Jörg-Peter Findeisen

Jörg-Peter Findeisen (born May 12, 1943 in Grevesmühlen ) is a German historian who is particularly concerned with Scandinavian history.

Findeisen studied history, German and Slavic studies in Rostock . From 1970 he was Konrad Fritze's assistant at the University of Greifswald , where he received his doctorate in Swedish history in 1974. The topic of his dissertation was: Problems of “class cooperation” in the Swedish trade union movement: with special reference to the years 1938 to 1950. He then taught German at the GDR cultural center in Cairo and then in Stockholm . In 1984 Findeisen completed his habilitation in Greifswald with the work The progressive economic reform journalism in Swedish-Pomerania in the last third of the 18th century . From 1986 to 1988 he was a lecturer at the Herder Institute at the University of Leipzig and from 1988 to 1993 he was professor of early modern history at the Friedrich Schiller University Jena (inaugural lecture: The Enlightened Absolutism Gustav III, published in Selected Lectures at the Schiller University Jena 1989). Among other things, he was visiting professor in Sweden, where he became honorary professor at Sundsvall University in 1995 . He currently teaches at Trier University of Applied Sciences .

Findisen is particularly known for the biography of Charles XII. (Sweden) .

Fonts

• Charles XII of Sweden - The King Who Became a Myth . Duncker and Humblot, Berlin 1992, ISBN 3-428-07284-7 , revised paperback edition: Edition Katz, Gernsbach 2005.
• The struggle for rule of the Baltic Sea - Sweden's kings of great power times . Duncker and Humblot, 1992.
• Christina of Sweden . Societäts Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1992.
• Princely service or trendsetting under feudal auspices: economic policy reform journalism in Swedish − Pomerania between 1750 and 1806 . Sundsvall 1994.
• Gustav II Adolf of Sweden - the conqueror from the north. Styria Verlag, Graz 1996.
• Sweden - from the beginning to the present . Pustet Verlag, Regensburg 1997, 3rd edition 2008
• The Thirty Years War - an epoch in pictures of life . Scientific Book Society, Darmstadt 1998.
• Denmark - from the beginning to the present . Pustet Verlag 1999.
• Birgitta : God's messenger in medieval Europe . Lahn Verlag, Limburg 2003.
• Axel Oxenstierna . Katz Verlag 2007, ISBN 3-938047-24-0 .
• with Poul Husum: A Brief History of Copenhagen. Pustet Verlag, Regensburg 2008, ISBN 3-7917-2122-4 .
• A short history of the city of Schwerin . Pustet Verlag, Regensburg 2009.
• The Swedish monarchy . 2 volumes, Kiel 2010.
• Jean Baptiste Bernadotte . Katz, Gernsbach 2010.

Web links

• Literature by and about Jörg-Peter Findeisen in the catalog of the German National Library