Michael Busch (historian)

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Michael Busch (born October 7, 1961 ) is a German historian .

Life

Busch studied history , public law and Scandinavian studies (Swedish and Danish) at the University of Hamburg (MA 1990). As a DAAD research fellow , he spent 1992 in Stockholm , Sweden. In 1998 he was at Kersten Krüger about the Swedish military and social system at the University of Rostock to Dr. phil. PhD. In 2000 he received the Werner Hahlweg Prize for Military History and Defense Sciences (3rd prize) for his dissertation .

From 1990 to 2005 he was a research assistant or assistant to Eckardt Opitz at the Department of History at the University of the Federal Armed Forces in Hamburg . In 2010 he completed his habilitation there on the history of the Mecklenburg estates from 1755 to 1806. Since then he has been a private lecturer in modern and contemporary history. In 2012/13 he was a substitute lecturer for history didactics at the Historical Institute of the University of Rostock. 2016 he was at the Helmut Schmidt University to Professor appointed. Since 2017 he has been a scholarship holder of the THEORIA - Kurt von Fritz Science Program. His main research interests are in the areas of national history, historical geography and military history.

He was a consultant for productions ( ZDF , WDR , NDR ) such as “With God's blessing in hell. The Thirty Years' War ”and coordinator of several projects funded by the German Research Foundation and the State of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania. In addition, from 2003 to 2004 he was a conceptual employee of the exhibition “The Third Elbe Duchy” in the Prinzenpalais in Schleswig.

Busch is a member of the International Commission for Military History , the Working Group Military and Society in the Early Modern Era , the Hamburg Working Group for Regional History, the Society for Schleswig-Holstein History and the Association for Mecklenburg History and Archeology .

Fonts (selection)

Monographs

  • Absolutism and Army Reform. Sweden's military at the end of the 17th century (= Europe in History , Volume 4). Winkler, Bochum 2000, ISBN 3-930083-58-2 .
  • Striving for power - class awareness - lust for conflict. State rule and estates in Mecklenburg from 1755 to 1806 (= sources and studies from the state archives of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania , Volume 13). Böhlau, Cologne a. a. 2013, ISBN 978-3-412-20957-5 .

Editorships

  • with Jörg Hillmann : nobility - clergy - military. Festschrift for Eckardt Opitz on the occasion of his 60th birthday (= series of publications by the Duchy of Lauenburg Foundation , special volume). Winkler, Bochum 1999, ISBN 3-930083-07-8 .
  • Terra et Mars. Aspects of national and military history. Festschrift for Eckhardt Opitz on his 65th birthday . Wachholtz, Neumünster 2003, ISBN 3-529-02061-3 .
  • with Stefan Kroll , Jens E. Olesen , Martin Schoebel , Reinhard Zölitz: The Swedish land survey of Pomerania 1692–1709. Perspectives of an edition project. Contributions from the workshop on October 9th and 10th, 2009 in the Pomeranian State Museum Greifswald . On behalf of the Historical Commission for Pomerania. Ludwig, Kiel 2011, ISBN 978-3-86935-050-9 .
  • with Stefan Kroll, Rembrandt D. Scholz: History - Cartography - Demography. Historical-geographical information systems in methodological comparison (= history, research and science, volume 45). LIT, Berlin a. a. 2013, ISBN 978-3-643-12347-3 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. a b Michael Busch: Absolutism and Army Reform , 2000, p. 9.