Ronald G. Asch

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Ronald Gregor Asch (born August 13, 1953 in Hamburg ) is a German historian with a focus on the early modern period . Asch taught as a professor for early modern history from 1996 to 2003 at the University of Osnabrück . Since 2003 he has held a professorship in the same subject at the Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg . Asch is one of the best German-speaking connoisseurs of the Stuarts .

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academic career

The son of an import and export merchant was born in Hamburg in 1953. There he visited the old-language train of the Wilhelm-Gymnasium . Asch studied from 1973 to 1978/79 at the Universities of Kiel , Tübingen and Cambridge . His most important academic teachers were Josef Engel in Tübingen and Geoffrey Elton in Cambridge . In 1978 Asch passed the first state examination for teaching at grammar schools in history and Latin in Tübingen. From 1982 to 1983 he worked as a research assistant in Tübingen. In 1982 he received his doctorate there at Volker Press on the history of the Counts of Fürstenberg and their territorial administration in the 16th and 17th centuries. From 1983 to 1985 he trained as an archivist for the higher service at the main state archive in Stuttgart , at the Institute for Archival Studies in Marburg and at the Federal Archive in Koblenz . Asch completed his archivist training in 1985 with the state archival examination for the higher service. Asch then worked from 1985 to 1988 as a research assistant at the German Historical Institute in London .

From 1988 to 1993 he worked as a research assistant at the chair for early modern history with Heinz Duchhardt at the University of Münster . There he met his future wife. In 1991/92 he completed his habilitation in Münster with the thesis “The Court of Charles I of England. Politics and Patronage 1625–1640 ”. In 1993 he was appointed professor at the University of Münster. As the successor to Anton Schindling , Asch taught early modern history as a professor in Osnabrück from 1996 to 2003 . He gave his inaugural lecture in the 1997 summer semester on the subject of war financing, state formation and the corporate structure in Western Europe in the 17th and 18th centuries. In March 2002 he was visiting professor at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales Marseille. In the summer of 2002 he was appointed to the University of Freiburg . Since April 2003, Asch has held the chair for early modern history in Freiburg as the successor to Wolfgang Reinhard . In the winter semester 2008/09, in the summer semester 2009 and again in the winter semester 2010/11, Asch was on leave as a fellow at the Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies . Martin Wrede is one of Asch's most important academic students .

Research priorities

His main research interests are British history in the 16th and 17th centuries, the history of the Thirty Years War and the history of European nobility and court society and culture in the early modern period. Asch is considered a leading expert on the history of the Stuarts . In 1993 he presented a study of the royal court of Charles I with his Münster habilitation thesis , in 2005 a biography of James I followed and in 2011 he published a story of the Stuart dynasty from the beginnings of the family as a royal stew in 11th- century Scotland. Century to the 20th century. In his habilitation, he built on the research of Geoffrey Elton , Conrad Russell (1979) and Anthony Fletcher (1981), according to which the center of political events was the court and not the parliament. It is the first major work on the court of Charles I before the outbreak of the English civil war . For this purpose, Asch evaluated numerous archival documents from English, Irish and Scottish archives and libraries. According to his thesis, the court of Charles I had a high degree of political integration power until the thirties of the 17th century and only got into a crisis after the outbreak of the Scottish conflict (1637 ff.). According to Kaspar von Greyerz , he made a "significant contribution to the English and British history of the first half of the 17th century".

With Dagmar Freist he edited an anthology with 15 articles on the early modern state in 2005. The editors chose the title “State formation as a cultural process” and set themselves the goal of “understanding and analyzing the process of state formation not only as a constitutional and political, but also essentially as a cultural process”. In the run-up to the 300th anniversary of the British-Hanoverian personal union (1714-1837), the Historical Commission for Lower Saxony and Bremen organized a conference in March 2012 in Osnabrück in cooperation with the German Historical Institute in London. Until the 1990s, personal union was often viewed as a negligible episode. Seventeen contributions therefore dealt with the question formulated by Asch at the beginning of "how important the personal union of 1714 actually was". The conference proceedings were published by Asch in 2014.

Asch was awarded numerous scientific memberships for his research. Asch has been a member of the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences since summer 2006 , and in 2010 he became a member of the Academia Europaea . He was also a member of the advisory board of the German Historical Institute in London from 2003 to 2011. Asch is a member of the commission for historical regional studies in Baden-Württemberg and the historical commission for Lower Saxony and Bremen.

Political activities

Asch is one of the opponents of the euro . In June 2013 he was elected as an assessor in the Freiburg District Association of Alternative for Germany . In July 2015, Asch left the party again. He is a regular contributor to the online magazine Tichys Insight .

