Ralf Pröve

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Ralf Pröve (born September 4, 1960 in Celle ) is a German historian who works in social history and cultural anthropology with a focus on the early modern period and the 19th century. Since 2005 he has been an adjunct professor for modern and contemporary history at the University of Potsdam .

Life

Göttingen and Berlin years

From 1982 to 1988 , Pröve studied history , German , pedagogy and pedagogical psychology at the Georg-August University in Göttingen . In 1988 he worked as a research assistant there at the Seminar for Medieval and Modern History. In 1992 he was with Hermann Wellenreuther with the dissertation standing army and urban society in the 18th century. Göttingen and its military population 1713–1756 as Dr. phil. PhD.

From 1992 to 1998 he was a research assistant to Hartmut Harnisch at the Institute for History at the Humboldt University in Berlin . During this time (1996) he and the Potsdam military historian Bernhard R. Kroener founded the Working Group on the Military and Society in the Early Modern Age (AMG) at the German Historians' Day in Munich . From 2004 to 2013 he was its chairman (since 2013 Marian Füssel ). In 1998 he completed his habilitation at the Philosophical Faculty I of the HU Berlin with the thesis Urban Republicanism and the 'Power of the People'. Civil order formations and communal models of political participation . This was examined by the historians Wolfgang Hardtwig , Dieter Langewiesche and Heinz Schilling . He then worked as a private lecturer at the HU Berlin and the University of Potsdam . In 1999 he was project manager at the Research Institute for the History of Prussia in Berlin. He took on further historical research directors at the University of Potsdam ( cultural and everyday history of Pariser Platz in Berlin, 1730–1990 ) and at the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation (subject inventory of Brandenburg-Prussian military history ). In 2004 he completed his habilitation at the University of Potsdam.

Early Potsdam years

Since 2005 he has been an adjunct professor for modern and contemporary history at the Historical Institute of the University of Potsdam. Until 2015 he was assigned to the professorship “Military History and Cultural History of Violence” until he was entrusted with the field of social history . At the historical institute of the University of Potsdam he performed various tasks, including a. he was managing director from 2009 to 2010.

From 2005 to 2007 he was responsible for the conception, development and organization of the previously innovative master’s degree in Military Studies - Military History / Military Sociology at the University of Potsdam.

The aim of the master’s course was to enable students to recognize, assess, present and apply military-historical and military-sociological relationships in different areas. You should have specialist skills in the analysis of the internal military system in the past and present as well as in the scientific reconstruction of the interactions between the military, state, society, economy and culture. At the same time, they should have in-depth knowledge of the conditions, structures and dynamics of armed conflicts.

More recent years in Potsdam

From 2009 to 2010 Ralf Pröve was responsible for the conception, development and organization of the master’s course in Cultural Encounter Spaces in the Early Modern Age at the University of Potsdam.

The interdisciplinary master’s course in Cultural Encounter Spaces of the Early Modern Era, for which the Early Modern Age Center Potsdam is responsible, ties in with the basic categories of culture, space and encounters, which are of central importance in the current research discussion on the early modern period and are to be regarded as key concepts in cultural studies. Knowledge of the early modern era is deepened and interdisciplinary research methods in the fields of history, literature, language, art and philosophy are taught.

From 2009 to 2015 he was spokesman for the Early Modern Age Center Potsdam. He was succeeded by Ivan D'Aprile .

Ralf Pröve began to deal with cultural anthropological and social constructivist approaches in the 2010s. These quickly found their way into his newer seminars, research and support topics.

His thematic focuses include:

Since 2015 he has been responsible for the social history department of the Historical Institute of the University of Potsdam.

Pröve published several books and published articles in u. a. Journal for Historical Science (ZfG), Journal for Historical Research (ZHF), Historical Journal (HZ) and Revue historique des armées (RHA). In addition, he is co-editor of the periodical military and society in the early modern period of the AMG. He has authored over 200 reviews in magazines and is the author of lexicon articles for the Encyclopedia of Modern Times . Pröve is a member of the Brandenburg Historical Commission (BrHiKo).

