Wolfgang Müller (archivist)

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Wolfgang Müller (born March 3, 1954 in Kaiserslautern ) is a German archivist and regional historian in Saarland .

Life

Müller attended the modern language grammar school on Rittersberg in Kaiserslautern. After graduating from high school, he studied history and German at Saarland University from 1972 . After three years as a student assistant at the Institute for Ancient History ( Werner Eck ), he passed the first state examination in 1978. Thanks to a doctoral scholarship, he completed his doctoral thesis , which was supervised by Heinz-Otto Sieburg and Jörg K. Hoensch . In 1983 he was promoted to Dr. phil. PhD.

From 1981 to 1988 research assistant at the Historical Institute, he conducted his first studies in university history. In addition, he coordinated the cooperation with the Historical Institute of the University of Metz . As a scholarship holder in the VW research project with Elisabeth Fehrenbach , he dealt with the resonance of the French Revolution on the left bank of the Rhine from 1986 to 1988 . He completed the two-year archive internship at the Saarbrücken State Archives and at the Marburg Archive School (24th course). In 1991 he passed the second state examination as a career test for the higher archive service. Then he founded the archive of Saarland University, which he has systematically built up and expanded ever since. Since 1995 he has been teaching archive science at the Historical Institute.

Müller's publications deal with the history of Saarland University, the history of science , regional history in the 19th and 20th centuries, archival science and aspects of Palatine Protestantism . Among other things, he has written numerous articles and eyewitness reports on the history of individual institutes or biographical studies on scientists working at Saarland University, for example edited the memoirs of the geographer Carl Rathjens from the estate and prepared a detailed life story of the forgotten German-Bohemian legal scholar Rudolf Schránil .

Memberships

Works

  • Student impressions from the early years of Saarland University , Saarbrücken 2006.
  • with Christa Lichtenstern: The Art History Institute of Saarland University (Annales Universitatis Saravienisis Philosophical Faculties, Volume 25), St. Ingbert 2006.
  • with Kai Horstmann (ed.): “To be effective with inner strength and God's blessing.” Reflections on the history of the Evangelical student community in Saarland between yesterday and today . Saarbrücken 2006.
  • Under the aegis of the University of Nancy. Streiflichter on the founding of the Homburg University Institute 60 years ago , updated reprint, Saarbrücken 2009.
  • From the founding of a French university to a university in the Greater Region. On the history and research of the international networking of Saarland University , in: Jens Blecher / Sabine Happ (eds.): Archives in Verbund: Networks and Cooperations. Spring meeting of Section 8 in the Association of German Archivists e. V. March 13-15, 2013 at Charles University in Prague (Czech Republic) (and the 83rd German Archives Day in Saarbrücken). (Wissenschaftsarchive 2013, Volume 3), Leipzig 2014, pp. 211–225.
  • Klaus Frédéric Johannes (ed.) With editorial assistance from Wolfgang Müller: Mobilitas. Festschrift for Werner Schreiner's 70th birthday (series of publications by the Neustadt an der Weinstrasse district group in the Historical Association of the Palatinate, New Series Volume 1) Neustadt an der Weinstrasse 2017.
  • Ingo Holzapfel / Wolfgang Müller (Ed.): God's love counts: Festschrift for Karl Heinrich Beck on the 90th birthday, Kaiserslautern 2019.

Archival publications

  • Documentation goals and aspects of the assessment in university archives and archives of scientific institutions - Contributions to the spring conference of Section 8 - Archivists at University Archives and Archives of Scientific Institutions - of the Association of German Archivists on March 23 and 24, 2006 at the University of Saarland in Saarbrücken (University speeches Volume 73), Saarbrücken 2008.
  • Documentation profile for archives of academic universities. A handout by Thomas Becker (Bonn), Werner Moritz (Heidelberg), Wolfgang Müller (Saarbrücken), Klaus Nippert (Karlsruhe) and Max Plassmann (Düsseldorf), Saarbrücken 2009
  • The archive of the Saarland University, in: Ingo Runde (ed.): University archives in Southwest Germany History Stocks Projects. Proceedings on the occasion of the 625th anniversary of the first mention of an archive box from Heidelberg University on February 8, 1388 (Heidelberger Schriften zur Universitätsgeschichte, Volume 1), Heidelberg 2013, pp. 157–174.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Dissertation: Reporting on Russia and Rapallopolitik. German-Soviet relations 1924–1933 as reflected in the German press .
  2. ^ W. Müller: Ways of a Geographer - Carl Rathjens . Röhrig, St. Ingbert 1997.
  3. ↑ W. Müller: " We are now living in a very interesting transition period" - Prof. Dr. Rudolf Schranil (1885–1956) as a lawyer at the universities in Prague, Halle and Saarbrücken , in: Tiziana J. Chiusi / Thomas Gergen / Heike Jung (eds.): The law and its historical foundations . Festschrift for Elmar Wadle on his 70th birthday, Berlin 2008, pp. 643–682.
  4. ↑ Member of the interdisciplinary working group "Archival Evaluation"
  5. ^ Board of Directors of the Association for Palatine Church History
  6. ↑ Literature on the history of the university by Dr. Wolfgang Müller
personal data
SURNAME Müller, Wolfgang
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German archivist and regional historian in Saarland
DATE OF BIRTH March 3, 1954
PLACE OF BIRTH Kaiserslautern