Katrin Keller
Katrin Keller (born April 14, 1962 in Borna ) is a German historian . Her focus is on the history of Saxony and the craft as well as the nobility and women in court society.
Live and act
After graduating, Keller worked as a graduate teacher for history and German. She received a research grant at the History Section of the Karl Marx University in Leipzig . She became known, among other things, through research on the history of older crafts and the history of women in Saxony. She received her doctorate with a dissertation on everyday craftsmanship in Leipzig in the 15th to 17th centuries. In 2001 she qualified as a professor at the Philosophical Faculty of the University of Vienna and was granted the license to teach in the field of modern history. In the summer semester of 2008 she was visiting professor for gender history at the historical seminar at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz . From 2011 to 2015 she headed the project Die Fuggerzeitungen at the Institute for Austrian Historical Research in Vienna . An early modern information medium and its development
When the Leipzig History Association was founded in 1990, Katrin Keller was the first female chairperson. In 1997 she gave up this office. In 2017 she was elected to the Austrian Academy of Sciences .
Fonts (selection)
- "Thank God my master is healthy and well" Saxon princes on the road (= German-French cultural library 3), Leipzig 1994
- With Hans-Dieter Schmid (ed.): From cult to scenery. The Völkerschlachtdenkmal as an object of historical culture . Leipzig 1995
- Electress Anna of Saxony. About the possibilities and limits of a “mother of the country” . In: Jan Hirschbiegel , Werner Paravicini (Ed.): Das Frauenzimmer. The woman at court in the late Middle Ages and early modern times . Thorbecke, Stuttgart 2000, ISBN 3-7995-4511-5 (residence research vol. 11).
- State history of Saxony , Stuttgart 2002
- Court ladies. Officials in the Viennese court of the 17th century , Vienna 2005
- With Gerald Diesener, Gabriele Viertel (ed.): Stadt, Handwerk, Armut. An annotated collection of sources on the history of the early modern period. Approved for Helmut Bräuer on his 70th birthday , Leipzig 2008
- With Alessandro Catalano (ed.): The diaries and diaries of Cardinal Ernst Adalbert von Harrach. (Publications of the Commission for Modern History of Austria 104, 1 to 7), Vienna-Cologne-Weimar 2010
- Archduchess Maria of Inner Austria (1551-1608). Between Habsburg and Wittelsbach , Vienna-Cologne-Weimar 2012
- With Rainer Elkar and Helmuth Schneider: Handwerk. From the beginning to the present , Darmstadt 2014
literature
- Keller, Katrin . In: Regional historical contributions from the Karl-Marx-Stadt district , no. 7, Karl-Marx-Stadt 1986, p. 98.
- Christina Lutter : Katrin Keller. In: Austrian Academy of Sciences. Almanach 2017, 167th volume, Vienna 2018, p. 183.
Web links
- Literature by and about Katrin Keller in the catalog of the German National Library
- Short biography at the Institute for Austrian Historical Research
- Short biography and reviews of works by Katrin Keller at perlentaucher.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Review in: Sehepunkte , Issue 4 (2004), No. 2
- ↑ Review note on Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, December 2, 2005, in: Perlentaucher.de
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Keller, Katrin |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German educator and historian |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 14, 1962 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Borna |