Awards

  • 1993: Alexander Prize (3rd Prize) from the Alexander Foundation, Göttingen for the contribution Der Höckelheimer Tumult from 1728 (printed in the Alexander series, Volume 3)
  • 1994: Werner Hahlweg Prize for Military History and Defense Sciences (2nd Prize) for his dissertation from the Standing Army and Urban Society in the 18th Century from 1992
  • 1996: Prize of the German-American Academic Council Foundation, Bonn

Fonts (selection)

Monographs

  • Standing army and urban society in the 18th century. Göttingen and its military population 1713–1756 (= contributions to military history. Volume 47). Oldenbourg, Munich 1995, ISBN 3-486-56060-3 .
  • with Holger Th. Gräf: Paths into the Unknown. A cultural history of travel 1500–1800 . S. Fischer Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1997, ISBN 3-10-062419-X . (Licensed edition, Fischer Taschenbuch, Frankfurt am Main 2001, ISBN 3-596-15081-7 )
  • Urban republicanism and "the power of the people". Civil order formations and communal models of political participation in German states from the end of the 18th to the middle of the 19th century (= publications of the Max Planck Institute for History , 159). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2000, ISBN 3-525-35475-4 .
  • Pariser Platz 3. The story of an address in Germany . Nicolai, Berlin 2002, ISBN 3-87584-517-X .
  • Military, State and Society in the 19th Century (= Encyclopedia of German History. Volume 77). Oldenbourg, Munich 2006, ISBN 3-486-57633-X / ISBN 978-3-486-57633-7 .
  • Lifeworlds. Military milieus in modern times. Collected treatises (= rule and social systems in the early modern period. Volume 11). Lit, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-643-10768-8 .
  • with Rüdiger Bergien : philistines, patriots, revolutionaries. Military Mobilization and Social Order in Modern Times . V & R Unipress, Göttingen 2010, ISBN 978-3-89971-723-5 .
  • The military and society in Prussia. Sources on military socialization 1713–1806. Archives in the state of Brandenburg. Volume 1: Brandenburg State Main Archives (1st half). (= Sources, finding aids and inventories of the Brandenburg State Archives, 26 ). Frankfurt am Main 2014, ISBN 978-3-631-62716-7 .
  • The military and society in Prussia. Sources on military socialization 1713–1806. Archives in the state of Brandenburg. Volume 2: Brandenburg State Main Archives (2nd half). (= Sources, finding aids and inventories of the Brandenburg State Archives, 27 ). Frankfurt am Main 2014, ISBN 978-3-631-62717-4 .
  • The military and society in Prussia. Sources on military socialization 1713–1806. Archives in the state of Brandenburg. Volume 3: Church, communal and other archives, subject classification and indices. (= Sources, finding aids and inventories of the Brandenburg State Archives, 28 ). Frankfurt am Main 2014, ISBN 978-3-631-62718-1 .
  • The military and society in Prussia. Sources on military socialization 1713–1806. Archives in Berlin, Dessau and Leipzig. Part I, Volume 1: Secret State Archives Prussian Cultural Heritage (1st half). (= Publications from the archives of Prussian cultural property, work reports 15.1 ). Berlin 2015, ISBN 978-3-923579-22-8 .
  • The military and society in Prussia. Sources on military socialization 1713–1806. Archives in Berlin, Dessau and Leipzig. Part I, Volume 2: Secret State Archives Prussian Cultural Heritage (2nd half). (= Publications from the archives of Prussian cultural property, reports 15.2 ). Berlin 2015, ISBN 978-3-923579-22-8 .
  • The military and society in Prussia. Sources on military socialization 1713–1806. Archives in Berlin, Dessau and Leipzig. Part II: Further archives, libraries and museums in Berlin, Dessau and Leipzig. (= Publications from the archives of Prussian cultural property, work reports 15.3 ). Berlin 2015, ISBN 978-3-923579-22-8 .
  • The military and society in Prussia. Sources on military socialization 1713–1806. Archives in Berlin, Dessau and Leipzig. Part III: Indices and Classifications. (= Publications from the archives of Prussian cultural property, reports 15.4 ). Berlin 2015, ISBN 978-3-923579-22-8 .

Editorships

  • Klio in uniform? Problems and perspectives of a modern military history of the early modern period . Böhlau, Cologne 1997, ISBN 3-412-01397-8 .
  • with Karen Hagemann: Landsknechte, soldier's wives and national warriors. Military, war and gender order in historical change. (= History and genders, 26 ). Frankfurt am Main 1998, ISBN 3-593-36101-9 .
  • with Bernd Kölling: Living and working on the sand of the Brandenburg region. Paths into the social history of Brandenburg 1700–1914 . Publishing house for regional history, Bielefeld 1999, ISBN 3-89534-236-X .
  • with Norbert Winnige: Knowledge is power. Rule and communication in Brandenburg-Prussia 1600–1850. (= Series of publications by the Research Institute for the History of Prussia. Volume 2). Berlin Verlag Arno Spitz, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-8305-0239-7 .
  • with Markus Meumann: Rule in the early modern times. Outlines of a dynamic communicative process. (= Rule and social systems in the early modern period, 2 ). Münster 2004, ISBN 3-8258-6000-0 .
  • with Bruno Thoß : Bernhard R. Kroener . Martial violence and military presence in modern times. Selected writings . On behalf of the Military History Research Office , Schöningh, Paderborn 2008, ISBN 978-3-506-76548-2 .
  • with Rüdiger Bergien: "philistines", patriots, revolutionaries. Military Mobilization and Social Order in Modern Times. V & R Unipress, Göttingen 2010, ISBN 978-3-89971-723-5 .
  • with Carmen Winkel : creating transitions. Ritual and Performance in Early Modern Military Society. (= Rule and social systems in the early modern times. Volume 16). V & R Unipress, Göttingen 2012, ISBN 978-3-8471-0023-2 .
  • Domination and Social Systems in the Early Modern Period. (Co-editor on behalf of AMG, until 2011 LIT-Verlag, from 2012 V&R unipress)
  • Writings of the Early Modern Center Potsdam. (Co-editor, since 2011, V&R unipress)

