Rudolf Holbach

Rudolf Holbach (born January 27, 1950 in Nittel ) is a German historian .

Rudolf Holbach studied German and history from 1968 to 1974 at Saarland University and Trier University . In 1974 the academic examination for teaching at grammar schools took place. With Alfred Haverkamp he received his doctorate in 1978 with an investigation into the history of the Trier cathedral chapter in the late Middle Ages. From 1977 to 1983 he was a research assistant at the University of Trier in the field of historical regional studies. In Trier, Holbach was a university assistant from 1985 to 1990. His habilitation took place in 1990 with Franz Irsigler with a study of the early forms of publishing and large-scale production in commercial production from the 13th to the 16th century. In 1990/91 he had a teaching position at the TH Darmstadt . This was followed in 1991/92 by a substitute professor at the University of Bonn for medieval and modern history as well as Rhenish regional history. From 1992 to 1994 he was a university lecturer for economic history in Trier. From 1994 until his retirement in 2016, he taught as a professor of medieval history at the Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg .

His main research interests are the economic and social history of the Middle Ages and the early modern period, especially the carriers, forms and relationships of commercial production and trade in a comparative perspective from the 13th to the 16th century. Further focal points are the history of festivals and free time in the Middle Ages, the Hanseatic history and the medieval bishops in exile.

Fonts

Monographs

• Early forms of publishing houses and large-scale operations in commercial production (13th – 16th centuries) (= quarterly journal for social and economic history. Supplements. Vol. 110). Steiner, Stuttgart 1994, ISBN 3-515-05820-6 .
• Collegiate spirituality in the area of ​​tension between church and world. Studies on the history of the Trier cathedral chapter and clergy in the late Middle Ages (= Trier historical research. Vol. 2). THF, Verl. Trier Historical Research, Trier 1982, ISBN 3-923087-01-2 .

Editorships

• with Henning Steinführer : Hanseatic cities and sovereignty (= Hanseatic studies. Vol. 28). Callidus, Wismar 2020, ISBN 978-3-940677-73-0 .
• Urban economy in the Middle Ages. Festschrift for Franz Irsigler on his 70th birthday. Böhlau, Cologne et al. 2011, ISBN 3-412-20779-9 .

literature

• Sarah Neumann, Ines Weber and David Weiss (eds.): Ad laudem et gloriam. Festschrift for Rudolf Holbachh. Publishing house for history and culture, Trier 2016, ISBN 978-3-945768-00-6 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Rudolf Holbach in the catalog of the German National Library
• Page from Holbach at the University of Oldenburg
• Publications by Rudolf Holbach in the Opac of the Regesta Imperii

Remarks

1. ↑ See the review by Marlene Nikolay-Panter in: Archiv für Kulturgeschichte 69, 1987, pp. 242–244.