Gerald Soliday

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Gerald Lyman Soliday (born November 25, 1939 in Wooster (Ohio) , USA ) is an American historian and professor at the University of Texas at Dallas . His research area mainly includes social-historical topics from the early modern period in Germany , especially using the example of Marburg .

Life

Soliday was born to Vaughn G. and Mary A. Soliday. At Ohio State University in Columbus , he earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in history in 1961 . In 1969 he received his doctorate in philosophy from Harvard University . From 1968 to 1976 he worked as an assistant professor at the Department of History at Brandeis University in Waltham ( Massachusetts ), from 1976 until his retirement in 2006 as an associate professor at the University of Texas at Dallas .

He published books, numerous essays and reviews in the USA and Germany on - predominantly German - social-historical topics of the early modern period, often using the example of the city of Marburg.

Since his retirement he has continued his project Social History of Marburg, Germany, 1648–1806 , also through research stays in Marburg. He outlined the goals and methods of this long-term project as early as 1977.

A partnership between the Philipps University of Marburg and the University of Texas at Dallas , which was officially agreed in 1998, goes back to his initiative .

He is married to Elke M. Fuss Matijevich and has two children

Publications (selection)

  • (Associate Editor and two contributions): A Select Bibliography of History , published by the Henry Adams History Club, Harvard University 1966
  • A Community in Conflict: Frankfurt Society in the Seventeenth and Early Eighteenth Centuries . University Press of New England for the Brandeis University Press 1974.
  • Marburg in Oberhessen: a research report , in: Historical Demography as Social History, ed. by Arthur E. Imhof (Darmstadt and Marburg 1975), pp. 1017-1028
  • Marburg in Upper Hesse: A Research Report , in: Journal of Family History 2 (1977), pp. 164-168
  • (Editor-in-Chief and a contribution): The History of Kinship and the Family: A Select International Bibliography . Millwood, New Yorik
  • Urban leadership layers in Marburg 1560–1800 , Marburg history: retrospect on the city's history in individual contributions. Ed. by Erhart Dettmering and Rudolf Grenz. Marburg 1980, pp. 345-352, reprint Marburg 1982.
  • Bad Christians generally also become bad subjects: The schooling of the Marburg craftsmen in the early modern times , in: Hessisches Jahrbuch für Landesgeschichte 43 (1993), pp. 107-137
  • The Jews of Early Modern Marburg, 1640s – 1800: A Case Study in Family and Household Organization , in: History of the Family 8 (2003), pp. 495–516
  • Frankfurt am Main , in: Encyclopedia of Early Modern Europe, ed. by Jonathan Dewald et al. (6 volumes), New York 2004, Vol. 2., pp. 456-457
  • Hesse, Landgraviate ibid., Vol. 3, pp. 165-167
  • The Marburg Jews in the Early Modern Age (1640–1800): A case study in family and household organization , in: Hessisches Jahrbuch für Landesgeschichte 58 (2008), pp. 1–25
  • The Marburg student body and the Hessian educational policy in the 18th century , in: Hessisches Jahrbuch für Landesgeschichte 61 (2011), pp. 59–86

Awards and grants, memberships

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Profile on Prabook (accessed November 23, 2019)
  2. ↑ Marburg in Oberhessen, a research report (see publications)
  3. ↑ A US historian looks at Marburg , in: Uni-Journal 5/2007, pp. 34–35, here: p. 35
  4. ↑ Profile on Prabook (accessed November 23, 2019)
personal data
SURNAME Soliday, Gerald
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Soliday, Gerald Lyman (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American historian
DATE OF BIRTH November 25, 1939
PLACE OF BIRTH Wooster (Ohio)