Gerd Schwerhoff

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Gerd Schwerhoff , actually Gerhard Schwerhoff , (born December 26, 1957 in Cologne ) is a German historian .

Gerd Schwerhoff studied history, sociology and education at the University of Cologne and Bielefeld University . After completing his master's degree in 1984, he initially worked as a research assistant at the Chair of Medieval History and later as part of the Collaborative Research Center 177 “Social History of the Modern Bourgeoisie: Germany in International Comparison” of the DFG at Bielefeld University.

In 1989 he received his doctorate with a thesis on the history of crime in the city of Cologne, supervised by Klaus Schreiner . The work was awarded a sponsorship prize from the Westfälisch-Lippische Universitätsgesellschaft and the August Sutter Prize in 1990. Until 1997, Schwerhoff worked as a research assistant or research assistant in the "Middle Ages / Early Modern Age" department at the Faculty of History and Philosophy at Bielefeld University, before he completed his habilitation in 1997 and received his teaching license for Medieval and Modern History. As a representative of a chair, Schwerhoff taught in the 1997/98 winter semester at Bielefeld University and in the 1998 summer semester at Cologne University. From autumn 1998 to spring 2000 he was a Heisenberg fellow of the DFG in Bielefeld.

Schwerhoff has held the professorship for early modern history at the Technical University of Dresden since April 2000 . In 2003, he turned down an appointment to the University of Hamburg . In his research, Schwerhoff mainly deals with the history of crime and deviant behavior , the history of witchcraft and witch hunt, and the history of religion and belief. Schwerhoff presented the first introduction to historical crime research .

Since July 2017 he has been the spokesperson and sub-project leader in the Dresden Collaborative Research Center 1285: “Invectivity. Constellations and dynamics of degradation ”.

Fonts

Monographs

  • Cologne in cross-examination. Crime, Domination, and Society in an Early Modern City. Bouvier, Bonn et al. 1991, ISBN 3-416-02332-3 . (Also: Bielefeld, University, dissertation, 1989 PDF; 42.6 MB ( Memento from June 9, 2007 in the Internet Archive ))
  • Challenge God and the world. Theological construction, legal fight and social practice of blasphemy from the 13th to the beginning of the 17th century. Habilitation, Bielefeld 1997. ( PDF; 1.54 MB )
  • Recorded and relevant to the courts. Introduction to historical crime research. Edition diskord, Tübingen 1999, ISBN 3-89295-668-5 .
  • The inquisition. Persecution of heretics in the Middle Ages and modern times. Beck, Munich 2004, ISBN 3-406-50840-5 . (3rd edition. 2009)
  • Tongues like swords. Blasphemy in old European societies (1200–1650). UVK, Konstanz 2005, ISBN 3-89669-716-1 .
  • Historical crime research. Campus, Frankfurt am Main et al. 2011, ISBN 978-3-593-39309-4 .
  • Cologne in the Ancien Régime 1686–1794. (= History of the City of Cologne. Volume 7). Greven, Cologne 2017, ISBN 978-3-7743-0450-5 .

Editorships

  • with Andreas Blauert: With the weapons of justice. On the criminal history of the late Middle Ages and the early modern period. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 1993, ISBN 3-596-11571-X .
  • with Klaus Schreiner: Injured honor. Conflicts of Honor in Medieval and Early Modern Societies. Böhlau, Cologne / Weimar / Vienna 1995, ISBN 3-412-09095-6 .
  • with Georg Molich: Cologne as a communication center. Studies on the early modern city history. DuMont, Cologne 2000, ISBN 3-7701-5008-2 .
  • with Andreas Blauert: History of crime. Contributions to the social and cultural history of the premodern. UVK, Konstanz 2000, ISBN 3-87940-688-X .
  • with Susanne Rau : Between the house of worship and the tavern. Public spaces in the late Middle Ages and early modern times. Böhlau, Cologne / Weimar / Vienna 2004, ISBN 3-412-13203-9 .
  • with Renate Dürr : churches, markets and taverns. Spaces of experience and action in the early modern era. Klostermann, Frankfurt am Main 2005, ISBN 3-465-03413-9 .
  • with Susanne Rau : Topographies of the Sacred. Religion and spatial planning in the pre-modern era. Dölling and Galitz, Munich / Hamburg 2008, ISBN 978-3-937904-74-0 .
  • with Rebekka Habermas : Crime in view. Perspectives on the modern history of crime. Campus, Frankfurt am Main / New York 2009, ISBN 978-3-593-38932-5 .
  • with Ulrike Ludwig and Barbara Krug-Richter: The duel. Honor fights from the Middle Ages to the modern age. UVK, Konstanz 2012, ISBN 978-3-86764-319-1 .
  • with Albrecht Burkhardt: Tribunal of the Barbarians. Germany and the Inquisition in the Early Modern Period. UVK, Konstanz 2012, ISBN 978-3-86764-371-9 .
  • with Alexander Kästner: Divine anger and human measure. Religious deviance in early modern urban communities. UVK, Konstanz 2013, ISBN 978-3-86764-404-4 .
  • with Eric Piltz: godlessness and obstinacy. Religious Deviance in the Denominational Age. Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2015, ISBN 978-3-428-14481-5 .

literature

  • Dorit Petschel : 175 years of TU Dresden. Volume 3: The professors of the TU Dresden 1828–2003. Edited on behalf of the Society of Friends and Supporters of the TU Dresden e. V. von Reiner Pommerin , Böhlau, Cologne a. a. 2003, ISBN 3-412-02503-8 , p. 897.

Web links

Remarks

  1. ↑ See, for example, service anniversaries. In: Dresden University Journal . 14/2010, p. 2 ( online as PDF; 3.6 MB).
  2. ↑ Gerd Schwerhoff: in the files and in relation to the court. Introduction to Historical Crime Research. Tübingen 1999.
  3. ↑ Prof. Dr. Gerd Schwerhoff. Retrieved May 30, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Schwerhoff, Gerd
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schwerhoff, Gerhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian
DATE OF BIRTH December 26, 1957
PLACE OF BIRTH Cologne