Olaf Mörke

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Olaf Mörke (born March 14, 1952 in Weilburg ) is a German historian .

Olaf Mörke studied history, political science and education at the Philipps University in Marburg from 1970 to 1976 . The first state examination took place in 1976. With Thomas Klein he received his doctorate in 1983 with the work Council and Citizens in the Reformation. Social groups and church change in the Welf Hanseatic cities of Lüneburg, Braunschweig and Göttingen . In 1994 he completed his habilitation on the subject of 'Stadtholder' or 'Staetholder'? The role of the House of Orange and its court in the political culture of the Republic of the United Netherlands in the 17th century . From 1986 to 1996 Mörke worked as a research assistant, research assistant and senior assistant at the University of Giessen . Since 1996 he has been a professor of early modern history at the Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel . From 2002 to 2010 he was the spokesperson for the graduate school “Imaginatio borealis”. From 2011 to 2012 he was a guest scholar at the Center for Transnational History at the University of St Andrews .

His main research interests are the social history of the Reformation, the history of the city, the history of the early modern Netherlands, the comparison of republican political cultures in early modern Europe and collective identities. Mörke is a recognized expert on the Dutch Orange dynasty. In 2007 he presented a biography of William of Orange and thus provided an overview of Wilhelm's political role and its significance for Dutch and European history.

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Monographs

  • The seas of siblings. A history of the North and Baltic Sea region. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 2015, ISBN 978-3-17-020427-0 .
  • William of Orange (1533–1584). Prince and "father" of the republic (= Kohlhammer-Urban pocket books. Vol. 609). Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 2007, ISBN 978-3-17-017669-0 .
  • The Reformation. Requirements and implementation (= Encyclopedia of German History. Vol. 74). Oldenbourg, Munich 2005, ISBN 3-486-55027-6 .
  • “Stadtholder” or “Staetholder”? The function of the House of Orange and its court in the political culture of the Republic of the United Netherlands in the 17th century (= Netherlands Studies. Vol. 11). Lit, Münster 1997, ISBN 3-8258-2280-X (at the same time: Gießen, Universität, habilitation paper, 1994).
  • Council and Citizens in the Reformation. Social groups and ecclesiastical change in the Guelph Hanseatic cities of Lüneburg, Braunschweig and Göttingen (= publications by the Institute for Historical Research at the University of Göttingen. Vol. 19). Lax, Hildesheim 1983, ISBN 3-7848-3649-6 (at the same time: Marburg, University, dissertation, 1980/1981).

Editorships

  • with Michael North : The emergence of modern Europe 1600–1900. (Lectures at the Fifth Salzau Colloquium on May 13 and 14, 1996) (= Economic and Social History Studies. Vol. 7). Böhlau, Cologne et al. 1998, ISBN 3-412-06097-6 .

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Remarks

  1. ↑ See the review by Anuschka Tischer in: Hessisches Jahrbuch für Landesgeschichte 58 (2008), pp. 251-253.
personal data
SURNAME Mörke, Olaf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH March 14, 1952
PLACE OF BIRTH Weilburg