Uwe Wilhelm (historian)

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Uwe Wilhelm (born June 7, 1957 in Hanover ) is a German historian and professor at the Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg . His academic focus includes the cultural and intellectual history of the early modern period as well as German history from the 16th to the early 20th century, in particular political history and the history of the constitution and the judiciary.

Live and act

Wilhelm studied modern and contemporary history, economic and social history as well as English at the universities of Hanover and Freiburg. As a student of Hans Fenske , he initially dealt with the history of political ideas in modern times, especially with the beginnings of German liberalism in the 18th century. In the 1989/90 winter semester, he completed his studies with a master’s thesis, supervised by Fenske, on the approaches of liberal thinking in the work of the cameraist and political-economic thinker Johann Heinrich Gottlob von Justi .

From 1994 he was a research assistant at the history department of the University of Freiburg. He received his doctorate in the same year under Hans Fenske with a study on the development of German early liberalism up to 1789. In 2006, also in Freiburg, the habilitation, supervised by Hans Fenske and Sylvia Paletschek , followed with a study on the German Empire and its justice. Judicial criticism, political criminal justice, judicial policy , which was awarded the Peregrinus Prize of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences in 2013 .

Wilhelm is currently a private lecturer and member of the Chair for Modern and Contemporary History II (Sylvia Paletschek) at the Department of History at the University of Freiburg.

Works (selection)

  • Development and elements of liberal thinking in Johann Heinrich Gottlob von Justi . Reprint from the yearbook of the Hambach Society, 3.1990 / 1991, Neustadt / Weinstr., 1991. (Master thesis).
  • German early liberalism. From the beginning until 1789. Peter Lang, Frankfurt a. M. 1995, ISBN 3-631-48745-2 (dissertation).
  • The German Empire and its Justice. Judicial criticism, political criminal justice, judicial policy . Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-428-12972-0 (habilitation thesis).

Web links

  • Wilhelm on the website of the University of Freiburg

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Uwe Wilhelm receives the Peregrinus Foundation Prize 2013. In: uni-freiburg.de. January 2, 2014, accessed January 16, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Wilhelm, Uwe
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian and professor at the Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg
DATE OF BIRTH June 7, 1957
PLACE OF BIRTH Hanover