Olaf Blaschke

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Olaf Blaschke (born May 29, 1963 in Bielefeld ) is a German historian . His research focuses on topics from modern and modern history, in particular the history of anti-Semitism , and the history of religion , the history of publishing, National Socialism , German-Jewish history and gender history.

Studies and academic career

Blaschke began his studies at Bielefeld University in 1983 , which he completed in 1991. During this time, he acquired the degree of Magister Artium and passed the state examination for teaching up to upper secondary level.

In 1996 he was in Bielefeld with the work of Catholicism and anti-Semitism in the German Empire at Hans-Ulrich Wehler doctorate . He then worked as a research assistant for modern and contemporary history with Lutz Raphael at the University of Trier . Since 2005 Blaschke has been a project manager in the Cluster of Excellence Social Dependencies and Social Networks . His project examines the networks of Catholic church and Catholicism researchers in the FRG . In 2006 he completed his habilitation with the work Publishers Make History. The book market and the field of historians since 1945 in a German-British comparison . In 2008 Blaschke took over the professorship for Andreas Gestrich in the field of modern history at the University of Trier . Since 2012 he has been a lecturer for modern and contemporary history at the Department of History at Heidelberg University. Since the summer semester of 2014, he has held a temporary W2 professorship for the history of the 19th and 20th centuries. Century with special consideration of the theory and methodology of the historical science at the Westphalian Wilhelms-Universität Münster .

From 2001 to 2002, Blaschke was a visiting scholar at the University of Cambridge and a visiting fellow at St. Catherine's College with a Feodor Lynen grant from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation . In 2003 he received a scholarship from the German Historical Institute in London. Afterwards he was visiting professor at the Swedish University of Lund from 2004 to 2005 .

Within the Cluster of Excellence Religion and Politics in Pre-Modern and Modern Cultures, which was funded from 2007 to 2017 , Blaschke heads the project Ultramontanism as a transnational and transatlantic phenomenon 1819–1918 during the second funding phase from 2012 to 2017 . In this context, he tries to apply theorems and methodological approaches of transnational history to the history of religions (especially Christianity ) in the 19th and 20th centuries.

Memberships

Awards

Fonts (selection)

  • Catholicism and anti-Semitism in the German Empire (= critical studies on historical science . Volume 122). Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht, Göttingen 1997; 2nd edition 1999, ISBN 3-525-35785-0 (also: dissertation).
  • Not the Church as such? Inquiries from a historian to the Vatican "Reflection on the Shoah". In: Sheets for German and international politics . Vol. 43, 1998, pp. 862-874.
  • Goldhagen and Hitler's willing Catholics between sensationalism and reality. A serious topic threatens to burn. In: Menorah. Yearbook for German-Jewish History. Volume 14, 2003, pp. 163-193.
  • ed. with Hagen Schulze : History and publishing in a spiral of crisis? An inspection of the field from a historical, international and economic perspective (= supplement of the historical journal . NF, volume 42). Munich 2006.
  • The market for contemporary history research: a plea for more empiricism. In: Contemporary historical research . Vol. 6, 2009, pp. 441-448 ( online ).
  • Publishers make history. Book trade and historians since 1945 in a German-British comparison. Wallstein-Verlag, Göttingen 2010; ISBN 978-3-8353-0757-5 .
  • The churches and National Socialism. Reclam, Stuttgart 2014, ISBN 978-3-15-019211-5 .
  • with Matthias Berg , Jens Thiel, Krijn Thijs: The assembled guild. Association of Historians and Historians' Days in Germany. 2 volumes. Wallstein Verlag, Göttingen 2018, ISBN 3-8353-3294-5 .

Web links

Footnotes

  1. ^ Website at the University of Münster .
  2. Cf. on the biographical information z. B. his curriculum vitae on the website of Heidelberg University, see web links.
  3. uni-trier.de website at the University of Trier .
  4. www.uni-muenster.de: Task definition of the project , accessed on June 29, 2016.
  5. www.katholizismusforschung.de .
  6. www.uni-muenster.de .
  7. Annual Report 2004 (PDF), website of the Anniversary Fund of the Swedish Reichsbank, accessed on November 18, 2014.
  8. Review by Armin Owzar in the history portal H-Soz-Kult , published on January 13, 2000; Retrieved February 19, 2017.