Peter Burschel (historian)

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Peter Burschel (born October 27, 1963 in Rehren near Hanover ) is a German historian . He held chairs for early modern history at the Universities of Rostock (2007–2011) and Berlin (2011–2016). Since 2016 he has held a chair for cultural history of the Middle Ages and the early modern period in Göttingen and heads the Herzog-August-Bibliothek in Wolfenbüttel .

Live and act

Career

Peter Burschel has been studying Middle and Modern History, Political Science, Philosophy and Middle Latin Philology since 1984. In 1989 he completed his studies with a master's degree in Göttingen, where he also received his doctorate in 1992 with a thesis on the social history of the early modern military under Ernst Schubert . Since 1991 assistant to Wolfgang Reinhard in Freiburg im Breisgau, he edited nunciature reports , researched the post-Tridentine sky of saints and took a look at martyrdom as part of his habilitation thesis . In 2000/2001 Burschel was a scholarship holder of the Historical College in Munich, 2001/2002 visiting professor for historical anthropology in Erfurt. A year later, he completed his habilitation in modern and recent history as well as in historical anthropology in Freiburg im Breisgau with the topic of dying and immortality supervised by Wolfgang Reinhard . On the culture of martyrdom in the early modern period .

From 2005 to 2007 Burschel was a member of the DFG research group “Self-testimonies in a transcultural perspective” at the Free University of Berlin . In 2006 he was appointed adjunct professor in Freiburg im Breisgau. At the same time, he held visiting and substitute professorships (including in Bremen and Berlin). In 2007, Burschel accepted a professorship for Modern History at the University of Rostock , and in 2011 for European History of the Early Modern Age at the Humboldt University in Berlin , where he succeeded Heinz Schilling . He gave his inaugural lecture in November 2012 on the invention of purity. In March 2016, Burschel took over the management of the Herzog-August-Bibliothek in Wolfenbüttel as successor to Helwig Schmidt-Glintzer , who is associated with a professorship for cultural history of the Middle Ages and the early modern period at the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen .

Burschel is chairman of the Institute for Historical Anthropology (Freiburg im Breisgau), a member of several national and international research colleges and co-editor of historical periodicals such as the yearbook for universal history Saeculum , the journals historical anthropology and history in science and teaching and the journal for the history of ideas . Burschel is a full member of the class for humanities of the Braunschweigische Wissenschaftliche Gesellschaft (since 2018) and a member of the Association for the History of the Reformation .

research

His research interests are in the genesis of denominational cultures, the political anthropology of intercultural encounters and the history of purity . In his 1997 dissertation, which was oriented towards social history, he deals with the north-west German mercenaries of the 16th and 17th centuries. His investigation area of ​​north-west Germany extends from Schleswig-Holstein to Hesse, from the Dutch border to Mecklenburg. He examines the living and working conditions of the mercenaries from advertising and drafting to epidemics, wounding and death. Burschel was able to show that particularly small and peasant strata, urban journeymen and day laborers performed paid service. This enabled him to overcome older ideas about the recruitment of mercenaries from 'free farmers' or solely from urban craftsmen. Burschel's core thesis is that from the “morally marginalized” Landsknecht of the 16th century, as a result of a very complex disciplining process by the authorities at the beginning of the Ancien Régime, “a drilled receiver of orders ... who has forgotten how to think about stepping in step: one who is equally sorry - how despicable creature in uniform ”became. With this work, Burschel answered important socio-historical questions about mercenaries and laid the foundation for further questions. A central concern of Burschel's work on this topic is to capture the process of transformation from the 16th century mercenary to a soldier. The Rostock habilitation thesis by Stefan Kroll and the Dresden dissertation by Jan Willem Huntebrinker dealt critically with Burschel's theses . Huntebrinker criticizes Burschel's methodical approach. With his "mosaic stone method", in which the randomly transmitted individual messages were put together like pieces of a mosaic, only relatively undifferentiated statements about the social identity of a group could be made.

