baptism of Jewish children. In: Andreas Gotzmann , Stefan Wendehorst (Hrsg.): Jews in law. New approaches to the legal history of the Jews in the Old Reich (= journal for historical research . Supplement. 39). Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-428-12521-0 , pp. 109-137.
  • Taverns as centers of the early modern public. London in the 17th century. In: Johannes Burkhardt , Christine Werkstetter (eds.): Communication and media of the early modern times (= historical magazine . Supplement. NF 41). Oldenbourg, Munich 2005, ISBN 3-486-64441-6 , pp. 201-224.
  • The case of Albini - litigation over paternal violence in mixed confessional marriages. In: Siegrid Westphal (Ed.): On our own behalf. Women before the highest courts of the Old Kingdom. Böhlau, Cologne et al. 2005, ISBN 3-412-17905-1 , pp. 245-270.
  • Historical praxeology as micro-history , in: Practices of the early modern period. Actors-Actions-Artifacts , ed. by Arndt Brendecke. Böhlau: Weimar / Cologne / Vienna 2015, pp. 62–77
  • A Global Microhistory of the Early Modern Period. Social Sites and the Interconnectedness of Human Lives , in: Quaderni Storici 155 / a. LII, n.2, agosto 2017, pp. 537-555.
  • Religion and Belief , in: A Cultural History of Dress and Fashion in the Age of Enlightenment , ed. By Peter McNeil. Bloomsbury: London 2017, pp. 87-104 ( A Cultural History of Dress and Fashion , 6 vols., Ed. By Susan Vincent)
  • A very warm Surinam kiss: Staying connected, getting engaged - interlacing social sites of the Moravian Diaspora , in: Dagmar Freist, Susanne Lachenicht (Ed.): Connecting Worlds and People. Early modern diasporas . Routledge, London 2017, pp. 62-80.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Freedom Reformation. Retrieved February 3, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Free, Dagmar
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH March 22, 1962
PLACE OF BIRTH Wolfenbüttel