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Hans-Christof Kraus (born 3 November 1958) is a German historian.


Life

Born in
Göttingen Göttingen (, , ; nds, Chöttingen) is a university city in Lower Saxony, central Germany, the capital of the eponymous district. The River Leine runs through it. At the end of 2019, the population was 118,911. General information The ori ...
, Kraus studied history, German literature and philosophy at the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen from 1978 to 1984. In the 1980s he was editor of the Young Conservatives ''Phoenix'' magazine. In the late 1980s and 1990s he wrote articles for right-wing conservatism journals '' Etappe'' and ', as the student assistant at the Institute of History at the Humboldt University of Berlin, Niklas Weber, wrote in an article in the '' Süddeutsche Zeitung'', which was criticized by Benjamin Hasselhorn as "one-sided and distorting."http://www.geschichte.uni-wuerzburg.de/fileadmin/05040200/2020/Stellungnahme_Hasselhorn_Sueddeutsche.pdf In 1992 he submitted his dissertation on the Prussian conservative Ernst Ludwig von Gerlach in the subject of modern history to Rudolf von Thadden. In 1994/1995 Kraus was a scholarship holder at the in Munich. In 2002 after his habilitation, he studied at the
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München The Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich (simply University of Munich or LMU; german: Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München) is a public research university in Munich, Germany. It is Germany's sixth-oldest university in continuous operatio ...
with the topic ''English constitution and political thought in the
Ancien Régime ''Ancien'' may refer to * the French word for "ancient, old" ** Société des anciens textes français * the French for "former, senior" ** Virelai ancien ** Ancien Régime ** Ancien Régime in France ''Ancien'' may refer to * the French word for ...
1689-1789''. The work was reviewed by
Horst Möller Horst Möller (born 12 January 1943 in Breslau) is a German contemporary historian. He is Professor of Modern History at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich (LMU) and, from 1992 to 2011, Director of the Institut für Zeitgeschichte. Edu ...
, Eckhart Hellmuth and Hans-Michael Körner. After teaching activities at the and at the University of Stuttgart, the Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich and the
University of Jena The University of Jena, officially the Friedrich Schiller University Jena (german: Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena, abbreviated FSU, shortened form ''Uni Jena''), is a public research university located in Jena, Thuringia, Germany. The un ...
, he was appointed to the chair of Modern and Contemporary History at the
University of Passau The University of Passau (''Universität Passau'' in German) is a public research university located in Passau, Lower Bavaria, Germany. Founded in 1973, it is the youngest university in Bavaria and consequently has the most modern campus in the s ...
in 2007. Kraus' work and research focuses on German and English history of the 18th to 20th century, the history of politics, Constitutional History, political
History of Ideas Intellectual history (also the history of ideas) is the study of the history of human thought and of intellectuals, people who conceptualize, discuss, write about, and concern themselves with ideas. The investigative premise of intellectual his ...
, as well as the history of education and science. For his research Kraus has been awarded numerous scientific honours and memberships. Kraus is a member of several historical commissions, such as the , the , the and the . He is a member of the board of the . Kraus is also editor of the '' Neue Deutsche Biographie'' and co-editor of various historical journals, including the ', the ''Jahrbuch Politisches Denken'' and the '. In 2006 he was awarded the Historian Prize of the .


Writings

Monographs * ''Der Wendepunkt des Philosophen von Sanssouci''. Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2017, . * ''Bismarck. Größe – Grenzen – Leistungen.'' Klett-Cotta, Stuttgart 2015, . * ''Versailles und die Folgen. Außenpolitik zwischen Revisionismus und Verständigung (1919–1933)'' (''Deutsche Geschichte im 20. Jahrhundert.'' Vol. 4). Be.bra-Verlag, Berlin-Brandenburg 2013, (Als Lizenzausgabe: (''Bundeszentrale für Politische Bildung. Schriftenreihe.'' 1540). Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung, Bonn 2014, ). * ''Kultur, Bildung und Wissenschaft im 19. Jahrhundert'' (''.'' Vol. 82). Oldenbourg, München 2008, . * ''Das Ende des alten Deutschland. Krise und Auflösung des Heiligen Römischen Reiches Deutscher Nation 1806'' (''Wissenschaftliche Abhandlungen und Reden zur Philosophie, Politik und Geistesgeschichte.'' Vol. 37). Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2006, (2nd revised edition; id. 2007, ). * ''Englische Verfassung und politisches Denken im Ancien Régime. 1689 bis 1789'' (''Veröffentlichungen des Deutschen Historischen Instituts London.'' Vol. 60). Oldenbourg, Munich 2006, (in the same time, University of Munich, Habilitation thesis, 2001/2002). * ''Theodor Anton Heinrich Schmalz. (1760–1831). Jurisprudenz, Universitätspolitik und Publizistik im Spannungsfeld von Revolution und Restauration'' (''Studien zur europäischen Rechtsgeschichte.'' Vol. 124). Klostermann, Frankfurt 1999, . * ''Ernst Ludwig von Gerlach. Politisches Denken und Handeln eines preußischen Altkonservativen'' (''Schriftenreihe der Historischen Kommission bei der Bayerischen Akademie der Wissenschaften.'' Vol. 53). 2 volumes. Vandenhoeck und Ruprecht, Göttingen 1994, (in the same time: University of Göttingen, Dissertation, 1992). As editor * ''Fritz Hartung. Korrespondenz eines Historikers zwischen Kaiserreich und zweiter Nachkriegszeit.'' Duncker und Humblot, Berlin 2019, . * Ernst Ludwig von Gerlach: ''Gottesgnadentum und Freiheit. Ausgewählte politische Schriften aus den Jahren 1863 bis 1866.'' Herausgegeben und mit einem Nachwort versehen. Karolinger, Vienna among others 2011, . * ''Konservative Politiker in Deutschland. Eine Auswahl biographischer Porträts aus zwei Jahrhunderten.'' Duncker und Humblot, Berlin 1995, .


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