Heinz Schilling

Heinz Schilling (* May 23, 1942 in Mountain Neustadt ) is a German historian ( Early Modern Times ).

Life

Heinz Schilling grew up in Cologne. After studying history, German literature, philosophy and sociology at the University of Cologne, the state exam for the higher teaching ministry as a degree, doctorate Heinz Schilling 1971 at the Freiburg Albert -Ludwigs- University with a study of the social and religious history of Dutch exiles ( first reviewer was the Eastern historian Gottfried Schramm ). From 1971 to 1979 Schilling worked as an assistant and lecturer, first at the Department of Medieval History, then for Early Modern History at the Faculty of newly formed of History at the University of Bielefeld, where he was 1977/78 with a case study on territorial social and Konfessionalisierungsgeschichte habilitation ( expert Wolfgang Mager, Reinhart Koselleck and Bernd Moeller). From 1979 to 1982 and from 1982 to 1992 he taught as a professor of the History of Early Modern History at the University of Osnabrück and the Justus- Liebig- University of Giessen. In 1992 he was appointed to in the course of the re-establishment of the Institute of History Chair established European Early Modern History at the Humboldt University in Berlin, which he held until his retirement at the end of the summer term 2010. His successor was Peter Burschel.

In addition to teaching and research activities Schilling took tasks in scientific management is true, especially as chairman for the Association for Reformation history (since 1996 ) and as European Managing Editor for the Archive for Reformation History / Archive for Reformation ( since 1995).

From the wide field of his research his work on the German and European confessionalisation of the later 16th and 17th century are considered to be particularly influential because it starting with the habilitation thesis of 1977 and since the mid- 1980s in collaboration with Wolfgang Reinhard, the observations from the Catholic environment found similar results, the social, churches and cultural-historical paradigm of confessionalisation developed, which stimulated a broad theoretical and methodological discussion, and numerous case studies. Foundations were, inter alia, three symposia of the Society for Reformation History ( VRG ) for reformed - Calvinist (1985 ), the Lutheran (1988) and the Catholic confessionalisation, the latter in 1993 as a collaboration between VRG and the Society for the Publication of the Corpus Catholicorum (CC ) by Wolfgang Reinhard and Heinz Schilling organized. Schilling himself has further developed the theme in several monographs and integrated into its representations to the German and European history, most recently in the essay Early Modern European Civilization and the manual of the history of international relations from 1559 to 1660.

As a consultant of television films (1989 " Heart of Europe ", Sat.1, 2009 " Germans", ZDF ) and historical exhibitions, Schilling tried to mediate between science and the public.

Work focuses on

  • Comparative history of Europe in the Early Modern Period
  • International system
  • Political and cultural identity of European nations
  • German Reich and territorial history
  • Migration and minorities in ancient Europe ( Germany, England, the Netherlands)
  • City and the middle class in the early modern period and the transition to the modern world
  • History of political theory
  • Reformation and confessionalisation
  • Social history and the mentality of Calvinism from the 16th to 19th century
  • Early modern modernization in Germany and the Netherlands
  • History at the museum ( early modern part of the permanent exhibition at the German Historical Museum in Berlin, chair of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Euro Europe Exhibition 1648 - War and Peace in Europe, Münster / Osnabrück in 1998 and others)

Memberships and Awards (selection)

  • Since 1996 Member of the Berlin -Brandenburg Academy of Sciences
  • 1998/99 Chairman of the Scientific Advisory Board in preparation for the Euro Europe Exhibition " 1648 - War and Peace in Europe", Münster / Osnabrück
  • Since 2001 Chairman of the Association for Reformation History
  • Dr. AH Heineken Prize for Historical Sciences of the Royal Dutch Academy of Sciences 2002
  • 2003/ 04 Fellow of the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study ( NIAS )
  • 2004/ 05 Fellow of the Historical College in Munich
  • Since 2004, Corresponding Member of the British Academy
  • Since 2005 Member of the Academia Europaea
  • 2006 12th Star Lecture Series of the Historical Socoiety of Israel, 9th - 16th May 2006, Jerusalem
  • 2009, Dr. theol. honoris causa of the Faculty of Theology of the University of Göttingen

Writings (selection )

  • Dutch exiles in the 16th century. Their position in the social structure, religion, and German and English cities. Poppy, Gütersloh, 1972 ( dissertation).
  • Confessional conflict and state-building. A case study on the relationship between religious and social change in early modern example of the county lip ( = sources and research on the history of the Reformation. Vol. 48). Poppy, Gütersloh 1981 ( habilitation thesis ).
  • With Hartmut Boockmann, Hagen Schulze, Michael Forward: In the middle of Europe - German history. Siedler, Berlin 1984.
  • Emergence and crisis. Germany from 1517 to 1648. Siedler, Berlin 1988.
  • Farms and alliances. Germany from 1648 to 1763. Siedler, Berlin 1989.
  • Civic Calvinism in Northwestern Germany and the Netherlands: Sixteenth to Nineteenth Centuries. Sixteenth Century Journal Publishers, Kircsville (Missouri ) 1991.
  • Religion, Political Culture and the Emergence of Early Modern Society: Essays in German and Dutch History. Brill, Leiden 1992.
  • The city in the early modern period ( = Encyclopedia of German history. Vol. 24). Oldenbourg, München 1993.
  • The new time. From Christian Europe to the Europe of States. 1250 to 1750 ( = settler history of Europe. Vol. 3). Siedler, Berlin 1999.
  • Selected Essays on the European Reformation and denominational history ( = Past research. Vol. 75). Duncker and Humblot, Berlin 2002.
  • Confessionalisation and state interests. International Relations 1559-1660 ( = Handbook of the History of International Relations. Vol. 2). Schöningh, Paderborn / Munich / Vienna / Zurich 2007, ISBN 978-3-506-73722-9.
  • Early Modern European Civilization and Its Political and Cultural Dynamism. University Press of New England, Hanover, 2008.
  • Jerzy Kałążny, Hubert Orlowski: Konfesjonalizacja: Kościół i państwo w ​​Europie doby przednowoczesnej ( = Poznańska Biblioteka Niemiecka Vol 32. ). Wydawnictwo Poznańskie, Poznań 2010.
  • Martin Luther: Rebel in a time of upheaval. A Biography. Beck, Munich 2012, ISBN 978-3-406-63741-4 ( review, H -Soz -u-Kult ).
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