Wolfgang Hardtwig

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Wolfgang Hardtwig at the colloquium of the Archives of Liberalism of the Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom , 2010

Wolfgang Eduard Hardtwig (born November 10, 1944 in Reit im Winkl ) is a German historian .

Life

Hardtwig studied history, German, philosophy and art history at the universities in Basel and Munich from 1964 to 1969 . In 1971 he became a research assistant at the University of Munich, where he received his doctorate in 1972 with a dissertation on the historian Jacob Burckhardt . In 1982 he completed his habilitation with studies on the conceptual history of association , cooperative , society and trade union . From 1982 he was a private lecturer in Munich until he was appointed to a professorship at the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg in 1985 . In 1987 he was visiting professor at Emory University Atlanta . Since 1991 he has been Professor of Modern History at the Humboldt University in Berlin with a focus on the 19th century. In 1993/94 he was a fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey , and in 2000/01 he was a fellow at the Historisches Kolleg in Munich. In 2009 he retired .

Hardtwig's main research interests are the history of the late 18th to early 20th centuries. In this area he has emerged as the author of numerous monographs and articles as well as the editor of various anthologies. His wide field of activity includes important historical periods and events such as the Vormärz , the revolution of 1848/49 or the interwar period in Europe from 1918 to 1939. His interest is less the history of events than structural , social and cultural-historical aspects, as well as the history of emotionality, which he examined in the development of the German student body from the 15th to the 20th century.

Since 1993 he has been co-editor of the magazine Geschichte und Gesellschaft , for which he has compiled numerous issues. Furthermore, Hardtwig deals with the history of the 19th century as well as with the "culture of history" from 1850 to the present. Recently he has also dealt with the popular and literary reception of contemporary history in the 20th century together with the literary scholar Erhard Schütz .

Hardtwig tried to establish what he called a political cultural history . This approach attempts to conceptually expand the New Cultural History that has emerged since the 1980s . For example, suggestions from everyday history and historical anthropology are taken up by not only - as is common in traditional cultural history - high culture , but also - following, for example, the considerations of Peter L. Berger and Thomas Luckmann (see The social construction of Reality ) - the change in the view of "symbolic worlds of meaning" (Berger / Luckmann) such as space , time , body or knowledge is viewed over the course of historical time. The focus is also on the mutual conditional relationship between the political and the understanding of these “fundamentalities”.

Hardtwig is a grandson of the liberal politician and victim of the resistance against Hitler Eduard Hamm , whose biography he wrote in 2018, which extends far into the history of the Weimar Republic.

Fonts

Monographs and collections of articles

  • Writing history between ancient Europe and the modern world. Jakob Burckhardt in his time. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 1974, ISBN 3-525-35905-5 (= series of publications by the Historical Commission at the Bavarian Academy of Sciences , Volume 11, also dissertation , University of Munich , 1972).
  • History culture and science . dtv, Munich 1990, ISBN 3-423-04539-6 .
  • Nationalism and civil culture in Germany 1500–1914. Selected essays . Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 1994, ISBN 3-525-01355-8 .
  • Pre-march. The monarchical state and the bourgeoisie (= German history of the latest time from the 19th century to the present , Volume 2). dtv, Munich 1985, ISBN 3-423-04502-7 (4th edition 1997).
  • Cooperative, sect, association in Germany . Volume 1: From the late Middle Ages to the French Revolution . CH Beck, Munich 1997, ISBN 3-406-41974-7 .
  • High culture of the bourgeois age (= critical studies on historical science . Volume 169). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2005, ISBN 3-525-35146-1 .
  • Power, emotion and sociability. Studies on sociability in Germany 1500–1900 . Franz Steiner Verlag, Stuttgart 2009, ISBN 978-3-515-09403-0 .
  • Loss of history - or how entertaining is the past , Geschichtesverlag , Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-940621-17-7 .
  • Political culture of modernity. Selected essays . Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2011, ISBN 978-3-525-30018-3 .
  • German historical culture in the 19th and 20th centuries . Oldenbourg Verlag, Munich 2013, ISBN 978-3-486-72461-5 .
  • Freedom of the bourgeoisie in Germany. The Weimar Democrat Eduard Hamm between the Empire and the Resistance. Franz Steiner Verlag, Stuttgart 2018, ISBN 978-3-515-12094-4 .

