Reinhard Wendt

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Reinhard Wendt (born August 6, 1949 in Frankfurt am Main ) is a German historian . He works and researches the history of cultural interactions, transfers and conflicts between Europe and Germany on the one hand and the rest of the world on the other. In terms of content, the focus is on the change in Germany through imports and impulses from overseas, the history of missions and the emigration of Germans to the South Seas and regional to Southeast Asia and Oceania.

Scientific career

Reinhard Wendt studied history , political science and geography in Frankfurt a. M. and in Freiburg. In 1983 he received his doctorate in Augsburg with a thesis on the selection methods for Bavarian civil servants at the turn of the 18th and 19th centuries between the purchase of offices and the principle of performance. Since 1987 he has been teaching and researching non-European history at the Universities of Augsburg and Freiburg, which he understands as a two-dimensional process: Europe influenced and transformed the other regions of the world to varying degrees and at the same time became an object of influences from the overseas world. In 1995 he received his habilitation with a study on Spanish Catholic culture in the Philippines in the area of ​​tension between colonial rule and indigenous self-assertion. In 1998 the FernUniversität Hagen appointed him professor and head of the "Modern European and Non-European History" department, an activity that he carried out until his retirement in 2015.

literature

Fonts (selection)

  • The Bavarian bankruptcy test of the Montgelas period: Introduction, historical roots and function of a competitive, comparative state examination (= Miscellanea Bavarica Monacensia: Dissertations on the Bavarian State and Munich City History , Volume 13). Uni-Druck, Munich 1984, ISBN 3-87821-202-X (also dissertation, University of Augsburg 1983).
  • as editor with Hans-Joachim König and Wolfgang Reinhard : The European observer of non-European cultures: on the problem of the perception of reality (= journal for historical research supplement , volume 7). Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1989, ISBN 3-428-06624-3 .
  • Fiesta Filipina: colonial culture between imperialism and a new identity (= Rombach Science Series Historiae , Volume 10). Rombach, Freiburg im Breisgau 1997, ISBN 3-7930-9101-5 (also habilitation thesis, University of Freiburg (Breisgau)).
  • as editor: Paths through Babylon: Missionaries, language studies and intercultural communication (= ScriptOralia , Volume 104). Narr, Tübingen 1998, ISBN 3-8233-5414-0 .
  • as editor: collecting, networking, evaluating: Missionaries and their contribution to the change in the European worldview (= ScriptOralia , Volume 123). Narr, Tübingen 2001, ISBN 3-8233-5433-7 .
  • as editor with Peter Brandt and Arthur Schlegelmilch : Symbolic power and staged statehood: “Constitutional culture” as an element of constitutional history (= Political and Social History Series , Volume 65). Dietz, Bonn 2005, ISBN 3-8233-5433-7 .
  • as editor: An Indian to the Indians ?: on the initial failure and the posthumous success of the missionary Ferdinand Kittel (1832–1903) (= studies on the history of Christianity outside of Europe (Asia, Africa, Latin America) , Volume 9). Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 2006, ISBN 3-447-05161-2 .
  • Sugar - central lead product of the European expansion , in: Zeitschrift für Agrargeschichte und Agrarsoziologie 61 (2013), pp. 43–58.
  • German graves in the European cemetery in Naiafu, Vava'u, Tonga Islands. Place of remembrance on emigration and transculturation, in: Saeculum 64, 2014, pp. 91–107.
  • From colonialism to globalization: Europe and the world since 1500 (= UTB , Volume 2889). Schöningh, Paderborn et al. 2007, ISBN 3-8252-2889-4 .
    • From colonialism to globalization: Europe and the world since 1500 (= UTB , Volume 2889). 2nd updated edition, Schöningh, Paderborn et al. 2016, ISBN 3-8252-4236-6 .
  • Southeast Asia and Oceania , in: Akira Iriye / Jürgen Osterhammel (eds.): A History of the World. Vol. 3: Empires and Encounters 1350-1750, ed. by Wolfgang Reinhard, Cambridge / Mass., London (Harvard University Press) 2015, pp. 553-736 [with Jürgen G. Nagel ].
  • The end of the German South Seas, in: Bechhaus-Gerst, Marianne / Zeller, Joachim (Eds.): Germany Postcolonial? The present of the imperial past. Berlin 2018, pp. 80–97.
  • Gentile mission in the homeland. Their significance for images of people and world views, in: Hensel, Silke / Rommé, Barbara (ed.): From Westphalia to the South Seas. Catholic mission in the German colonies. Berlin 2018, pp. 200–211.
  • The Vava'u Germans: History and Identity Construction of a Transcultural Community with Tongan and Pomeranian Roots, in: Berghoff, Hartmut / Biess, Frank / Strasser, Ulrike (Ed.): Explorarations and Entanglements. Germans in the Pacific Worlds from the Early Modern Period to World War I. New York 2019, pp. 292-308.
  • Transfer, interaction, transformation: Global historical views of mission history, in: Blaschke, Olaf / Ramón Solans, Francisco Javier (eds.): World religion in transition. Transnational Perspectives on Christianity in Globalization. Frankfurt am Main 2019, pp. 79–101.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Wendt's curriculum vitae including a complete list of publications on the FernUniversität Hagen website. Retrieved April 11, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Wendt, Reinhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH August 6, 1949
PLACE OF BIRTH Frankfurt am Main