Heinrich Richard Schmidt

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Heinrich Richard Schmidt (born December 11, 1952 in Großrosseln ) is a German historian .

Life

Schmidt studied German language and literature and history from 1972 to 1977 at the Saarland University in Saarbrücken. From 1979 to 1984 he was a scholarship holder at the Institute for European History in Mainz . In 1984 he received his doctorate as Dr. phil. at Saarland University. In 2001 he became assistant professor for modern and contemporary history at the Historical Institute of the University of Bern , in 2007 lecturer for the history of the early modern era and the 19th century at the historical institute there and in 2008 associate professor there. He retired in 2018.

Schmidt's main research interests are the constitutional and imperial history, the Reformation , especially of the cities, denomination , social and mentality history of the early modern period in a European context, gender history, history of poverty, history of political ideas , cultural history, school history and historical educational research as well as literacy history.

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Monographs

  • Village and religion. Reformed moral discipline in Bernese rural communities in the early modern period , Stuttgart, Jena, New York 1995.
  • Confessionalization in the 16th century (= Encyclopedia of German History , Volume 12), Munich 1992.
  • Imperial cities, empire and Reformation. Korporative Religionspolitik 1521–1529 / 30 (= publications of the Institute for European History , Volume 122), Stuttgart 1986.

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SURNAME Schmidt, Heinrich Richard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian
DATE OF BIRTH December 11, 1952
PLACE OF BIRTH Great thrushes