Burschel edited with Götz Distelrath and Sven Lembke the anthology published in 2000 on the subject of tormenting the body . The contributions go back to a conference at the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg in 1999. The interest in knowledge is directed towards the physical use of force by people on people.

Burschel was co-editor of a 2002 publication for Wolfgang Reinhard. The focus should not be on the “praise of the ruler”, but rather the “critical perspective and the classification of the recipient's contributions in the current scientific debate”. The “attempt at a 'critical' Festschrift” also wants to be an “exploratory (e) further development of the Festschrift tradition”. The contributions are divided into the five sections urban elites in the Old Kingdom (I), the paradigm of confessionalization (II), nepotism at the curia, papal finance and the interweaving of Roman elites (III), the aspect of state authority and its reflection in the political theory (IV) and finally European expansion (V).

In 2004 Burschel published a systematic study of the significance of martyrdom for early modern Christian denominations. His aim is "[...] to understand martyrdom as a medium of collective experiences of suffering and thus as a medium of collective memory and collective self-reassurance that contributed to making denomination communities out of denominational communities and denominational communities". The focus is on the German-speaking area. In terms of time, he focuses on the 16th and 17th centuries. In contrast to previous works of cultural studies, Burschel understands the sources as a “medium of self and external interpretation” or as forms of symbolic communication. His result reads: "Martyrdom - this is the place that allows [...] to observe those boundaries drawn, border crossings and, last but not least, border openings that made up the process of the emergence and development of denominational cultures".

An anthology that Burschel, Andreas Bähr and Gabriele Jancke published in 2007 emerged from a conference in 2006 at the Free University of Berlin as part of the DFG-funded research group “Self-testimonies in a transcultural perspective”. The editors see four common perspectives in the epoch-spanning articles: (1) the question of the meaning of space in and for writing, (2) spaces of the self direct the view of the drawing of boundaries, border violations and transgressions, (3) self-markings identify the spaces of the self as “lived” and “lived” spaces and thus as lifeworld spaces of experience and meaning, (4) the spaces of the self are products of cultural, social and political action. The contributions range from the late Middle Ages to the 20th century.

In 2011 Burschel published an anthology on the subject of "Purity" together with Christoph Marx . The contributions of the 18 authors go back to an interdisciplinary conference in Mülheim an der Ruhr in September 2008 and deal with the diversity of ideas about purity from a historical perspective. The volume is divided into four sections (body, gender , status, communities). The editors always understand the subject of their research as a "historical-anthropological question". By this they mean that ideas of purity are expressed "on the human body" and should not be understood as just a form of coding. In his inaugural lecture in Berlin published in 2014, Burschel argues that purity as a cultural code is an invention of the modern age. Purity serves to establish identity and at the same time to set oneself apart from others. According to Burschel, discourses on purity intensify wherever cultural affiliations are in danger.

In 2014, Burschel and Christine Vogel edited an anthology based on a workshop held at the University of Vechta in March 2011 . The focus is on "the question of the extent to which the ritualized practice of diplomatic communication in the early modern period under the conditions of mutual cultural experience of distance contributed to intensifying and dynamising processes of self-observation - and self-thematization". After an introduction, ten studies deal with intercultural diplomatic encounters. With Sünne Juterczenka, Burschel published a series of introductory texts on European expansion in 2016. In their introduction, the editors understand the term expansion as “global interaction”, which is based on “a long early modern era” that extends from the 14th to the end of the 18th century. The main focus of the anthology is “meeting”, “appropriating” and “measuring”.

