Josef Matzerath

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Josef Matzerath (2013)

Josef Matzerath (born December 11, 1956 in Linnich ) is a German historian and university professor .

Life

Matzerath studied history and philosophy at the University of Bonn . At the same place he received his doctorate in 1990 with a dissertation on the antiquity researcher Albert Schwegler , supervised by Gerhard Wirth . Since 1993 he has been a research associate at the Department of Saxony history of the Technical University of Dresden , where he in 2003 with a record of the nobility sample at the Modern habilitation and now the associate professor of modern history was made.

Scientific activity

In his research, Matzerath deals with three main areas: A scientific focus is on the history of the German nobility , with a special focus on research on nobility in the modern age: the social formation of the nobility has not disintegrated in the last 150 years, although according to current sociological theories ( Modernization theory , Karl Marx , Max Weber , Niklas Luhmann ) should have done. On the other hand, it has become less concrete: on the one hand, aristocrats are active in the fields that are dominated by social functional apparatus (parties, stock corporations, cultural institutions). On the other hand, modern aristocrats maintain the conventions of their group in private life and in their free time, cherishing memories of their own families. By pointing out that the ancestors already belonged to a ruling formation in the pre-modern era, aristocrats claim a unique selling point in modern times - a claim that modern elites cannot achieve, neither through acquired wealth, acquired power, nor through accumulated knowledge.

Another research focus of Matzerath is the history of parliament in modern times , especially in Saxony: after the end of the royal courts, parliaments are among the few central locations of modern societies. In Germany, the Saxon state parliament has one of the most noteworthy continuities, going back from the modern era to the early modern assembly of estates and into the late Middle Ages. Nevertheless, the (electoral) Saxon state parliaments are also institutions with a character that changes from epoch to epoch. On this subject, Matzerath, in collaboration with the Saxon state parliament, wrote a multi-volume series on the history of the Saxon representative bodies under the title Aspects of the Saxon State Parliament History . Together with the Dresden medieval historian Uwe Israel , he wrote an overall presentation of the history of the Saxon parliament, which appeared in 2019.

Matzerath's third major research focus is nutritional history . Similar to the history of art or music, the aesthetic development of nutrition should also be researched. This has hardly happened in Germany so far. Matzerath pays particular attention to gourmet cuisine here - because to this day there are more European similarities than national differences. Fine culinary art has always worked with regional products that can hardly be found in the food industry. In Europe, contrary to popular belief, this culinary art was never found exclusively in France, but was already widespread in the royal courts of all countries in the pre-modern era. Around 1900, culinary aesthetics focused much more on the composition of a menu than it is today, in which the dishes of the various courses had to be coordinated with one another. Even 100 years ago, the high art of cooking did not open up to the offers of the food industry, but relied on handcraft processing of the highest possible quality and seasonal products. Matzerath wants to show this for Germany using Dresden as an example - even before the publication of Auguste Escoffier's epoch-making culinary art guide . Matzerath dedicates himself to the history of nutrition in Saxony in cooperation with the Saxon State Ministry for Environment and Agriculture and the association "Nutrition History in Saxony eV".

Publications

Aristocratic history

  • Trial of nobility in the modern age. Saxon nobility 1763 to 1866. Declaration of a traditional social formation. Stuttgart 2006. ISBN 3-515-08596-3 .
  • The Saxon King and the Dresden May Uprising. Diaries and notes from the revolutionary period 1848/49. Cologne / Weimar / Vienna 1999. ISBN 978-3-412-15098-3 .
  • The step into the modern age. Saxon nobility between 1763 and 1918 , published jointly with Silke Marburg. Cologne / Weimar / Vienna 2001. ISBN 3-412-12600-4 .
  • History of the Saxon Nobility , published jointly with Katrin Keller . Cologne / Weimar / Vienna 1997. ISBN 3-412-16396-1 .

