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

Life

Heinz Schilling was born in Bergneustadt in

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and grew up in

Cologne Cologne ( ; ; ) is the largest city of the States of Germany, German state of North Rhine-Westphalia and the List of cities in Germany by population, fourth-most populous city of Germany with nearly 1.1 million inhabitants in the city pr ...

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

University of Cologne The University of Cologne () is a university in Cologne, Germany. It was established in 1388. It closed in 1798 before being re-established in 1919. It is now one of the largest universities in Germany with around 45,187 students. The Universit ...

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 ), officially the Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg (), is a public university, public research university located in Freiburg im Breisgau, Baden-Württemberg, Germany. The university was founded in 1 ...

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 () is a public 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 and teaching than the e ...

. He completed his

Habilitation Habilitation is the highest university degree, or the procedure by which it is achieved, in Germany, France, Italy, Poland and some other European and non-English-speaking countries. The candidate fulfills a university's set criteria of excelle ...

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). For most of this time, there was a n ...

" (committee members Wolfgang Mager,

Reinhart Koselleck Reinhart Koselleck (23 April 1923 – 4 February 2006) was a German historian. He is widely considered to be one of the most important historians of the 20th century. He occupied a distinctive position within history, working outside of any pre- ...

and Bernd Moeller). From 1979 to 1982 he was

professor Professor (commonly abbreviated as Prof.) is an Academy, academic rank at university, universities and other tertiary education, post-secondary education and research institutions in most countries. Literally, ''professor'' derives from Latin ...

of early modern history at the University of Osnabrück and from 1982 to 1992 professor at the

University of Giessen University of Giessen, official name Justus Liebig University Giessen (), is a large public research university in Giessen, Hesse, Germany. It is one of the oldest institutions of higher education in the German-speaking world. It is named afte ...

. 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 The Humboldt University of Berlin (, abbreviated HU Berlin) is a public research university in the central borough of Mitte in Berlin, Germany. The university was established by Frederick William III on the initiative of Wilhelm von Humbol ...

, 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, also known as the Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation after 1512, was a polity in Central and Western Europe, usually headed by the Holy Roman Emperor. It developed in the Early Middle Ages, and lasted for a millennium ...

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, also known as the Protestant Reformation or the European Reformation, was a time of major Theology, theological movement in Western Christianity in 16th-century Europe that posed a religious and political challenge to the p ...

and European

* the social and cultural history of

Calvinism Reformed Christianity, also called Calvinism, is a major branch of Protestantism that began during the 16th-century Protestant Reformation. In the modern day, it is largely represented by the Continental Reformed Christian, Presbyteri ...

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 * 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 The Heineken Prizes for Arts and Sciences consist of 11 awards biannually bestowed by Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences. The prizes are named in honor of Henry Pierre Heineken, son of founder Gerard Adriaan Heineken, Alfred Heinek ...

for History of the

Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences The Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (, KNAW) is an organization dedicated to the advancement of science and literature in the Netherlands. The academy is housed in the Trippenhuis in Amsterdam. In addition to various advisory a ...

* 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 insti ...

(NIAS) * 2004 foreign member of the

* 2004/05 fellow of the Historisches Kolleg, Munich * since 2004 corresponding member of the

British Academy The British Academy for the Promotion of Historical, Philosophical and Philological Studies 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 sa ...

* 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 Europe ...

* 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 (, commonly referred to as Georgia Augusta), is a Public university, public research university in the city of Göttingen, Lower Saxony, Germany. Founded in 1734 ...

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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