Fonts (selection)

Monographs

  • The invention of purity. Another early modern story. Wallstein, Göttingen 2014, ISBN 978-3-8353-1405-4 .
  • Death and immortality. On the culture of martyrdom in the early modern period (= Ancien Régime, Enlightenment and Revolution. Vol. 35). Oldenbourg, Munich 2004, ISBN 3-486-56815-9 .
  • Nunciature reports from Germany. Along with supplementary documents. The Cologne Nunciature. Volume 5: Nuncio Antonio Albergati. Volume 1: 1610 May - 1614 May. Supplementary volume. Schöningh, Paderborn et al. 1997, ISBN 3-506-76135-8 .
  • with Heinrich Schwendemann , Kirsten Steiner, Eckhard Wirbelauer : history. A tutorial (= Rombach basic course. Vol. 2). Rombach, Freiburg im Breisgau 1997, ISBN 3-7930-9148-1 .
  • Mercenaries in northwest Germany in the 16th and 17th centuries. Social history studies (= publications of the Max Planck Institute for History. Vol. 113). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 1994, ISBN 3-525-35650-1 (also: Göttingen, Universität, Dissertation, 1992).

Editorships

  • with Eva Brugger and Isabelle Schürch: Häfen (= historical anthropology. Culture - society - everyday life. Special issue 26/1). Böhlau, Cologne et al. 2018, ISBN 978-3-412-51177-7 .
  • with Katharina Böhmer and Jan-Friedrich Missfelder: Esskulturen (= historical anthropology. Culture - society - everyday life. Issue 25/1). Böhlau, Cologne et al. 2017, ISBN 978-3-412-50763-3 .
  • Wolfgang Reinhard: History as Anthropology. Böhlau, Cologne et al. 2017, ISBN 978-3-412-50521-9 .
  • with Matthias Ballestrem, Kai Nikolaus Grüne and Marie von Lüneburg: What if ...? Student drafts for an extension of the Herzog August Library. Berlin et al. 2016, ISBN 978-3-88373-528-3 .
  • with Sünne Juterczenka: The European expansion (= basic texts early modern times. Vol. 3). Steiner, Stuttgart 2016, ISBN 3-515-10729-0 .
  • with Christine Vogel: The audience. Ritualized cultural contact in the early modern period. Böhlau, Cologne et al. 2014, ISBN 978-3-412-21084-7 .
  • with Birthe Kundrus : History of diplomacy (= historical anthropology. Culture - society - everyday life. Issue 21/2). Böhlau, Cologne et al. 2013, ISBN 978-3-412-22194-2 .
  • with Christoph Marx : Experience of violence and prophecy (= publications of the Institute for Historical Anthropology. Vol. 13). Böhlau, Vienna et al. 2011, ISBN 978-3-205-78813-3 .
  • with Alexander Gallus and Markus Völkel : Intellectuals in exile. Wallstein, Göttingen 2011, ISBN 978-3-8353-0781-0 .
  • with Christoph Marx: Reinheit (= publications of the Institute for Historical Anthropology. Vol. 12). Böhlau, Vienna et al. 2011, ISBN 978-3-205-78471-5 .
  • with Andreas Bähr and Gabriele Jancke: Spaces of the Self. Self-testimony research transcultural (= self-testimony of modern times. Vol. 19). Böhlau, Cologne et al. 2007, ISBN 978-3-412-23406-5 .
  • with Anne Conrad: role model - inimage - image. Religious life models from a gender historical perspective (= Rombach Sciences. Series Historiae. Vol. 15). Rombach, Freiburg im Breisgau 2003, ISBN 3-7930-9301-8 .
  • with Mark Häberlein, Volker Reinhardt , Wolfgang Weber and Reinhard Wendt: Historical impulses. Festschrift for Wolfgang Reinhard on the occasion of his 65th birthday on April 10, 2002. Academy, Berlin 2002, ISBN 3-05-003631-1 .
  • with Götz Distelrath and Sven Lembke: The torment of the body. A Historical Anthropology of Torture. Böhlau, Cologne et al. 2000, ISBN 3-412-06300-2 .

