Ralph Tuchtenhagen

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Ralph Tuchtenhagen (born October 16, 1961 in Karlsruhe ) is a German historian and cultural scientist . From 2003 to 2009 he was professor for Eastern and Northern European history at the University of Hamburg . Since 2009 he has been professor of Scandinavian Studies / Cultural Studies in the history and culture of Northern Europe at the Humboldt University in Berlin .

Life

Ralph Tuchtenhagen studied history, Scandinavian and German at the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg and the Sorbonne in Paris. In 1989 he worked as an editor and author at the Norwegian publisher Fjordis. In July 1992 he was awarded a Dr. phil. doctorate with the work Religion as a minor status . From 1990 to 1993 he was a research assistant at the Research Center for Culture and History of Germans in Russia at the University of Freiburg. From 1994 to 1996 he taught as a guest lecturer at the Friedensau Theological College (Saxony-Anhalt). From 1993 to 1995 he worked as a research assistant, from 1995 to 2001 as a research assistant and from 2001 to 2003 as a university lecturer at the seminar for Eastern European history at the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg . In 2001 he completed his habilitation in Heidelberg with a thesis on Central State and Province in Early Modern Northeast Europe . In the 2002/03 winter semester, Tuchtenhagen was visiting professor at Saarland University .

From 2003 to 2009 he was professor for Eastern and Northern European history at the Department of History (University of Hamburg) . In 2008 he worked as a visiting professor at Södertörn University . In addition to his teaching activities, he was a board member of the Northeast Institute (2002–2011) and the Baltic Historical Commission (2007–2011). He is a board member of the Herder Research Council (since 2011), co-editor of the journal Nordeuropaforum (since 2010). He has a seat on the scientific advisory boards of the journals “Research on Baltic History” (since 2006) and Journal for East Central Europe Research (since 2008), as well as the Finland Institute in Germany in Berlin (since 2013). Since October 2009 he has been teaching the history and culture of Northern Europe as a professor of Scandinavian studies / cultural studies at the Humboldt University in Berlin . From 2010 to 2012 he was director of the Northern Europe Institute at Humboldt University. He was a Research Fellow at the European University Institute in Florence (2013) and a founding member of the Crossing Borders Research Center at the Humboldt University in Berlin (2017).

research

His research interests lie in the history of the early modern North (including the Baltic States and Russia), the human history of the Arctic, historical space-time dimensions, the history of national imagology, colonialism and post-colonialism, historical borders, the history of the humanities and social sciences from 16th to 20th century and in the southwest German regional history. Since 2007, together with Karsten Brüggemann and Konrad Maier († 2013), he has headed the international research project “The Baltic States. History of a European Region ”and co-editor of the three-volume handbook of the same name on the history of the Baltic countries.

The dissertation published in 1995 examined for the first time the political strategies of the Russian government towards the more than 100 different churches, religious communities and cults in the final phase of the Tsarist Empire. Tuchtenhagen was able to show that the divide et impera tactic, which ultimately failed due to the centrifugal forces of multireligiousness and the closely related national movements of the 19th century, contributed decisively to the downfall of Tsarist Russia in the revolutions of 1917 . His extensive work on the central state and provinces in early modern Northeast Europe (2008) deals with the mechanisms of the monarchical exercise of power in the tension between different political, social, economic and cultural factors between government and territorial subunits using the example of the Swedish and Russian Baltic provinces of Estonia , Livonia , Ingermanland and Karelia between the 16th and 19th centuries.

Introductions and overview monographs on the history of the Baltic countries, Sweden, Norway and the cities of Vilnius and Tallinn are aimed primarily at students and a general public interested in the history of Northern Europe.

Tuchtenhagen has published several anthologies on the history of religion and the history of historical science in Northeastern Europe. He is also the co-editor of several scientific monograph series and journals on modern history, culture and politics in Europe, especially Northern Europe and the Baltic countries. Tuchtenhagen wrote numerous articles in the Biographical-Bibliographical Church Lexicon (BBKL)

Fonts

Monographs

  • Tallinn. A short history of the city (with Karsten Brüggemann). Cologne-Weimar 2010, ISBN 3-412-20601-6 .
  • Against the spirit of nonsensical fables. History of Northern Europe in the Age of Enlightenment. Inaugural lecture at the Humboldt University in Berlin on November 23, 2011, Humboldt University, Berlin 2013 (= Berlin public lectures 175), ISBN 978-3-86004-287-8 .
  • Little history of Norway. Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-406-58453-4 ( review ).
  • Vilnius. Little history of the city. With Joachim Tauber . Cologne-Weimar 2008, ISBN 3-412-20204-5 .
  • Little history of Sweden. Munich 2008, ISBN 3-406-53618-2 .
  • Central state and province in early modern northeastern Europe. Wiesbaden 2008, ISBN 3-447-05522-7 . ( Review )
  • History of the Baltic countries. Munich 2005, 2nd improved edition 2008, 3rd expanded edition 2016, ISBN 3-406-50855-3 .
  • Religion as inferior status. The reform of the legislation on religious minorities in the constituted society of the Russian Empire 1905–1917. Frankfurt 1995, ISBN 3-631-48570-0 .

