Joachim Bahlcke

Joachim Bahlcke (born September 29, 1963 in Göttingen ) is a German historian and university professor. His main research interests include the social, constitutional and political history of East Central Europe .

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Joachim Bahlcke studied Eastern European, Modern and Modern History and Philosophy from 1984 to 1990 at the Universities of Trier , Vienna and Freiburg . During his studies he became a member of the Freiburg fraternity . After research stays at the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences in Prague and others in Croatia, Hungary, Austria, Slovakia and Poland, he received his doctorate in 1993 under Gottfried Schramm in Freiburg with the dissertation Regionalism and State Integration in Controversy. The lands of the Bohemian crown in the first century of Habsburg rule (1526–1619) . From 1993 to 2002 he was a research assistant at university and non-university institutes, most recently at the historical seminar of the University of Leipzig , where in early 2002 he dealt with the work of the Hungarian episcopate and the Austrian monarchy. From a partnership to confrontation (1686–1790) qualified as a professor . He then received a professorship for the history of East Central Europe at the University of Erfurt . On October 1, 2003, he was appointed to the chair for Early Modern History at the University of Stuttgart .

His main research interests include the social, constitutional and political history of Eastern Central Europe from the 15th to the 20th centuries, the history of the eastern territories of the empire and the history of German-Bohemian and German-Polish relations from the Middle Ages to the present.

Joachim Bahlcke wrote numerous monographs and essays. He is the editor of several series and specialist journals as well as a member of numerous scientific institutions, among others

• the Historical Commission for the Bohemian Lands
• the Historical Commission for Silesia
• of the Collegium Carolinum Munich
• of the scientific advisory board of the German Comenius Society
• of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Herder Institute

Publications (selection)

Monographs

• Denominational diversity as a challenge and perspective. On the entanglement of religion and politics in early modern East Central Europe. (= Refo 500 Academic Studies. Volume 63). Göttingen 2019, ISBN 978-3-525-56462-2 .
• Kalwinizm i Jednota braci czeskich w Europie Środkowej i Środkowo-Wschodniej. Studia na temat społecznego i kulturowego znaczenia wyznania reformowanego w okresie wczesnonowożytnym. (= Labyrinthi. Volume 4). Berlin / Siedlce 2017, ISBN 978-83-64884-89-4 .
• Memory competition. Historiography in the Czech lands from the 16th century to the present day. (= Research on the history and culture of the Bohemian countries. Volume 3). Frankfurt am Main u. a. 2016, ISBN 978-3-631-66041-6 .
• Opposing forces. Studies on the political culture and social structure of East Central Europe in the early modern period. (= Studies on East Central European Studies. Volume 31). Marburg 2015, ISBN 978-3-87969-396-2 .
• History of the Czech Republic. From the Middle Ages to the present. Munich 2014, ISBN 978-3-406-66179-2 .
• Rulership, Territories, and State in the Early Modern Era. (= Encyclopedia of German History. Volume 91). Munich 2012, ISBN 978-3-486-55046-7 .
• Hungarian episcopate and Austrian monarchy. From partnership to confrontation (1686–1790). (= Research on history and culture in Eastern Central Europe. Volume 23). Stuttgart 2005, ISBN 3-515-08764-8 .
  • Hungarian edition udT: A magyar püspöki kar és a Habsburg Monarchia. Együttműködéstől a konfrontációig (1686–1790) . Budapest 2013. XXII, ISBN 978-963-9662-71-1 .
• Silesia and the Silesians. (= Series of study books of the East German Cultural Council Foundation. Volume 7). Munich 1996, ISBN 3-7844-2781-2 .
  • second, revised edition Munich 2000.
  • Polish edition udT: Śląsk i Ślązacy . Warszawa 2001, ISBN 83-88495-06-2 .
• Regionalism and state integration in conflict. The lands of the Bohemian crown in the first century of Habsburg rule (1526–1619). (= Writings of the Federal Institute for East German Culture and History. Volume 3). Munich 1994, ISBN 3-486-56046-8 .

