Peter Schöttler

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Peter Schöttler (born January 15, 1950 in Iserlohn ) is a German historian .

Life

Peter Schöttler grew up in Brussels and graduated from the Helmholtz-Gymnasium Essen in 1968 . He studied history, philosophy, sociology and political science at the Ruhr University in Bochum and at the 6th section of the Ecole Pratique des Hautes Études in Paris . His most important academic teachers were the historians Hans Mommsen and Rudolf Vierhaus in Bochum and Georges Haupt and Michelle Perrot in Paris. In philosophy, Schöttler was a student of Louis Althusser , some of whose writings he translated into German and edited. An example of this is the essay Ideology and Ideological State Apparatus . In 1978 he received his doctorate with Heinz-Gerhard Haupt at the University of Bremen with a thesis on revolutionary syndicalism in the French society of the Third Republic .

From 1978 to 1987 Peter Schöttler was a research assistant at the University of Bremen . During these years he worked on the history of the Bremen petty bourgeoisie and on the history of the German factory and commercial courts in the 19th century. In 1988, Schöttler went to the Maison des Sciences de l'Homme in Paris as a scholarship holder of the Volkswagen Foundation with a project on the history of Franco-German historiography . A year later he was accepted as a researcher in the French Center national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS), a research institution that corresponds roughly to the Max Planck Society in Germany . He worked there until his retirement in January 2015, most recently as Directeur de Recherche (research professor). In 2001 he also received an honorary professorship for modern history at the Free University of Berlin .

Work and action

Peter Schöttler is one of those historians who, in addition to empirical, archive-based investigations, also devote themselves to theoretical studies. He has one hand extensively dealt with the history of the French workers' movement or the German Commercial Courts and also for interdisciplinary discussion on methods to everyday life , mentality history , discourse analysis or microhistory contributed. He also published on the relationship between history and psychoanalysis or on history in feature films.

As a supporter of Louis Althusser, Schöttler initially represented structuralist Marxism in the 1970s . In his historiography, this led to an approach to the Annales School , whose founders, Marc Bloch and Lucien Febvre , represented a quasi-structuralist social , economic and mental history . The encounter with the history workshop movement in the late 1970s was particularly momentous for Schöttler . He shared theoretical and political goals with the initiator of these English history workshops , Raphael Samuel , and the Cambridge historian Gareth Stedman Jones . Schöttler also had a lasting impact on the American discussion of history and theory. In 1990/91 he was a fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton and in 1996/97 at the History Department of Princeton University .

The focus of Schöttler's research was initially on socio-historical topics; after moving to France, he primarily dealt with questions of the Franco-German history of science and historiography. He particularly focused on the French Annales School and its founders Lucien Febvre and Marc Bloch. In this context, he 'rediscovered' the Austrian historian Lucie Varga , who emigrated to France together with her then husband Franz Borkenau in 1933 and was part of the Annales circle there .

A second focus of Schöttler's work concerned the role of historians under National Socialism . In 1994 he organized a section on "Historiography as a science of legitimation" at the Historikertag in Leipzig. The debate that was triggered by this found its continuation and climax at the Frankfurt Historians' Day in 1998. On the same Historians Day, Schöttler also applied for the German Association of Historians to award a Hedwig Hintze Prize to the Berlin historian who died while emigrating.

Peter Schöttler writes regularly in the German and French press. He is a co-founder of the Genèses journals . Sciences sociales et histoire and workshop history as well as member of the advisory board of the Austrian journal for historical sciences , the Italian yearbook Storiografia and the reports on the history of science .

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SURNAME Schöttler, Peter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian
DATE OF BIRTH January 15, 1950
PLACE OF BIRTH Iserlohn