Georg Done

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Georg Eymar Fertig (* 1962 in Bremen ) is a German economic and social historian and professor at the Martin Luther University in Halle-Wittenberg .

Finished studying Greek and history at the Free University of Berlin and the universities of Konstanz and Bochum. He did his doctorate under the Americanist and historian Willi Paul Adams on a topic of migration history. The habilitation took place with the Münster economic historian Ulrich Pfister . His research focuses on the areas of migration history, historical demography, the history of rural areas and citizen science.

Done is chairman of the historical demography working group and second chairman of the association for computer genealogy.

Fonts (selection)

  • ›The ones who come in and out so often with the Jewish spear‹. Transatlantic Communication, Territorial Bureaucracy, and Pietist Morality in the 18th Century. In: Tel Aviver yearbook for German history. Volume 27, 1998, ISBN 3-88350-510-2 , pp. 31-46.
  • Local life, Atlantic world: The decision to emigrate from the Rhine to North America in the 18th century (= Studies on Historical Migration Research, Volume 7). Universitätsverlag Rasch, Osnabrück 2000, ISBN 3-932147-17-0 .
  • Fields, hosts, gifts. Rural land market and liberal property regime in Westphalia in the 19th century (= yearbook for economic history, supplement 11), Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-05-004378-4 .
  • Demographic Revolution: The History of the World Population, 1700–1914. In: Walter Demel and Hans-Ulrich Thamer (eds.): The emergence of modernity: 1700 to 1914 (= WBG world history, volume 5). WBG, Darmstadt 2010, ISBN 978-3-534-20108-2 , pp. 13-40.
  • (as editor) Social Networks, Political Institutions, and Rural Societies (= Rural History in Europe, 11), Turnhout 2015, ISBN 978-2-503-54804-3 .
  • Beyond the Niche Hypothesis. Property, Marriage, and the Onset of Familial Reproduction in Rural Northwest Germany, 1820-1866. In: Historical Life Course Studies. 8, 2019, pp. 73–95 ( download as PDF ).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Georg Ready: Private family research, citizen science and cultural memory: The project "Card index of Leipzig families". Lecture at the 23rd Saxon Archives Day, Leipzig, May 17, 2019. In: YouTube . Association for computer genealogy e. V., June 30, 2019, accessed March 5, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Done, Georg
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Done, Georg Eymar (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian
DATE OF BIRTH 1962
PLACE OF BIRTH Bremen