Werner Wilhelm Schnabel

Werner Wilhelm Schnabel (born May 12, 1960 in Nuremberg ) is a German German studies scholar at the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen.

Life

After graduating from high school in Nuremberg, Schnabel served in the Bundeswehr in Nuremberg and Ulm. From 1980 to 1987 he studied history , German, sociology and political science at the University of Erlangen, the University of Zurich and the University of Vienna . With a doctorate in Alfred Wendehorst he was in 1990 in the trade and Franconian country's history to Dr. phil. PhD . From 1991 to 1994 he headed a project of the German Research Foundation . It led to the compilation of an extensive catalog of the Nuremberg City Library , in which a large German public collection was processed with a density that was not customary at the time. From 1994 he took on regular lectureships for modern German literature at the University of Erlangen. In 1995 he became a research associate in the DFG project “Zincgref Edition”. Since the 1970s, this has been dedicated to the historical-critical edition of the works of Julius Wilhelm Zincgref , an extremely well-connected and historically influential Baroque author from Martin Opitz's immediate environment .

In 1999 he became assistant, then senior assistant at the Chair of Modern German Literature ( Theodor Verweyen ) in Erlangen. In 2000 he completed his habilitation. From 2005 to 2007 he headed the Thyssen research project Literary Underground. Writing in non-academic settings from the 17th to 19th centuries . In 2007 the University of Erlangen appointed him associate professor in the Department of German and Comparative Studies.

Work areas

Founded by him in 1998, he heads the Repertorium Alborum Amicorum , the world's most extensive database for the records of family records and fragments of family records as well as individual entries in private and public ownership. It is operated in close cooperation with the holding libraries, archives and museums as well as with private collectors in Europe and overseas.

Schnabel conducts research in the intersection of literary , art , cultural and social history, primarily from the 16th and 17th centuries. Special interest is given to regional aspects of literary life or media history contexts. He has other main areas of activity in historical prosopography and university history ( University of Altdorf ). He is currently working with Dirk Niefanger on the edition of Zincgref's small political fonts.

Works

• with Franz Ströer (photos): Nuremberg: 4 tours through Germany's "treasure chest". Hofmann, Nürnberg 1991, ISBN 3-87191-164-X , table of contents (current 3rd revised edition: Edelmann, Nürnberg 2004 ISBN 3-87191-164-X )
• (Ed.) Georg Rusam: Austrian exiles in Franconia and Swabia. 2nd edition Neustadt / A. 1989 (individual works from the church history of Bavaria, 63).
• Austrian exiles in Upper German imperial cities. On the migration of ruling classes in the 17th century. Munich 1992 (series of publications on Bavarian national history, 101).
• The family books and fragments of the Nuremberg City Library. Part I: The family books of the 16th and 17th centuries. Part II: The family books of the 18th and 19th centuries. Part III: Indices. Wiesbaden 1995 (The manuscripts of the Nuremberg City Library, special volume).
• with Ernst Rohmer / Gunther Witting (eds.): Texts, Images, Contexts. Interdisciplinary contributions to literature, art and modern aesthetics. Heidelberg 2000 (Supplements to the Euphorion, 36).
• The stud book. Constitution and history of a type-specific collective form up to the first third of the 18th century. Tübingen 2003 (early modern times, 78).
• with Hanns Christof Brennecke / Dirk Niefanger (eds.): Academy and University of Altdorf. Studies on the university history of Nuremberg. Cologne, Weimar, Vienna 2011 (supplements to the archive for cultural history, 69).
• with Karl Heinz Keller / Wilhelm Veeh: Carinthian migrants of the 16th and 17th centuries. A personal history index. Nuremberg 2011 (gff digital - series B: personal history databases, 1).
• with Theodor Verweyen and Dieter Mertens (eds.): Julius Wilhelm Zincgref: Apophthegmata teutsch . Vol. I: Text. Vol. II: Explanations and identifications (= Collected Writings IV / 1-2). Berlin, Boston 2011 (reprints of German literary works, NF 57-58).
• (Ed.): Athena Norica. Images and data on the history of the University of Altdorf . Nuremberg 2012 (gff digital - series A: Digitized sources, 2).
• with Dirk Niefanger (ed.): Positionings. Pragmatic Perspectives on Early Modern Literature and Music. Edited by Dirk Niefanger / WWS Göttingen: V&R unipress 2017 (writings of the early modern center Potsdam, 4).
• Non-academic poetry in the 17th century. Wilhelm Weber, "Teutscher Poet vnd ​​Spruchsprecher" in Nuremberg . Berlin, Boston 2017 (Early Modern Times, 212).

Honorary positions and memberships

• Chairman of the Society for Family Research in Franconia (Nuremberg)
• Advisory Board of the Friedrich Frh. Von Haller Research Foundation and the Hedwig Linnhuber - Dr. Hans Saar Foundation (Nuremberg)
• Scientific Advisory Board of the Franconian Federation (Würzburg)
• Elective member of the Central Institute for Regional Research of the Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg, Section Franconia
• Elective member of the Society for Franconian History

Honors

• Tucherscher Kulturpreis, Nuremberg (1993)

Web links

• Literature by and about Werner Wilhelm Schnabel in the bibliographic database WorldCat
• The family records and fragments of the Nuremberg City Library (1995) (PDF; 32 kB)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Dissertation: Austrian exiles in Upper German imperial cities. On the migration of ruling classes in the 17th century . - Print: Series of publications on Bavarian national history, Munich 1992
2. ↑ 3 vol., Print: Wiesbaden 1995
3. ↑ Archived copy ( Memento of the original dated December 31, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
4. ^ Habilitation thesis: Das Stammbuch. Constitution and history of a type-specific collective form up to the first third of the 18th century . - Print: Tübingen 2003
5. ↑ CV and publications (FAU)
6. ↑ RAA home page. Retrieved October 28, 2018 .