Klaus Ries

Klaus Ries (* 1957 in Saarbrücken ) is a German historian and university professor .

Life

Ries studied modern and contemporary history , Eastern European history and political science at the Saarland University from 1980 to 1986 . After successfully completing his degree, he worked from 1986 to 1992 as a research assistant at the Saarbrücken State Archives and at the Commission for Saarland State History. 1996 doctorate he at the Friedrich Schiller University in Jena in the subject Modern History with Professor Hans-Werner Hahn to Dr. phil. with the dissertation on the subject of authorities and subjects. Urban and rural protests in Nassau-Saarbrücken in the age of reform absolutism. In the same year, until 1998, Ries became a research assistant at the Society for Folklore in Saarland .

From 1998 to 2007 Ries was a research associate in the Weimar-Jena Special Research Area funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG) . Culture around 1800 . In 2004 his habilitation procedure in the subject of modern history at the Friedrich Schiller University in Jena was completed, the subject of his habilitation thesis was Between Science, Politics and the Public. Political professorships at the University of Jena in the early 19th century. In the same year Ries received the license to teach (Venia Legendi) and the license to teach from the Philosophical Faculty of the Friedrich Schiller University Jena. From 2007 to 2013 he was visiting professor and visiting professor at the Humboldt University Berlin , the University of Potsdam and the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg . In 2010 he was awarded an unscheduled professorship in the field of modern history by the Friedrich Schiller University of Jena. In 2015 he represented the chair for the history of the 19th and 20th centuries in Jena.

Klaus Ries is the author, editor and reviewer of numerous publications.

Publications (selection)

author

• Word and deed. Political professorships at the University of Jena in the early 19th century. (At the same time: Habilitation thesis, University of Jena), Steiner, Stuttgart 2007, ISBN 978-3-515-08993-7 .
• Authorities and subjects. Urban and rural protests in Nassau-Saarbrücken in the age of reform absolutism. (At the same time: Dissertation, University of Jena), SDV, Saarbrücken 1997, ISBN 3-930843-30-7 .

editor

• Europe in March. A transnational search for traces. Thorbecke, Ostfildern 2016, ISBN 978-3-7995-4910-3 .
• with Michael Dreyer : Romance and Freedom. Interplay between aesthetics and politics. Winter, Heidelberg 2014, ISBN 978-3-8253-6190-7 .
• Romance and revolution. On the political reform potential of an apolitical movement. Winter, Heidelberg 2012, ISBN 978-3-8253-5987-4 .
• Johann Gustav Droysen. Facets of a historian. Steiner, Stuttgart 2010, ISBN 978-3-515-09662-1 .
• Between the courtyard and the city. Aspects of the cultural and social historical development of the residential city of Weimar around 1800. Hain-Verlag, Weimar / Jena 2007, ISBN 978-3-89807-105-5 .
• Between university and city. Aspects of demographic development in Jena around 1800. Hain-Verlag, Weimar / Jena 2004, ISBN 3-89807-044-1 .
• Revolution on the border. 1848/49 as a national and regional event. Röhrig-Verlag, St. Ingbert 1999, ISBN 3-86110-220-X .

Web links

• Works by and about Klaus Ries  in the German Digital Library
• Klaus Ries in the German biography
• Prof. Dr. Klaus Ries at Friedrich Schiller University Jena