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Heide Wunder (born August 27, 1939 in Rieneck ) is a German historian . She is considered a prominent representative of the history of rural society and gender history in German-speaking countries.

Life

Heide Wunder studied history, English and philosophy at the historical seminar in Hamburg . In 1964 she received her doctorate, and in 1965 she passed the first state examination for higher teaching qualifications. She then worked as a research assistant to Gerhard Oestreich and assistant to Rainer Wohlfeil . In 1977 she was appointed professor for early modern social and constitutional history at the University of Kassel . She has been retired since 2004. She is married to Dieter Wunder and has a daughter.

Wunder’s research focuses on the history of rural society, historical research on women and gender, and historical anthropology , often combining social and cultural-scientific questions and methods, thereby opening up new perspectives. Her monograph “He is the Sun, she is the Moon.” Women in the Early Modern Era (1992) also appeared in an English translation. In it, Wunder developed, along with many other things, her concept of the “working couple”, according to which in the early modern period the working worlds of the spouses stood side by side and complemented each other, while the devaluation of domestic and women's work only began with the emergence of the bourgeois world.

Wunder researched historical and current ways of life in the country and dealt with the social microhistory of the village. The results of this research flowed into her book The rural community in Germany in 1986 . In addition, she initiated and led several research projects on the history of rural settlements, most recently the student teaching research project on the history of the village of Schwebda (a. D. Werra) and the interdisciplinary research project “Large-scale enterprise and landscape in the course of economic change. The Hessian domain of Frankenhausen and its surrounding area in the 18th to 20th centuries ”.

She was co-editor of two academic series ( history and gender ; historical studies ) and the journal historical anthropology . Her students include eminent gender researchers, including Kerstin Wolff , Michael Maset, Karin Gottschalk, Karen Nolte, Pauline Puppel and Christina Vanja .

Wunder has been a member of the Historical Commission for Hesse since 1998 .

honors and awards

Fonts (selection)

  • Peter Borowsky , Barbara Vogel , Heide Wunder: Introduction to the science of history. Part 1: Basic problems, work organization, tools. 5th, revised. u. updated edition Opladen 1989 ( Study Books Modern History , Vol. 1), ISBN 978-3-531-21310-1 .
  • The rural community in Germany (= Kleine Vandenhoeck-Reihe. 1483). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 1986, ISBN 3-525-33473-7 .
  • "He is the sun, she is the moon". Women in the early modern period. CH Beck, Munich 1992, ISBN 3-406-36665-1 (in English: He is the sun, she is the moon. Women in early modern Germany. Translated by Thomas Dunlap. Harvard University Press, Cambridge MA et al. 1998, ISBN 0-674-38321-4 ).
  • as editor with Christina Vanja : women, people, women. Women in rural society 1500–1800. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 1996, ISBN 3-525-01361-2 .
  • as editor with Gisela Engel: Gender perspectives. Research on the early modern period. Helmer, Königstein / Taunus 1998, ISBN 3-89741-004-4 .
  • as editor with Christina Vanja and Karl-Hermann Wegner: Kassel in the 18th century. Residence and city (= Kassel semester books, Studia Cassellana. Vol. 10). Euregio-Verlag, Kassel 2000, ISBN 3-933617-05-7 .
  • as editor: Dynasty and securing power in the early modern period. Gender and gender (= journal for historical research . Supplement. 28). Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2002, ISBN 3-428-10814-0 .
  • as editor with Christina Vanja and Berthold Hinz: Landgrave Philipp the Magnanimous of Hesse and his residence in Kassel. Results of the interdisciplinary symposium of the University of Kassel on the 500th birthday of Landgrave Philipp von Hessen (June 17-18, 2004) (= Publications of the Historical Commission for Hesse. Vol. 24, 8 = Sources and representations on the history of Landgrave Philipp the Magnanimous . Vol. 8). Elwert, Marburg 2004, ISBN 3-7708-1267-0 .
  • as editor with Eckart Conze and Alexander Jendorff: Adel in Hessen. Rule, self-image and lifestyle from the 15th to the 20th century (= publications of the Historical Commission for Hesse. Vol. 70). Historical Commission for Hesse, Marburg 2010, ISBN 978-3-942225-00-7 .

literature

  • Eckart Krause: People who made "history". Attempt to study history for almost a century at Hamburg University. In: Angelika Schaser (ed.): The historical seminar of the University of Hamburg. Research paper. University of Hamburg - Historical Seminar, Hamburg 2005, pp. 247–307, digitized version (PDF; 770 KB) .
  • Alexander Jendorff, Andrea Pühringer (eds.): Pars pro toto. Historical miniatures for the 75th birthday of Heide Wunder. Schmidt, Neustadt ad Aisch 2014, ISBN 978-3-87707-926-3 .
  • Jens Flemming , Pauline Puppel (ed.): Readings of the story. Rural order and gender relations. Festschrift for Heide Wunder for his 65th birthday. Kassel University Press, Kassel 2004, ISBN 3-89958-030-3 .

Web links

Remarks

  1. Jens Flemming, Pauline Puppel (Ed.): Readings of the story. Rural order and gender relations. Festschrift for Heide Wunder for his 65th birthday. Kassel 2004
  2. ^ Honorary doctorate from the Faculty of Philosophy and History. Eulogy. Heider Wunder ( memento from October 16, 2014 in the Internet Archive ).
  3. Alexander Jendorff, Andrea Pühringer (Ed.): Pars pro toto. Historical miniatures for the 75th birthday of Heide Wunder. Neustadt ad Aisch 2014.
  4. ^ Press release from the University of Marburg about the award of the Brothers Grimm Prize.