Lothar Schilling (historian)

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Lothar Schilling (born March 26, 1960 in Schwetzingen ) is a German modern historian .

Life

Schilling was born in Baden-Württemberg . From 1981 to 1988 he studied history , Romance studies and education at the University of Cologne and the University of Paris IV (Sorbonne). Afterwards he was a research assistant at the University of Cologne and in 1993 he worked with Johannes Kunisch at the Philosophical Faculty with the dissertation Kaunitz and the renversement des alliances. Studies on the foreign policy conception of Wenzel Anton von Kaunitz as Dr. phil. PhD.

From 1995 to 1999 he worked at the Max Planck Institute for European Legal History in Frankfurt am Main , where he devoted himself intensively to police regulations . In 2000/01 he was a research fellow at the Herzog August Library in Wolfenbüttel and from 2002 to 2004 trainee lawyer at the Lessing-Gymnasium in Frankfurt . In 2003 he completed his habilitation in the subject of modern history at the University of Cologne with the work of setting standards in the crisis. On the understanding of legislation in France during the wars of religion . In 2004/05 he was visiting lecturer at the German Historical Institute Paris (DHIP). He then worked as a teacher at the drawing school worked in Frankfurt.

In 2008 he was appointed full professor for early modern history at the Philological and Historical Faculty of the University of Augsburg . From 2011 to 2013 he was dean of studies . His main research interests include a. the history of historiography , absolutism , the French wars of religion and police orders.

Since 2013 he has been chairman of the humanities and social sciences evaluation group of the Franco-German University . In 2014 he was elected to the board of the Association for Constitutional History, where he is history spokesman.

Fonts (selection)

  • Kaunitz and the renversement des alliances. Studies on the foreign policy conception of Wenzel Anton von Kaunitz (= historical research, volume 50). Duncker and Humblot, Berlin 1994, ISBN 3-428-08084-X .
  • (Ed. With Gerhard Schuck): Repertory of the Policey Regulations of the Early Modern Age . Volume 3: Wittelsbach territories (Kurpfalz, Bavaria, Pfalz-Neuburg, Pfalz-Sulzbach, Jülich-Berg, Pfalz-Zweibrücken) (= studies on European legal history, volume 116). Klostermann, Frankfurt am Main 1999, ISBN 3-465-02795-7 .
  • Standard-setting in a crisis. On the understanding of legislation in France during the wars of religion (= Studies on European Legal History , Volume 197). Klostermann, Frankfurt am Main 2005, ISBN 3-465-03454-6 .
  • (Ed.): Absolutism, an irreplaceable research concept? A Franco-German balance sheet (= Paris historical studies, Volume 79). Oldenbourg, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-486-58095-2 .
  • The century of Louis XIV. France in the Grand Siècle 1598–1715 . WBG, Darmstadt 2010, ISBN 978-3-534-17428-7 .
  • (Ed. With Gabriele Haug-Moritz ): Médialité et interprétation contemporaine des premières guerres de Religion (= Ateliers of the German Historical Institute Paris, Volume 10). De Gruyter Oldenbourg, Berlin 2014, ISBN 978-3-11-034722-7 .
  • (Ed. With Regina Dauser and Peter Fassl): Knowledge circulation in the countryside before industrialization (= Documenta Augustana, Volume 26), Wißner, Augsburg 2016, ISBN 978-3-11-036239-8 .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Lothar Schilling: Kaunitz and the Renversement des alliances , 1994, p. 5.
personal data
SURNAME Schilling, Lothar
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German modern historian
DATE OF BIRTH March 26, 1960
PLACE OF BIRTH Schwetzingen