Johannes Dillinger

Johannes Dillinger (* 1968 in Saarlouis ) is a German historian for the early modern period and a university professor .

From 1989 to 1995 Dillinger studied history , Catholic theology and education up to the state examination at the Eberhard Karls University in Tübingen and the University of East Anglia in Norwich in England. He received a scholarship from the University of Trier and worked from 1995 to 1998 in the graduate school of the Western Europe project in a comparative historical perspective and in the Collaborative Research Center between Maas and Rhine . In Trier he received his doctorate in 1998 with the dissertation “Bad People”: Witch persecutions in Swabian Austria and Kurtrier in comparison , comparing 1,300 witch persecutions in the two areas. The work received the Friedrich Spee Prize for an outstanding contribution to the history of the witch hunt and the prize for the best dissertation from the University of Trier. From the same year until 1999 he was also a lecturer there.

In 1999 he started with the project Commune and Territorial Statehood: Conditions, Forms and Aims of Local Representation in Europe and New England, 16. – 18. Century accepted into the Emmy Noether program of the DFG . In 2000 and 2001 he accepted the Emmy Noether Fellowship and did research in the United States . He was visiting scholar at Georgetown University and the German Historical Institute , both in Washington DC , and was the first German to receive an Andrew Mellon Fellowship from the Massachusetts Historical Society . Back in Germany, he headed an Emmy Noether junior research group at the University of Trier from 2002 to 2006, which carried out a comparative study of the political representation of the rural population in New England and early modern Europe. In 2006 he was at the University of Trier with his work The political representation of the rural population. New England and Europe in the early modern habilitation .

From 2007 to 2009 he was Senior Lecturer in Early Modern History at Oxford Brookes University . In 2009 he received a Heisenberg grant from the DFG, which he implemented at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz . 2013 he was in Mainz umhabilitiert and received the instructor of Modern History and Regional History . He teaches in Mainz and works as a “Professor of Early Modern History” at Oxford Brookes University.

His main research interests are Europe and North America from the 16th to the 19th century and there: history of the peasant class, rural culture, political representation systems (state parliaments, estates and parliaments) and state-building processes, colonialism, magic and witch hunt, denominationalization, political crime and the precursors of terrorism as well as comparative historiography, regional history and teaching history at universities and schools.

Since 2006 he has served on the editorial board of Magic, Ritual, and Witchcraft , published by the University of Pennsylvania Press .

Publications (selection)

Monographs

• From the Stone Age to the 21st Century: The History of the City of Lebach. Krüger Druck + Verlag GmbH & Co. KG, Dillingen 2016, ISBN 978-3-9818087-5-9 .
• Uchronie. Unhappened story from ancient times to steampunk. Schöningh, Paderborn 2015.
• Children in the witch trial. Magic and Childhood in the Early Modern Age. Steiner, Stuttgart 2013, ISBN 978-3-515-10312-1 .
• On a treasure hunt. Of grave robbers, spirit conjurers and other hunters of hidden riches. Herder, Freiburg i. Br. 2011, ISBN 978-3-451-30299-2 .
• Magical Treasure Hunting in Europe and North America. A history. Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke 2011, ISBN 0-230-00004-5
• The political representation of the rural population. New England and Europe in the early modern period (= Transatlantic Historical Studies. Volume 34). Steiner, Stuttgart 2008, ISBN 3-515-09162-9 (habilitation thesis, University of Trier, 2006).
• Terrorism. Know what is right (= Herder Spectrum. Vol. 5866). Herder, Freiburg im Breisgau 2008, ISBN 3-451-05866-9 .
• Witches and magic. A historical introduction (= historical introductions. Volume 3). Campus, Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 3-593-38302-0 .
• "Bad People". Witch persecution in Swabian Austria and Kurtrier in comparison (= Trier witch trials. Sources and representations. Volume 5). Spee, Trier 1999, ISBN 3-87760-127-8 (dissertation, University of Trier, 1998).
  • shortened English translation: "Evil People". A Comparative Study of Witch-Hunts in Swabian Austria and the Electorate of Trier (= Studies in Early Modern German History ). Translated by Laura Stokes. University Press of Virginia, Charlottesville, 2009, ISBN 0-8139-2806-0 .
• Witch trials in Horb (= publications of the Horb culture and museum association. Volume 11). Edited by Joachim Lipp. Culture and Museum Association, Horb 1994.

Editorships

• The Routledge history of witchcraft. Routledge, London 2020, (e-book) ISBN 978-1-00-076556-4 , ISBN 978-1-138-78220-4 .
• The mediation of national history. Contributions to the practice of historical didactics. Verlag Regionalkultur, Heidelberg 2010, ISBN 3-89735-637-6 .
• with Jürgen Michael Schmidt, Dieter R. Bauer : Witch Trials and State Building - Witch Trials and State Building (= Hexenforschung. Volume 12). Publishing house for regional history, Bielefeld 2008, ISBN 3-89534-732-9 .
• Magician - suicide - treasure hunter: magical culture and official control in early modern Württemberg. Kliomedia, Trier 2003, ISBN 3-89890-067-3

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d e f g h i} Johannes Dillinger , information from the University of Mainz, accessed on January 13, 2015.
2. ↑ ^{a b c d e f g h} Johannes Dillinger, information from the University of Trier ( Memento from May 27, 2007 in the Internet Archive ).
3. ↑ ^{a b c} Johannes Dillinger ( memento of October 5, 2009 in the Internet Archive ), information from Oxford Brookes University, accessed on August 23, 2010.
4. ^ Johannes Dillinger ( Memento from December 20, 2009 in the Internet Archive ), information from the University of Mainz.
5. ↑ Johannes Dillinger ( Memento from January 21, 2016 in the Internet Archive ), information from Oxford Brookes University, accessed on January 13, 2015.