Klaus Gerteis
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
- Literature by and about Klaus Gerteis in the catalog of the German National Library
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://www.rlp-forschung.de/public/facilities/602/research_projects/201
- ↑ 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.
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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 |