Susanne Rau

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Susanne Rau (* 1969 ) is a German historian .

Scientific career

From 1990 to 1993 Susanne Rau studied general rhetoric, history and Romance studies at the Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen . Then she moved to the University of Hamburg to study history, French and philosophy. She completed her studies in 1997 with a Magister Artium . She then stayed for three more years as a research assistant in the early modern period in Hamburg. She received her doctorate in 2001 with the subject of urban historiography and culture of remembrance in the age of the Reformation and confessionalization in Bremen, Breslau, Hamburg and Cologne . She then went to the Technical University of Dresden to work as a scientist within the Collaborative Research Center for Institutionality and Historicity until completing her habilitation in 2008 . In 2009 Rau was appointed professor for the history and cultures of modern spaces at the University of Erfurt .

Rau often stayed in France for research and teaching purposes, for example in 2007 as part of a teaching position at the Université Lumière Lyon 2 , or from 2008 to 2009 with a research grant at the German Historical Institute in Paris. In 2009 she also held a visiting professorship at the Fondation Maison des Sciences de l'Homme in Paris. In the same year, her habilitation was recognized by the French Ministry of Science. Since 2011 she has been a regular visiting professor at the École normal supérieure de Lyon . In 2015 she received the Vienna Prize for Urban History Research, and in 2017 the Gay Lussac Humboldt Prize .

Publications (selection)

  • Spaces of the city. A history of Lyon 1300-1800 , Frankfurt / Main 2014
  • with Benjamin Steiner: Article European border orders in the world. A contribution to the historical epistemology of global historiography , in: Clio-online - European history portal (2013)
  • Spaces. Concepts - Perceptions - Uses (Historical Introductions, Vol. 14), Frankfurt / Main 2013
  • Lutheran confessionalization in Hamburg. For the perpetuation of a cultural order model (approx. 1550-1750) , 2013
  • with Ekkehard Schönherr: Mapping Spatial Relations, their Perceptions and Dynamics: the City Today and in the Past (Lecture Notes in Geoinformation and Cartography) Cham 2014, pp. 139–156
  • Hamburg, the Hanseatic League and Northern Europe in Adam Tratziger's chronicle. On the role of the Hanseatic League in the historiography of Hanseatic cities , in: Volker Henn u. Jürgen Sarnowsky (ed.): The image of the Hanseatic League in urban historiography in the Middle Ages and the early modern period (Hansische Studien 20), Trier 2010, pp. 19–36
  • History and Denomination. Urban historiography and culture of remembrance in the age of Reformation and confessionalization in Bremen, Breslau, Hamburg and Cologne (Hamburg publications on the history of Central and Eastern Europe 9), Hamburg / Munich 2002

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Initially held as a Heisenberg Professorship of the DFG (2009-2014)
  2. ↑ Possibility to download the PDF file of the article from the website of the Digital Library of Thuringia
personal data
SURNAME Rau, Susanne
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH 1969