Heinz Schilling (born 23 May 1942) is a German historian.

Life

Heinz Schilling was born in

Bergneustadt Bergneustadt (; ksh, Bärrschneushtadt) is a municipality in the eastern part of the Oberbergischer Kreis (district), in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It is located 50 km east of Cologne. It is part of the Berg region. History In 1301 th ...

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and grew up in

Cologne Cologne ( ; german: Köln ; ksh, Kölle ) is the largest city of the German western state of North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW) and the fourth-most populous city of Germany with 1.1 million inhabitants in the city proper and 3.6 millio ...

. After studying history, German, philosophy and sociology at the

University of Cologne The University of Cologne (german: Universität zu Köln) is a university in Cologne, Germany. It was established in the year 1388 and is one of the most prestigious and research intensive universities in Germany. It was the sixth university to ...

and completing a state teaching certification, Schilling moved on to take a doctorate in 1971 at the

University of Freiburg The University of Freiburg (colloquially german: Uni Freiburg), officially the Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg (german: Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg), is a public research university located in Freiburg im Breisgau, Baden-Württemb ...

with a study of social and religious history of Dutch exiles, working with Gottfried Schramm. From 1971 to 1979 Schilling worked as an assistant and lecturer at the department of medieval history and then in early modern history at the newly founded Faculty of History at the

University of Bielefeld Bielefeld University (german: Universität Bielefeld) is a university in Bielefeld, Germany. Founded in 1969, it is one of the country's newer universities, and considers itself a "reform" university, following a different style of organization a ...

. He completed his Habilitation there in 1977/78 with a case study of territorial societal history and "

Confessionalization In Protestant Reformation history, confessionalization is the parallel processes of "confession-building" taking place in Europe between the Peace of Augsburg (1555) and the Thirty Years' War (1618-1648). During this time prior to the Thirty Y ...

" (committee members Wolfgang Mager,

Reinhart Koselleck Reinhart Koselleck (23 April 1923 – 3 February 2006) was a German historian. He is widely considered to be one of the most important historians of the twentieth century. He occupied a distinctive position within history, working outside of any p ...

and

Bernd Moeller Bernd Moeller (May 19, 1931 in Berlin – October 29, 2020) was a German Protestant theologian and church historian. Bernd Moeller studied Protestant theology as well as history. In 1956 he received his doctorate from the Protestant theological d ...

). From 1979 to 1982 he was

professor Professor (commonly abbreviated as Prof.) is an academic rank at universities and other post-secondary education and research institutions in most countries. Literally, ''professor'' derives from Latin as a "person who professes". Professors ...

of early modern history at the

University of Osnabrück A university () is an institution of higher (or tertiary) education and research which awards academic degrees in several academic disciplines. Universities typically offer both undergraduate and postgraduate programs. In the United States, t ...

and from 1982 to 1992 professor at the

University of Giessen University of Giessen, official name Justus Liebig University Giessen (german: Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen), is a large public research university in Giessen, Hesse, Germany. It is named after its most famous faculty member, Justus von ...

. In 1992 he was appointed to the newly established chair of early modern European history as part of the foundation of the Institute of Historical Studies
''Instituts für Geschichtswissenschaften''
at the

Humboldt University of Berlin Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (german: Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, abbreviated HU Berlin) is a German public research university in the central borough of Mitte in Berlin. It was established by Frederick William III on the initiative ...

, which he held until his retirement at the end of the 2010 summer semester.

Research interests

* the comparative history of Europe in the early modern period * the international system * the political and cultural origins of national identity in Europe * the history of the

Holy Roman Empire The Holy Roman Empire was a political entity in Western, Central, and Southern Europe that developed during the Early Middle Ages and continued until its dissolution in 1806 during the Napoleonic Wars. From the accession of Otto I in 962 ...

and its constituent territories * immigration and minorities in old Europe (Germany, England, the Netherlands) * cities and bourgeois life in the early modern period and the transition to the modern world * the history of political theory * the

Reformation The Reformation (alternatively named the Protestant Reformation or the European Reformation) was a major movement within Western Christianity in 16th-century Europe that posed a religious and political challenge to the Catholic Church and in ...

and European

* the social and cultural history of

Calvinism Calvinism (also called the Reformed Tradition, Reformed Protestantism, Reformed Christianity, or simply Reformed) is a major branch of Protestantism that follows the theological tradition and forms of Christian practice set down by John Ca ...

from the 16th to the 19th centuries * the early modern modernization of Germany and the Netherlands * historical exhibits in museums

Memberships and honors (selected)

* since 1996 member of the

Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences The Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities (german: Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften), abbreviated BBAW, is the official academic society for the natural sciences and humanities for the German states of Berlin a ...

* 1998/99 chair of the scholarly committee for the European exhibition "1648 – Krieg und Frieden in Europa“, Münster/Osnabrück * since 2001 chair of the Vereins für Reformationsgeschichte (Society for Reformation Research—German branch) * 2002 Dr A. H. Heineken Prize for History of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences * 2003/04 fellow of the

Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study The Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities and Social Sciences (NIAS) in Amsterdam, Netherlands, is an independent research institute in the field of the humanities and social and behavioural sciences founded in 1970. The instit ...

(NIAS) * 2004 foreign member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences * 2004/05 fellow of the Historisches Kolleg, Munich * since 2004 corresponding member of the

British Academy The British Academy is the United Kingdom's national academy for the humanities and the social sciences. It was established in 1902 and received its royal charter in the same year. It is now a fellowship of more than 1,000 leading scholars spa ...

