Hillard von Thiessen

Hillard von Thiessen (born February 24, 1967 in Mannheim ) is a German early modern historian. He teaches as a professor at the University of Rostock .

Von Thiessen studied history, English and political science in Kiel, Edinburgh and Freiburg i. Br. Up to the Magister Artium with a thesis “The final phase of the witch hunt in Freiburg im Breisgau (1632–1677)”, which was awarded the 1997 Waldseemüller Prize of the University of Freiburg . From 1997 to 2000 he was a doctoral scholarship holder of the Evangelisches Studienwerk Villigst and received his doctorate in 2001 in Freiburg with the thesis “The Capuchins - a reform order between denominationalization and everyday culture. Comparative case study using the example of Freiburg and Hildesheim, 1599-1750 ”. From 2000 to 2003 he was researcher. Employed in the DFG project "Europe in the System of Roman Micropolitics (1605–1621)" with Wolfgang Reinhard and from 2003 to 2005 post-doctoral fellow of the Gerda Henkel Foundation with the project "External relations in networks. Foreign Policy and Interdependence between Spain and the Papal States, 1605–1621 ”. From 2005 to 2007 he was an assistant to Christian Windler in Bern , where he completed his habilitation in 2007 with the thesis “Cross-border patronage and diplomacy from type ancien. The Spanish-Roman relations in the pontificate of Paul V (1605–1621) in an actor-centered perspective ”. From 2007 to 2012 he held the chair for early modern history at the University of Cologne , and from 2012 to 2013 at the University of Rostock. He has been teaching there since the 2013 summer semester.

Fonts

• with Rüdiger Hitz: Family, work and everyday life in Hinterzarten 1600 to 1900 , ed. v. Helmuth Schubert, Konstanz 1998, ISBN 978-3797703965
• The Capuchins between denomination and everyday culture. Comparative case study using the example of Freiburg and Hildesheim 1599 - 1750 (Rombach Sciences - Series Historiae, Vol. 13), Freiburg 2002, ISBN 978-3793092957
• Diplomacy and patronage. The Spanish-Roman Relations 1605–1621 in an actor-centered perspective (Early Modern Research, Vol. 16), Epfendorf 2010, ISBN 978-3928471824
• with Christian Windler (ed.): Actors in External Relations: Networks and Interculturality in Historical Change ( External , Volume 1), Böhlau, Cologne 2010, ISBN 978-3412205638
• The death bed as a normative threshold. Humans in the early modern age between earthly norm competition and divine judgment . In: Historische Zeitschrift 295 (2012), pp. 625–659
• (Ed.): The Gender of Diplomacy: Gender Roles in External Relations from the Late Middle Ages to the 20th Century, Böhlau, Cologne 2014, ISBN 978-3412221980
• with Arne Karsten (ed.): Norms competition from a historical perspective ( Journal for Historical Research , Supplement 50). Berlin 2015

Web links

• Homepage of the University of Rostock
• Thiessen, Hillard of .  Publications in the bibliographic database of the Regesta Imperii .
• Entry on Hillard von Thiessen in the Catalogus Professorum Rostochiensium