Frank Hatje

Frank Hatje (* 1962 in Hamburg ) is a German historian .

Life

From 1981 to 1989 he studied history, German, Greek philology and public law in Tübingen and Hamburg, where he received his doctorate in 1996 . From 1996 to 1998 he conducted research on poor relief institutions. At the Institute for European History (Mainz) as part of the project Continuities or Revolutionary Break? Elites in the transition from the ancien régime to the modern age (1750-1850) he researched from 1998 to 2000 with a scholarship on social concepts of bourgeois elites in the focus of the poor, Hamburg 1700-1830 . Since 2001 he has been in charge of the edition of Ferdinand Beneke's diaries . After the habilitation foundation and city. The Hospital of the Holy Spirit and Mary Magdalene Monastery in the History of Hamburg from the 13th to the 19th Century In 2003, he has been teaching as a private lecturer at the Department of History at the University of Hamburg .

His main research interests are church, religion and piety: Protestantism from a German and European perspective (16th - 19th centuries), city history and the history of the bourgeoisie (15th to 19th century), hospital and foundation history from the Middle Ages to the First World War, personal testimonies of the 18th and 19th centuries, migration and cultural transfer in the early modern period, rituals, symbolic communication and space, poor relief and self-help society (16th - 19th centuries), epidemic history and social history of medicine from the Middle Ages to the 19th century and northern German regional history with a focus on Hamburg.

Fonts (selection)

• To live and die in the age of the plague. Basel in the 15th to 17th centuries . Helbing & Lichtenhahn, Basel et al. 1992, ISBN 3-7190-1241-7 .
• with Jürgen Zabeck : Johann Georg Büsch (1728 - 1800). Economic thinking and social action (= writings of the Hamburg Society for the Promotion of the Arts and Useful Trades , Volume 4). Association for Hamburg History, Hamburg 1992, ISBN 3-923356-45-5 .
• Representations of state power. Ruling structures and self-portrayal in Hamburg 1700 - 1900 . Helbing & Lichtenhahn, Basel et al. 1997, ISBN 3-7190-1613-7 . (also dissertation, Hamburg 1996).
• The guest and hospital in Hamburg 1248 - 1998 Foundation "Guest and Hospital", Hamburg 1998.
• "In honor of God, for the best of poverty". The Hospital of the Holy Spirit and the Marien-Magdalenen-Kloster in the history of Hamburg from the Middle Ages to the present . Convent Verlag, Hamburg 2002, ISBN 3-934613-47-0 .
• Foundations in the history of Hamburg . Hamburg 2002, OCLC 935010453 . (also habilitation thesis, Hamburg 2002).
• as editor with Klaus Weber: Overseas trade and trading metropolises Europe and Asia, 17th - 20th century (= Hamburg Economic Chronicle, New Series , Volume 7). Hanseatischer Merkur, Hamburg 2008, OCLC 645377329 .
• Ferdinand Beneke: The diaries . Wallstein-Verl., Göttingen.
  • Division I . ISBN 978-3-8353-0878-7 .
  • Department II . ISBN 978-3-8353-0911-1 .
  • Department III . ISBN 978-3-8353-0912-8 .
  • Department IV . ISBN 978-3-8353-0913-5 .

Web links

• University of Hamburg