Rainer Liedtke (historian)

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Rainer Liedtke (* 1967 in Herne ) is a German historian .

Rainer Liedtke studied history and German studies in Bochum , Warwick and Oxford from 1986 to 1995 . He received his PhD from Oxford at St Antony's College in 1995. Liedtke received a research fellowship from the Hartley Institute, University of Southampton in 1995/96 . In 1996 he was a Visiting Assistant Professor at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor . Liedtke was a research assistant at the Technical University of Berlin (1997–1999) and the Justus Liebig University of Gießen (1999–2004). In 2005 he completed his habilitation in Giessen on communication channels and information transfer in 19th century European private banking. From 2004 to 2006 he was a research assistant at the University of Kiel and from 2006 to 2009 a research assistant at the Justus Liebig University in Giessen. From 2009 to 2014 he was visiting professor / research assistant at the Technical University of Darmstadt . In 2013, Liedtke was a substitute professor for modern and contemporary history for Jens Ivo Engels at the Technical University of Darmstadt. Since October 2014 he has held the Chair of European History (19th and 20th Centuries) at the University of Regensburg and, as Principal Investigator, member of the Graduate School for East and Southeast European Studies.

His research focuses on comparative European history, urban history and urbanization research, Jewish history, British history and the history of modern Greece. In his dissertation he dealt with Jewish charities in Hamburg and Manchester from 1850 to 1914. In his habilitation thesis, using the example of the London banking house of Nathan Mayer Rothschild & Sons, Liedtke examined the communication channels and information transfer in private banking between the Napoleonic Wars and the 1870s . In 2010 he published an overview work on the history of Europe from 1815 to the present. Two years later he published a presentation on the Industrial Revolution .

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Monographs

  • The industrial revolution (= UTB. 3350). UTB, Stuttgart 2012, ISBN 978-3-8252-3350-1 .
  • History of Europe. From 1815 to the present (= UTB. Vol. 3205). Schöningh, Paderborn 2010, ISBN 978-3-8252-3205-4 .
  • NM Rothschild & Sons. Communication channels in European banking in the 19th century. Böhlau, Cologne et al. 2006, ISBN 3-412-36905-5 .
  • Jewish welfare in Hamburg and Manchester, c. 1850-1914. Clarendon Press, Oxford 1998, ISBN 0-19-820723-9 .

Editorships

  • with Klaus Weber : Religion and Philanthropy in European Civil Societies. Developments in the 19th and 20th centuries. Schöningh, Paderborn et al. 2009, ISBN 978-3-506-76384-6 .

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Remarks

  1. ↑ See the review by Björn Biester in: Zeitschrift des Verein für Hamburgische Geschichte 86 (2000), pp. 324–326 ( online ).
personal data
SURNAME Liedtke, Rainer
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian
DATE OF BIRTH 1967
PLACE OF BIRTH Herne