Manfred Rudersdorf

Manfred Rudersdorf (born February 7, 1952 in Ellar ) is a German historian focusing on the history of the early modern period . His areas of expertise include the history of the Reformation and confessionalization , the comparative territorial history of the Old Kingdom, and the history of universities and education.

Live and act

After attending school in Ellar and high school in Hadamar / Westerwald , Manfred Rudersdorf studied history , political science , sociology and education at the universities of Gießen and Tübingen . From 1980 to 1982 he was a research fellow at the Institute for European History in Mainz , Department of Universal History. The PhD in 1988 at the University of Tübingen on Landgraf Louis IV of Hesse-Marburg - country division and Lutheranism in Hesse from 1537 to 1604. Followed in 1993 at the University of Osnabrück , the Habilitation about Justus Moser and the world of the poor . From 1982 to 1987 he was a research assistant at the history department of the University of Tübingen at the chair of Volker Press , from 1988 to 1994 university assistant at the department of culture and geosciences at the University of Osnabrück at the chair of Anton Schindling . From 1994 to 1997 he was a university lecturer (C 2) at the University of Osnabrück. In 1997 he was appointed to a professorship for Early Modern History (C 4) at the History Department of the University of Leipzig . Since 2001 Manfred Rudersdorf has been a full member of the Saxon Academy of Sciences in Leipzig (philological-historical class), where he leads two long-term scientific projects on early modern cultural and intellectual history. In the successor to Günther Wartenberg , Rudersdorf was chairman of the Senate Commission for the publication of the five-volume complete edition of the history of the University of Leipzig 1409–2009 from 2007 to 2011 . From 2009 to 2015 he was a member of the DFG Graduate College on Religious Nonconformism and Cultural Dynamics at the University of Leipzig. From 2013 to 2018 he was dean of the Faculty of History, Art and Oriental Studies. In 2016 he was reappointed head of the Research Center for University History. From 2008 to 2020 he was chairman of the scientific advisory board of the Simon Dubnow Institute for Jewish History and Culture in Leipzig (since 2018 Leibniz Institute ). He has been a liaison lecturer at the German National Academic Foundation since 1998. Rudersdorf has been a member of the Board of Trustees of the Leipzig Cultural Foundation since 2017 . In October 2018, he retired from the University of Leipzig. Manfred Rudersdorf lives and works in Leipzig.

Functions and memberships (selection)

• Since 1997 Corresponding Member of the Interdisciplinary Institute for Cultural History of the Early Modern Age at the University of Osnabrück,
• since 1999 member of the Association for Constitutional History ,
• since 1999 member of the board of the Society for the Publication of the Corpus Catholicorum ,
• Since 1999 co-editor of the series Reformation History Studies and Texts at Aschendorff Verlag Münster,
• since 2001 member of the historical commission for Hesse ,
• since 2001 full member of the Saxon Academy of Sciences in Leipzig ,
• since 2002 co-editor of the SAW series of sources and research on Saxon history (executive),
• since 2002 co-editor of the series Contributions to the History of Leipzig University and Science (executive),
• since 2011 member of the international advisory board of the yearbook of the Simon Dubnow Institute for Jewish History and Culture,

Honors

• 1994 Habilitation award from the Osnabrück Scientific Society (OWiG),
• 2003 Theodor Litt Prize of the University of Leipzig for special commitment in teaching,
• 2011 Leipzig University Medal "in recognition of outstanding services to the university"
• 2016 Award of the Leipzig Science Prize by the City of Leipzig, the University of Leipzig and the Saxon Academy of Sciences in Leipzig (SAW)

Fonts (selection)

