Jörg Deventer
Jörg Deventer (* 1961 in Bückeburg ) is a German historian with a focus on the early modern period .
Life
He studied history, German and educational science at the Universities of Bielefeld , Hamburg and Urbino . After receiving his doctorate in 1995 in the subject of "Middle and Modern History" at the University of Hamburg and receiving the Ignaz-Theodor-Liborius-Meyer Prize of the Association for History and Antiquity of Westphalia in 1997 for his dissertation, he held the Immanuel- Kant habilitation grant from the Federal Ministry of the Interior. As part of the qualification phases, he had longer research stays in Jerusalem and Wroclaw . After completing his habilitation in 2000 in the subject of “Modern History” at the University of Hamburg, he worked from 2001 to 2006 as a research assistant at the GWZO in the “Denomination” project group. Between 1997 and 2008 lecturer at the universities of Hamburg, Leipzig and Halle / Wittenberg . From January to September 2009 he represented the professorship for cultural and country studies in East Central Europe at the TU Chemnitz . He has been a senior researcher at the Dubnow Institute since 2010 , and has been the deputy directorate since 2011. In February 2015 he was appointed honorary professor for premodern Jews in their surrounding cultures at the University of Leipzig .
His research and interests are historical conversion research, Reformation and confessionalization in East Central Europe, aristocratic elites in the Habsburg Monarchy, early modern city history, Silesian national history and the history of the Jews and Christian-Jewish relations in Germany and Italy.
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| SURNAME | Deventer, Jörg |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German historian |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1961 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Buckeburg |