Editing of compilations

  • The north in view. Contributions to a specialist history of Northern European Studies, Berlin: Nordeuropa-Institut 2020 (= Berlin Contributions to Scandinavian Studies, Volume 26), ISBN 978-3-932406-41-6 .
  • The Swedes in the German southwest. Prehistory - Thirty Years War - Remembrance (with Volker Rödel), Stuttgart: Kohlhammer Verlag 2020 (= publications of the Commission for historical regional studies in Baden-Württemberg. Series B: Research, Volume 225), ISBN 978-3-17-037424-9 .
  • The Baltic States. History of a European Region , Volume 1: From Prehistory and Early History to the End of the Middle Ages (with Karsten Brüggemann, Konrad Maier and Detlef Henning), Stuttgart: Anton Hiersemann Verlag 2018, ISBN 978-3-7772-1825-0 ; Volume 3: The states of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania (with Karsten Brüggemann, Konrad Maier and Anja Wilhelmi), Stuttgart: Anton Hiersemann Verlag 2020, ISBN 978-3-7772-2013-0 .
  • Eastern European Studies in Northern European Historiography. Lüneburg: Verlag des Nordost-Institut 2005 (= Nordost-Archiv NF IX, 2000, no.1). ISSN  0029-1595 .
  • Aspects of the Reformation in the Baltic Sea Region. Lüneburg: Verlag des Nordost-Institut 2005 (= Nordost-Archiv NF XIII, 2004). ISSN  0029-1595 .
  • Ethnic and Social Conflicts in Modern Eastern Europe. Festschrift for Heinz-Dietrich Löwe on his 60th birthday. Hamburg: Kovač Verlag 2004, ISBN 3-8300-1504-6 .
  • Politics and Religion in the Soviet Union 1917-1941 (with Christoph Gassenschmidt), Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag 2001, ISBN 978-3-447-04440-0 .
  • Between reform and revolution. The Germans on the Volga 1860-1917 (with Dittmar Dahlmann), Essen: Klartext Verlag 1994 (= publications of the Institute for Culture and History of Germans in Eastern Europe 4), ISBN 978-3884741719 .

Editing of series of monographs and journals

  • Baltic biographical lexicon digital (edited by Henning von Wistinghausen, Wilhelm Lenz and others) 2009ff.
  • Northern European Studies (ed. With Bernd Henningsen, Jan Hecker-Stampehl), Berlin: Berliner Wissenschaftsverlag 2011ff.
  • The Baltic Sea Region: Northern Dimensions - European Perspectives (ed. With Bernd Henningsen), Berlin: Berliner Wissenschaftsverlag 2011ff.
  • Sources and research on Baltic history = writings of the Baltic Historical Commission. Series I (ed. With Matthias Thumser, Karsten Brüggemann), Cologne-Weimar-Vienna: Böhlau-Verlag 2011ff.
  • Journal for East Central Europe Research (edited with Peter Haslinger, Karsten Brüggemann and others), Marburg: Verlag Herder-Institut 2009ff.
  • Northern Europe forum (ed. With Bernd Henningsen, Jan Hecker-Stampehl, Stefan Schröder and others), Berlin: Berlin Verlag 2007ff.
  • Writings of the Baltic Historical Commission. Series II (ed. With Gert von Pistohlkors, Paul Kaegbein, Stefan Donecker), Münster etc .: LIT Verlag 2007ff.
  • Baltic biographical research (ed. With Norbert Angermann, Wilhelm Lenz), Münster: LIT Verlag 2007ff.
  • Studies on the Baltic Sea region (ed. With Burghart Schmidt, Jürgen Sarnowski), Hamburg: Dobu-Verlag 2007ff.
  • Studies on the modern history of Europe (ed. With Gabriele Clemens), Münster etc .: LIT Verlag 2006ff.
  • Publications of the Nordost-Institut (ed. With Andreas Lawaty, Alfred Eisfeld), Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz-Verlag 2006–2011.

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