Karin Friedrich

Karin Friedrich ( born June 12, 1963 in Munich) is a German historian and currently a Senior Lecturer at the University of Aberdeen, Scotland. She specializes in Polish and German, especially Prussian history in the early modern period.

After the master's degree in history and political science at the Ludwig- Maximilians- University of Munich 1989, she continued her studies at Georgetown University ( Washington, DC) and graduated in 1995 with the Ph.D. from. 1995-2005 she worked at the History Department at the School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University College London. From 2001 to 2006 she was co-editor of the scientific journal German History. She is on the editorial board of several historical journals ( see links below).

A professor at the Free University of Berlin in 2000, she took true. In summer 2007 she was a Visiting Scientist at the Krupp Foundation at the University of Greifswald. She is co-director of the Centre for Early Modern Studies, University of Aberdeen, member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the German Historical Institute in Warsaw and the Working Group for Baroque research the Herzog August Library in Wolfenbüttel.

Works

  • The Other Prussia. Royal Prussia, Poland and Liberty, 1569-1772, Cambridge, 2000, ISBN 0-521-58335-7 limited preview
  • Citizenship and Identity in a Multi- national Commonwealth: Poland- Lithuania in Context, 1569-1795 (Leiden: Brill, 2009)
  • The Cultivation of Monarchy and the Rise of Berlin. Brandenburg- Prussia in 1700, co - authorship with Sara Smart ( Ashgate, 2010)
  • Festivals in Germany and Europe: New Approaches to European Festival Culture, ed by Karin Friedrich ( Lewiston, Queenston, Lampeter: Edwin Mellen Press, 2000 ) 396 pp.

Article:

  • Polish - Lithuanian Political Thought, 1450-1700: in Howell Lloyd, Glenn Burgess, Simon Hodson ( eds ), History of European Political Throught, 1450-1700 ( Yale University Press, 2007), 409-47.
  • German History 22:3 (2004), special issue: Polish Views of German History articles: " Pomerania " or " Prussia ": Polish Perspectives on early modern Prussian History, pp. 190-217, and Introduction ( co-authored with Klaus Zernack ), 155-168.
  • ' Between two eagles. Cultural and ideological influences of Poland-Lithuania to the ducal Prussia before 1701 [ Between Two Eagles. Cultural and Ideological Influences of Poland - Lithuania on Ducal Prussia ], in Prussia in central Europe [ Prussia in East Central Europe ], ed by Matthias Weber (Oldenburg, 2003), 115-141.
  • Nation consciousness in Silesia the early modern period [ National identity in early modern Silesia ], in: The Limits of Nations. National identity change in Upper Silesia in the modern era, edited by Kai Struve and Philip Ther ( Marburg: Herder Institute, 2002), 19-44.
  • The Development of Prussian Towns, 1720-1815, in P. Dwyer, ed, The Rise of Prussia: Re -thinking Prussian History, 1700-1830, ( London: Adison Wesley, Longman, 2001), 129-150
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