Oliver Janz

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Oliver Janz (born August 6, 1960 in Heidelberg ) is a German historian and professor of modern history at the Free University of Berlin .

Life

Oliver Janz studied history, philosophy and sociology in Heidelberg , Bielefeld and Berlin from 1978 to 1985 as a scholarship holder of the German National Academic Foundation . In 1985 he received a scholarship from the Fondation Maison des Sciences de l'Homme and completed his studies with a Magister artium . From 1985 to 1987 he was a research assistant at the exhibition “Sciences in Berlin” and from 1986 to 1989 for the Historical Commission in Berlin . In 1990 a scholarship from the FAZIT Foundation followed . In 1991 he was at Hartmut Kaelble at the Free University of Berlin with a thesis on the history of Protestant pastor in Prussia from 1850 to 1914 for Dr. phil. PhD.

In 1991/92 he was a research assistant at the Ruhr University in Bochum , from 1992 to 1995 at the department for comparative social history in Berlin and in 1993/94 at the German Historical Museum . Between 1995 and 2005 he worked as a research assistant and a scholarship from the German Research Foundation at the Department of Jürgen Kocka at the Free University of Berlin, where he in 2005 with a thesis on Italian cult favor during World War habilitated . In 2006/07 he was visiting professor at the Free University of Berlin. In 2007 Janz became professor for modern history . In the following years he was also a visiting professor in Trento (2009), in Bern (2010) and at the German Historical Institute in Rome (2010/11). In 2013, Janz turned down an offer for a professorship for modern history at the University of Trento .

Janz belongs to the Advisory Boards u. a. the Historial de la Grande Guerre , the Graduate School “Entre Espacios. Movimientos, Actores y Representaciones de la Globalización / Between Spaces. Movements, Actors and Representations of Globalization ”, the German Historical Museum and the“ Officina della Storia. Rivista online di storia del tempo presente “( University of Tuscia ). He is also president of the German section of the Istituto per la Storia del Risorgimento Italiano in Rome. He has been a member of the advisory board of Mondo Contemporaneo magazine since 2005 . Rivista di Storia (Franco Angeli publishing house). He is also co-editor of the book series Italy in der Moderne ( Böhlau Verlag ) and Le ragioni di Clio (Pacini Editore) as well as the magazines Mondo Contemporaneo. Rivista di Storia , Percorsi Storici and Annali della Facoltà di Studi Umanistici dell'Università degli Studi di Milano . He also acts as editor in chief from 1914–1918 online . International Encyclopedia of the First World War .

His work focuses on the history of the European bourgeoisie, nation and nationalism in Europe, military history, history of the First World War, history of mentality and religion, church history, family and gender history, history of Italy and the Mediterranean, and theories and methods of transnational history.

Research projects

Publications

Monographs
  • Citizen of a special kind. Evangelical pastor in Prussia 1850–1914 . Berlin, New York 1994 (= publications of the Historical Commission in Berlin. Vol. 87).
  • The symbolic capital of mourning. Nation, religion and family in the Italian cult of favor of the First World War. Tübingen 2009 (= library of the German Historical Institute in Rome. Vol. 120).
  • 14. The great war . Frankfurt am Main 2013 (also as a licensed edition for the Federal Agency for Civic Education, Bonn 2013).
Editing
  • together with Pierangelo Schiera and Hannes Siegrist : Centralismo e federalismo tra otto e novecento. Italia e Germania a confronto. Bologna 1997 (= Annali dell'Istituto Italo-Germanico , Quaderno 46).
  • together with Pierangelo Schiera and Hannes Siegrist: Centralism and Federalism in the 19th and 20th Centuries. Germany and Italy in comparison . Berlin 2000 (= writings of the Italian-German Historical Institute in Trient. Vol. 15).
  • Non omnis moriar. Gli opuscoli di necrologio per i caduti italiani nella Grande Guerra. Bibliografia analitica. Roma 2003 (= Sussidi Eruditi. Vol. 62) (together with Fabrizio Dolci).
  • Political cult of the dead in modern Italian history . In: Main focus of: Sources and research from Italian archives and libraries 84 (2004).
  • together with Gunilla Budde and Sebastian Conrad : Transnational History. Topics, tendencies, theories. Göttingen 2006.
  • together with Lutz Klinkhammer : La morte per la patria. La celebrazione dei caduti dal Risorgimento alla Repubblica. Roma 2008.
  • together with Roberto Sala: Dolce Vita? The image of the Italian migrants in Germany. Frankfurt am Main 2011.
  • together with Daniel Schönpflug : Gender History in a Transnational Perspective. Networks, biographies, gender orders . New York, Oxford 2014.
  • together with Lucy Riall: The Italian Risorgimento: Transnational Perspectives. Special Issue of Modern Italy. Journal of the Association for the Study of Modern Italy , 19.1 (2014).

Awards

  • 2015: Berlin Digital Humanities Prize 2nd Prize, together with Nicolas Apostolopoulos, Klaus Ceynowa and project team for 1914–1918-online. International Encyclopedia of the First World War .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Oliver Janz. In: Kürschner's German Scholars Calendar Online. De Gruyter. Retrieved July 15, 2014.
  2. ↑ Oliver Janz: Citizens of a special kind. Evangelical pastors in Prussia 1850–1914. Berlin / New York 1994.
  3. ↑ Oliver Janz: The symbolic capital of mourning. Nation, religion and family in the Italian cult of favor of the First World War. Tübingen 2009.
  4. ↑ Digital Humanities Wunderwerkzeuge for humanities scholars , Deutschlandradio Kultur, June 15, 2015, accessed on June 23, 2015.
personal data
SURNAME Janz, Oliver
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian, professor of modern history
DATE OF BIRTH August 6, 1960
PLACE OF BIRTH Heidelberg