Peter Schöttler
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 .
Fonts
As an author or co-author:
- with Robert Farle : China's Way, Marxism or Maoism? Marxist sheets , Frankfurt 1969, 2nd revised. 1971 edition.
- Friedrich Engels and Karl Kautsky as critics of “legal socialism” . In: Demokratie und Recht 1980, pp. 3–25 (a longer version previously appeared in 1977 in the Dutch journal Recht en Kritiek ).
- The creation of the Bourses du Travail. Social Policy and French Syndicalism at the End of the 19th Century. Campus, Frankfurt am Main 1982 (French translation 1985).
- The “Annales” historians and German history . Mohr-Siebeck, Tübingen 2015, ISBN 978-3-16-153338-9 .
- You Rhin à la Manche. Frontières et relations franco-allemandes au XXe siècle. Foreword by Henry Rousso . Presses universitaires François Rabelais, Tours 2017, ISBN 978-2869064317 .
- The Max Planck Institute for History in a Historical Context: The Heimpel Era . Berlin 2017.
- After the fear. History before and after the “linguistic turn”. Westphalian steam boat, Münster 2018, ISBN 978-3-89691-293-0 .
As (co-) editor:
- Louis Althusser: Elements of Self-Criticism. VSA-Verlag , Berlin 1975.
- Dominique Lecourt : Proletarian Science? The Lysenko case and Lysenkism. VSA, Hamburg 1976.
- Louis Althusser: Ideology and ideological state apparatus . VSA, Hamburg 1977.
- Étienne Balibar : On the dictatorship of the proletariat. With documents from the 22nd Party Congress of the PCF. VSA, Hamburg 1977.
- Louis Althusser: The crisis of Marxism. VSA, Hamburg 1978.
- Pierre-Francois Moreau: Marx and Spinoza. VSA, Hamburg 1978.
- Gareth Stedman Jones: Classes, Politics, and Language. For a theory-oriented social history . Ed. U. introduced by Peter Schöttler. Westphalian steam boat , Münster 1988, ISBN 3-924550-24-7 .
- Lucie Varga: A turning point. Studies in the history of mentality 1936–1939. Suhrkamp (stw), Frankfurt 1991. (French edition: Paris 1991).
- Lucien Febvre: The Rhine and its history . Ed., Translated, epilogue Peter Schöttler. Campus, Frankfurt 1994, ISBN 3-593-35152-8 .
- Lucien Febvre: Martin Luther . Campus Verlag and Editions des la Maison des Sciences de l'Homme, Frankfurt, Paris 1996.
- Historiography as a science of legitimation 1918–1945. Suhrkamp (stw), Frankfurt 1997, ISBN 978-3-518-28933-4 .
- Lucien Febvre: Margaret of Navarre . Campus Verlag and Editions de la Maison des Sciences de l´Homme, Frankfurt, Paris 1998.
- Marc Bloch. Historian and resistance fighter . Campus Verlag and Editions de la Maison des Sciences de l´Homme, Frankfurt, Paris 1999.
- Marc Bloch: From the historian's workshop. On the theory and practice of historical science . Campus and Editions de la Maison des Sciences de l´Homme, Frankfurt and Paris 2000.
- Marc Bloch: Apology of the science of history or the profession of the historian . Klett-Cotta, Stuttgart 2002.
- (Ed. Together with Philippe Despoix): Siegfried Kracauer , penseur de l'histoire . Editions de la Maison des Sciences de l'Homme, Paris 2006.
- (Ed. Together with Hans-Jörg Rheinberger ): Marc Bloch et les crises du savoir. , Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin 2011 (Preprint 418; PDF; 3.2 MB).
- (Ed. Together with Henning Schmidgen , Jean-François Braunstein): Epistemology and History. From Bachelard and Canguilhem to Today's History of Science. Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin 2012 (Preprint 434; PDF; 1.6 MB).
- (Ed. Together with Dieter Gosewinkel , Iris Schröder): Antiliberales Europa , special issue Zeithistorische Forschungen 9, 2012, no.3.
- Fernand Braudel : History as the key to the world. Lectures in German captivity in 1941 . Klett-Cotta, Stuttgart 2013.
literature
- Urs Hafner: Peter Schöttler - academic outsider . In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung , November 30, 2005.
- Patrick Bahners : Peter Schöttler. Elementary critic. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , January 11, 2010, No. 8, p. 28.
- Anne Kwaschik, Mario Wimmer (ed.): From the work of the historian. A dictionary on the theory and practice of historical science. For Peter Schöttler on his 60th birthday. Transcript, Bielefeld 2010, ISBN 978-3-8376-1547-0 .
Web links
- Literature by and about Peter Schöttler in the catalog of the German National Library
- Homepage of Peter Schöttler
- Peter Schöttler on Academia.edu
- Researcher profile of Peter Schöttler at Clio-online
- Homepage of Peter Schöttler at the Friedrich Meinecke Institute
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Schöttler, Peter |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German historian |
DATE OF BIRTH | January 15, 1950 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Iserlohn |