Hanna Schissler

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Hanna Schissler (born May 3, 1946 in Bad Kreuznach ) is a German historian .

Hanna Schissler received her doctorate in 1977 at the University of Bielefeld with the work supervised by Hans-Ulrich Wehler on economic, social and political transformation processes in Prussian agricultural society between 1763 and 1847. Schissler was a research assistant at the Georg- from 1981 to 1988 and from 1997 to 2009. Eckert Institute for International Textbook Research in Braunschweig. From 1988 to 1997 she taught and researched in the USA, initially as a research assistant at the German Historical Institute in Washington DC, and from 1992 to 1997 as Professor of German Studies at the University of Minnesota . In the meantime, she completed her habilitation in 1993 at the University of Hanover , where she has been an adjunct professor since 1999. In 1999/2000 she held the Max Weber Chair for German and European Studies at New York University , after which she taught at the Käthe Leichter Chair at the University of Vienna in the winter semester 2000/2001 with a focus on gender studies. In 2004 and 2006 she was visiting professor at the Central European University in Budapest. In 2000 she began to train as a coach.

Her main research interests are German social history of the 18th and 19th centuries, the history of the Federal Republic, European and North American gender history, and historical epistemology and world history.

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Monographs

  • Prussian agricultural society in transition. Economic, social and political transformation processes from 1763 to 1847 (= critical studies on historical science . Vol. 33). Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht, Göttingen 1978, ISBN 3-525-35988-8 (also: Bielefeld, University, dissertation, 1977).

Editorships

  • Gender relations in historical change (= history and gender. Vol. 3). Campus-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main et al. 1993, ISBN 3-593-34761-X .
  • The miracle years. A cultural history of West Germany, 1949–1968. Princeton University Press, Princeton NJ et al. 2001, ISBN 0-691-05819-9 .
  • Textbook improvement through international textbook research? Problems of mediating between textbook criticism and history book using the example of English history (= studies on international textbook research. Vol. 40). Georg Eckert Institute for International Textbook Research, Braunschweig 1985, ISBN 3-88304-240-4 .

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SURNAME Schissler, Hanna
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH May 3, 1946
PLACE OF BIRTH Bad Kreuznach