Michaela Schmölz-Häberlein

Michaela Schmölz-Häberlein (born December 2, 1964 as Michaela Schmölz in Augsburg) is a German historian who primarily deals with the ( Jewish ) history of the early modern period .

Life

Born in Augsburg, she studied medieval , modern and non-European history as well as modern German linguistics at the University of Augsburg and the Universidad del Valle de Guatemala from 1985 to 1990 . After completing her master's degree , she studied at the University of Freiburg i. Br. With a thesis on the modernization of the Guatemalan state under Jorge Ubico doctorate . In 2011, finally habilitated them at the Chemnitz University of Technology with a thesis on female and male worlds in Emmendingen of the 18th century . 2013 they settled at the University of Bamberg umhabilitieren .

Until 2010 Schmölz-Häberlein worked temporarily as a freelance historian, academic employee at various institutes, teacher at schools and the like. busy. She was there u. a. in Karlsruhe , Augsburg and at the Pennsylvania State University . From 2010 to 2013 she held a teaching position at the professorship for Jewish studies at the University of Bamberg. During this time she also took on a visiting professorship at the University of Bayreuth . Since 2013 she has been teaching in Bamberg as a private lecturer at the chair for modern history, including regional history. In the summer semester of 2016, she took on the substitute professorship for basic historical sciences at Otto-Friedrich-Universität, which she continued in the winter semester of 2016/17. In the summer semester of 2017 she was appointed adjunct professor . Her research interests include not only Jewish history, but also gender history, research into the history of religious minorities, and Atlantic and Latin American history.

Schmölz-Häberlein lives in Bamberg and is married to the historian Mark Häberlein , who also teaches at the University of Bamberg. The couple have two grown children.

Theory and effect

In her micro-historical work, Schmölz-Häberlein uses less the predominant functionalist and structuralist approaches, especially in gender history, but a gender-specific perspective. In her work on female and male living environments in the 18th century, she evaluates a wide range of sources, from marriage and purchase contracts to wills and inheritance inventories and secular and ecclesiastical court records. She also uses selected biographies of women from different strata of society and works out commonalities. Thanks to her fact-saturated analyzes, she achieves a dense description of the micro-historical connections of the corresponding time period and thus shows how a micro-historical study enables an enrichment of the macro level.

In her work, Jews in Bamberg 1633-1802 / 03 it defines the living conditions and scope for action of the Jewish minority and the Christian-Jewish co-existence is in the study shows the potential of micro-historical studies on that to correct some essential '. Master Narratives ' of modern History contributed.

Fonts (selection)

• The limits of caudillismo. The modernization of the Guatemalan state under Jorge Ubico 1931-1944. A regional historical study using the example of Alta Verapaz. (= European university publications series III, history and its auxiliary sciences 567 ), Frankfurt a. M. u. a. 1993 (dissertation), ISBN 978-3-631-46091-7 .
• Jews in Bamberg 1633–1802/03 . Living conditions and scope for action of an urban minority. (= Judaism - Christianity - Islam. Interreligious Studies 11 ; also publications by the Bamberg City Archives 18 ), Würzburg 2014, ISBN 3-95650-019-9 .
• Small town society (s). Female and male living environments in Emmendingen in the 18th century. (= VSWG-Beihefte 220 ), Stuttgart 2012 (habilitation thesis), ISBN 978-3-515-10239-1 .
• (with Mark Häberlein) Adalbert Friedrich Marcus (1753-1816) - A Bamberg doctor between enlightened reforms and romantic medicine. (= City and region in the pre-modern era 5 ), Würzburg 2016, ISBN 978-3-95650-134-0 .
• (with Mark Häberlein) The heirs of the Welser. The Caribbean trade of the Augsburg company Obwexer in the age of revolutions. (= Swabian Research Association at the Commission for Bavarian State History, Series 1 21 ), Würzburg 2014, ISBN 3-928898-80-9 .
• (with Mark Häberlein) The medical library of Adalbert Friedrich Marcus. Private book ownership and medical knowledge in Bamberg around 1800 . (= Bamberg Historical Studies 15 ), Bamberg 2016, ISBN 978-3-86309-429-4 .

Web links

• Profile Michaela Schmölz-Häberlein on the website of the Chair for Modern History, including the regional history of the University of Bamberg

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Wolfgang Dobras: Review of: Female and male life widths in Emmendingen of the 18th century (quarterly for social and economic history. Supplements, 220) . In: Duncker & Humblot GmbH (Hrsg.): Journal for historical research . Vol. 42, no. 3, 2015, p. 582-583 .