Parliamentary History

  • Aspects of the history of the Saxon state parliament. 11 vols. Dresden 1998-2015. DNB 964520257 .
  • The three parliaments of Dresden. The Saxon state parliaments and their buildings: indicators for the development from the class to the pluralized society , together with Andreas Denk. Wolfratshausen 2000. ISBN 978-3-932353-44-4 .
  • with Uwe Israel: History of the Saxon Landtag . Jan Thorbecke Verlag, Ostfildern 2019, ISBN 978-3-7995-8465-4 (special edition of the Saxon State Center for Civic Education, Dresden 2019)

Nutritional history

  • Saxon pudding. European culinary art and its transmission belts , in: Simona Brunetti / Josephine Klingebeil-Schieke / Chiara Maria Pedron / Marie-Christin Piotrowski / Antonella Ruggeri / Rebecca Schreiber (eds.): The language of the world - Il mondo in parole. Festschrift for the 60th birthday of Maria Lieber , Tübingen 2016, pp. 475–496. ISBN 978-3-95809-441-3 .
  • Franz Walcha: The practical cook, Dresden 1819. Instructions for preparing all kinds of dishes according to French, German and English tastes , edited with the collaboration of Marco Iwanzeck and Angelika Rakowski. Row: Land of Culinary Tradition. Food history in Saxony. Series B - Monumenta Saxoniae Culinaria 2. Ostfildern 2014. ISBN 978-3-7995-0644-1 .
  • Johann Deckardt (formerly Churf. Sächß. Küchenschreiber zu Dreßden): New Kunstreich and Useful Cookbook, Leipzig 1611. A beautiful, useful and delicious cookbook Before Princely Personenn , edited together with Georg Jänecke. Row: Land of Culinary Tradition. Food history in Saxony. Series B - Monumenta Saxoniae Culinaria 3. Ostfildern 2014. ISBN 978-3-7995-0645-8 .
  • Farm menus for today. Recipes from the Dresden court cooked by Saxon cooks and pastry chefs , edited together with Wolfram Siebeck and Georg W. Schenk. Ostfildern 2013. (Land of culinary tradition. Food history in Saxony. Series A - Tradition for the future, Vol. 1). ISBN 978-3-7995-0503-1 .
  • Product kitchen. European culinary art from the fine cuisine of the Dresden court , together with Volkhard Nebrich. Ostfildern 2013. (Land of culinary tradition. Food history in Saxony. Series A - Tradition for the future, Vol. 2 / I). ISBN 978-3-7995-0506-2 .
  • Product kitchen - desserts, pastries and drinks , together with Volkhard Nebrich. Ostfildern 2013. (Land of culinary tradition. Food history in Saxony. Series A - Tradition for the future, Vol. 2 / II). ISBN 978-3-7995-0507-9 .
  • Table culture - Dresden around 1900 , published jointly with Annemarie Niering. Ostfildern 2013. (Land of culinary tradition. Food history in Saxony. Series A - Tradition for the future, Vol. 3). ISBN 978-3-7995-0519-2 .
  • Ernst Max Pötzsch: Complete sovereign kitchen of the Crown Prince of Saxony. Edited with the collaboration of Georg Jänecke, Mechthild Herzog and Hannah Aehle. Ostfildern 2013. (Land of culinary tradition. Food history in Saxony. Series B - Monumenta Saxoniae Culinaria, Bd. 1). ISBN 978-3-7995-0512-3 .

Further publications

  • Albert Schwegler (1819–1857). Sigmaringen 1993, ISBN 3-7995-3231-5 .
  • with Uwe John (Ed.): Regional history as a challenge and program. Celebration for Karlheinz Blaschke on his 70th birthday. Stuttgart 1997, ISBN 3-515-07212-8 .
  • with Alexander Kästner (ed.): More than war and passion. The filmic representation of the military and society in the early modern period (= military and society in the early modern period. 15, no. 2). Potsdam 2011, ISBN 3-86956-168-8 .

Web links

Commons : Josef Matzerath  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Media information about the project to research the history of parliament in Saxony . medienservice.sachsen.de. March 28, 2012. Retrieved June 21, 2013.
  2. ↑ Research information on the project to research the history of the Saxon state parliaments . forschungsinfo.tu-dresden.de. May 31, 2016. Accessed May 31, 2016.
personal data
SURNAME Matzerath, Josef
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH December 11, 1956
PLACE OF BIRTH Linnich