Walter Demel (historian)

Walter Demel (born May 17, 1953 in Linz ) is a German historian . From 1989 until his retirement in 2018 he taught modern history at the University of the Bundeswehr in Munich .

Walter Demel studied history, German and law at the University of Munich . In 1978 he was a research assistant at the Leopold Wenger Institute for Legal History with Sten Gagnér . In 1980 he became a research assistant at the Institute for Modern History with Eberhard Weis . A year later, Demel received his doctorate from the University of Munich under Eberhard Weis with the thesis The Bavarian State Absolutism (1806 / 08-1817) . In 1983 he became a temporary academic advisor. In 1988 he completed his habilitation with the thesis on China's policy on foreigners and the system of rule as reflected in European literature (approx. 1550–1800) . In 1989 he was promoted to senior assistant and appointed private lecturer. In the same year he was appointed university professor (C3) at the University of the Federal Armed Forces in Munich for the history of the early modern period. Demel remained, however, until 1993 as a lecturer at the University of Munich.

His main research interests include domestic politics in Bavaria and Germany in the 18th and early 19th centuries, the history of the nobility and the elite (17th to 19th centuries), the history of discovery (European overseas history, reception of East Asian peoples, racial theories), questions of historical theory and chronology as well as general German and European history. Demel is one of the authors of a volume of the latest edition of the classic textbook of German history, the " Gebhardt ".

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Monographs

• with Sylvia Schraut : The German nobility. Forms of life and history (= CH Beck Wissen. Vol. 2832). Beck, Munich 2014, ISBN 978-3-406-66704-6 .
• The European nobility. From the Middle Ages to the present (= Beck's series, vol. 2379). Beck, Munich 2005, ISBN 3-406-50879-0 .
• Empire, reforms and social change. 1763–1806 (= Handbook of German History. Vol. 12). 10th, completely revised edition. Klett-Cotta, Stuttgart 2005, ISBN 3-608-60012-4 .
• European history of the 18th century. Corporate society and the European power system in accelerated change (1689 / 1700–1789 / 1800). Kohlhammer, Stuttgart et al. 2000, ISBN 3-17-014518-5 .
• From the enlightened reform state to bureaucratic state absolutism (= Encyclopedia of German History . Vol. 23). Oldenbourg, Munich 1993, ISBN 3-486-55734-3 .
• As a stranger in China. The Middle Kingdom as seen in early modern European travelogues. Oldenbourg, Munich 1992, ISBN 3-486-55917-6 (also: Munich, University, habilitation thesis, 1988).
• Bavarian State Absolutism 1806 / 08-1817. State and socio-political motivations and backgrounds of the reform era in the first phase of the Kingdom of Bavaria (= series of publications on Bavarian regional history. Vol. 76). Beck, Munich 1983, ISBN 3-406-10476-2 .

Editorships

• with Rotem Kowner: Race and Racism in Modern East Asia. Western and Eastern Constructions (= Brill's Series on Modern East Asia in a Global Historical Perspective. Vol. 1). Brill, Leiden et al. 2012, ISBN 978-9-004-23729-2 .
• with the collaboration of Barbara Kink: Adel und Adelskultur in Bayern (= magazine for Bavarian regional history. Supplement 32). Beck, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-406-10673-6 .

literature

• Who is who? The German Who's Who. 47th edition 2008/2009. Schmidt-Römhild, Lübeck 2008, p. 216.

Web links

• Literature by and about Walter Demel in the catalog of the German National Library
• Page from Demel at the University of the Federal Armed Forces in Munich