Matthias Meinhardt

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Matthias Meinhardt (* 1969 in Braunschweig ) is a German historian .

Life

Matthias Meinhardt studied history, social and economic sciences, philosophy and education at the Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel . From 1994 to 1999 he worked for the State Office for Archeology and State Museum for Prehistory of Saxony, for the Dresden City Archives and for the first Saxon state exhibition in the St. Marienstern Monastery . In 1999 Matthias Meinhardt moved to the Institute for History at the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg as a research assistant . There he received his doctorate in 2004 as Dr. phil. The subject of his dissertation was Dresden in Transition. Space and population of the city in the residence formation process of the 15th and 16th centuries .

In 2009 Matthias Meinhardt became research project coordinator at the Herzog August Library in Wolfenbüttel and at the same time lecturer at the professorship for Medieval History at the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg until 2017. Matthias Meinhardt has been the director and managing director of the Reformation History Research Library at Wittenberg Castle since 2016 . He became a member of the Saxony-Anhalt Historical Commission in 2018 .

Publications (selection)

  • Everyday life in the shadow of the courtyard. Facets of everyday bourgeois culture in Dresden in the 18th century . In: George Bähr . The Frauenkirche and civil building in Dresden. Catalog for the exhibition of the Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden and the State Office for the Preservation of Monuments in Saxony in the Georgenbau of the Dresden Castle from December 21, 2000 to March 4, 2001 , Dresden 2000, p. 126–130.
  • (with Andreas Ranft ) (Ed.): The social structure and social topography of pre-industrial cities. Contributions to a workshop at the Institute for History of the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg on January 27 and 28, 2000 (= Hall contributions to the history of the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Age, 1), Berlin 2005.
  • Dresden in transition. Space and population of the city in the residence formation process of the 15th and 16th centuries (= Halle contributions to the history of the Middle Ages and the early modern period, 4), Berlin, 2009.
  • (with Gerrit Deutschländer): The fragmented society. Political groupings in central German residential cities of the late Middle Ages and the early modern period . In: Jan Hirschbiegel , Werner Paravicini , Jörg Wettlaufer (eds.): Urban bourgeoisie and court society. Cultures of integrative and competing relationships in residential and capital cities from the 14th to the 19th century (= Residenzenforschung, 25), Ostfildern 2012, pp. 197–222.
  • Of signs and corpses. The royal seat of Dresden as a showroom for princes and courts in the 16th century . In: Gerrit Deutschländer, Marc von der Höh , Andreas Ranft (eds.): Symbolic interaction in the royal seat of the late Middle Ages and the early modern period (= Halle contributions to the history of the Middle Ages and the early modern period, 9), Berlin 2013, p. 171 -197.
  • (with Ulrike Gleixner, Martin H. Jung and Siegrid Westphal) (Ed.): Religion Power Politics. Court clergy in Europe in the early modern period (1500-1800) (= Wolfenbütteler Forschungen, 137), Wiesbaden 2014.
  • (Ed.): The Reformation History Research Library Wittenberg. An invitation , Halle (Saale), mdv, 2017.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Review by Katrin Keller
  2. ↑ Largest research library on the Reformation . In: Volksstimme of April 10, 2018.
personal data
SURNAME Meinhardt, Matthias
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian
DATE OF BIRTH 1969
PLACE OF BIRTH Braunschweig