Web links

Remarks

  1. ^ Peter Burschel: Mercenaries in northwest Germany of the 16th and 17th centuries. Social history studies. Goettingen 1994.
  2. ↑ Peter Burschel: The Invention of Purity. Another early modern story. Göttingen 2014. See the reviews by Robert Jütte in: Historische Zeitschrift 301 (2015), pp. 215–216; Margareth Lanzinger in: Journal for Historical Research 42 (2015), pp. 506–508 ( online ).
  3. ↑ On the appointment of Prof. Dr. Peter Burschel is appointed the new director of the Herzog August Library in Wolfenbüttel. Press release. In: MWK .Niedersachsen.de , July 14, 2015.
  4. ↑ See the reviews of Matthias Rogg in: Militärgeschichtliche Zeitschrift 55 (1996), pp. 266–267; Franklin Kopitzsch in: Das Historisch-Politische Buch Vol. 43 (1995), p. 253; Joachim Niemeyer in: Niedersächsisches Jahrbuch für Landesgeschichte 71 (1999), pp. 397–399 ( digitized version ( memento from June 17, 2018 in the Internet Archive )); Klaus Bocklitz in: Journal of the Association for Hamburg History 81 (1995), pp. 244–245 ( digitized version )
  5. ^ Peter Burschel: Mercenaries in northwest Germany of the 16th and 17th centuries. Social history studies. Göttingen 1994, p. 31.
  6. ^ Peter Burschel: Mercenaries in northwest Germany of the 16th and 17th centuries. Social history studies. Göttingen 1994, p. 319.
  7. ↑ Jan W. Huntebrinker: "Fromme Knechte" and "Garteteufel". Mercenaries as a social group in the 16th and 17th centuries. Konstanz 2010, p. 16.
  8. ↑ Peter Burschel: War, State, Discipline The emergence of a new type of mercenary in the 17th century. In: History in Science and Education 48 (1997), pp. 640–652.
  9. ^ Stefan Kroll: Soldiers in the 18th century between everyday peace and experience of war. Living worlds and culture in the Electoral Saxon Army 1728–1796. Paderborn et al. 2006; Jan W. Huntebrinker: "Fromme Knechte" and "Garteteufel". Mercenaries as a social group in the 16th and 17th centuries. Constance 2010.
  10. ↑ For the methodical approach, cf. Peter Burschel: Mercenaries in northwest Germany in the 16th and 17th centuries. Social history studies. Göttingen 1994, p. 22. Critical to this is Jan W. Huntebrinker: “Fromme Knechte” and “Garteteufel”. Mercenaries as a social group in the 16th and 17th centuries. Konstanz 2010, p. 17.
  11. ↑ See the reviews by Sabine Panzram in: H-Soz-Kult , May 4, 2001, ( online ); Sven Kramer in: Mittelweg 36, 10th year, 2001, issue 6, pp. 62–64.
  12. ↑ See the reviews by Anja Victorine Hartmann in: H-Soz-Kult , December 2, 2002, online ; Andreas Klinger in: Das Historisch-Politische Buch, Vol. 52 (2004), pp. 16-17; Andreas Pečar in: sehepunkte 3 (2003), No. 5 [15. May 2003], online ; Armin Kohnle in: Archive for Reformation History. Literature report 33 (2004), p. 8 f.
  13. ↑ Mark Häberlein, Volker Reinhardt, Wolfgang Weber and Reinhard Wendt: For guidance. In this. (Ed.): Historical impulses. Festschrift for Wolfgang Reinhard for his 65th birthday on April 10, 2002. Berlin 2002, pp. 9–12, here: p. 10.
