Martin Knoll (historian)

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Martin Knoll at a graduation and graduation ceremony of the University of Salzburg (2019)

Martin Knoll (born July 18, 1969 in Kempten (Allgäu) ) is a German historian .

Life

After studying history and German at the University of Regensburg (MA 1997, first state examination for teaching at grammar school 1998), Knoll was awarded a dissertation in 2003 with the dissertation “Environment - Rule - Society. The sovereign hunt of spa Bavaria in the 18th century ”in the subject of history. In 2013, he completed his habilitation in Faculty 2 (Social and Historical Science) at the Technical University of Darmstadt with the study “The nature of the human world. Settlement, Territory and Environment in the Historical-Topographical Literature of the Early Modern Era ”. After working as a research associate and research assistant at the University of Regensburg (2001–2007) and the TU Darmstadt (2007–2012, WS 2013/14) and a visiting professorship in the summer semester 2013 at the Institute for Social Ecology Vienna (at that time part of the University of Klagenfurt ) Knoll received an appointment as Professor of European Regional history at the Paris-Lodron - University of Salzburg . He took up the professorship in the 2014 winter semester. Since 2017 he has been the deputy dean and since 2019 the office of dean of the Faculty of Culture and Social Sciences at the University of Salzburg.

Knolls research interests are in the areas of regional history , history of tourism , environmental history , local history / history of the city-hinterland relationships and cultural history of the early modern period . In 2007 he and Verena Winiwarter published the textbook “Environmental History. An introduction. ”In the 2009/2010 winter semester, Knoll was a Carson Fellow at the Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society at LMU and the Deutsches Museum in Munich. Since 2015 he has been the regional representative of the German-speaking countries in the European Society for Environmental History (ESEH) and since 2018 founding chairman of the Network Environmental History Austria / Environmental History Cluster Austria (EHCA). Knoll is co-editor of the publication series "Environmental History Research", he is a member of the board of the Society for Salzburg Regional Studies, is a member of the editorial board of the "Yearbook for the History of Rural Areas" and the scientific advisory board of the "Journal for Tourism Science".

Fonts (selection)

  • “Environment - domination - society. The sovereign hunting of spa Bavaria in the 18th century ”, St. Katharinen : Scripta Mercaturae 2004 (= Studies on Modern History 4), ISBN 978-3895901515
  • "Environmental history. An introduction ”, Cologne among others: Böhlau 2007 (UTB 2521) (with Verena Winiwarter ), ISBN 978-3825225216
  • “The nature of the human world. Settlement, Territory and Environment in the Historical-Topographical Literature of the Early Modern Age ”, Bielefeld : transcript 2013 (= Histoire 42), ISBN 978-3-8376-2356-7
  • “An Environmental History of the Early Modern Period. Experiments and Perspectives ”, Vienna : LIT Verlag 2014 (= Austria: Research and Science - History 10) (edited with Reinhold Reith ), ISBN 978-3-643-90463-8
  • “Rivers lost - Rivers Regained. Rethinking City-River-Relations ”, Pittsburgh : University of Pittsburgh Press 2017 (= History of the urban environment series) (ed. With Uwe Lübken and Dieter Schott ), ISBN 978-0-8229-4459-1
  • “Concepts of Urban-Environmental History”, Bielefeld : transcript 2020 (= Environmental and Climate History 1) (ed. With Sebastian Haumann and Detlev Mares), ISBN 978-3-8376-4375-6
  • “Transformative Recovery? The European Recovery Program (ERP) / Marshall Plan in European Tourism ”, Innsbruck : Innsbruck University Press 2020 (ed. With Robert Groß and Katharina Scharf), ISBN 978-3-99106-000-0

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Knoll, Martin. In: Kürschner's German Scholars Calendar Online. degruyter.com, accessed on June 27, 2020 (founded by Joseph Kürschner , constantly updated, restricted online edition).
personal data
SURNAME Knoll, Martin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian
DATE OF BIRTH 18th July 1969
PLACE OF BIRTH Kempten (Allgäu)