Klaus Gerteis

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Klaus Gerteis (born January 26, 1940 in Frankfurt am Main ) is a German historian who mainly deals with the early modern period .

Career

Gerteis studied history, art history and geography at the University of Frankfurt am Main . In 1966 he completed his doctorate on the publisher and politician Leopold Sonnemann . From 1970 he was a research assistant at the University of Trier and completed his habilitation there in 1980. He then held an unscheduled professorship for modern history in Trier . Gerteis was head of the city ​​and early modern state project within the Collaborative Research Center between the Meuse and the Rhine at the University of Trier . Studies on the city history between the Rhine and Maas from the 16th to the 18th century .
In 2000 a commemorative publication was published in his honor.

In addition to his university activities, Klaus Gerteis deals with the historical role and significance of tin figures . In order to make a large part of his collection accessible to the public, he made it available to the folklore and open-air museum Roscheider Hof near Konz in 2005 .

Fonts (selection)

  • The German cities in the early modern period - On the prehistory of the 'bourgeois' world . Darmstadt 1986.
  • with Daniel Hohrath : The Art of War in the Light of Reason: Military and Enlightenment in the 18th Century . Hamburg, part 1: 1999, part 2: 2000.
  • City and early modern state: Contributions to the urban financial history of Luxembourg, Lunéville, Mainz, Saarbrücken and Trier in the 17th and 18th centuries (Trier historical research vol. 26). Trier 1994.
  • Everyday life in the time of the Enlightenment (Enlightenment Vol. 5, H. 2). Hamburg 1991.
  • On the change in ceremonial and social rituals during the Enlightenment (Enlightenment, vol. 6, no.2). Hamburg 1992.
  • The age of the stagecoach. Conditions of communication in the 18th century , in: K. Eibl (ed.): Development thresholds in the 18th century . Hamburg 1989. pp. 55-78.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.rlp-forschung.de/public/facilities/602/research_projects/201
  2. ↑ Angela Giebmeyer, Helga Schnabel-Schüle (ed.): "The most important thing is the human being": Festschrift for Klaus Gerteis on his 60th birthday (Trier historical research vol. 41), Mainz 2000.
personal data
SURNAME Gerteis, Klaus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian in the field of modern history
DATE OF BIRTH January 26, 1940
PLACE OF BIRTH Frankfurt am Main