Robert von Friedeburg

Robert Karl Friedrich von Friedeburg (born August 9, 1961 in Königstein im Taunus ) is a German historian who deals with the early modern period .

Robert von Friedeburg, son of the sociologist Ludwig von Friedeburg and the sociologist Ellen Schölch, studied history in Hamburg , Cambridge ( King's College ) and Bielefeld from 1982 . After graduating, he was at Harvard University from 1987 to 1989, and in 1989, with the work supervised by Wolfgang Mager, he became the discipline of sin and social change. Earls Colne (England), Springfield and Ipswich (New England) in comparison, completed his doctorate in Bielefeld around 1524–1690 . In 1994 he completed his habilitation there. He was Professor at the Erasmus University Rotterdam , where he was Executive Director of the Erasmus Center for Early Modern Studies, and is Professor ( Reader) at Bishop Grosseteste University in Lincoln .

He deals with the history of the early modern period, especially with the history of the Reformation in rural areas (for example the right to resist based on religious beliefs), social conflicts, state formation and political-religious thinking, especially in England, Germany and the Netherlands.

He was visiting scholar and visiting professor at the University of St. Andrews , the University of New South Wales and the Sorbonne , visiting scholar at the Herzog August Bibliothek Wolfenbüttel and at the Human Sciences Research College at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main .

From 1996 to 2001 von Friedeburg was a Heisenberg fellow and in 1992 he received the Bennigsen Award. In 2002 he was at the Institute for Advanced Studies in Princeton NJ He is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and a member of the Academia Europaea . He is on the board of the Johannes Althusius Society for the Study of Constitutional History and Natural Law in the Early Modern Era.

Fonts

• Sin discipline and social change. Earls Colne (England), Springfield and Ipswich (New England) in comparison, approx. 1524–1690 , Steiner, Stuttgart 1993.
• Rural society and authorities, community protest and political mobilization in the 18th and 19th centuries , Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht, Göttingen 1997.
• Editor with Hartmut Berghoff : Change and inertia. Britain under the impact of the Great War , Bodenheim 1998 (Change in attitudes in Great Britain following the First World War).
• Right of Resistance and Sectarian Conflict. Self-defense and common man in a German-British comparison 1530–1669 , Duncker and Humblot, Berlin 1999.
• The living environment and culture of the subordinate classes in the early modern period , Oldenbourg, Munich 2002.
• Self-defense and religious strife in early modern Europe. England and Germany, 1530–1680 , Ashgate, Aldershot 2002 (= St. Andrews Studies in Reformation History ).
• Editor: Murder and monarchy. Regicide in European history, 1300-1800 , Palgrave-Macmillan 2004.
• From the corporate law of resistance to modern natural law. The Politica of Johannes Althusius and its Scottish reception , in: Luise Schorn-Schütte (editor): Structures of Political Thought in the Early Modern Age , Munich 2004, pp. 149–194.
• as editor: "Patria" and "Patriots" before patriotism. Duties, rights, beliefs and the reconfiguration of European communities in the 17th century (= Wolfenbütteler work on baroque research ), Harrassowitz, Mainz 2005.
• Editor: Passions and the Legitimacy of Rule. Antiquity to the Early Enlightenment , London 2005.
• Editor with Luise Schorn-Schütte: Politics and Religion. Intrinsic logic or interlocking? Europe in the 16th Century , Oldenbourg, Munich 2007.
• The Roots of Modern Germany , in: Helmut Walser Smith (editor): The Oxford Handbook of Modern German History , Oxford 2011, pp. 29–48.
• Europe in the early modern period (= New Fischer World History ), Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2012.
• Luther's Legacy. The Thirty Years War and the Modern Notion of 'State' in the Empire , Cambridge 2016.
• Editor with John Morrill: Monarchy Transformed. Princes and their Elites in Early Modern Western Europe , Cambridge 2017.

Web links

• Homepage in Lincoln
• Literature by and about Robert von Friedeburg in the catalog of the German National Library