Jürgen Elvert

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Jürgen Elvert (born July 30, 1955 in Eckernförde ) is a German historian and history teacher and holder of the Jean Monnet Chair for European History at the University of Cologne .

Career

Elvert attended the Jungmannschule in Eckernförde. After graduating from high school, military service in the navy and a brief activity in the mechanical and plant engineering industry, he studied history , English studies , pedagogy and sociology at the Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel (CAU) and Queen's University Belfast (1981/82 ). He passed the state examination for teaching in 1985 and received his doctorate in 1988 as a Dr. phil. As a scholarship holder of the German Historical Institute in London , he conducted research at Trinity College (Dublin) , the State Paper Office in Dublin and the British National Archives .

As a research assistant and academic advisor, Elvert completed his habilitation in 1996 at the CAU's history seminar. In 1997/98 he was visiting professor at the Leopold-Franzens-University Innsbruck . In 1998 he was appointed a Senior Fellow at the Center for European Integration Research in Bonn and took on a substitute professorship at the University of Cologne in the 1998/99 winter semester. In 2001 he was offered the chair for the history of the 19th and 20th centuries and for didactics of the history of Cologne University.

Elvert's research interests lie in the history of European integration , the history of Ireland and the British Isles , intellectual and cultural history as well as the cultural history of the sea and seafaring . As one of the leading representatives of the new historical marine science ( new thalassology ), he was, among other things, the initiator of the highly regarded exhibition "Europe and the Sea", which was shown from June 2018 to January 2019 at the German Historical Museum in Berlin. In 2013 the European Commission awarded him the honorary title of Jean Monnet Professor of European History . In 2014 he was appointed Senior Cofund Fellow at the Aarhus Institute of Advanced Studies (AIAS) for 18 months .

Elvert is the first chairman of the Ranke Society .

Honorary positions

  • Chairman of the Ranke Society, Association for History in Public Life
  • Member of the Board of Trustees of the Emile and Aline Mayrisch Prize , Luxembourg
  • Juror of the Golo Mann Prize
  • Juror of the Premio Europeo Carlos V. of the Fundación Academia Europea de Yuste
  • Member of the advisory board of the Zeitschrift für Weltgeschichte

Publications

  • with Martina Elvert: agents, actors, adventurers. Contribution to the exhibition "Europe and the Sea" at the German Historical Museum Berlin. Berlin: Duncker & Humblot 2018. ISBN 978-3-428-15519-4 .
  • Europe, the sea and the world. A modern maritime story . Munich: Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt 2018. ISBN 978-3-421-04667-3 .
  • with Lutz Adam and Heinrich Walle: The Imperial Navy at War. A search for clues . Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag 2017 (= historical messages , supplement 99). ISBN 978-3-515-11824-8 .
  • with Lutz Feld, Ingo Löppenberg, Jens Ruppenthal: The maritime Europe. Values ​​- knowledge - economy . Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag 2016 (= historical messages , supplement 95). ISBN 978-3-515-09628-7 .
  • as editor: history beyond the university - networks and organizations in the early Federal Republic . Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag 2016 (= historical messages , supplement 94). ISBN 978-3-515-11350-2 .
  • European integration . 2nd edition Darmstadt: Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft 2012 (= history compact ). ISBN 978-3-534257263 .
  • with Jürgen Nielsen-Sikora : Cultural Studies and National Socialism . Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag 2008 (= historical messages , supplement 72). ISBN 978-3-515-09282-1 .
  • On the current constitution of the European Union. Some considerations from a historical perspective . Bonn: Center for European Integration Research 2005 (= Discussion Paper , 148) (as pdf at the Center for European Integration Research) . ISBN 978-3-936183-48-1 .
  • with Éric Bussière, Michel Dumoulin and Sylvain Schirmann: Relaciones entre Europa y Rusia en los siglos XIX y XX . Yuste: Fundación Academia Europea de Yuste 2005 (= Cuadernos de Yuste , 2).
  • with Wolfram Kaiser : European Union Enlargement. A comparative history . London u. a .: Routledge 2004 (= Routledge advances in European politics ).
  • History of Ireland . Munich: dtv 1993. ISBN 3-423-04599-X ; 4th edition Munich: dtv 2003.
  • with Birgit Aschmann , Jens Hohensee and Thomas Stamm-Kuhlmann : Historical images. Festschrift for Michael Salewski on his 65th birthday . Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag 2003.
  • Central Europe! German plans for a European reorganization, 1918–1945 . Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag 1999. ISBN 3-515-07641-7 .
  • Ireland on your own. With Northern Ireland. A travel guide . 3rd edition Kiel: Conrad Stein Verlag 1991. ISBN 3-922965-36-9 .
  • From a free state to a republic. The foreign policy factor in Irish independence between 1921 and 1948 . Bochum: Brockmeyer 1989 (= German England Research Working Group , 12). ISBN 3-88339-724-5 .

Editorships

  • The Historical-Political Book (HPB)
  • Historical communications from the Ranke Society (HMRG)
  • Supplements to the historical communications of the Ranke Society
  • Studies on the History of European Integration - Studies on the History of European Integration - Études sur l'Histoire de l'Integration Européenne

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Dissertation: From Free State to Republic. The foreign policy factor in Irish independence between 1921 and 1948 .
  2. ↑ historicum.net .
  3. ^ Habilitation thesis: Central Europe - German plans for a European reorganization (1918–1945) .
  4. ↑ Historical Institute, University of Cologne .
  5. ↑ Michael North: Review of Elvert, Europe and the Sea . In: Quarterly journal for social and economic history . tape 106 , 2019, pp. 535 .
  6. ↑ http://aias.au.dk .
personal data
SURNAME Elvert, Jürgen
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian and history educator
DATE OF BIRTH July 30, 1955
PLACE OF BIRTH Eckernförde