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Monographs

  • The Stuarts. History of a dynasty (= Beck series. Vol. 2710). Beck, Munich 2011, ISBN 978-3-406-61189-6 .
  • European nobility in the early modern period. An introduction (= UTB vol. 3086 history ). Böhlau, Cologne et al. 2008, ISBN 978-3-412-20069-5 .
  • James I (1566-1625). King of England and Scotland. Ruler of Peace in the Age of Religious Wars (= Kohlhammer-Urban Pocket Books. Vol. 608). Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 2005, ISBN 3-17-018680-9 .
  • Nobilities in transition 1550-1700. Courtiers and rebels in Britain and Europe. Arnold, London et al. 2003, ISBN 0-340-62528-7 .
  • The court of Charles I of England. Politics, Province and Patronage. 1625–1640 (= norm and structure. Vol. 3). Böhlau, Cologne et al. 1993, ISBN 3-412-09393-9 (At the same time: Münster, University, habilitation paper, 1991).

Editorships

  • Hanover, Great Britain and Europe. Experience space personal union 1714–1837 (= publications of the Historical Commission for Lower Saxony and Bremen. Vol. 277). Wallstein-Verlag, Göttingen 2014, ISBN 978-3-8353-1584-6 .
  • with Václav Buzek and Volker Trugenberger: Nobility in Southwest Germany and Bohemia 1450–1850 (= publications of the Commission for Historical Regional Studies in Baden-Württemberg. Series B: Research. Vol. 191). Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 2013, ISBN 978-3-17-023030-9 .
  • with Birgit Emich , Jens Ivo Engels : Integration - Legitimation - Corruption. Political patronage in early modern times and modern times. Lang, Frankfurt am Main 2011, ISBN 978-3-631-59997-6 .
  • with Dagmar Freist : State building as a cultural process. Structural change and legitimation of rule in the early modern period. Böhlau, Cologne et al. 2005, ISBN 3-412-11705-6 .
  • with Johannes Arndt and Matthias Schnettger : The early modern monarchy and its legacy. Festschrift for Heinz Duchhardt on his 60th birthday. Waxmann, Münster et al. 2003, ISBN 3-8309-1321-4 .
  • Wulf Eckart Voss and Martin Wrede : Peace and War in the Early Modern Age. The European order of states and the non-European world (= Der Frieden. Vol. 2). Fink, Munich 2001, ISBN 3-7705-3540-5 .
  • The European nobility in the Ancien Régime. From the crisis of the estate monarchies to the revolution (approx. 1600–1789). Böhlau, Cologne et al. 2001, ISBN 3-412-14000-7 .
  • with Heinz Duchhardt : Absolutism - a myth? Structural change in monarchical rule in Western and Central Europe (approx. 1550–1700) (= Münster historical research. Vol. 9). Böhlau, Cologne et al. 1996, ISBN 3-412-06096-8 .

literature

  • Inaugural address by Ronald G. Asch at the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences on January 27, 2007. In: Yearbook of the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences for the year 2007. Heidelberg 2008, pp. 132-135.

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Remarks

  1. ↑ Ronald G. Asch: War Financing, State Formation and Corporate Order in Western Europe in the 17th and 18th Centuries. In: Historische Zeitschrift 268 (1999), pp. 636-671.
  2. ↑ See the review by Michael Schaich in: Historische Zeitschrift 286 (2008), pp. 195–197.
  3. ↑ See the reviews by Andreas Pečar in: Zeitschrift für Historische Forschung 40 (2013), pp. 157–158 ( online ); Raingard Esser in: Das Historisch-Politische Buch 60 (2012), pp. 15-16.
  4. ↑ See the review by Kurt Kluxen in: Historische Zeitschrift 261 (1995), pp. 223–224.
  5. ↑ See the review by Kaspar von Greyerz in: Journal for historical research 24 (1997), pp. 145–146.
  6. ↑ Ronald G. Asch, Dagmar Freist (Ed.): State formation as a cultural process. Structural change and legitimation of rule in the early modern period. Cologne et al. 2005, p. 14. Cf. the reviews of Brigitte Meier in: Zeitschrift für Geschichtswwissenschaft 54 (2006), pp. 293–295; Reinhard Blänkner in: Journal for Historical Research 35 (2008), pp. 124–127.
  7. ↑ Ronald G. Asch: Introduction. In: Ronald G. Asch (Ed.): Hanover, Great Britain and Europe: experience space personal union 1714–1837. Göttingen 2014, pp. 11–35, here: p. 13.
  8. ^ Florian Kech: Anti-Euro Party. The "Alternative for Germany" meets for its founding party conference. In: Badische Zeitung , April 12, 2013; Lukas Fuhr: Opponents of the euro: The “Alternative for Germany” has a problem. In: Stuttgarter Zeitung , April 3, 2013.
  9. ^ Uwe Mauch: Alternative for Germany founds Freiburg party . In: Badische Zeitung, June 15, 2013.
  10. ↑ without author: Germany: Lucke deselection: wave of exit from the AfD - Freiburg district association before dissolution. In: Badische Zeitung , July 8, 2015.
personal data
SURNAME Asch, Ronald G.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Asch, Ronald Gregor
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian
DATE OF BIRTH August 13, 1953
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg