Johannes Burkhardt

Johannes Burkhardt (born February 24, 1943 in Dresden ) is a German historian .

Johannes Burkhardt studied history, German and philosophy at the universities of Hamburg and Tübingen . In 1971 he received his doctorate in Tübingen under Ernst Walter Zeeden with a study on the origins of the calculation of the century that is still widely received today. From 1973 to 1974 he was a research assistant at the Institute for Historical Behavioral Research in Stuttgart . From 1978 to 1986 Burkhardt was a research assistant or academic senior counselor at the University of Eichstätt . There he received his habilitation in modern and recent history in 1984 with a thesis on the Seven Years War and papal diplomacy. Burkhardt was a substitute professor in Bielefeld (1987/88) and Bochum (1989/90).

In 1991 Burkhardt succeeded Wolfgang Reinhard at the University of Augsburg , where he taught as a full professor of early modern history until his retirement in 2008 . Since 1991 he has been a member of the board of directors of the Institute for European Cultural History and director of the Fugger Archives in Dillingen . From 1991 to 1995 he was managing director of the Institute for European Cultural History at the University of Augsburg and has been a member of the Swabian Research Association since 1993 . Burkhardt also became a member of the scientific advisory board of the Museum of the Thirty Years War in Wittstock an der Dosse .

With publications on the Thirty Years' War (1992) and the Reformation Century (2002), Burkhardt researched important events of the early modern period. Burkhardt interpreted the Thirty Years War as a "war of state formation". The thesis was widely received. Axel Gotthard decidedly rejected it . For the latest edition of the classic handbook of German history, the Gebhardt , Burkhardt wrote the volume on the Holy Roman Empire between 1648 and 1763. In 2009 he published a concise account of German history in the early modern period.

Fonts

Monographs

• The war of wars. A new story. Klett-Cotta, Stuttgart 2018, ISBN 978-3-608-96176-8 .
• The Rhine is the Elbe. Richard Wagner's true worlds. Mitteldeutscher Verlag, Halle (Saale) 2013, ISBN 978-3-89812-996-1 .
• German history in the early modern period (= Beck'sche Reihe 2462 CH Beck Wissen ). Beck, Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-406-56262-4 .
• Completion and reorientation of the early modern empire. 1648–1763 (= Handbook of German History. Vol. 11). 10th, completely revised edition. Klett-Cotta, Stuttgart 2006, ISBN 3-608-60011-6 .
• The Reformation Century. German history between media revolution and institution building 1517–1617. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 2002, ISBN 3-17-010824-7 .
• The Thirty Years War (= Edition Suhrkamp. Es 1542 = NF 542). Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 1992, ISBN 3-518-11542-1 .
• Farewell to the religious war. The Seven Years' War and papal diplomacy (= library of the German Historical Institute in Rome. Vol. 61). Niemeyer, Tübingen 1985, ISBN 3-484-82061-6 (also: Eichstätt, Universität, habilitation paper, 1983).
• The origin of the modern calculation of the century. Origin and development of a historiographical technique from Flacius to Ranke (= Göppingen academic contributions. No. 43). Kümmerle, Göppingen 1971, ISBN 3-87452-102-8 (also: Tübingen, University, dissertation, 1971).

Editorships

• The Fugger and the Reich. A new research perspective for the 500th anniversary of the first Fugger rule in Kirchberg-Weißenhorn (= publications of the Swabian Research Association. Series 4: Studies on the Fugger history. Vol. 32 = Studies on the Fugger history. Vol. 41). Wißner, Augsburg 2008, ISBN 978-3-89639-681-5 .
• with Franz Karg: The world of Hans Fugger. (1531–1598) (= materials on the history of the Fugger. Vol. 1). Wißner, Augsburg 2007, ISBN 978-3-89639-557-3 .
• War and Peace in the Historical Culture of Remembrance. Studies on the importance of historical arguments and anniversaries in peace politics from antiquity to the present (= writings of the Philosophical Faculties of the University of Augsburg. Vol. 62). Vögel, Munich 2000, ISBN 3-89650-095-3 .
• with Josef Becker , Stig Förster , Günther Kronenbitter : Long and short ways into the First World War. Four Augsburg contributions to research into the causes of war (= writings of the philosophical faculties of the University of Augsburg, No. 49). Vögel, Munich 1996, ISBN 3-89650-012-0 .
• Anton Fugger. (1493-1560). Lectures and documentation for the five hundredth anniversary (= publications of the Swabian Research Association. Series 4: Studies on the Fugger history. Vol. 27 = Studies on the Fugger history. Vol. 36). Konrad, Weissenhorn 1994, ISBN 3-87437-363-0 .

literature

• Wolfgang EJ Weber , Regina Dauser (eds.): Fascinating early modern times. Empire, Peace, Culture and Communication 1500–1800. Festschrift for Johannes Burkhardt on his 65th birthday. Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-05-004469-9 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Johannes Burkhardt in the catalog of the German National Library
• Page from Burkhardt at the University of Augsburg

Remarks

1. ^ Johannes Burkhardt: The Thirty Years' War as an early modern state-building war. In: History in Science and Education 45 (1994), pp. 487-499.
2. ↑ Axel Gotthard: The Thirty Years War. An introduction. Cologne 2016.