Richard van Duelmen

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Richard van Dülmen (born May 3, 1937 in Cloppenburg ; † January 18, 2004 in Erfurt ) was a German historian , publicist and co-editor of the historical anthropology journal .

Life

Richard van Dülmen studied history, philosophy and religious studies in Münster , Würzburg and Munich . In 1968 he received his doctorate with Karl Bosl with a thesis on the Pollingen provost Franziskus Töpsl . After his habilitation on the theologian Johann Valentin Andreae , the author of the Rosicrucian legend, he was a private lecturer in Munich from 1973. In 1980 he became a substitute professor and in 1982 professor for the history of the early modern period with special consideration of the regional history at the Saarland University in Saarbrücken . He published extensively on the cultural and social history of the 16th to 18th centuries.

Van Dülmen was visiting professor in Berlin , Prague and Bern . Since 1994 he has been the co-founder and editor of the journal Historische Anthropologie. Culture. Society. Everyday life . He was editor of the Saarland Library series together with Reinhard Klektiven . At Saarland University, he was the first spokesman for the historically oriented cultural studies diploma course, which he initiated in part, since 1999 , head of the department for historical cultural research ( Volkswagen Foundation ) and a member of the graduate school for intercultural communication from a cultural studies perspective .

Richard van Dülmen died during a conference in Erfurt. Nils Minkmar wrote the obituary in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , the historian Ulrich Speck wrote the obituary in the Frankfurter Rundschau .

family

Richard van Dülmen was married to Andrea van Dülmen and had three children: Alexander , Moritz and Friederike van Dülmen.

Richard van Dülmen Prize

Since 2009, the Richard van Dülmen Prize has been awarded annually by the HOK Alumni Association (alumni and students of historically oriented cultural studies at Saarland University) for the most innovative thesis in courses in historically oriented cultural studies.

Fonts (selection)

  • with Sina Rauschenbach: Power of Knowledge. The emergence of the modern knowledge society . Böhlau, Cologne 2004, ISBN 3-412-13303-5 .
  • Poetry of life. A cultural history of German Romanticism 1795–1820 . Volume 1: Lifeworld . Böhlau, Cologne / Weimar 2002, ISBN 3-41207302-4 .
  • (Ed.): Discovery of the ego. The history of individualization from the Middle Ages to the present . Böhlau, Cologne 2001, ISBN 3-412-02901-7 .
  • Historical anthropology. Development, problems, tasks . Böhlau, Cologne 2000, ISBN 3-41211799-4 .
  • Culture and everyday life in the early modern era . First volume: The house and its people 16. – 18. Century . CH Beck, Munich 1990, 4th edition 2005, ISBN 978-3-406-53914-5 .
  • The emergence of early modern Europe 1550–1648 (= Fischer Weltgeschichte , Volume 24), Fischer TB, Frankfurt am Main 1982, ISBN 3-596-60024-3 .
  • Reformation as a revolution. Social movement and religious radicalism in the German Reformation , dtv, Munich 1977, ISBN 3-423-04273-7 .
  • The Illuminati secret society . Frommann-Holzboog, Stuttgart-Bad Cannstatt 1975, ISBN 3-77280674-0 .
  • (Ed.): The Anabaptist Empire of Münster 1534–1535. Reports and documents , dtv, Munich 1974, ISBN 3-423-04150-1 .

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Nils Minkmar: Obstinacy. Richard van Dülmen died. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , January 20, 2004, No. 16, p. 36.
  2. ↑ Ulrich Speck: Confession and interrogation. Historical inspirations: On the death of Richard van Dülmen. In: Frankfurter Rundschau , January 21, 2004.
  3. ↑ Richard-van-Dülmen Prize for the most innovative thesis , accessed on January 31, 2020.
personal data
SURNAME Duelmen, Richard van
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian and publicist
DATE OF BIRTH May 3, 1937
PLACE OF BIRTH Cloppenburg
DATE OF DEATH January 18, 2004
Place of death Erfurt