Helga Schultz (;

16 August Events Pre-1600 *1 BC – Wang Mang consolidates his power in China and is declared marshal of state. Emperor Ai of Han, who died the previous day, had no heirs. * 942 – Start of the four-day Battle of al-Mada'in, between the Hamdani ...

1941 – 7 March 2016) was a German historian whose work focused on the economic and social history of Europe.

Biography

Schultz graduated from

University of Rostock The University of Rostock () is a public university located in Rostock, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany. Founded in 1419, it is the third-oldest university in Germany. It is the oldest university in continental northern Europe and the Baltic Se ...

in 1964, where she majored in history teaching. A year later she received her diploma in history and became a research assistant and later senior assistant at the history section of the university. In 1969 she received her doctorate in Rostock with the dissertation "Die Krise der feudalen Ratsverfassung. Dargestellt am Beispiel Rostocks 1748–1788". In 1978 she received her postdoctoral degree with the dissertation "Das Landhandwerk in der Epoche des Übergangs zum Kapitalismus. Vergleichende Studie und regionale Untersuchung Mecklenburg-Schwerin". In 1977 Schultz became a staff member at the

Academy of Sciences of the GDR The German Academy of Sciences at Berlin, , in 1972 renamed the Academy of Sciences of the GDR (''Akademie der Wissenschaften der DDR (AdW)''), was the most eminent research institution of East Germany (German Democratic Republic, GDR). The acad ...

(AdW) in Berlin at the Department of feudalism. At the academy, she became head of the "Regional History" research unit of the Central Institute of History in 1983 and held this position until the liquidation of the AdW till 1991. In 1986 she was appointed professor at the AdW. From 1990 to 1993 she was employed by the "KAI e.V. – Koordinierungs- und Abwicklungseinrichtung für die Institute der Akademie der Wissenschaften der DDR". In 1992 she accepted a visiting professorship at the

University of Gothenburg The University of Gothenburg () is a List of universities in Sweden, university in Sweden's second largest city, Gothenburg. Founded in 1891, the university is the third-oldest of the current List of universities in Sweden#Public universities, S ...

in Sweden. In 1993 she accepted an offer from the

European University Viadrina European University Viadrina Frankfurt (Oder) () is a university located at Frankfurt (Oder) in Brandenburg, Germany. It is also known as the University of Frankfurt (Oder). The city is on the Oder River, which marks the border between Germany ...

in Frankfurt (Oder) as a chair in economic and social history of modern times. In 2006, she became tenure professor. From 2007 to 2009, Schultz was a visiting professor at the Institute of Applied Linguistics at Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan (

Poland Poland, officially the Republic of Poland, is a country in Central Europe. It extends from the Baltic Sea in the north to the Sudetes and Carpathian Mountains in the south, bordered by Lithuania and Russia to the northeast, Belarus and Ukrai ...

). Schultz was a member of the Johann Gottfried Herder Research Council. Since 1997 she was a member of the Leibniz-Sozietät der Wissenschaften zu Berlin. She was editor of Frankfurter Studien zur Grenzregion (later Frankfurter Studien zur Wirtschafts- und Sozialgeschichte Ostmitteleuropas) published by Berliner Wissenschafts-Verlag. Schultz died in

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in 2016. She published an extensive body of scholarly work, including more than 30 book publications.

References

1941 births 2016 deaths Academic staff of European University Viadrina Social historians {{Academic-bio-stub