Michaela Hohkamp

Michaela Hohkamp (born July 30, 1958 in Waltrop ) is a German historian .

Michaela Hohkamp studied history, political science, sociology and art history. She then worked at the Max Planck Institute for History in Göttingen. She received her doctorate in the 1994 summer semester in Göttingen with a thesis on rulership and rural living environments in the 18th century, supervised by Rudolf Vierhaus and Hans Medick . Since 1995 she has been an employee and assistant in the Department of History and Cultural Studies at the Free University of Berlin . In 2006/07 he completed his habilitation and was awarded the venia legendi for modern history with a thesis on early modern princely society (15th to 18th centuries). Since the summer semester of 2008, Hohkamp has been teaching at the Free University of Berlin as a W2 professor for the history of the early modern period / historical anthropology and gender history. Since November 1, 2011, she has held the Christian Gottlob Heyne Professorship (W3) for the history of the early modern period / space and region at the University of Hanover .

Hohkamp's research focuses on early modern rule from a cultural-scientific perspective. Space, gender and relationship are important points of reference.

Fonts

Monographs

• Rulership in rulership. The Upper Austrian Upper Bailiwick of Triberg from 1737 to 1780 (= publications of the Max Planck Institute for History. Vol. 142). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht Göttingen 1998, ISBN 3-525-35457-6 .

Editorships

• together with Claudia Ulbrich : The citizen as an informant. Denunciation during the 18th and 19th centuries from a European perspective (= German-French cultural library. Vol. 19). Leipziger Universitätsverlag, Leipzig 2001, ISBN 3-935693-13-3 .
• together with Gabriele Jancke : nun, queen and courtesan. Knowledge, education and erudition of women in the early modern times ( conference "Knowledge - Education - Erudition: Scholar Women in the Early Modern Age?" ) Helmer, Königstein / Taunus 2004, ISBN 3-89741-145-8 .

Web links

• Page from Hohkamp at the University of Hanover
• Dean's office: Christian Gottlob Heyne professorship at the historical seminar with Prof. Dr. Michaela Hohkamp occupied , November 9, 2011.