Markus Friedrich (historian)

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Markus Friedrich (born June 30, 1974 in Ansbach ) is a German historian . Since 2013 he has been professor of European history in the early modern period at the University of Hamburg . Friedrich emerged in the professional world primarily with studies on the Jesuits and the early modern archives.

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Markus Friedrich attended the Miesbach grammar school from 1984 to 1993 . After graduating from high school, he studied modern history, medieval history and philosophy at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich from 1993 to 1998 . From 1998 to 2003 he was a research assistant at Winfried Schulze's chair at the University of Munich. In 2002 he received his doctorate with a thesis on the Helmstedt Hofmannstreit and its effects on Lutheranism around 1600. From 2003 to 2004 Friedrich Feodor Lynen was a fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation and did a research stay at Duke University . In 2005 he became an assistant at the historical seminar of the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University at the chair of Luise Schorn-Schütte for modern general history with special consideration of the early modern times, where he dealt with the work The long arm of Rome? Global administration and communication in the Jesuit order (1540–1773) qualified as a professor. Friedrich had a research stay at Boston College in Chestnut Hill in 2008/9 . After a two-semester substitute for a chair at the Historical Institute of the University of Rostock (2011/12), he received a fellowship at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin in the summer semester of 2012 . In the 2012/2013 winter semester, he taught as a substitute professor for European knowledge cultures at the University of Erfurt and was acting head of the Gotha Research Center at the University of Erfurt. In 2013 he accepted a professorship in early modern history at the University of Hamburg.

His work focuses on the religious history of the early modern era as cultural history, knowledge and information history as the history of rule, archives and archival culture in early modern Europe and the history of a fundamental cultural technique. With his dissertation on the Helmstedt Hofmannstreit, he presented a relevant work on Lutheranism and late humanism as well as on the relationship between theology and philosophy in the early modern period. His habilitation thesis was devoted to the exercise of power and the administrative and communicative practices in the Jesuit order . According to Hillard von Thiessen , this work represents “an important contribution to the everyday history of communication and power relations between center and periphery”.

In 2013 he published the illustration The Birth of the Archives. A story of knowledge . Friedrich chooses a cultural studies approach. In doing so, he distances himself from an archive history that is limited to individual institutions or that only contextualizes archives in processes of administrative history. With his work he wants to present a “practice-related archive history” and show the “growing and always diverse, sometimes ambivalent or even contradicting importance of the archives for European culture and society in the early modern period”. The plant concentrates on the European area with a focus on France and Germany. For the observation period from 1500 to 1790, Friedrich wants to show "how archives in the premodern era became an integral part of social, political and intellectual life in Europe". He works out "the seat of the archives in people's lives" from different perspectives. In his epilogue, Friedrich would also like to indicate “in what way the archive, as a genuinely premodern phenomenon, has shaped Europe's knowledge culture since then, even beyond the supposed epoch threshold of 1800”. As a result, he found that archives during the period mentioned were “the subject of different and contradicting interests” and thus “objects of social debate and projection surfaces of competing functional determination”. The study was recognized by Robert Kretzschmar as a “milestone in archive history”.

In 2016 he published a comprehensive account of the Jesuits. The work focuses on the early modern history of the Jesuits from the foundation of the order in 1540 to its repeal by the Pope in 1773 and re-admission in 1814.

In 2011 he was awarded the Heinz Maier Leibnitz Prize by the German Research Foundation and the Federal Ministry for Science and Research . Friedrich is co-editor of the yearbook for European history .

He is married and has two children.

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Monographs

  • The Jesuits. Rise, decline, new beginning. Piper, Munich 2016, ISBN 978-3-492-05539-0 .
  • The birth of the archive. A story of knowledge. Oldenbourg, Munich 2013, ISBN 978-3-486-74595-5 .
  • The long arm of Rome? Global administration and communication in the Jesuit order 1540–1773. Campus, Frankfurt am Main 2011, ISBN 978-3-593-39390-2 .
  • The limits of reason. Theology, philosophy and learned conflicts using the example of the Helmstedt Hofmann dispute and its effects on Lutheranism around 1600 (= series of publications by the Historical Commission at the Bavarian Academy of Sciences. Vol. 69). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2004, ISBN 3-525-36062-2 ( digitized ).

