Hans Medick

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Hans Medick (born 7 October 1939) is a German historian.

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Born in Wuppertal, Medick studied history, philosophy, English and political science at the universities of Cologne, Heidelberg and Erlangen from 1959 to 1966. After graduating with a master's degree, he was a research assistant at the University of Erlangen from 1967 to 1973, where he also received his doctorate under Kurt Kluxen in 1971. In July 1972, he received the faculty prize for his dissertation. From 1973 to 2004, he worked as a research assistant at the Göttingen Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity. [1] After various teaching posts in Germany and Switzerland, he was appointed Visiting Professor at Johns Hopkins University in 1980. In 1993, he completed his Habilitation in Göttingen for the subject of Medieval and Modern History. In 1997, he became William A. Clark Professor of Early Modern History at the University of California, Los Angeles. From 1999 to 2004 he taught as Professor of historical anthropology at the University of Erfurt. Medick is co-editor of the academic journal Historische Anthropologie.

His research focuses on the experiences and representations of violence during the Thirty Years' War, concepts of person and self in their cultural expressions and practices, methodological approaches of microhistory and historical anthropology. Since the 1980s, Medick has been one of the protagonists of microhistory or Alltagsgeschichte, which already anticipated many of the methodological innovations of the cultural turn of historical studies (Neue Kulturgeschichte  [ de ]) in the 1990s. The aim was to expand historical social science, which focuses on general structures and processes, to include approaches that also include the level of concretely acting subjects. To this end, approaches from ethnology were to be made fruitful for historical science. [2] To this end, Medick examined, for instance, the self-designs and social practices in the weaving village Laichingen between 1650 and 1900. Medick's essay Missionaries in the Rowboat (1984) is "still one of the key texts of a historiography 'from below'", judged Michael Wildt in 2016. [3] He also contributed to the formulation of the concept of proto-industrialisation, which was developed primarily in everyday history. [4]

Medick is married to the cultural scientist Doris Bachmann-Medick  [ de ] and has two sons, including the journalist Veit Medick  [ de ]. [5]

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References

  1. ↑ See Englischer Lebenslauf bei der FU Berlin, PDF.
  2. ↑ Cf. already Hans Medick: Missionare im Ruderboot? Ethnological ways of knowing as a challenge to social history. In Geschichte und Gesellschaft 10, 1984, pp. 296–319; an appreciation of Medick's contribution in Volker Depkat: Review of Lüdtke, Alf; Prass, Reiner (edit.): Gelehrtenleben. Scientific Practice in the Modern Era. Cologne 2008 In H-Soz-Kult , 18 May 2009.
  3. ↑ Michael Wildt: Die Bundesrepublik als Selfie. In: Frank Bajohr, Anselm Doering-Manteuffel, Claudia Kemper and Detlef Siegfried (ed.): More than a Narrative. Contemporary Historical Perspectives on the Federal Republic. Festschrift für Axel Schildt zum 65. Geburtstag. Göttingen 2016, pp. 29–41, here p. 40.
  4. ↑ Medick, Hans (1939–) on Persée
  5. ↑ Prof. Dr. Hans Medick. II. Zur Person. on the page of the Freie Universität Berlin.
  6. ↑ Weben und Überleben in Laichingen 1650–1900. Lokalgeschichte als allgemeine Geschichte on Cairn

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