  14. ↑ See the reviews by Walter Hartinger sehepunkte 4 (2004), No. 12 [15. December 2004], online ; Robert Jütte in: Historische Zeitschrift 281 (2005), pp. 172–174; Arne Karsten in: H-Soz-Kult , January 14, 2005, online ; Peter Hersche in: Bayerisches Jahrbuch für Volkskunde 2006, pp. 194–195; Gregor Rohmann in: Zeitschrift für Geschichtswwissenschaft 53 (2005), pp. 650–652; Rebekka v. Mallinckrodt in: Historische Anthropologie 13 (2005), pp. 432–434; Wolfgang Behringer in: Süddeutsche Zeitung , Volume 61, No. 29 (February 5/6, 2005), p. 16; Friedrich Wilhelm Graf: Nobody really sees it through. Peter Burschel asks why martyrs choose hell on earth. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , October 20, 2004, No. 245, p. 34.
  15. ↑ Peter Burschel: Dying and Immortality. On the culture of martyrdom in the early modern period. Munich 2004, p. 5.
  16. ↑ Peter Burschel: Dying and Immortality. On the culture of martyrdom in the early modern period. Munich 2004, p. 10.
  17. ↑ Peter Burschel: Dying and Immortality. On the culture of martyrdom in the early modern period. Munich 2004, p. 288.
  18. ↑ See the reviews of Ralf-Peter Fuchs in: WerkstattGeschichte 51 (2009), pp. 101-102; Ulrike Gleixner in: Journal for Historical Research 38 (2011), pp. 282–285; Ralf Pröve in: Herold-Jahrbuch 13 (2008), p. 284.
  19. ↑ Peter Burschel, Andreas Bähr and Gabriele Jancke: Spaces of the Self. An introduction. In this. (Ed.): Spaces of the Self. Transcultural self-testimony research. Cologne et al. 2007, pp. 1–12, here: p. 11 f.
  20. ↑ See the review by Elizabeth Harding in: Historische Zeitschrift 297 (2013), pp. 128–129.
  21. ^ Conference report by Florian Kühnel: Purity - religious, social and political aspects, September 11, 2008 - September 13, 2008 Mülheim an der Ruhr. In: H-Soz-Kult , October 4, 2008, online .
  22. ↑ Christoph Marx, Peter Burschel: Introduction. In: Peter Burschel, Christoph Marx (Ed.) Reinheit. Vienna et al. 2011 pp. 7-14, here: p. 8.
  23. ↑ Peter Burschel: The Invention of Purity. Another early modern story. Göttingen 2014, p. 56.
  24. ↑ See the reviews by Nadir Weber in: sehepunkte 15 (2015), No. 7/8 [15. July 2015], online ; Hillard von Thiessen in: Journal for Historical Research 42 (2015), pp. 746–748; Gábor Kármán in: Hadtörténelmi Közlemények 128 (2015), pp. 254–257 ( online )
  25. ↑ Peter Burschel: Introduction. In: Peter Burschel, Christine Vogel (Ed.): The audience. Ritualized cultural contact in the early modern period. Cologne et al. 2014, pp. 7–15, here: p. 7.
  26. ↑ See the reviews of Ingo Löppenberg in: Das Historisch-Politische Buch 65 (2017), pp. 116–117; Tobais Winnerling in: Zeitschrift für Historische Forschung 44 (2017), pp. 329–331 ( online ); Detlev Kraack in: Zeitschrift für Geschichtswwissenschaft 64 (2016), p. 991; Stefan Endres in: Geschichte für heute Volume 10, 2017, Issue 2, pp. 104–105.
  27. ↑ Peter Burschel: Encounter - Appropriate - Measure. European expansion as global interaction. In: Peter Burschel, Senses Juterczenka (Ed.): European expansion. Stuttgart 2016, pp. 7–31, here: p. 9.
  28. ↑ Peter Burschel: Encounter - Appropriate - Measure. European expansion as global interaction. In: Peter Burschel, Senses Juterczenka (Ed.): European expansion. Stuttgart 2016, pp. 7–31, here: p. 12.
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SURNAME Burschel, Peter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian
DATE OF BIRTH October 27, 1963
PLACE OF BIRTH Rehren (Hohnhorst) near Hanover