Anthologies

• Dziedzictwo górnośląskiej reformacji. Wpływ protestantyzmu na politykę, społeczeństwo i culture w XVI-XX wieku . Ed. V. Joachim Bahlcke, Wacław Gojniczek and Ryszard Kaczmarek. Katowice 2018, ISBN 978-83-8820434-0 .
• Between Dorpat, Pressburg and Vienna. Ján Kvačala and the beginnings of Jablonski research in East Central Europe around 1900 (Jabloniana. Sources and research on European cultural history in the early modern period 9). Ed. V. Joachim Bahlcke and Karl W. Schwarz. Wiesbaden 2018, ISBN 978-3-447-11044-0 .
• Words. Hans von Held - An enlightened public servant between Prussia and Poland . Ed. V. Joachim Bahlcke and Anna Joisten. Potsdam 2018, ISBN 978-3-936168-81-5 .
• Silesian Life Pictures , Volume XII, Würzburg 2017, ISBN 978-3-929817-08-9 .
• Religious Violence, Confessional Conflicts and Models for Violence Prevention in Central Europe (15th-18th Centuries) / Religious Violence, Confessional Conflicts and Models of Violence Prevention in Central Europe (15th-18th Centuries) . Ed. V. Joachim Bahlcke, Kateřina Bobková-Valentová and Jiří Mikulec. Praha / Stuttgart 2017, ISBN 978-3-00-056765-0 .
• The Luther Effect in Eastern Europe. History - culture - memory. (= Writings of the Federal Institute for Culture and History of the Germans in Eastern Europe. Volume 64). Ed. V. Joachim Bahlcke, Beate Störtkuhl and Matthias Weber. Oldenburg 2017, ISBN 978-3-11-050159-9 .
  • English edition udT: The Luther Effect in Eastern Europe. History - Culture - Memory. (= Publications of the Federal Institute for Culture and History of the Germans in Eastern Europe. Volume 69). Ed. V. Joachim Bahlcke, Beate Störtkuhl and Matthias Weber. Oldenburg 2017, ISBN 978-3-11-053767-3 .
• Institutions for the preservation and writing of history in Silesia. From the Enlightenment to the First World War. (= New research on Silesian history. Volume 26). Ed. V. Joachim Bahlcke and Roland Gehrke. Cologne / Weimar / Vienna 2017, ISBN 978-3-412-50858-6 .
• The Reformed in Silesia. From the 16th century to the Old Prussian Union of 1817 (= publications by the Institute for European History Mainz. Department for Occidental Religious History. Supplement 106). Ed. V. Joachim Bahlcke and Irene Dingel. Göttingen 2016, ISBN 978-3-525-10140-7 .
• Toleranţă, coexistenţă, antagonism. Percepţii ale diversităţii religioase în Transilvania între Reformă şi Iluminism . Ed. V. Joachim Bahlcke and Konrad Gündisch. Cluj-Napoca 2013, ISBN 978-606-543-353-3 .
• Religious places of remembrance in East Central Europe. Constitution and competition in access across nations and epochs . Ed. V. Joachim Bahlcke, Stefan Rohdewald and Thomas Wünsch . Berlin 2013, ISBN 978-3-05-005658-6 .
• Silesia and the German south-west around 1600. Late humanism - reformed denomination - political formation. (= Pforzheim discussions on social, economic and social history. Volume 5). Ed. V. Joachim Bahlcke and Albrecht Ernst. Heidelberg / Ubstadt-Weiher / Basel 2012, ISBN 978-3-89735-751-8 .
• Silesian life pictures. Volume 11. Ed. Joachim Bahlcke. Insingen 2012, ISBN 978-3-7686-3513-4 .
• Migration as a social challenge. Historical forms of solidarity from antiquity to the 20th century. (= Stuttgart contributions to historical migration research. Volume 8). Ed. V. Joachim Bahlcke, Rainer Leng and Peter Scholz . Stuttgart 2011, ISBN 978-3-515-10087-8 .
• Historia Górnego Śląska. Polityka, gospodarka i kultura europejskiego regionu . Ed. V. Joachim Bahlcke, Dan Gawrecki and Roman Kaczmarek. Gliwice 2011, ISBN 978-83-60353-99-8 .
  • German edition udT: History of Upper Silesia. Politics, economy and culture from the beginning to the present. (= Writings of the Federal Institute for Culture and History of the Germans in Eastern Europe. Volume 61). Ed. V. Joachim Bahlcke, Dan Gawrecki and Ryszard Kaczmarek. Oldenburg 2015, ISBN 978-3-11-044182-6 .
• School foundations and student finance. Educational patronage in the Bohemian, Austrian and Hungarian countries, 1500–1800. (= Publications of the Institute for Austrian Historical Research. Volume 58). Ed. V. Joachim Bahlcke and Thomas Winkelbauer. Vienna / Munich 2011, ISBN 978-3-205-78446-3 .
• Wallenstein pictures in conflict. A historical symbol figure in historiography and literature from the 17th to the 20th century (= Stuttgart Historical Research. Volume 12). Ed. V. Joachim Bahlcke and Christoph Kampmann. Cologne / Weimar / Vienna 2011, ISBN 978-3-412-21449-4 .
• Building bridges. Daniel Ernst Jablonski in the Europe of the Early Enlightenment . Ed. V. Joachim Bahlcke, Bogusław Dybaś and Hartmut Rudolph. Dößel 2010, ISBN 978-3-89923-259-2 .
  • Polish edition udT: Budowanie mostów. Daniel Ernest Jabłoński w Europie wczesnego oświecenia . Ed. V. Joachim Bahlcke, Bogusław Dybaś and Hartmut Rudolph. Leszno 2010.
