Holger Th. Graef

Holger Thomas Gräf (born September 19, 1960 in Hanau ) is a German historian , academic senior counselor at the Hessian State Office for historical regional studies in Marburg and honorary professor at the Philipps University of Marburg .

Life

Gräf studied history and geography in Giessen since 1982 and in Leicester in 1986/87 . In 1988 he completed his master's degree with a thesis on "Small towns and old European urbanization using the example of the central English county of Leicestershire". From September 1988 he was a research assistant in Giessen. In 1992 he received his doctorate as Dr. phil. at the Justus Liebig University in Giessen; afterwards he worked from 1992 to 1996 as a research assistant at the Humboldt University in Berlin at the chair of Heinz Schilling . In 1995 he was a Brittingham Visiting Scholar at the Institute for Research in the Humanities in Madison , Wisconsin . He has been Academic Councilor since 1995 and Academic Senior Counselor at the Hessian State Office for Historical Regional Studies since 2000 and honorary professor at the University of Marburg since 2009.

Gräf is married to the historian Andrea Pühringer-Gräf .

Memberships

• 1995 Working Group Military and Society in the Early Modern Era
• 2000 Historical Commission for Hesse , Main Committee 2006, Executive Committee 2008
• 2001 Society for Urban History and Urbanization Research
• 2004 Board of Trustees of the Institute for Comparative Urban History in Münster
• 2006 Historical Commission for Nassau
• 2008 Hessian Historical Commission Darmstadt

Web links

• Page at the University of Marburg
• Page at the Hessian State Office for Historical Regional Studies

Publications

Monographs

• Denomination and international system. The foreign policy of Hessen-Kassel in the denominational age , Darmstadt and Marburg 1993 (= sources and research on Hessian history , 94).
• The Stockalper library in Brig. A contribution to the intellectual and intellectual profile of baroque entrepreneurship , Brig 1996 (= writings of the Stockalper archive in Brig , 42).
• (together with Ralf Pröve ): Paths into the Unknown. Journeys in the early modern period 1500–1800 , Frankfurt 1997 (as paperback 2002).
• Landgrave Friedrich II. The Prince of Homburg , Erfurt 2007.
• “A hero” - Eitel Philipp Ludwig von und zu Gilsa (1700–1765) (= publications of the Historical Commission for Hesse , 46, 14), Marburg 2015.

Editorships

• Small Cities in Modern Europe , Berlin 1997 (= Innovations , 6).
• (as ed. and editing): Mercenary life on the eve of the Thirty Years War. Curriculum vitae and war diary 1617 of the Hessian colonel Caspar von Widmarckter , Marburg 2000 (= contributions to Hessian history , 16).
• (together with Helga Meise): Valentin Wagner - A draftsman in the Thirty Years War. Catalog for the exhibition in the Hessisches Landesmuseum in Darmstadt February 13 - April 20, 2003 , Marburg 2003.
• (together with Katrin Keller): urban landscape, réseau urbain, urban network. Cities in a regional context in the late Middle Ages and early modern times , Cologne 2004 (= urban research , A 62).
• (together with Andreas Tacke): Prussia in Marburg. Peter Janssen's historic painting cycles in the university auditorium , Darmstadt and Marburg 2004 (= sources and research on Hessian history , 140).
• (together with Anke Stößer): Philip the Magnanimous, Landgrave of Hesse (1504–1567). A bibliography on person and territory in the age of the Reformation , Marburg 2004 (= studies and materials on constitutional and regional history , 20).
• (together with Karin Bautz): Contributions to the history of Grünberg in the Middle Ages and the Reformation , Neustadt adA 2006 (= publications from the museum in the Grünberg Hospital , 1).
• (together with Ekart Rittmannsperger): The Chronicle of the City of Grünberg by Viktor Habicht (1822–1902 , Neustadt ad Aisch 2008 (= publications from the museum in Spital Grünberg , 2).
• (as ed. together with Lena Haunert and Christoph Kampmann ): Noble life at the exit of the Ancien Régime. The diary entries (1754–1798) of Georg Ernst von und zu Gilsa (= studies and materials on constitutional and regional history , 26), Marburg 2010.
• (as ed. together with Lena Haunert and Christoph Kampmann): War in America and Enlightenment in Hessen. The private letters (1772–1784) to Georg Ernst von und zu Gilsa (= studies and materials on constitutional and national history , 27), Marburg 2010.
• (as ed. together with Patrick Sturm): The "renovated" church book by Zimmerrode, Gilsa and Dorheim from 1663. An extraordinary source on the village history in the Thirty Years War (= publications of the Historical Commission for Hesse , 46, 11), Marburg 2010.
• (as ed. together with Lena Haunert): Among Canadians, Iroquois and rebels. The diary of the Hanau hunter Philipp Jakob Hildebrandt from the years 1777–1781 (= studies and materials on constitutional and national history , 29), Marburg 2011.
• (as ed. together with Andreas Hedwig and Annegret Wenz-Haubfleisch): The "Hessians" in the American War of Independence (1776–1783). New sources, new media, new research (= publications of the Historical Commission for Hesse , 80), Marburg 2014.
• (as ed. together with Alexander Jendorff and Pierre Monnet): Country - History - Identity. Perception of history and the construction of history in the 19th and 20th centuries - a historiography-critical inventory (= sources and research on Hessian history , 174), Darmstadt and Marburg 2016.
• (as ed. together with Christoph Kampmann and Bernd Küster): Landgraf Carl (1654–1730). Princely planning and action between innovation and tradition (= publications of the Historical Commission for Hesse , 87), Historical Commission for Hesse, Marburg 2017, ISBN 978-3-942225-39-7 .