Werner Freitag (historian)

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Werner Freitag (born September 23, 1955 in Rheda-Wiedenbrück ) is a German historian .

Werner Freitag completed his training as a textile laboratory assistant . He then studied history at the University of Bielefeld and economics at the Open University in Hagen . 1985 followed the diploma examination in Hagen, 1986 the Magister in Bielefeld. From 1986 to 1988 he was a city historian in Spenge , and in 1990 he received the Gustav Engel Prize for the work on the city of Spenge that was written during this period . In 1989 he received his doctorate under Wolfgang Mager and Klaus Schreiner in Bielefeld, after which he worked there from 1990 to 1996 as a university assistant in the early modern period. In 1991, Freitag received the Karl Zuhorn Prize for his dissertation. His habilitation took place in 1995.

In December 1996, Freitag was appointed professor for the history of the state of Saxony-Anhalt at the Institute for History at the Martin Luther University in Halle-Wittenberg . Since April 1, 2004, Freitag has been teaching as professor for Westphalian and comparative history at the Westphalian Wilhelms University in Münster. Freitag is also the managing director of the Institute for Comparative Urban History . In 1997 Freitag was elected a corresponding member, in 2004 a full member of the Historical Commission for Westphalia , and since 2006 he has been the second chairman of the commission. Friday wrote works on the Westphalian and Saxony-Anhalt regional history as well as the history of the city. In 2016 he published a description of the Reformation in Westphalia.

Fonts

Monographs

  • The Reformation in Westphalia. Regional diversity, confessional conflict and coexistence. Aschendorff Verlag, Münster 2016. ISBN 978-3-402-13167-1 .
  • Hall 806 to 1806. Salt, residence and university. An introduction to the city's history. With the collaboration of Andrea Thiele . Mitteldeutscher Verlag, Halle (Saale) 2006, ISBN 3-89812-160-7 .
  • Pastor, Church and Rural Community. The deanery Vechta 1400–1803 (= studies on regional history. Vol. 11). Publishing house for regional history, Bielefeld 1998, ISBN 3-89534-217-3 .
  • Popular and elite piety in the early modern period. Pilgrimages to the Virgin Mary in the Principality of Münster (= publications of the Provincial Institute for Westphalian State and Folk Research of the Regional Association of Westphalia-Lippe. Vol. 29). Schöningh, Paderborn 1991, ISBN 3-506-79572-4 .
  • Spenge 1900-1950. Living worlds in a rural-industrial village society. Publishing house for regional history, Bielefeld 1988, ISBN 3-927085-10-3 .

Editorships

  • with Wilfried Reininghaus : Contributions to the history of the Reformation in Westphalia. Volume 2: Long-term Reformation, Confessional Culture and Ambiguity in the Second Half of the 16th Century. Contributions to the conference on October 27 and 28, 2017 in Lemgo (= publications of the Historical Commission for Westphalia. New series, vol. 47). Aschendorff, Münster 2019. ISBN 978-3-402-15132-7 .
  • with Michael Kißener , Christine Reinle and Sabine Ullmann : Handbuch Landesgeschichte. De Gruyter Oldenbourg, Berlin et al. 2018, ISBN 978-3-11-035411-9 .
  • with Wilfried Reininghaus: Contributions to the history of the Reformation in Westphalia. Volume 1: “Long” 15th century, transitions and caesuras. Contributions to the conference on October 30 and 31, 2015 in Lippstadt (= publications of the Historical Commission for Westphalia. New series, vol. 35). Aschendorff, Münster 2017. ISBN 978-3-402-15126-6 .
  • with Wilfried Reininghaus: Westphalian master builder of history. Regional historical research and regional historiography in the 19th and 20th centuries. Contributions from the conference on October 10 and 11, 2013 in Herne (= publications of the Historical Commission for Westphalia , New Series, Vol. 21). Aschendorff, Münster 2015. ISBN 978-3-402-15118-1 .
  • with Wilfried Reininghaus: Castles in Westphalia. Defense systems, mansions, economic centers (12th – 14th centuries). Contributions to the conference on September 10 and 11, 2010 in Hemer (= Westphalia in the pre-modern era, studies on medieval and early modern regional history. Vol. 12 = Publications of the Historical Commission for Westphalia. New series, Vol. 4). Aschendorff, Münster 2012. ISBN 978-3-402-15052-8 .
  • The parish in the city. Settlement core - citizen church - urban center (= urban research. Series A: Representations. Vol. 82). Böhlau, Cologne et al. 2011, ISBN 978-3-412-20715-1 .
  • with Jan Brademann : Life with the Dead. Churchyards in the rural society of the premodern. (= Symbolic communication and social value systems. Vol. 19). Rhema, Münster 2007, ISBN 3-930454-79-3 .
  • with Thomas Müller-Bahlke : Halle in the Middle Ages and in the Age of the Reformation. New studies on the history of the city (= research on the history of the city of Halle. Vol. 6). Mitteldeutscher Verlag, Halle (Saale) 2006, ISBN 3-89812-272-7 .
  • Central German images of life. People in the late Middle Ages. Böhlau, Cologne et al. 2002, ISBN 3-412-04002-9 .
  • Central German images of life. People in the Age of Reformation. Böhlau, Cologne et al. 2004, ISBN 3-412-08402-6 .
  • Halle and German history around 1900. Contributions to the colloquium “125 Years of the University of Halle's Historical Seminar” on 4./5. November 2000 (= Studies on State History. Vol. 5). Mitteldeutscher Verlag, Halle (Saale) 2002, ISBN 3-89812-109-7 .
  • History of the city of Gütersloh. Publishing house for regional history, Bielefeld 2001, ISBN 3-89534-410-9 .
  • The Third Reich in celebration. Leader myth, party mood and refusal in Westphalia 1933–1945. With the collaboration of Christina Pohl. Publishing house for regional history, Bielefeld 1997, ISBN 3-89534-200-9 .

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Remarks

  1. ↑ See the review by Jörg Voigt in: Sources and research from Italian archives and libraries 99 (2019), pp. 672–673.
personal data
SURNAME Friday, Werner
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian
DATE OF BIRTH September 23, 1955
PLACE OF BIRTH Rheda-Wiedenbrück