Heinz Schilling (historian)

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Heinz Schilling (born May 23, 1942 in Bergneustadt ) is a German historian with a focus on the early modern period .

Life

Heinz Schilling grew up in Cologne . After studying history, German literature, philosophy and sociology at the University of Cologne , with the state examination for higher teaching service as a degree, Heinz Schilling received his doctorate in 1971 at the Albert Ludwigs University in Freiburg with an investigation into the social and religious history of Dutch exiles ( The first reviewer was the Eastern European historian Gottfried Schramm ). From 1971 to 1979 Schilling worked as an assistant or university lecturer, first at the Chair of Medieval History, then for Early Modern History at the newly founded Faculty of History at Bielefeld University, where he conducted a case study on the history of territorial society and confessionalization in 1977/1978 qualified as a professor (reviewers Wolfgang Mager , Reinhart Koselleck and Bernd Moeller ). From 1979 to 1982 he taught as a full professor for the history of the early modern period at the University of Osnabrück and from 1982 to 1992 at the Justus Liebig University in Gießen . In 1992, he followed the call to the chair of Early Modern European History at the Berlin Humboldt University , which he had established in the course of the re-establishment of the Institute of History, and which he held until his retirement at the end of the 2010 summer semester. His successor was Peter Burschel .

In addition to the teaching and research activities Schilling took duties in scientific management, so notably as chairman of the Association for Reformation (2001-2011) and as European Managing Editor for the Archive for Reformation History / Archive for Reformation History (1995-2012).

From the broad field of his research, his work on the German and European confessionalization of the later 16th and 17th centuries is considered to be particularly influential, as it began with the habilitation thesis of 1977 and since the mid-1980s in collaboration with Wolfgang Reinhard , who from observations Similar results came from the Catholic environment, developed the social, church and cultural-historical paradigm of denominationalization, which stimulated a broad theoretical-methodological discussion and numerous case studies. Basics were u. a. three symposia of the Association for the History of the Reformation (VRG) on the Reformed Calvinist (1985), Lutheran (1988) and Catholic denomination, the latter in 1993 as a cooperation between VRG and the Society for the Publication of the Corpus Catholicorum (CC) by Wolfgang Reinhard and Heinz Schilling organized together. Schilling himself developed the topic further in several monographs and integrated it into his presentations on German and European history, most recently in the essay Early Modern European Civilization and the Handbuch der Geschichte der Internationale Zusammenarbeit 1559–1660.

As a consultant for television films (1989 “ Mitten in Europa ”, Sat.1; 2009 “ We Germans ”, ZDF; 2017 “ The Luther Matrix ”, ARD; 2017 “ Between Heaven and Hell ”, UFA / ZDF; 2017 “ Das Luther- Tribunal ”, ZDF) and historical exhibitions, Schilling tries to mediate between science and the public.

Focus of work

  • comparative history of Europe in the early modern period
  • International system
  • political and cultural identity formation of the European nations
  • German imperial and territorial history
  • Migration and minorities in old Europe (Germany, England, Netherlands)
  • City and bourgeoisie in the early modern period and in the transition to the modern world
  • History of political theory
  • Reformation and confessionalization
  • Social and mental history of Calvinism from the 16th to the 19th century
  • early modern modernization in Germany and the Netherlands
  • History in the Museum (early modern part of the permanent exhibition of the German Historical Museum Berlin; chair of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Council of Europe Exhibition 1648 - War and Peace in Europe, Münster / Osnabrück 1998, etc.)

Memberships and awards (selection)

Fonts (selection)

  • Dutch exiles in the 16th century. Your position in the social structure and in the religious life of German and English cities. Mohn, Gütersloh 1972 (dissertation).
  • Confessional conflict and state building. A case study on the relationship between religious and social change in the early modern period using the example of the County of Lippe (= sources and research on the history of the Reformation. Vol. 48). Mohn, Gütersloh 1981 (habilitation thesis).
  • with Hartmut Boockmann , Hagen Schulze , Michael Stürmer : In the middle of Europe - German history . Siedler, Berlin 1984.
  • Departure and crisis. Germany 1517-1648. Siedler, Berlin 1988.
  • Courts and alliances. Germany 1648–1763. Siedler, Berlin 1989.
  • The Minutes of the Church Council of the Reformed Community of Emden 1557–1620. Cologne / Vienna 1989.
  • Civic Calvinism in Northwestern Germany and the Netherlands: Sixteenth to Nineteenth Centuries. Sixteenth Century Journal Publisher, Kircsville, Missouri 1991.
  • Religion, Political Culture and the Emergence of Early Modern Society: Essays in German and Dutch History. Brill, Leiden 1992.
  • The city in the early modern period (= Encyclopedia of German History . Vol. 24). Oldenbourg, Munich 1993.
  • The new time. From the Europe of Christianity to the Europe of States. 1250 to 1750 (= settler history of Europe. Vol. 3). Siedler, Berlin 1999.
  • Selected treatises on the history of the European Reformation and confession (= historical research. Vol. 75). Duncker and Humblot, Berlin 2002.
  • Confessionalization and state interests. International Relations 1559–1660 (= Handbook of the History of International Relations. Vol. 2). Schöningh, Paderborn / Munich / Vienna / Zurich 2007, ISBN 978-3-506-73722-9 .
  • Early Modern European Civilization and Its Political and Cultural Dynamism. University Press of New England, Hanover 2008.
  • with Jerzy Kałążny, Hubert Orłowski : Konfesjonalizacja: Kościół i państwo w Europie doby przednowoczesnej (= Poznańska Biblioteka Niemiecka. Vol. 32). Wydawnictwo Poznańskie, Poznań 2010.
  • Martin Luther: Rebel in a time of upheaval. A biography. Beck, Munich 2012, ISBN 978-3-406-63741-4 ( review , H-Soz-u-Kult ) (translations into French, Italian, Danish, Norwegian, English, Slovak, Polish, Russian, Turkish).
  • 1517. Weltgeschichte einer Jahres , CH Beck, Munich 2017, ISBN 978-3-406-70069-9 (translation into Italian).
  • with Sylvana Seidel Menchi: The Protestant Reformation in a Context of Global History. Religious Reforms and World Civilizations, Duncker and Humblot, Berlin / Bologna 2017, ISBN 978-3-428-15322-0 .
  • Karl V. The emperor for whom the world broke , CH Beck, Munich 2020, ISBN 978-3406748998 .

literature

  • Stefan honorary award (ed.): Ways of the modern times. Festschrift for Heinz Schilling on his 65th birthday (= historical research. Vol. 85). Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-428-12394-0 .

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personal data
SURNAME Schilling, Heinz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian
DATE OF BIRTH May 23, 1942
PLACE OF BIRTH Bergneustadt