Editorships

  • About studying history . dtv, Munich 1990, ISBN 3-423-04546-9 .
  • with Klaus Tenfelde : Social spaces in urbanization. Studies on the history of Munich in comparison 1850–1933 . Oldenbourg Verlag, Munich 1990, ISBN 3-486-55091-8 .
  • with Harm-Hinrich Brandt : Germany's way into the modern age. Politics, Society and Culture in the 19th Century. Memorial writing for Thomas Nipperdey . CH Beck, Munich 1993, ISBN 3-406-37132-9 .
  • with Heinrich August Winkler : German alienation. To be well in East and West . CH Beck, Munich 1994, ISBN 3-406-37422-0 .
  • with Hans-Ulrich Wehler : Cultural History Today. Twelve posts. (= History and society , special issue 16). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 1996, ISBN 3-525-36416-4 ( review by H-Soz-u-Kult ).
  • with Helmut Hinze: German history in sources and presentation. Volume 7: From the German Confederation to the Empire: 1815–1871 . Reclam, Stuttgart 1997, ISBN 3-15-017007-9 .
  • Revolution in Germany and Europe 1848/49 . Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 1998, ISBN 3-525-01368-X .
  • Utopia and political rule in Europe in the interwar period (= writings of the Historisches Kolleg , Colloquia 56). Oldenbourg, Munich 2003, ISBN 3-486-56642-3 ( digitized version ).
  • with Erhard Schütz: history for readers. Popular historiography in Germany in the 20th century . Franz Steiner Verlag, Stuttgart 2005, ISBN 3-515-08755-9 ( review by H-Soz-u-Kult ).
  • Political cultural history of the interwar period 1918–1939 (= history and society , special issue 21). Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht, Göttingen 2005, ISBN 3-525-36421-0 .
  • Orders in crisis. On the political and cultural history of Germany 1900–1933 (= systems of order. Studies on the history of ideas in the modern age. Volume 22). Oldenbourg, Munich 2007, ISBN 978-3-486-58177-5 ( review by H-Soz-u-Kult ).
  • with Erhard Schütz: Nobody gets away. Contemporary history in literature after 1945. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2008, ISBN 978-3-525-20861-8 .
  • The Enlightenment and its impact on the world. (= History and Society. Special Issue 23). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2009, ISBN 978-3-525-36423-9 ( review by sehepunkte).
  • with Alexander Schug: History Sells! Applied history as science and market . Franz Steiner Verlag, Stuttgart 2009, ISBN 978-3-515-09336-1 .
  • with Philipp Müller: The past of world history. Universal historical thinking in Berlin 1800–1933 . Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2010, ISBN 978-3-525-30007-7 .

literature

  • Martin Baumeister, Moritz Föllmer, Philipp Müller (eds.): The art of history. Historiography, aesthetics, narration. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2009, ISBN 978-3-525-36384-3 (Festschrift; see review by H-Soz-u-Kult ).

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Remarks

  1. ↑ The work appeared in 1974 and was honored with a detailed review by Jörn Rüsen . Philosophisches Jahrbuch 84 (1977), pp. 433-442.
  2. ↑ The habilitation thesis resulted in a publication on forms of society and society in the early modern period: Genossenschaft, Sekt, Verein in Deutschland. From the late Middle Ages to the French Revolution , Munich 1997
  3. ↑ Paths to cultural history , Göttingen 1997 (= history and society , 23, issue 1); Historical images and history policy , Göttingen 1998 (= history and society , 24, issue 3); New history of ideas , Göttingen 2001 (= history and society , 27, issue 1); New Paths in the History of Science , Göttingen 2004 (= history and society , 30, issue 2); two special issues (see bibliography).
  4. ↑ Reception in recent research: Christine Tauber, Mannerism and Dominance Practice. On the art of politics and art politics at the court of François I er , Berlin 2009.
  5. ↑ See for example Wolfgang Hardtwig, Introduction: Politische Kulturgeschichte der Zwischenkriegszeit , in: Wolfgang Hardtwig (Ed.): Politische Kulturgeschichte der Zwischenkriegszeit 1918–1939 , Göttingen 2005, pp. 7–22, especially pp. 9–19, quotation p. 18th
  6. ↑ See the critical review by Manfred Kittel ( review by: Wolfgang Hardtwig (Ed.): Politische Kulturgeschichte der Zwischenkriegszeit 1918–1939, Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht 2005. In: sehepunkte 6, 2006, No. 12 [December 15 2006]) and the rather positive one by Kathrin Groh : Review of: Hardtwig, Wolfgang (Ed.): Political cultural history of the interwar period 1918–1939. Göttingen 2005 . In: H-Soz-u-Kult. March 29, 2006.
personal data
SURNAME Hardtwig, Wolfgang
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hardtwig, Wolfgang Martin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian
DATE OF BIRTH November 10, 1944
PLACE OF BIRTH Reit im Winkl