Rebekka von Mallinckrodt

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Rebekka von Mallinckrodt (* 1971 ) is a German historian . In terms of time, the focus is on the early modern era (16th to 18th centuries), while the history of the culture of movement, sport and body techniques as well as the repercussions of colonialism and globalization on Europe form the focus. In particular, she deals with enslavement practices in the Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation.

Scientific career

Von Mallinckrodt attended St. Anne's-Belfield School in Charlottesville , Virginia until 1989 , before graduating from Albertus-Magnus-Gymnasium Bensberg in 1991 . She then studied German, history and philosophy at the Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen until 1994 . She then completed a year of study at La Sapienza University and the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome. In 1995 she continued her studies at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität in Bonn, which she completed in 1998 with the first state examination. From 1999 to 2001 she was a scholarship holder of the DFG graduate college “Knowledge Fields of the Modern Age” at the University of Augsburg , where she received her doctorate in 2003 . As early as 2001, von Mallinckrodt worked as a research assistant at what was then the Max Planck Institute for History in Göttingen. There she coordinated u. a. the International Max Planck Research School for the History and Transformation of Cultural and Political Values ​​in Medieval and Early Modern Europe . In 2005 she was appointed junior professor at the Free University of Berlin , where she worked until 2012 - interrupted by a research year in Paris as a Feodor Lynen scholarship holder of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation 2008/2009. In the same year she moved to the University of Bremen as professor of early modern history .

Scientific importance

Von Mallinckrodt works very closely on the sources of the early modern period and was therefore able to intervene in old discussions in an illuminating way and to open up new areas that had previously been displaced. In the discussion about Allen Guttmann's beginnings of modern sport, for example, she showed that the theses of John Mcclelland and Arnd Krüger are more accurate than Guttmann, who saw no characteristics of sport before the 19th century. Von Mallinckrodt's work on slavery in Germany has opened up a new field of research. On the one hand, it provided evidence for the first time that slavery existed as a legal status in the Old Kingdom; on the other hand, it demonstrated that children and young people in particular were affected by such deportation to Germany.

Awards and functions (selection)

  • 2018 Prize of the Association of Historians of Germany for the contribution "Negotiated (in) freedom"
  • 2015–2021: Principal Investigator of the ERC Consolidator Grant "The Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation and its Slaves"
  • 2010: Admission to AcademiaNet (Internet portal for excellent female scientists)
  • 2009–2012: Initiator and spokesperson for the DFG network "Body Techniques in the Early Modern Age"
  • 2007–2012: Member of the Young Academy at the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina

Publications (selection)

  • Children abducted in the Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation and the limits of transcultural multiple belonging, in: Dagmar Freist / Sabine Kyora / Melanie Unseld (eds.): Transcultural Multiple Belongings - Spaces, Materialities, Memories, Bielefeld 2019, pp. 15-37.
  • Swimming princes and swimming revolutionaries. On the political iconology of body technology, in: Mariacarla Gadebusch Bondio / Beate Kellner / Ulrich Pfisterer (eds.): The power of nature - made nature. Realities and fictions of the ruling body between the Middle Ages and early modern times, Florence 2019, pp. 301–342.
  • Slaves in Germany, in: At that time. Das Magazin für Geschichte 7 (2018), pp. 45–46.
  • Negotiated (in) freedom. Slavery, serfdom and inner-European knowledge transfer at the end of the 18th century, in: Issue “Knowledge and Migration”, ed. by Simone Lässig and Swen Steinberg, Geschichte & Gesellschaft 43,3 (2017), pp. 347–380.
  • Exploring Underwater Worlds. Diving in the Late Seventeenth- / Early Eighteenth-Century British Empire, in: Daniela Hacke / Paul P. Musselwhite (eds.): Empire of Senses. Sensory Practices of Colonialism in Early America, Leiden: Brill 2017, pp. 300–322.
  • Early Modern Sports History 2.0, in: Special issue “New Paths in Early Modern History”, ed. by Wolfgang Behringer and Justus Nipperdey, Early Modern Age Info 28 (2017), pp. 117–129.
  • There are no Slaves in Prussia ?, in: Felix Brahm / Eve Rosenhaft (eds.): Hinterlands and Gray Zones. Studies in the Material and Moral Implications of Transatlantic Slavery in Continental Europe 1680–1850, Boydell & Brewer - Suffolk 2016.
  • Sports and Physical Exercise in Early Modern Culture. New Perspectives on the History of Sports and Motion (together with Angela Schattner), Routledge - London 2016.
  • Diving bells, submarines and aquanauts - the development of the seas in the 17th century between utopia and experiment, in: Karin Friedrich (ed.): The development of space. Construction, imagination and representation of spaces and boundaries in the baroque age, Wiesbaden 2014, pp. 337–354.
  • Les mondes coloniaux à Paris au XVIIIe siècle. Circulation et enchevêtrement des savoirs (together with Anja Bandau and Marcel Dorigny), Karthala - Paris 2010.
  • Moving Life - Body Techniques in the Early Modern Era, catalog for the exhibition in the Herzog August Library Wolfenbüttel, June 29 to November 16, 2008, Wiesbaden 2008.
  • "You renounce the deception of misguided reason (...) so you will see that you can swim." - Swimming practices and debates in the 18th century, in: Werkstatt Geschichte 44 (2006), pp. 7-26.
  • Invisible Power - Representative Powerlessness? A comparison of the possibilities of political influence and the architectural representation of early modern brotherhoods in Venice and Cologne, in: Christian Hochmuth / Susanne Rau (eds.): Machträume der earlymodlichen Stadt, Konstanz 2006, pp. 333–353.
  • Structure and collective stubbornness. Cologne lay brotherhoods in the age of denominationalization (publications by the Max Planck Institute for History 209), Göttingen 2005.
  • together with Rebekka Habermas: Intercultural transfer and national stubbornness. European and Anglo-American positions in cultural studies, Göttingen 2004.
  • “Discontenting, surely, even for those versed in French intellectual pyrotechnics.” Michel de Certeau in France, Germany and in the USA, in: ibid., Pp. 221–241.
  • Turbulent history. Plea for an increased integration and conceptual expansion of the history of sports in early modern history, in: Historische Anthropologie 1 (2004), pp. 134-139
  • Brotherhoods as clients of art and architecture in the southern German-Austrian region. Prolegomena to a new field of research, in: Markwart Herzog , Rolf Kießling and Bernd Roeck (eds.): Heaven on earth or devil worm? Economic and social conditions of the southern German monastery baroque, Konstanz 2002, pp. 119–140

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ For the information in this section cf. the website of Rebekka von Mallinckrodt indicated in the web links.
  2. ↑ http://www.geschichte.mpg.de/
  3. ↑ John McClelland: Book review: Sports and Physical Exercise in Early Modern Culture. New Perspectives on the History of Sports and Motion, edited by Rebekka von Mallinckrodt and Angela Schattner. Ludica 21/22 (2015/16), pp. 162-164
  4. ↑ online on Google Books
personal data
SURNAME Mallinckrodt, Rebekka von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German early modern historian
DATE OF BIRTH 1971