University of Konstanz
Department of History and Sociology
Box 05
78457 Konstanz
Germany
Email: rudolf.schloegl@uni-konstanz.de
Appointments by e-mail only.
Research Interests
- Religion and history in the early modern period
- Semantics in premodern social life
- History of communication and media
- History of early modern society
- Anthropologies of the early modern period
- Animals in society
Academic Career/Professional Experience
1995- 2021
Chair of Modern History, University of Konstanz
1994
Professor of History of Saxony-Anhalt, University of Halle-Wittenberg
1994-1995
Lecturer at the University of Münster
Interim professorships at the Universities of Düsseldorf and Halle-Wittenberg
1984-1992
Assistant Professor for Prof Hans-Ulrich Thamer, Chair of Modern and Contemporary History, University of Münster
Academic Education
1982-1986
Doctorate; PhD thesis: The Peasants’ Economy on Upper Bavaria and the Seventeenth Century Territorial State.
1976-1982
Study of German, history, social sciences at the Universities of Augsburg and Erlangen-Nuremberg
Academic Degrees
1992
Habilitation in modern history (thesis: Faith and Religion under Secularization. The Catholic City Stadt – Cologne, Aachen, Münster – 1700-1840, Munich 1995)
1986
PhD
1982
First qualifying exam for secondary school teaching
Honors, Awards and other Activities
since 2014
Member of the scholarly board of the Centro Tedesco di Studi Veneziani
2013-2019
Member of the Research Construction Committee at the German Council of Science and Humanities (Wissenschaftsrat)
2009
Grant of a Reinhart Koselleck Project by the German Research Foundation (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft DFG)
2008
Offer of a professorship for modern history, Ludwig Maximilians University, Munich (declined)
Since 2007
Member of the scholarly board, Fritz Thyssen Stiftung
Since 2006
Member of the board of editors of “Geschichte und Gesellschaft”
2006-2019
Speaker for the Center of Excellence “Cultural Foundation of Integration”, University of Konstanz
2004-2009
Member of the scholarly board, Center for Research on the European Enlightenment, Potsdam
2002-2008
Member of the scholarly board, Gerda Henkel Foundation
2000-2009
Speaker of the Collaborative Research Center (SFB) 485 “Norms and Symbols”
Since 1997
Member of the board of the Society and the Foundation of Upper Swabia; co-editor of the society’s scholarly series
1997-2001
Elected member, board of working group on the Early Modern period, Association of German Historians
1998
Offer of a professorship for Modern History, University of Bielefeld (declined)
1983-1984
Fellowship from the German National Academic Foundation (Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes)