Harald Roth (historian)

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Harald Roth (born June 24, 1965 in Schäßburg , Transylvania ) is a German Eastern European historian .

Life

Roth grew up in Kronstadt . He studied history in Munich, Freiburg, Heidelberg and Seattle (Washington, USA). It was 1994 when Horst Glassl in the Department of Historical Sciences of the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich to Dr. phil. PhD.

From 1993 to 2007 he was the managing director of the Transylvania Institute in Gundelsheim / Neckar, after which it was connected to the University of Heidelberg until 2007 as its scientific director. In 2007/2008 Roth moved to the Southeast Institute (today the Institute for East and Southeast European Research ) in Regensburg. In 2008 he became a speaker for Southeastern Europe and history at the German Cultural Forum for Eastern Europe in Potsdam. He has been its director since 2013.

Roth's scientific focus is on the early modern and modern history of the Danube-Carpathian region, u. a. on the city's history, with a regional focus on Hungary and Transylvania . He is chairman of the Transylvanian-Saxon Cultural Council and the working group for Transylvanian cultural studies. In addition, he is a member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Brukenthal Museum in Sibiu as well as the editorial boards of Historia urbana (City History Commission of the Romanian Academy, Sibiu), the Hungary Yearbook (Hungarian Institute Regensburg) and von Habsburg (H-Net).

Awards

Fonts (selection)

  • The German-Saxon National Council for Transylvania 1918, 1919 (= publications of the Südostdeutsche Kulturwerk. Series B, Scientific Works . Volume 63). Southeast German cultural work. Munich 1993, ISBN 3-88356-068-5 .
  • Political structures and currents among the Transylvanian Saxons 1919–1933 (= Studia Transylvanica . Volume 22). Böhlau, Cologne a. a. 1994, ISBN 3-412-09294-0 .
  • as editor: Kronstadt. A Transylvanian city history. Munich 1999.
  • as publisher: History of East Central and Southeastern Europe (= Study Guide Eastern Europe . Volume 1). Böhlau, Cologne a. a. 2009, ISBN 978-3-8252-3167-5 .
  • Little history of Transylvania. Böhlau, Cologne / Weimar / Vienna 1996, ISBN 3-412-16295-7 . (4th edition, 2012); Hungarian (1999/2009) and Romanian translation (2006)
  • Sibiu. Little history of a city in Transylvania . Böhlau, Cologne a. a. 1997, ISBN 978-3-412-05106-8 .
  • Kronstadt in Transylvania. A little city history . Böhlau, Cologne a. a. 2010, ISBN 978-3-412-20602-4 .
  • with Konrad Gündisch: Fünfkirchen, Pécs. History of a European Capital of Culture . Böhlau, Vienna a. a. 2010, ISBN 978-3-205-78438-8 .
  • as publisher: Writer's Lexicon of the Transylvanian Germans. Bio-bibliographical handbook for science, poetry and journalism. Volume X. Böhlau, Cologne a. a. 2012, ISBN 978-3-412-20758-8

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Harald Roth: Political structures and currents among the Transylvanian Saxons 1919–1933 . Cologne u. a. 1994, p. 10.
  2. ↑ Dr. Harald Roth on the work of the German Cultural Forum for Eastern Europe in Potsdam (interview). In: Siebenbürgische Zeitung , February 17, 2013.
  3. ^ Winner of the Ernst Habermann Prize since 1989
  4. ↑ Dieter Drotleff: Management position for Dr. Harald Roth. The well-known Transylvanian historian became director of the Kulturforum in Potsdam . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Zeitung für Romania , July 21, 2013.
personal data
SURNAME Roth, Harald
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian
DATE OF BIRTH June 24, 1965
PLACE OF BIRTH Schäßburg , Transylvania