Rudolf Schlögl

Rudolf Schlögl (born June 6, 1955 in Geitenöd in the municipality of Stubenberg , Lower Bavaria ) is a German historian .

Life

Rudolf Schlögl studied German, history and social studies at the University of Augsburg and the Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg . In 1986, he was at Michael striker with a thesis on the Upper Bavarian peasant economy and the early modern state in the 17th century to Dr. phil. PhD . From 1986 to 1994 he was a university assistant at the Westphalian Wilhelms University in Münster . In 1992 he completed his habilitation in Münster with the text Faith and Religion in Secularization. The Catholic city of Cologne, Aachen, Münster from 1700 to 1840 and received the Venia Legendi for modern history. After Visiting Professor at the Heinrich-Heine University in Dusseldorf and the Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg Schlögl received in 1996 a reputation as Professor of Modern History at the University of Konstanz .

Act

Schlögl's research deals with the late 15th and early 19th centuries, the political culture of the early modern city, the media conditions of social introspection and self-description in the 17th century and the religion of early modern society. The focus is on the communication and media theory-based history of the social in the early modern period.

Rudolf Schlögl was an elected member of the board of the “Working Group Early Modern Times” in the Association of Historians in Germany from 1996 to 2001 and from 2000 to 2009 he was the spokesman for the special research area “Norm and Symbol” established by the German Research Foundation . The cultural dimension of social and political integration ”(SFB 485). He has been a member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Gerda Henkel Foundation since 2002 and was a member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Research Center for European Enlightenment in Potsdam from 2004 to 2007 .

Since October 2006 he has been the spokesman for the Cluster of Excellence 16 “Cultural Foundations of Integration” established by the German Research Foundation , which was the only joint research project in the humanities that was successful in the first round of the Excellence Initiative. Together with Gerhart von Graevenitz, he played a key role in the recognition of the University of Konstanz as an “ elite university ”.

He is the managing editor of the “Historical Cultural Studies” series at the UVK Konstanz.

Publications

• Peasants, war and the state. Upper Bavarian peasant economy and early modern state in the 17th century. Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht, Göttingen 1988, ISBN 3-525-35625-0 .
• Faith and Religion in Secularization. The Catholic city - Cologne, Aachen, Münster - (1740–1840) . Oldenbourg, Munich 1995, ISBN 3-486-56080-8 .
• Between loyalty and resistance. Social conflicts and political repression during the Nazi regime in Westphalia . Aschendorff, Münster 1996, ISBN 3-402-06794-3 , together with Hans-Ulrich Thamer .
• Edited with Frank Becker , Thomas Großbölting , Armin Owzar : Political violence in the modern age. Festschrift for Hans-Ulrich Thamer . Aschendorff, Münster 2003, ISBN 3-402-06612-2 .
• Interaction and domination. The politics of the early modern city . UVK, Konstanz 2004, ISBN 3-89669-703-X .
• The reality of symbols. Basics of communication in historical and contemporary societies . UVK, Konstanz 2004, ISBN 3-89669-693-9 , together with Bernhard Giesen and Jürgen Osterhammel .
• The media of history. Historicity and mediality in an interdisciplinary perspective . UVK, Konstanz 2004, together with F. Crivellari, K. Kirchmann, M. Sandl.
• Old belief and modern world. European Christianity in transition 1750–1850 . S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2013, ISBN 978-3-10-073588-1 .
• Present and absent. Ground plan for a social history of the early modern period . Konstanz University Press, Konstanz 2014, ISBN 978-3-86253-056-4 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Rudolf Schlögl in the catalog of the German National Library
• Page at the University of Konstanz

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Christine Böhringer: Klein Harvard auf dem Berg , in: Die Zeit , October 25, 2007.
2. ↑ How the power of expression was lost , in: FAZ of October 10, 2013, p. 30.