Hans Medick

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Hans Medick (born October 7, 1939 in Wuppertal ) is a German historian .

Life

Hans Medick studied history, philosophy, English and political science at the universities of Cologne , Heidelberg and Erlangen from 1959 to 1966 . After completing his master's degree, he was a research assistant at the University of Erlangen from 1967 to 1973, where he also received his doctorate in 1971 under Kurt Kluxen . In July 1972 he received the faculty award for his dissertation. From 1973 to 2004 he worked as a research assistant at the Max Planck Institute for History in Göttingen . After various teaching positions in Germany and Switzerland, he was appointed visiting professor at Johns Hopkins University in 1980. In 1993 he received his habilitation in Göttingen for the subject of Middle and Modern History. In 1997 he became William A. Clark Professor of Early Modern History at the University of California, Los Angeles . From 1999 to 2004 he taught as a professor of historical anthropology at the University of Erfurt . Medick is co-editor of the scientific journal Historical Anthropology .

His main research interests are the experiences and representations of violence during the Thirty Years' War , concepts of person and self in their cultural expressions and practices, methodological approaches of microhistory and historical anthropology. Since the 1980s, Medick has been one of the protagonists of micro- and everyday history , which already anticipated many of the methodical innovations of the cultural turnaround in the historical sciences ( New Cultural History ) in the 90s. The historical social science , which is focused on general structures and processes, should be expanded to include approaches that also include the level of the specifically acting subjects. To this end, approaches from ethnology should be made fruitful for the science of history. To this end, Medick examined the self-conceptions and social practices in the weaving village of Laichingen between 1650 and 1900. Medick's essay Missionaries in Rowing Boats (1984) is "still one of the key texts in historiography 'from below'", judged Michael Wildt in 2016. Also He contributed to the formulation of the concept of proto-industrialization , which was mainly developed in everyday history .

Hans Medick is married to the cultural scientist Doris Bachmann-Medick and has two sons, including the journalist Veit Medick .

Fonts

Monographs

  • State of nature and natural history of civil society. The origins of bourgeois social theory as a philosophy of history and social science with Samuel Pufendorf, John Locke and Adam Smith (= critical studies on historical science . Vol. 5). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 1973, ISBN 3-525-35955-1 (2nd, unchanged edition, ibid 1981; also: dissertation, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg 1971).
  • with Peter Kriedte and Jürgen Schlumbohm : Industrialization before industrialization. Commercial production of goods in the countryside in the formation period of capitalism (= publications of the Max Planck Institute for History. Vol. 53). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 1977, ISBN 3-525-35362-6 (English translation: Industrialization Before Industrialization. Rural Industry in the Genesis of Capitalism. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge et al. 1981, ISBN 0-521-23809-9 ; Italian translation : L 'industrializzazione prima dell'industrializzazione. Il mulino, Bologna 1984, ISBN 88-15-00557-9 ).
  • Weaving and survival in Laichingen 1650–1900. Local history as general history (= publications by the Max Planck Institute for History. Vol. 126). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 1996, ISBN 3-525-35443-6 (also: habilitation paper, University of Göttingen 1992/93).
  • The Thirty-Year War. Evidence of living with violence . Wallstein Verlag, Göttingen 2018, ISBN 978-3-8353-3248-5 .

Editorships

  • with David Sabean: emotions and material interests. Social anthropological and historical contributions to family research (= publications of the Max Planck Institute for History. Vol. 75). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 1984, ISBN 3-525-35390-1 .
  • with Anne-Charlott Trepp: Gender history and general history. Challenges and perspectives (= Göttingen Talks on History. Vol. 5). Wallstein-Verlag, Göttingen 1998, ISBN 3-89244-282-7 .
  • with Benigna von Krusenstjern : Between everyday life and catastrophe. The Thirty Years War up close (= publications by the Max Planck Institute for History. Vol. 148). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 1999, ISBN 3-525-35463-0 .
  • with Kaspar von Greyerz and Patrice Veit: From the depicted person to the remembered self. European personal reports as historical sources (1500–1800) (= personal reports of the modern age. Vol. 9). Böhlau, Cologne et al. 2001, ISBN 3-412-15100-9 .
  • with Peer Schmidt : Luther between cultures. Contemporary - world impact. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2004, ISBN 3-525-55449-4 .
  • with Andreas Bähr: Die by hand. Suicide as a Cultural Practice. Böhlau, Cologne et al. 2005, ISBN 3-412-18405-5 .

Research portal and digital editions

literature

  • Alf Lüdtke , Rainer Prass (Ed.): Scholarly life. Scientific practice in modern times (= self-testimonies of modern times , vol. 18). Böhlau, Cologne 2008, ISBN 978-3-412-21906-2 (unofficial commemorative publication for Hans Medick; review ).

Web links

Remarks

  1. ↑ see English curriculum vitae at the FU Berlin, PDF .
  2. ↑ See already Hans Medick: Missionaries in a rowboat? Ethnological modes of knowledge as a challenge to social history. In: Geschichte und Gesellschaft 10, 1984, pp. 296-319; an appreciation of Medick's part with Volker Depkat : Review of: Lüdtke, Alf; Prass, Reiner (Ed.): Scholarly life. Scientific practice in modern times. Cologne 2008 . In: H-Soz-Kult , May 18, 2009.
  3. ↑ Michael Wildt: The Federal Republic as a selfie. In: Frank Bajohr, Anselm Doering-Manteuffel , Claudia Kemper and Detlef Siegfried (eds.): More than a story. Contemporary historical perspectives on the Federal Republic. Festschrift for Axel Schildt on his 65th birthday. Göttingen 2016, pp. 29–41, here: p. 40.
  4. ↑ Prof. Dr. Hans Medick. II. About the person. on the website of the Free University of Berlin .
personal data
SURNAME Medick, Hans
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian
DATE OF BIRTH October 7, 1939
PLACE OF BIRTH Wuppertal