Günter Birtsch
Günter Birtsch (born November 7, 1929 in Rheinhausen , Moers district ) is a German historian .
Günter Birtsch passed the Abitur in 1951 at the advanced school of the State Adolfinum in Moers on the Lower Rhine and from 1951 studied economics, philosophy, German and history in Freiburg , Birmingham and Cologne . In 1961 he received his doctorate under Theodor Schieder with a study on Johann Gustav Droysen . From 1961 to 1970 he was a research fellow at the Max Planck Institute for History in Göttingen. From 1969 to 1970 he was a lecturer for modern social and constitutional history at the Ruhr University in Bochum . From 1971 until his retirement in 1995, Birtsch taught as a full professor for modern history, in particular early modern history, at the University of Trier . Birtsch turned down an interim call in 1980 to Göttingen to succeed Richard Nürnberger .
His main research interests are the history of basic and civil rights, Prussian history of the 18th century, in particular the development of the Prussian general land law .
Fonts
Monographs
- The nation as a moral idea. The concept of the nation state in historiography and political thought by Johann Gustav Droysen (= Cologne historical treatises. Vol. 10). Böhlau, Cologne et al. 1964.
Editorships
- with Dietmar Willoweit : Reform absolutism and corporate society. Two hundred years of Prussian general land law (= research on Brandenburg and Prussian history. New series, vol. 3). Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1998, ISBN 3-428-09275-9 .
- Fundamental and freedom rights from the class to the late bourgeois society (= publications on the history of fundamental and freedom rights. Vol. 2). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 1987, ISBN 3-525-36194-7 .
literature
- Eckhart Hellmuth, Immo Meenken and Michael Trauth (Eds.): Turn of the century? Prussia around 1800. Stuttgart-Bad Cannstatt 1999, ISBN 3-7728-2014-X . ( Table of contents )
Web links
- Literature by and about Günter Birtsch in the catalog of the German National Library
- Short CV (PDF; 4 kB)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Birtsch, Günter |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German historian |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 7, 1929 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Rheinhausen |