Hermann Wellenreuther

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Hermann Wellenreuther (born June 23, 1941 in Freiburg im Breisgau ) is a German historian and professor emeritus.

Hermann Wellenreuther studied history, German philology and sociology at the universities of Heidelberg and Cologne . With the thesis "faith and politics in Pennsylvania 1681-1776" , he received his doctorate in 1968. Dr. phil. with Erich Angermann . He did research at Yale and Tulane. From 1970 to 1983, Wellenreuther was a research assistant at the University of Cologne. There he completed his habilitation in 1979 on the subject of "Representation and large estates in England 1730–1770" . From 1983 until his retirement in 2006 he held the chair for Medieval and Modern History at the Philosophical Faculty of the University of Göttingen , where he was also elected dean.

In 2002, Wellenreuther was visiting professor at Northwestern University in Evanston , Illinois. A DFG research stay of several months led him to the Huntington Library in San Marino , California. His academic students include: a. Volker Depkat , Claus Heinrich Gattermann , Sünne Juterczenka , Markus Meumann , Sascha Möbius , Ralf Pröve , Claudia Schnurmann and Norbert Winnige .

He was married to Marie-Luise Frings-Wellenreuther, who received her doctorate in 1978 from Erich Angermann , and is married to Claudia Schnurmann.

Honors

  • 2003 Schurman Prize for American History, Politics and Culture from the Association for the Promotion of the Schurmann Library for American History at the University of Heidelberg for its multi-volume history of America and his life's work

Fonts (selection)

  • Faith and Politics in Pennsylvania 1681–1776. The changes in the doctrine of authority and the Peace Testimony of the Quakers (= Cologne historical treatises . Vol. 20). Böhlau, Cologne a. a. 1972, ISBN 3-412-91272-7 .
  • Representation and large estates in England 1730–1770 . Klett-Cotta, Stuttgart 1979, ISBN 3-12-911000-3 .
  • The rise of the first British empire. England and its North American colonies 1660–1763 (= Historical Seminar . Vol. 3). Schwann, Düsseldorf 1987, ISBN 3-590-18162-1 .
  • with Hartmut Boockmann (Ed.): History in Göttingen. A series of lectures (= Göttinger Unviversitätsschriften . A / Bd. 2). Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht, Göttingen 1987, ISBN 3-525-35831-8 .
  • (Ed.): Göttingen 1690–1755. Studies on the social history of a city (= Göttingen University publications . A / Bd. 9). Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht, Göttingen 1988, ISBN 3-525-35839-3 .
  • (Ed.): German and American constitutional thought. Contexts, interaction, and historical realities. [Second Krefeld Historical Symposium, held in May 1987 in Krefeld, West Germany] (= Germany and the United States of America . Vol. 1). Berg, New York et al. a. 1990, ISBN 0-85496-294-8 .
  • with Norbert Finzsch (ed.): Liberalitas. Festschrift for Erich Angermann on his 65th birthday (= transatlantic historical studies . Vol. 1). Steiner, Stuttgart 1992, ISBN 3-515-05656-4 .
  • with Carola Wessel (Ed.): Moravian Indian Mission in the American Revolution. The diaries of David Zeisberger 1772 to 1781 (= personal testimonies of modern times . Vol. 3). Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1995, ISBN 3-05-002744-4 .
  • with Hartmut Lehmann, Renate Wilson (Eds.): In Search of Peace and Prosperity: New German Settlements in Eighteenth-Century Europe and America. Pennsylvania State University Press, University Park 1999, ISBN 0-271-01928-X .
  • Decline and rise. History of North America from the beginning of settlement to the end of the 17th century (= history of North America in an Atlantic perspective from the beginning to the present . Vol. 1). Lit, Münster u. a. 2000, ISBN 3-8258-4447-1 .
  • Training and re-education. The history of North America from the end of the 17th century to the outbreak of the American Revolution in 1775 (= history of North America in an Atlantic perspective from the beginning to the present . Vol. 2). Lit, Münster u. a. 2001, ISBN 3-8258-4446-3 .
  • Hans R. Guggisberg : History of the USA . Continued by Hermann Wellenreuther, 4th, expanded and updated edition, Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 2002, ISBN 3-17-017045-7 .
  • From chaos and war to order and peace. The American Revolution first part, 1775–1783 (= history of North America in an Atlantic perspective from the beginnings to the present . Vol. 3). Lit, Münster u. a. 2006, ISBN 3-8258-4443-9 .
  • (Ed.): The revolution of the people. Thoughts and documents on the revolutionary process in North America, 1774-1776 . Universitätsverlag Göttingen, Göttingen 2006, ISBN 3-938616-42-3 .
  • (Ed.): Jacob Leisler's Atlantic world in the later seventeenth century. Essays on religion, militia, trade, and networks (= Atlantic cultural studies . Vol. 8). Lit, Berlin a. a. 2009, ISBN 978-3-643-10324-6 .
  • Heinrich Melchior Mühlenberg and the German Lutherans in North America, 1742–1787. Knowledge transfer and change from an Atlantic to an American network (= Atlantic cultural studies . Vol. 10). Lit, Berlin a. a. 2013, ISBN 978-3-643-12358-9 .
  • From Confederation to American Nation. The American Revolution second part, 1783–1796 (= history of North America in an Atlantic perspective from the beginnings to the present . Vol. 4). Lit, Berlin a. a. 2016, ISBN 978-3-8258-8795-7 .
  • Citizens in a Strange Land: A Study of German-American Broadsides and Their Meaning for Germans in North America, 1730-1830. Penn State University, University Park 2019, ISBN 978-0-271-05937-2 .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Who is who? (1997)
  2. ↑ Hermann Wellenreuther: From chaos and war to order and peace. The American Revolution Part One, 1775–1783. Münster 2006, p. 3.
personal data
SURNAME Wellenreuther, Hermann
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian
DATE OF BIRTH June 23, 1941
PLACE OF BIRTH Freiburg in Breisgau