  • Czech edition udT: Daniel Arnošt Jablonský. Život a dílo vnuka JA Komenského . Ed. V. Joachim Bahlcke, Bogusław Dybaś and Hartmut Rudolph. Praha 2011, ISBN 978-80-86935-16-4 .
• Nobility in Silesia, Volume 2: Repertory. Research perspectives - source studies - bibliography. (= Writings of the Federal Institute for Culture and History of the Germans in Eastern Europe. Volume 37). Ed. V. Joachim Bahlcke and Wojciech Mrozowicz with the collaboration of Karen Lambrecht, Petr Maťa and Marian Ptak. Munich 2010.
• The Schaffgotsch house. Denomination, politics and memory of a Silesian noble family from the Middle Ages to the modern age . Ed. V. Joachim Bahlcke, Ulrich Schmilewski and Thomas Wünsch. Freiburg im Breisgau 2010, ISBN 978-3-87057-320-1 .
• Migration and Church Practice. The religious life of early modern religious refugees from an everyday historical perspective. (= Research and sources on the church and cultural history of East Germany. Volume 40). Ed. V. Joachim Bahlcke and Rainer Bendel . Cologne / Weimar / Vienna 2008, ISBN 978-3-412-20309-2 .
• Religious refugees. Causes, forms and effects of early modern denominational migration in Europe. (= History of religion and church in East Central and Southeastern Europe. Volume 4). Ed. V. Joachim Bahlcke. Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-8258-6668-6 .
• Daniel Ernst Jablonski. Religion, science and politics around 1700. (= Jabloniana. Sources and research on European cultural history in the early modern period. Volume 1). Ed. V. Joachim Bahlcke and Werner Korthaase. Wiesbaden 2008, ISBN 978-3-447-05793-6 .
• Church - State - Nation. A history of the Catholic Church in Transylvania from the Middle Ages to the early 20th century / Az Erdély Katholicizmus múltja és jelene. (= Publications of the Institute for German Culture and History of Southeast Europe. Scientific Series - History and Contemporary History. Volume 98). Ed. V. Joachim Bahlcke and Krista Zach. Munich 2007, ISBN 978-3-7917-2702-8 .
• Silesian life pictures. Volume 9. Ed. Joachim Bahlcke. Insingen 2007, ISBN 978-3-7686-3506-6 .
• Upper Lusatia in early modern Central Europe. Relationships - structures - processes. (= Research and sources on Saxon history. Volume 30). Ed. V. Joachim Bahlcke. Stuttgart 2007, ISBN 978-3-515-08983-8 .
• Confessional plurality as a challenge. Coexistence and Conflict in the Late Middle Ages and Early Modern Times . Ed. V. Joachim Bahlcke, Karen Lambrecht and Hans-Christian Maner. Leipzig 2006, ISBN 3-86583-081-1 .
• Historical research on Silesia. Methods, topics and perspectives between traditional regional historiography and modern cultural studies. (= New research on Silesian history. Volume 11). Ed. V. Joachim Bahlcke. Cologne / Weimar / Vienna 2005, ISBN 3-412-33282-8 .
• The construction of the past. Historical thinking, tradition formation and self-portrayal in early modern East Central Europe (= supplements of the Zeitschrift für Historische Forschung. Volume 29). Ed. V. Joachim Bahlcke and Arno Strohmeyer. Berlin 2002, ISBN 3-428-10795-0 .
• World - power - spirit. The House of Habsburg and Upper Lusatia 1526–1635 . Ed. V. Joachim Bahlcke and Volker Dudeck. Görlitz / Zittau 2002, ISBN 3-932693-61-2 .
• History of Upper Lusatia. Dominion, society and culture from the Middle Ages to the end of the 20th century . Ed. V. Joachim Bahlcke. Leipzig 2001, ISBN 3-935693-46-X .
  • second, expanded edition Leipzig 2004, ISBN 3-935693-46-X .
  • Polish edition udT: Dzieje Górnych Łużyc. Władza, społeczeństwo i kultura od średniowiecza do końca XX w . Ed. V. Joachim Bahlcke. Warszawa 2007, ISBN 978-83-7181-510-2 .
• Denominationalization in East Central Europe. Effects of religious change in the 16th and 17th centuries on the state, society and culture. (= Research on the history and culture of Eastern Central Europe. Volume 7). Ed. V. Joachim Bahlcke and Arno Strohmeyer. Stuttgart 1999, ISBN 3-515-07583-6 .
• Handbook of the historical sites of Bohemia and Moravia . Ed. V. Joachim Bahlcke, Winfried Eberhard and Miloslav Polívka. Stuttgart 1998, ISBN 3-520-32901-8 .
  • Czech edition udT: Lexicon historických míst Čech, Moravy a Slezska . Ed. V. Joachim Bahlcke, Winfried Eberhard and Miloslav Polívka. Praha 2001, ISBN 80-7203-402-2 .
• Freedom of Class and State Organization in East Central Europe. Supranational similarities in political culture from 16.-18. Century. (= Research on the history and culture of Eastern Central Europe. Volume 4). Ed. V. Joachim Bahlcke, Hans-Jürgen Bömelburg and Norbert Kersken. Leipzig 1996, ISBN 3-931922-23-5 .

Web links

• Prof. Dr. Joachim Bahlcke at the University of Stuttgart, Historical Institute
• Literature by and about Joachim Bahlcke in the catalog of the German National Library
• Publications by and about Joachim Bahlcke at Litdok East Central Europe / Herder Institute (Marburg)