* since 2005 member of the

Academia Europaea The Academia Europaea is a pan-European Academy of Humanities, Letters, Law, and Sciences. The Academia was founded in 1988 as a functioning Europe-wide Academy that encompasses all fields of scholarly inquiry. It acts as co-ordinator of Europea ...

* 2006 12th Stern Lecture Series of the Historical Society of Israel, May 9–16, 2006, Jerusalem * 2009 honorary doctorate (''Dr. theol. honoris causa'') from the Theology Faculty of the

University of Göttingen The University of Göttingen, officially the Georg August University of Göttingen, (german: Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, known informally as Georgia Augusta) is a public research university in the city of Göttingen, Germany. Founded ...

Selected works

;Books * ''Niederländische Exulanten im 16. Jahrhundert. Ihre Stellung im Sozialgefüge und im religiösen Leben deutscher und englischer Städte'', Gütersloh, 1972 * ''Konfessionskonflikt und Staatsbildung. Eine Fallstudie über das Verhältnis von religiösem und sozialem Wandel in der Frühneuzeit am Beispiel der Grafschaft Lippe'', Gütersloh: G. Mohn, 1981, = Quellen und Forschungen zur Reformationsgeschichte, hg. im Auftrag des Vereins für Reformationsgeschichte von G.A. Benrath, Bd. 48 * ''Mitten in Europa - Deutsche Geschichte'' (with H. Boockmann, H. Schulze, M. Stürmer), Berlin, 1984; reprinted. * ''Bürgerliche Eliten in den Niederlanden und in Nordwestdeutschland. Studien zur Sozialgeschichte des europäischen Bürgertums im Mittelalter und in der Neuzeit'', Cologne/Vienna: Böhlau, 1985, = Städteforschung, Reihe A, Bd. 23 ed. with H. Diederiks) * ''Aufbruch und Krise. Deutsche Geschichte von 1517 bis 1648'', Berlin: Siedler, 1988 * ''Höfe und Allianzen. Deutsche Geschichte von 1648 bis 1763'', Berlin: Siedler, 1989 * ''Religion, Political Culture and the Emergence of Early Modern Society''. Leiden: Brill 1992 * ''Die neue Zeit: Vom Christenheitseuropa zum Europa der Staaten, 1250 bis 1750'', Siedler, 1999 * ''"1648 - Krieg und Frieden in Europa“, Europaratsausstellung zum 350. Jahrestag des Westfälischen Friedens'', 3 vols., ed. with K. Bußmann, Munich, 1998 * ''Die neue Zeit. Vom Christenheitseuropa zum Europa der Staaten. 1250 bis 1750'' (= Siedler Geschichte Europas, vol. 3). Berlin, 1999 * "La confessionalisation et le système international", in: Lucien Bély (Hg.): ''„L’Europe des traités de Westphalie. Esprit de la diplomatie et diplomatie de l’esprit“'', Paris (Presses Universitaires de France) 2000, pp. 411–428 * ''Ausgewählte Abhandlungen zur europäischen Reformations- und Konfessionsgeschichte'', Berlin: Duncker und Humblot, 2002 * ''Europa in der werdenden Neuzeit – oder: Was heißt und zu welchem Ende studiert man europäische Geschichte?'', in: Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences. Heineken Lectures 2002, Amsterdam 2003, pp. 62–81 * ''Das Reich als Verteidigungs- und Friedensorganisation'', in: ''Altes Reich und Neue Staaten, 1495-1806. 29. Ausstellung des Europarates in Berlin und Magdeburg im Deutschen Historischen Museum, Berlin, 28. August bis 10. Dezember 2006'', Band 2, Dresden () * ''Konfessioneller Fundamentalismus. Religion als politischer Faktor im europäischen Mächtesystem um 1600'' (= Schriften des Historischen Kollegs, Bd. 70), ed. Heinz Schilling with the assistance of Elisabeth Müller-Luckner, Munich, 2007 * ''Konfessionalisierung und Staatsinteressen. Internationale Beziehungen 1559 - 1660'', Handbuch der Geschichte der internationalen Beziehungen (Band 2), Paderborn, 2007 ( oder ) * ''Early modern European Civilisation and its political and cultural dynamics'', The Menahem Stern Jerusalem Lectures 2006. Hannover und London, 2008 * ''Konfesjonalizacja – Kosciól i panstwo w Europie doby przednowoczesnej'', Poznan, 2010 * ''Martin Luther: Rebell in einer Zeit des Umbruchs'', München, 2013 (English translation: ''Martin Luther: Rebel in an Age of Upheaval'', Oxford University press, 2017) ;Collected essays * ''Civic Calvinism in Northwestern Germany and the Netherlands, Sixteenth to Nineteenth Centuries'', Kirksville/Mo (SCJ Publishers)1991, = Sixteenth Century Essays and Studies, Bd. 17 * ''Religion, Political Culture, and the Emergence of Early Modern Society'', Essays in German and Dutch History, Leiden (E. J. Brill) 1992 * ''Die Stadt in der Frühen Neuzeit'', München 1993, = Enzyklopädie Deutscher Geschichte, Bd. 24., 2. Auflage München 2004 * ''Ausgewählte Abhandlungen zur europäischen Reformations- und Konfessionsgeschichte'', hg. v. Luise Schorn-Schütte und Olaf Mörke, = Historische Forschungen, Bd. 75, Berlin (Duncker &Humblot,) 2002

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