• Manfred Rudersdorf: Ludwig IV .: Landgrave of Hesse-Marburg 1537-1604, division of the state and Lutheranism in Hesse. (Publications of the Institute for European History, Mainz, Volume 144: Department of Universal History), Mainz, Verlag von Zabern 1991, ISBN 978-3-8053-1269-1
• Manfred Rudersdorf: The happiness of beggars, Justus Möser and the world of the poor; Mentality and social question in the Prince Diocese of Osnabrück between the Enlightenment and secularization . Münster, Aschendorff Verlag 1995, ISBN 978-3-402-02950-3
• Manfred Rudersdorf: Setting the course for the modern age. The University of Leipzig between the Reformation and the Thirty Years War 1539–1648 / 1660 . Separatum from Volume 1, History of the University of Leipzig 1409–2009, ISBN 978-3-86583-301-3
• Manfred Rudersdorf: Universitas semper reformanda. The persistent force of humanism. On a basic conflict in modern university history in the century of the Reformation (= session reports of the Saxon Academy of Sciences in Leipzig, Philological-Historical Class, Vol. 141, Issue 5), Stuttgart / Leipzig 2016, ISBN 978-3-7776-2556-0
• Manfred Rudersdorf: Lost worlds in urban space? The presence of the early modern era in the mirror of the Leipzig monument culture of the 19th and early 20th centuries (= writings of the Leipziger Geschichtsverein 3), Beucha-Markkleeberg 2016, ISBN 978-3-86729-187-3
• Manfred Rudersdorf: Patriarchal Prince Regiment and Imperial Peace. On the role of the new Lutheran type of regent in the age of confessionalization , in: Heinz Duchhardt, M. Schnettger (Ed.): Reichsständische Libertät und Habsburgisches Kaisertum, Mainz, Verlag von Zabern 1999, ISBN 978-3-525-10060-8
• Manfred Rudersdorf: The structure-forming force of the patriarchal princely state in the 16th century. On the general historical background of the work of Joachim Camerarius at the University of Leipzig . In: Rainer Kößling, Günther Wartenberg (eds.): Joachim Camerarius , Tübingen, Gunter Narr Verlag 2003, ISBN 978-3-8233-5981-4
• Manfred Rudersdorf: Moritz of Saxony. On the typology of a German imperial prince between Renaissance and Reformation , In: André Thieme, Jochen Vötsch (Ed.): Hof und Hofkultur under Moritz von Sachsen (1521–1553) , Beucha, Sax-Verlag 2004, ISBN 978-3-934544-59 -8th
• Manfred Rudersdorf: 600 years of the Alma mater Lipsiensis . In: Journal of the Saxon Academy of Sciences, Issue 5 (2010)

Ongoing research projects

• Denomination, mentality and courtly representation in the Old Kingdom. Comparative studies on the typology of the imperial princes between the Reformation and the Enlightenment,
• Studies on the signature of the "Reformation and Educational Landscape of Central Germany" - The University of Leipzig as a center of academic training and learning in ancient Europe,
• SAW project "Edition of the correspondence from Johann Christoph Gottsched 1700–1766",
• SAW project “Letters and files on church policy by Frederick the Wise and John the Constant 1513–1532. Reformation in the context of the early modern state formation "(together with Armin Kohnle , Theological Faculty)

literature

• Manfred Rudersdorf in Kürschner's German Scholars Calendar
• Literature by and about Manfred Rudersdorf in the catalog of the German National Library

Web links

• Manfred Rudersdorf. (PDF) In: Professors at the University of Leipzig 1945–1993. Retrieved November 6, 2019 . 
• Manfred Rudersdorf. In: University of Leipzig. Retrieved November 7, 2019 . 

Individual evidence

1. ↑ members of IKFN. In: Institute's website. Retrieved March 3, 2020 . 
2. ^ Society and Organization. In: Company website. Retrieved March 3, 2020 . 
3. ^ Historical Commission for Hesse, page 21. In: Website Historical Commission. Retrieved February 27, 2020 . 
4. ^ Members. In: SAW website. Retrieved November 6, 2019 . 
5. ^ Theodor Litt Prize. In: Theodor Litt Society. Retrieved November 6, 2019 . 
6. ↑ 600 years of the Alma mater Lipsiensis. In: Thoughts. Retrieved January 14, 2020 .