Interviews

  • Mario Kaun: Interview with the Potsdam historian Prof. Dr. Ralf Pröve on the subject of "absolutism". In: Dagmar Klose, Marco Ladewig (ed.): The development of modern structures in society and the state of the early modern period. (= Perspectives on historical thinking and learning. 5). Universitätsverlag, Potsdam 2010, ISBN 978-3-86956-013-7 , p. 69 ff.

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ralf Pröve: Urban republicanism and the 'power of the people'. Civil order formations and communal models of political participation. Göttingen 2000, p. 6.
  2. ^ Ralf Pröve: Vita and activities. Retrieved May 17, 2017 .
  3. ^ Military Studies. (PDF) In: University of Potsdam. Retrieved May 17, 2017 .
  4. ↑ Cultural meeting places of the early modern period | Masters - Masters courses from A - Z - The Masters course at the University of Potsdam - Courses offered - Studies - University of Potsdam. Retrieved May 17, 2017 .
  5. ↑ Master of the Early Modern Age. (PDF; 90 kB) In: University of Potsdam. Retrieved May 17, 2017 .
  6. ^ Early Modern Age - Center - University of Potsdam. Retrieved May 17, 2017 .
  7. ^ Ralf Pröve: Archive. Retrieved May 17, 2017 .
  8. ↑ Diversity instead of simplicity (2020) | Ralf Pröve. Accessed June 10, 2020 (German).
  9. ↑ Overview - Social History Section - University of Potsdam. Retrieved May 17, 2017 .
  10. ^ Extraordinary professorship - Social History Department - University of Potsdam. Retrieved May 17, 2017 .
  11. ^ Members , Historical Commission, accessed February 1, 2014.
  12. ↑ Andreas Johannes Wiesand (Ed.): Handbook of Culture Awards . Volume 4: 1995-2000. Awards, honors, grants and individual project funding for artists, publicists and cultural mediators in Germany and Europe . ARCult, Bonn 2001, ISBN 3-930395-24-X , p. 836.
  13. ↑ Werner Schuder (Ed.): Kürschner's German Scholars Calendar . Volume 3, 18th edition, Saur, Munich 2001, ISBN 3-598-23603-4 , p. 2471.
  14. ↑ VIEWPOINTS - Review of: Stadtgemeindlicher Republikanismus und die "Macht des Volk" - Issue 2 (2002), No. 2. Accessed May 17, 2018 .
  15. ↑ Wencke Meteling: Review of: R. Pröve: Military, State and Society in the 19th Century. Retrieved May 17, 2018 .
  16. ↑ VIEWPOINTS - Review of: Military, State and Society in the 19th Century - Issue 6 (2006), No. 12. Accessed May 17, 2018 .
  17. ↑ Stephan Huck: Review - Huck on Hagemann / Pröve. Retrieved May 17, 2018 .
  18. ^ Rita Gudermann: Review of: R. Pröve u. a. (Ed.): Knowledge. Retrieved May 17, 2018 .
  19. ↑ VIEWPOINTS - Review of: Dominion in the Early Modern Times - Issue 5 (2005), No. 4. Accessed on May 17, 2018 .
  20. ↑ Michael Weise: Review of: R. Pröve u. a. (Ed.): Creating transitions. Retrieved May 17, 2018 .
  21. ↑ Wirth & Horn - Informationssysteme GmbH - www.wirth-horn.de: Rule and social systems in the early modern times. | Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht. Retrieved May 17, 2018 .
  22. ↑ Wirth & Horn - Informationssysteme GmbH - www.wirth-horn.de: Writings of the Early Modern Center Potsdam. | Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht. Retrieved May 17, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Prove, Ralf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian
DATE OF BIRTH 4th September 1960
PLACE OF BIRTH Celle