Monika Neugebauer-Wölk

Monika Neugebauer-Wölk (born on November 13, 1946 in Berlin ) is a German historian and professor emeritus for the history of the early modern period at the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg .

Life

Monika Wölk studied history and German literature at the Free University of Berlin from 1966 to 1971 and was then a research assistant at the Historical Commission in Berlin , where she was the manager from 1988/1989. In 1978 she received her doctorate at the Free University of Berlin with a thesis on the development of political education in the Prussian elementary school of the 19th century and in 1989 she also completed her habilitation there. From 1989 to 1992 she was a substitute professor in the field of early modern history at the Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg . In 1993 she was given a professorship for history from the 16th to 18th centuries, then in the same field of work at the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg. Since 1994 she has been a member of the board of directors of the Interdisciplinary Center for Research on the European Enlightenment in Halle and temporarily its managing director.

Her research focus is society research , especially the history of esoteric movements in the early modern period, where she supervised the work of Holger Zaunstöck and Renko D. Geffarth . In addition, she worked as the editor of several compilations on the subject of enlightenment and esotericism and the correspondence of the Order of Illuminati .

Fonts

• The Prussian elementary school graduate as Reichstag voter 1871–1912. A contribution to historical electoral research in Germany. (= Individual publications by the Historical Commission in Berlin , 28). Berlin 1980 (At the same time: Dissertation, FU Berlin, 1978, under the title The Development of Political Education in the Prussian Elementary School of the 19th Century .)
• Generations of voters in Prussia between the Empire and the Republic. Attempt to solve a problem of the continuity of Protestant Prussia in its core provinces. (= Individual publications by the Historical Commission in Berlin , 55). Berlin 1987.
• Revolution and Constitution - The Cotta brothers. A biographical study of the era of the French Revolution and the pre-March period. (= Individual publications of the Historical Commission in Berlin , 69). Berlin 1989.
• Imperial Justice and Enlightenment. The Reich Chamber of Commerce in the Illuminati network. (= Series of publications by the Society for Research on the Reich Chamber of Justice , issue 14). Wetzlar 1993.
• Esoteric leagues and civil society. Lines of development to the modern world in the secret society of the 18th century . (= Small writings on the Enlightenment , edited by the Lessing Academy Wolfenbüttel, 8). Goettingen 1995.
• with Markus Meumann and Holger Zaunstöck: 25 years of the German Society for Research in the 18th Century. On the history of a scientific association (1975–2000). Wolfenbüttel 2000.

as editor:

• with Otto Büsch and Wolfgang Wölk: Voter Movement in German History. Analyzes and reports on the Reichstag elections 1871–1933. Berlin 1978.
• with Otto Büsch: Prussia and the revolutionary challenge since 1789 . (= Publications of the Historical Commission in Berlin , 78). Berlin & New York 1991.
• with Richard Saage : The politicization of the utopian in the 18th century. From the Early Enlightenment to the Age of Revolution. (= Hallesche's contributions to the European Enlightenment , 4). Tubingen 1996.
• Enlightenment and esotericism. Studies on the eighteenth century 24. Hamburg 1999.
• Arcane worlds in a political context (= Enlightenment. Interdisciplinary yearbook for research into the 18th century and its history of impact , 15). Hamburg 2003.
• with Reinhard Markner and Hermann Schüttler: The Correspondence of the Illuminati Order. Vol. 1: 1776-1781. Tübingen 2005.
• Enlightenment and esotericism. Reception - integration - confrontation. Tübingen 2008.

Web links

• Prof. Dr. Monika Neugebauer-Wölk , University of Halle

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Kürschner's German Scholars Calendar online, accessed on October 8, 2015.