Rebekka Habermas

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Rebekka Habermas (2014)

Rebekka Habermas (born July 3, 1959 in Frankfurt am Main ) is a German historian . She is Professor of Medieval and Modern History at the Georg-August University in Göttingen . She is the daughter of the philosopher and sociologist Jürgen Habermas .

Life

From 1979 to 1985 she studied history and Romance studies in Konstanz and Paris . In 1985 she completed her studies with a master's degree and state examination. She then completed a publishing traineeship and worked for a short time as a publishing editor. She received her doctorate in 1990 at Saarland University and worked there from 1990 to 1997 as well as at the DFG Collaborative Research Center “ Social History of the Modern Bourgeoisie ” at Bielefeld University as a research assistant. In 1998 she qualified as a professor at the Faculty of History and Philosophy at Bielefeld University. Since the summer semester of 2000 she has held a chair for Middle and Modern History at the Georg-August University in Göttingen . In 2002 she was visiting professor at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris. Since 2010 she has been the spokesperson for the DFG Graduate School Dynamics of Space and Gender . From October 2013 to July 2014 she was a Richard von Weizsäcker Fellow at St Antony's College , Oxford. She has been a full member of the Academia Europaea since 2012 .

Habermas is editor of the journal Historische Anthropologie and co-editor of the Campus Historische Studien series , member of several working groups (historical anthropology, gender difference in European legal cultures, gender research at the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen) and on the board of the Göttingen Center for Theory and Methodology of Cultural Studies (Center of Modern Humanities). In addition, she works on the conception and planning of the European history published by Wolfgang Benz .

Her focus areas are the history of the bourgeoisie , legal , administrative and criminal history, book and reading history, religious history , gender history and historical anthropology .

Fonts (selection)

  • Pilgrimage and riot . On the history of belief in miracles in the early modern period. Campus-Verl., Frankfurt / Main 1991, ISBN 3-593-34570-6 .
  • Gender history and 'anthropology of gender'. Story of an encounter . In: Historical Anthropology . tape 1 , no. 3 , 1993, ISSN  0942-8704 , pp. 485-509 .
  • Female religiosity - or: On the fragility of bourgeois identities . In: Klaus Tenfelde , Hans-Ulrich Wehler (ed.): Paths to the history of the bourgeoisie . Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht, Göttingen 1994, ISBN 3-525-35673-0 , p. 125-148 .
  • Rituals of feeling. The piety of the Protestant bourgeoisie . In: Manfred Hettling, Stefan-Ludwig Hoffmann (eds.): The bourgeois sky of values . Interior views of the 19th century. Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht, Göttingen 2000, ISBN 3-525-01385-X , p. 169-192 .
  • Women and men of the bourgeoisie . A family story (1750-1850). Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht, Göttingen 2000, ISBN 3-525-35679-X .
  • Women's and Gender History . In: Joachim Eibach , Günther Lottes (Hrsg.): Compass of historical science . Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht, Göttingen 2006, ISBN 3-8252-2271-3 , p. 231-245 .
  • Property in court. The emergence of the modern constitutional state from theft? In: WerkstattGeschichte . tape 15 , no. 42 , 2006, ISSN  0933-5706 , p. 25-44 . ( PDF )
  • Thieves in court . The emergence of the modern legal system in the 19th century. Campus-Verl., Frankfurt am Main 2008, ISBN 978-3-593-38774-1 .
  • Scandal in Togo . A chapter of German colonial rule. S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2016, ISBN 978-3-10-397229-0 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Directory of members: Rebekka Habermas. Academia Europaea, accessed June 27, 2017 .