Editorships

  • with Sascha Salatowsky, Luise Schorn-Schütte: Denomination, politics and erudition. The Jena theologian Johann Gerhard (1582–1637) in the context of his time (= Gotha research on the early modern period. Vol. 11). Steiner, Stuttgart 2017, ISBN 3-515-11605-2 .
  • with Alexander Schunka: Reporting Christian missions in the eighteenth century. Communication, culture of knowledge and regular publication in a cross-confessional perspective (= Jabloniana. Sources and research on European cultural history of the early modern period. Vol. 8). Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 2017, ISBN 3-447-10825-8 .
  • with Frank Büttner, Helmut Zedelmaier: collecting, organizing, illustrating. On knowledge compilation in the early modern period Lit, Münster 2003, ISBN 3-8258-7164-9 .

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Remarks

  1. ↑ See the reviews of Inge Mager in: Theologische Literaturzeitung October / 2006, Sp. 1079-1081 ( online ); Marian Füssel in: Zeitschrift für Historische Forschung 35 (2008), pp. 158–159; Johannes Wallmann in: Zeitschrift für Kirchengeschichte 116 (2005), pp. 273–275.
  2. ↑ See the reviews of Patrizio Foresta in: Sources and research from Italian archives and libraries 92 (2012), pp. 708–709 ( online ); Hillard von Thiessen in: Zeitschrift für Historische Forschung 39 (2012), pp. 494–496; Wolfgang Reinhard in: Zeitschrift für Kirchengeschichte 124 (2013), pp. 384–385; Britta Kägler in: Journal for Bavarian State History 75 (2012), pp. 630–631 ( online ).
  3. ↑ See the review by Hillard von Thiessen in: Zeitschrift für Historische Forschung 39 (2012), pp. 494–496, here: p. 496.
  4. ↑ See the reviews by Rainer Hering in: H-Soz-Kult , June 10, 2014, ( online ); Stephan Waldhoff in: Sehepunkte 14 (2014), No. 2 [15. February 2014], ( online ); Robert Kretzschmar in: Zeitschrift für Württembergische Landesgeschichte 74 (2015), pp. 507–509 ( online ); Jakob Wührer in: Mitteilungen des Institut für Österreichische Geschichtsforschung 123 (2015), pp. 154–157; Jürgen Treffeisen in: Zeitschrift für die Geschichte des Oberrheins 163 (2015), pp. 402–405 ( online ); Dietrich Höroldt in: Rheinische Vierteljahrsblätter 78 (2014), pp. 436–437 ( online ); Leopold Auer in: Scrinium. Journal of the Association of Austrian Archivists 70 (2016), pp. 176–177 ( online ); Volker Hirsch in: Nassauische Annalen 125 (2014), pp. 545–546; Hartwig Walberg in: Rottenburger Jahrbuch für Kirchengeschichte 34 (2015), pp. 281–282 ( online ); Norbert Ohler in: Schau-ins-Land. Annual journal of the Breisgau history association Schauinsland. 133 (2014), pp. 194-195 ( online ).
  5. ^ Markus Friedrich: The birth of the archive. A story of knowledge. Munich 2013, p. 26.
  6. ^ Markus Friedrich: The birth of the archive. A story of knowledge. Munich 2013, p. 14.
  7. ^ Markus Friedrich: The birth of the archive. A story of knowledge. Munich 2013, p. 27.
  8. ^ Markus Friedrich: The birth of the archive. A story of knowledge. Munich 2013, p. 15.
  9. ↑ See the review by Robert Kretzschmar in: Zeitschrift für Württembergische Landesgeschichte 74 (2015), pp. 507–509, here: p. 509 ( online ).
  10. ↑ See the reviews by Klaus Schatz : Three Jesuits, four opinions. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , December 10, 2016, No. 289, p. 12: Rudolf Neumaier: God's Scholars. The historian Markus Friedrich tells the story of the Jesuits. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung , November 29, 2016, pp. VP2 / 8; Martin Faber in: Historical magazine . 306 (2018), pp. 556-557; Patrizio Foresta in: Sources and research from Italian archives and libraries 97 (2017), pp. 424–426 ( online ); Norbert Jung in: Rottenburger Jahrbuch für Kirchengeschichte 37 (2018), pp. 264–266; Manfred Eder in: Journal for Church History 101 (1990), pp. 119–120.
personal data
SURNAME Friedrich, Markus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian and university professor at the University of Hamburg
DATE OF BIRTH June 30, 1974
PLACE OF BIRTH Ansbach