Erich Pelzer

Erich Pelzer (born May 16, 1950 in Inden ) is a German historian .

Career

Erich Pelzer studied history, political science and Romance studies at the universities of Paris I (Sorbonne-Panthéon) and Freiburg im Breisgau . In 1980 he completed his studies in Freiburg with a Magister Artium in history. From 1980 to 1982 Pelzer was a fellow of the German Historical Institute in Paris. He then worked as a research assistant in Freiburg im Breisgau at the chair for modern history of Ernst Schulin until 1987 , where he received his doctorate in 1985 with the thesis The Alsatian Adel in Late Feudalism .

After receiving his doctorate, he taught as a university assistant in Freiburg from 1987 to 1993. In 1993 he completed his habilitation there with the work France Mediation in the German Late Enlightenment . From 1994 he received a two-year research grant from the Volkswagen Foundation. From 1996 to 2000, Pelzer was substitute professor at the universities in Potsdam , Friborg and Freiburg im Breisgau , which was followed by a visiting professorship at the University of Basel . Since 2001 he has been professor of modern history at the University of Mannheim . Pelzer is a founding member of the France Center in Freiburg and the Historical Institute in Mannheim, which he was first director from 2004 to 2006.

His main research interests are the French Revolution and the age of Napoleon Bonaparte . Pelzer is editor of the Consulate and Empire series. Studies and Sources on the Napoleonic Age .

Fonts (selection)

Monographs

• Revolution and Klio. The main works on the French Revolution . Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2004, ISBN 3-525-36258-7 .
• The return of the Girondi hero. German intellectuals as cultural mediators between Germany and France during the French Revolution (= Paris historical studies. Vol. 43). Bouvier, Bonn 1998, ISBN 3-416-02645-4 .
• Les cahiers des Plaintes et Doléances de la Haute-Alsace - 1789 . (= Publications de la Société Savante d'Alsace et des Régions de l'Est. Collection “Recherches et documents”. Vol. 49). Publications de la Société Savant d'Alsace et des Régions de l'Est, [Strasbourg] 1993, ZDB-ID: 4165408; 49.
• The Alsatian nobility in late feudalism. Tradition and change of a regional elite between the Peace of Westphalia and the French Revolution (1648–1790) . (= Ancien Régime, Enlightenment and Revolution. Vol. 21). R. Oldenbourg, Munich 1990, ISBN 3-486-55551-0 .

Editorships and editions

• with Michael Einfalt, Joseph Jurt , Daniel Mollenhauer: Constructs of national identity. Germany, France and Great Britain (19th and 20th centuries) . Ergon, Würzburg 2002, ISBN 3-89913-232-7 .
• with Gangolf Hübinger and Jürgen Osterhammel : Universal history and national history. Ernst Schulin on his 65th birthday . Rombach, Freiburg im Breisgau 1994, ISBN 3-7930-9120-1 .
• French Revolutionary Opinions. The Trial of King Louis XVI, 1792-1793 . Leiden, Inter Documentation Company 2001.
• French Revolutionary Periodicals. Newspaper and journals, Zurich Central Library, on microfiche . Leiden, Inter Documentation Company 2000.
• French Revolutionary Pamphlets. Usteri Collection, Zurich Central Library, on microfiche. Leiden, Inter Documentation Company 1996.

Web links

• Literature by and about Erich Pelzer in the catalog of the German National Library
• Page from Erich Pelzer at the University of Mannheim