Marion Kobelt-Groch

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Marion Kobelt-Groch (born April 6, 1955 in Wolfenbüttel ; † November 6, 2018 in Hamburg ) was a German historian .

Marion Kobelt-Groch graduated from high school in 1975 and studied prehistory and early history, educational science, German studies and history at the University of Hamburg from 1976 to 1990 . In 1982 the first state examination for teaching with a focus on intermediate level took place. In 1982/83 she completed her legal traineeship with the second state examination for teaching at elementary and secondary schools. In 1990 she received her doctorate from Hans-Jürgen Goertz on women in the peasant war and in the Anabaptist movements . Her habilitation took place in Hamburg in 2002. Kobelt-Groch has been teaching as a private lecturer at the University of Hamburg since 2002. Since 2009 she has been working as a teacher at the GGS-Strand European School in Timmendorfer Strand . She died in a Hamburg hospital in 2018 at the age of 63 after suffering from cancer for a long time. She was buried in the forest cemetery in Timmendorfer Strand.

Her main focus was on the radical Reformation , women's and gender history, printed Lutheran funeral sermons from the 16th to 18th centuries and Leopold von Sacher-Masoch . Kobelt-Groch is an expert on the role of women in the German Peasant War . In her dissertation she refuted the idea of ​​the "peasant war as a purely male event". Among other things, she dealt with Hille Feicken , who as "Münsteraner Judith" wanted to save the threatened Anabaptist empire and, in succession to the biblical Judith , wanted to kill Prince-Bishop Franz von Waldeck . Her plan was betrayed and she was executed.

Kobelt-Groch was a member of the Thomas Müntzer Society and from 1993 to 2017 he was the editor of the Mennonite History Papers .

Fonts

Monographs

  • Defiant daughters of God. Women in the Peasants' War and in the Anabaptist Movements (= series "History and Gender". Volume 4). Campus-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main et al. 1993, ISBN 3-593-34879-9 .
  • Judith makes history. To the reception of a mythical figure from the 16th to the 19th century. Fink, Munich 2005, ISBN 3-7705-3959-1 (partly at the same time: Hamburg, University, habilitation paper, 2002).

Editorships

  • with Norbert Fischer : outsiders between the Middle Ages and modern times. Festschrift for Hans-Jürgen Goertz on the occasion of his 60th birthday (= Studies in medieval and reformation thought. Volume 61). Brill, Leiden et al. 1997, ISBN 90-04-10498-4 .
  • "I am Judith". Texts and images for the reception of a mythical material. Leipziger Universitäts-Verlag, Leipzig 2003, ISBN 3-936522-31-6 .
  • with Cornelia Niekus Moore: Death and Beyond in the Writing Culture of the Early Modern Age (= Wolfenbütteler Forschungen. Volume 119). Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 2008, ISBN 978-3-447-05846-9 .
  • with Michael Salewski : Leopold von Sacher-Masoch. A pioneer of the 20th century (= Haskala. Scientific treatises. Volume 45). Olms, Hildesheim 2010, ISBN 978-3-487-14510-5 .
  • with Mirjam van Veen, Piet Visser, Gary K. Waite, Els Kloek, Anna Voolstra: Sisters. Myth and Reality of Anabaptist, Mennonite, and Doopsgezind Women approx. 1525-1900 (= Brill's series in church history. Volume 65). Brill, Leiden et al. 2014, ISBN 978-90-04-27501-0 .
  • with Larissa Polubojarinova and Olga Kulishkina: Phenomenology, History and Anthropology of Travel. International interdisciplinary Alexander von Humboldt College in St. Petersburg 16. – 19. April 2013. Solivagus-Verlag, Kiel 2015, ISBN 978-3-943025-23-1 .
  • with Astrid von Schlachta : Mennonites in the Nazi era. Voices, life situations, experiences. (= Series of publications of the Mennonite History Association. Volume 10). Mennonite History Association, Bolanden-Weierhof 2017, ISBN 978-3-921881-02-6 .

Web links

Remarks

  1. ^ Obituaries , in: Lübecker Nachrichten of November 11, 2018.
  2. ↑ The vita information is taken from the curriculum vitae of your dissertation.
  3. ↑ See the reviews of Otto Ulbricht in: Journal for historical research 24 (1997), pp. 132-133; Werner O. Packull in: Archiv für Reformationsgeschichte 23 (1994), pp. 33–34; Claude Bovay in: Archives de Sciences Sociales des Religions Année 100 (1997), pp. 100-101 ( online ); Ulinka Rublack in: German History 12 (1994), pp. 409f.
  4. ↑ Marion Kobelt-Groch: Defiant daughters of God. Women in the Peasants' War and in the Anabaptist Movements. Frankfurt am Main et al. 1993, p. 63.
personal data
SURNAME Kobelt-Groch, Marion
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian
DATE OF BIRTH April 6, 1955
PLACE OF BIRTH Wolfenbüttel
DATE OF DEATH November 6, 2018
Place of death Hamburg