Martin Rheinheimer

Martin Rheinheimer (* 1960 in Reinbek near Hamburg) is a German historian in Denmark .

In 1989 he received his Dr. phil., in 1998 he completed his habilitation at the University of Kiel . Originally a medieval historian, around 1990 he turned to the social and economic history of the early modern period, with the former Duchy of Schleswig and neighboring areas in Holstein , Jutland and Funen forming the geographical framework. In his research he combines qualitative and quantitative methods. In recent years he has mostly dealt with the economic and social history of the cross-border Wadden Sea region and has written five monographs that start from the micro-historical point of view on the island of Amrum . After three biographical works on the former slave and general in Algeria Hark Olufs (2001), the former slave and later slave trader Hark Nickelsen (2010) and the bunk man Cornelius Peters (2007), a large-scale structural history of the maritime society on Amrum appeared in 2016 on the basis of serial sources the peculiarities and networks of a seafaring society are represented. As a preliminary work, he published the gender series on the island of Amrum in 2010 . Now he has turned to the Halligen and has already published a book about the world of a seafaring couple.

Martin Rheinheimer has been a professor at the Syddansk Universitet in Esbjerg (Denmark) since 1999, where he has held the chair for maritime and regional history since 2007, and in 2013 he was transferred from there to the campus in Odense . From 2006 to 2013 he was also director of the Center for Maritime og Regionale Studier , a research collaboration between Syddansk Universitet and Fiskeri- og Søfartsmuseet in Esbjerg. Since 2016 he has been the full-time director of the Institute for History at the Syddansk Universitet.

Martin Rheinheimer was active as secretary (1992–2000), spokesman for the editorial team (since 2004) and deputy spokesman (since 2008) for the Working Group for Economic and Social History in Schleswig-Holstein . For the working group he edited the "Bibliography on the Economic and Social History of Schleswig-Holstein" (published 1997) and edited several anthologies: Subjective Worlds (1998), The Passage through the World (2001), Written Form and Identity (2004), Borders in the history of Schleswig-Holstein and Denmark (2006) as well as humans and the sea in the history of Schleswig-Holstein and southern Denmark (2010), from the middle of the country (with Detlev Kraack, 2013).

Martin Rheinheimer has also emerged as a landscape photographer and has published three illustrated books on the Danish coasts, especially West Jutland. In his last historical works about the Atlantic Wall and Amrum, he combines history and photography.

Historical publications

• The Crusader Principality of Galilee (= Kiel Workpieces. Series C, Vol. 1). Lang, Frankfurt am Main / Bern / New York / Paris 1990, ISBN 3-631-42703-4 (At the same time: Kiel, University, dissertation, 1989: Studies on the Crusader Principality of Galilee. ).
• The village regulations in the Duchy of Schleswig. Village and authorities in the early modern period (= sources and research on agricultural history. Vol. 46, 2). Volume 2. Lucius and Lucius, Stuttgart 1999. ISBN 3-8282-0088-5 (At the same time: Kiel, University, habilitation paper, 1998).
• Poor, beggars and vagabonds. Survival in need 1450-1850 (= Fischer 60131 European history ). Fischer-Taschenbuch-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2000, ISBN 3-596-60131-2 .
• The foreign son. Hark Olufs' return from slavery (= North Frisian sources and studies. Vol. 3). Wachholtz, Neumünster 2001, ISBN 3-529-02775-8 .
• The bunk man. Man and nature in the Wadden Sea 1860-1900 (= North Frisian sources and studies. Vol. 7). Wachholtz, Neumünster 2007, ISBN 978-3-529-02776-5 .
• Sex series of the island of Amrum. 1694-1918 (= sources on the economic and social history of Schleswig-Holstein. Vol. 8). Quedens, Norddorf / Amrum 2010, ISBN 978-3-924422-87-5 .
• Among slaves and pirates. The adventurous story of the Amrum captain Hark Nickelsen. Quedens, Norddorf / Amrum 2010, ISBN 978-3-924422-92-9 .
• The island and the sea. Seafaring and society on Amrum 1700-1860. Franz Steiner, Stuttgart 2016, ISBN 978-3-515-11144-7 .
• Ipke and Angens. The world of a North Frisian shipper and his wife (1787−1801). Franz Steiner, Stuttgart 2016, ISBN 978-3-515-11432-5 .

Photo books

• Martin Rheinheimer: Hvor has ender. Billeder fra den jyske vestkyst = Where the sea ends. Pictures from the west coast of Jutland. Fiskeri- og Søfartsmuseets Forlag, Esbjerg 2003, ISBN 87-90982-17-7 .
• Martin Rheinheimer: The west coast of Jutland = Jyllands Vestkyst. En billedrejse. Wachholtz, Neumünster 2005, ISBN 3-529-02494-5 .
• Lulu Anne Hansen / Martin Rheinheimer (eds.): Bunkers. Atlantvoldens perspective i Danmark. Syddansk Universitetsforlag, Odense 2014, ISBN 978-87-7674-773-2 .
• Martin Rheinheimer: Eventyrets kyster. Billeder fra hav og strand = fairytale coasts. Pictures of the sea and the beach. = Fairy Tale Coasts. Pictures from Sea and Beach. Fiskeri- og Søfartsmuseets Forlag, Esbjerg 2018, ISBN 978-87-90-982-8-50 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Martin Rheinheimer in the catalog of the German National Library