Georg Schmidt (historian)

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Georg Schmidt (born December 22, 1951 in Alsfeld ) is a German historian . He is an expert on the history of the Thirty Years War .

life and work

Georg Schmidt studied history, politics and education at the universities of Gießen and Tübingen . At Volker Press he received his doctorate in 1982 in Tübingen with the thesis The City Council in the Reich Constitution . Schmidt was a research assistant from 1982 to 1985 and a university assistant in Tübingen from 1986 to 1990. There he also obtained his habilitation in 1989 with the work Der Wetterauer Grafenverein . This was followed by substitute professorships at the Universities of Saarbrücken (1991/1992) and Jena (1992/1993). From 1993 to 2017, until his retirement , he taught as professor for early modern history at the University of Jena. Since 1995 he has been a member of the Historical Commission for Hesse and since 1997 of the Academy of Non-Profit Science in Erfurt . In 1998 he was accepted as a corresponding member of the Saxon Academy of Sciences .

His research focus is the social and above all constitutional history of the early modern Holy Roman Empire of the German nation . Schmidt published a brief account of the Thirty Years' War in 1995, the ninth edition of which appeared in 2018. In 1999 he published a history of the Old Kingdom in the early modern period from 1495–1806. He advocates the thesis of the Old Kingdom as a "complementary imperial state". By this, Schmidt understands a "system of complementary statehood consisting of several states subordinate to force majeure". In 2009 he published for the series Neue Deutsche Geschichte (New German History ) published by the publishing house CHBeck as the 6th part, a presentation on the 18th century. In 2018 he presented a comprehensive account of the Thirty Years' War.

Fonts (selection)

Monographs

  • The horsemen of the apocalypse. History of the Thirty Years War. Beck, Munich 2018, ISBN 978-3-406-71836-6 .
  • Change through Reason: German History in the 18th Century. Beck, Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-406-59226-3 .
  • History of the old empire. State and Nation in the Early Modern Era 1495–1806. Beck, Munich 1999, ISBN 3-406-45335-X .
  • The Thirty-Year War. 9th updated edition. Beck, Munich 2018, ISBN 978-3-406-72196-0 .
  • The Wetterau Count Association. Organization and politics of an imperial corporation between the Reformation and the Peace of Westphalia (= publications of the Historical Commission for Hesse. Vol. 52). Elwert, Marburg 1989, ISBN 3-7708-0928-9 (habilitation thesis, Tübingen, 1989).
  • The city council in the imperial constitution. A study of the corporate politics of the free and imperial cities in the first half of the 16th century (= publications of the Institute for European History Mainz. Vol. 113). Steiner, Stuttgart 1984, ISBN 3-515-03781-0 (dissertation, Tübingen, 1982).

Editorships

  • The German Nation in Early Modern Europe. Political order and cultural identity? (= Writings of the Historical College. Colloquia. Vol. 80). Oldenbourg, Munich 2010, ISBN 978-3-486-59740-0 .
  • Collective ideas of freedom in early modern Europe (1400–1850) (= Jena Contributions to History. Vol. 8). Lang, Frankfurt am Main 2006, ISBN 3-631-54949-0 .
  • Estates and society in the Old Kingdom (= publications of the Institute for European History, Mainz. Vol. 29). Steiner, Stuttgart 1989, ISBN 3-515-05074-4 .

Web links

Remarks

  1. ↑ Georg Schmidt: History of the old empire. State and Nation in the Early Modern Era 1495–1806. Munich 1999, p. 44.
  2. ↑ See the review by Pauline Puppel in: Nassauische Annalen 121 (2010), pp. 511–513.
  3. ↑ See the reviews of Winfried Dolderer: Georg Schmidt "Die Reiter der Apokalypse" in: Deutschlandfunk from October 1, 2018; Matthias Schnettger in: sehepunkte 18 (2018), No. 9 [15. September 2018], ( online ); Martin Scheutz in: Mitteilungen des Institut für Österreichische Geschichtsforschung 127 (2019), pp. 522–523; Alexander Gotthard in: Vierteljahrschrift für Sozial- und Wirtschaftsgeschichte 106 (2019), pp. 397–398 ( online ); Holger T. Gräf in: Hessisches Jahrbuch für Landesgeschichte 68 (2018), pp. 244–246 ( online ); Peter H. Wilson in: German Historical Institute London Bulletin 40 (2018), pp. 94-97 ( online ).
personal data
SURNAME Schmidt, Georg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian
DATE OF BIRTH December 22, 1951
PLACE OF BIRTH Alsfeld