Markus Völkel
Markus Völkel (born June 18, 1953 in Bayreuth ) is a German historian and taught as a professor at the University of Rostock until 2016 .
After studying history, philosophy and English from 1973 in Tübingen and Munich, he received his doctorate in 1983 under Hans Schmidt and Arno Seifert on "Historical Skepticism" ( Pyrrhonism ) in Germany. Then in 1984/85 he worked at the Augsburg City Archives (exhibition “ Elias Holl ”). From 1985 to 1990 he was a research assistant and DFG habilitation fellow at the German Historical Institute in Rome . In 1991, he completed his habilitation on “Roman Cardinal Families of the 17th Century” in Augsburg with Wolfgang Reinhard . After serving as a professor at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich , he was appointed to a professorship for “European intellectual history and historical methodology” at the University of Rostock in 1994 and in 2016 he retired. He is a founding member of the DFG Network Historiography of the Early Modern Age (Cliographie.net).
Fonts (selection)
- "Pyrrhonismus historicus" and "fides historica". The development of German historical methodology from the point of view of historical skepticism (Europäische Hochschulschriften III, Bd. 313), Diss., Frankfurt a. M. 1987
- Roman cardinal households of the 17th century. Borghese - Barberini - Chigi (Library of the German Historical Institute in Rome, vol. 74), Tübingen 1993
- The truth has many faces. The historian, collector and satirist Paolo Giovio (1486-1552) and his portrait of Rome in the High Renaissance (lectures by the Aeneas Silvius Foundation at the University of Basel), Schwabe, Basel 1999
- Historiography. An introduction to a global perspective , Böhlau Verlag, Cologne / Weimar / Vienna 2006, ISBN 978-3825226923
- with Hanno-Walter Kruft (ed.): Ferdinand Gregorovius . Roman Diaries 1852-1889 , Munich 1991
- with Ralph Häfner (ed.): The Commentary in the Early Modern Age (= Early Modern Age 115), Tübingen 2006
- with Arno Strohmeyer (ed.): Historiography at European courts (16th-18th centuries). Studies on the court as a place of production of historiography and historical representation (= Journal for Historical Research , Supplement 43), Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2009, ISBN 978-3-428-13095-5
Web links
- Literature by and about Markus Völkel in the catalog of the German National Library
- Entry on Markus Völkel in the Catalogus Professorum Rostochiensium
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|---|---|
| SURNAME | Völkel, Markus |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German historian and university professor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 18, 1953 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Bayreuth |