Matthias Pohlig

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Matthias Pohlig (born December 23, 1973 in Westerstede ) is a German historian .

Matthias Pohlig studied modern and contemporary history, modern German literature and philosophy at the universities in Göttingen , Strasbourg and at the HU Berlin . From 2001 to 2004 he received a doctoral scholarship from the Gerda Henkel Foundation in the project “Research on European Humanism”. From 2004 to 2006 he was a research assistant in the Collaborative Research Center 640 "Representations of Social Orders in Transition" at the HU Berlin. He received his doctorate in 2005 with a thesis supervised by Heinz Schilling and Johannes Helmrath . From 2006 to 2010 he was assistant at the chair for the early modern period of Schilling at the Institute for History at the HU Berlin. From 2010 he was junior professor for early modern history at the Westphalian Wilhelms University in Münster . In November 2015 he was awarded the Venia Legendi for Modern and Contemporary History at the University of Münster. From 2017 he had a temporary W2 professorship there. Since 2018 he has been teaching as professor for European history of the early modern period at the HU Berlin.

His main research interests are Reformation and denominational research, diplomacy and espionage in the early modern period, the history of historiography, the history of ideas and culture in the early modern period and the theory of history. His dissertation was devoted to Lutheran historiography. His two leading questions are: “How and why did German Lutherans write history in the 16th and early 17th centuries? And to what extent is your history related to your denomination? ”In his habilitation he devoted himself to the structures and functions in the War of the Spanish Succession . The study is interested “in general for the acquisition of primarily foreign policy information, but also for domestic policy, English information acquisition, namely when it is linked to the foreign policy dimension”. In addition, the examined material is intended to provide an insight into "the structures of information acquisition in the early modern period". He is a board member of the Association for the History of the Reformation and co-editor of the journal for historical research .

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Monographs

  • Marlborough's secret. Structures and functions of information acquisition in the War of the Spanish Succession (= Externa. History of external relations in new perspectives. Vol. 10). Böhlau, Cologne 2016, ISBN 3-412-50550-1 .
  • Between scholarship and confessional identity. Lutheran church and universal historiography 1546–1617 (= Late Middle Ages and Reformation. Texts and investigations. New series, vol. 37). Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen 2007, ISBN 3-16-149191-2 .

Editorships

  • with Michael Schaich: The War of the Spanish Succession. New Perspectives (= Studies of the German Historical Institute London ). Oxford University Press, Oxford 2018, ISBN 978-0-19-881112-1 .
  • Reformation. Basic texts (= basic texts early modern times. Vol. 2). Steiner, Stuttgart 2015, ISBN 978-3-515-10925-3 .
  • with Christian Jaser, Ute Lotz-Heumann: Old Europe - Premodern - New Time. Epochs and Dynamics of European History (1200–1800) (= Journal for Historical Research. Supplement 46). Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3-428-13867-8 .
  • Theory in History. Insights into the practice of historical research (= own and strange worlds. Representations of changing social orders. Vol. 7). Campus-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main et al. 2008, ISBN 978-3-593-38662-1 .

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Remarks

  1. ↑ Kürschner's German Scholar Calendar Online .
  2. ↑ See the reviews by Anja Kürbis in: H-Soz-Kult , November 29, 2007, ( online ); Harald Boll Buck in: sehepunkte 9 (2009), No. 12 [15.. December 2009], ( online ); Adolf Laminski in: Zeitschrift für Geschichtswwissenschaft 56 (2008), pp. 769–770; Markus Friedrich in: Zeitschrift für Kirchengeschichte 120 (2009), pp. 258–259.
  3. ^ Matthias Pohlig: Between erudition and confessional identity. Lutheran church and universal historiography 1546–1617. Tübingen 2007, p. 3.
  4. ↑ See the reviews by Sven Externbrink in: H-Soz-Kult , September 18, 2018, ( online ); Peter H. Wilson in: Journal for Historical Research 45 (2018), pp. 200–202 ( online ).
  5. ^ Matthias Pohlig: Marlborough's secret. Structures and functions of information gathering in the War of the Spanish Succession. Cologne 2016, p. 16.
personal data
SURNAME Pohlig, Matthias
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian
DATE OF BIRTH 23rd December 1973
PLACE OF BIRTH Westerstede