Michael Sikora

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Michael Sikora (* 1961 ) is a German historian . He is an adjunct professor at the Westphalian Wilhelms University in Münster.

Life

Sikora studied history and German at the University of Cologne (MA 1989) and the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich . In 1994 he was with Johannes Kunisch in Cologne with the dissertation Discipline and Desertion. Structural problems of military organization in the 18th century for Dr. phil. for which he was awarded the Werner Hahlweg Prize for Military History and Defense Sciences (2nd Prize) in 1996.

Then he was a research assistant at the Westphalian Wilhelms University in Münster. In 2004 he completed his habilitation with the thesis "Mausdreck mit Pfeffer". The problem of unequal marriages in the German nobility of the early modern period and became a private lecturer . He is currently an adjunct professor at the Department of History at the University of Münster. Sikora published in such journals as Journal of Historical Research , Science and Peace, and History and Society . He is also a research assistant at the Scharnhorst edition.

Selected reception

His work Discipline and Desertion , published by Duncker & Humblot . Structural problems of military organization in the 18th century were reviewed in 1997 by the historian Ralf Pröve in the historical journal : “The work, clearly written over long stretches, represents an important contribution to modern desertion research; It remains to be hoped that further, more empirically socio-historical studies will deal with the results of the Vf. in the next few years. "

The pedagogue Dieter Wunder reviewed his book The Adel in the Early Modern Era 2009 on H-Soz-u-Kult with: “With a very knowledgeable and balanced presentation, Sikora succeeded in writing an easy-to-read, sometimes exciting book that stimulates and sets interesting priorities. So it became more than an introduction. It would have been desirable that the publisher would have had Sikora commented on the 26 source excerpts enclosed with the text. Unfortunately there are no photo references. "

In the same year, the historian Walter Demel commented on Sehepunkte : “He not only dealt with a very broad spectrum of topics and also presented an almost complete list of the latest literature. Above all, he has written a book that is worth reading, one that has less strength in abstraction or precise legal naming, but all the more in descriptive and concrete terms. "

Fonts (selection)

  • Discipline and desertion. Structural problems of military organization in the 18th century (= historical research , volume 57). Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1996, ISBN 3-428-08543-4 .
  • ed. with Ulrich Bröckling : Armies and their deserters. Neglected chapters of modern military history (= Vandenhoeck collection ). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 1998, ISBN 3-525-01365-5 .
  • with Tilman Stieve: Gerhard von Scharnhorst. Private and official publications . 7 volumes, Böhlau, Cologne 2002–2013.
  • The nobility in the early modern era (= compact history ). Scientific Book Society, Darmstadt 2009, ISBN 978-3-534-17366-2 .
  • ed. with Tim Neu, Thomas Weller: Celebrate and negotiate. On the practice of corporate institutions in early modern Europe (= symbolic communication and social value systems , volume 27). Rhema, Münster 2009, ISBN 978-3-930454-92-1 .
  • ed. with Marian Füssel : cultural history of the battle (= war in history , 78). Schöningh, Paderborn 2013, ISBN 978-3-506-77736-2 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Michael Schmidtke: The departure of the young intelligentsia. The 68s in the Federal Republic of Germany and the USA (= historical studies , volume 34). Campus, Frankfurt am Main 2003, ISBN 3-593-37253-3 , p. 356.
  2. ↑ Michael Sikora: Discipline and Desertion , Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1996, p. 4 f.
  3. ^ Ralf Pröve : Discipline and desertion. Structural Problems of Military Organization in the 18th Century by Michael Sikora . In: Historische Zeitschrift 264 (1997) 2, pp. 489-491.
  4. ↑ Dieter Wunder : Sikora, Michael: The nobility in the early modern times. Darmstadt 2009 . In: H-Soz-u-Kult , November 19, 2009.
  5. ^ Walter Demel : Michael Sikora: The nobility in the early modern times . In: Sehepunkte 9 (2009), No. 9.
personal data
SURNAME Sikora, Michael
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian
DATE OF BIRTH 1961