Roland Gehrke (historian)

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Roland Gehrke (born July 15, 1966 in Hamburg ) is a German historian .

Life

After high school and military service , he studied middle and modern history, Slavic studies and public law at the University of Hamburg . After obtaining his master's degree in 1995, he received an Immanuel Kant doctoral scholarship in 1997/1998, during which time he spent several research stays in Poland . After completing his doctorate in Hamburg in 1999 with a thesis on the Polish idea of ​​the West, he was a research assistant at the Chair for Early Modern History at the University of Stuttgart, responsible for the “Silesian History” project area from 2000 to 2008 . Since March 2009 he has been the course manager at the Historical Institute. In 2009 his habilitation process (with a habilitation thesis on provincial parliamentarism in Silesia ) was completed.

His main research interests are early parliamentarism and constitutionalism in Central Europe in the 19th century and the history of the Prussian province of Silesia (1740–1945); The focus is on the economy, culture and political activity of the Silesian nobility. He also researches the history of Poland from the middle of the 18th to the middle of the 20th century and the history of nationalism in East Central Europe since the beginning of the 19th century.

Fonts (selection)

  • The Hanseatic League and Poland. Lüneburg 1996, ISBN 3-922296-96-3 .
  • The Polish idea of ​​the west until the re-establishment of the Polish state after the end of the First World War. Genesis and justification of Polish territorial claims against Germany in the age of European nationalism. Marburg 2001, ISBN 3-87969-288-2 .
  • Parliament and the public. Provincial parliamentarism in Silesia 1825–1845. Cologne 2009, ISBN 978-3-412-20413-6 .
  • as editor: From Breslau to Leipzig. Perception, memory and interpretation of the anti-Napoleonic liberation wars. Cologne 2014, ISBN 3-412-22159-7 .
  • as ed. with Joachim Bahlcke : Scholars - Schools - Networks. Historical researcher in Silesia in the long 19th century. Cologne 2019, ISBN 978-3-412-51666-6 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Vademecum of the historical sciences. Edition 10.2012/2013. Steiner, Stuttgart 2012, ISBN 978-3-515-10079-3 , p. 367.
personal data
SURNAME Gehrke, Roland
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian
DATE OF BIRTH July 15, 1966
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg