Werner Buchholz (born 25 January 1948) is a German historian, currently a professor for Pomeranian History at the

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Biography

Buchholz was born in

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and studied

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, Scandinavian and

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at the Universities of Bochum,

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and at the

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in 1970–78.Biography at uni-greifswald.de
/ref> He passed his doctorate in 1978 and worked as a teacher in 1979–85. Buchholz was awarded a scholarship of the

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in 1985 and habilitated at the

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on the history of public finance and financial administration in

Swedish Pomerania Swedish Pomerania ( sv, Svenska Pommern; german: Schwedisch-Pommern) was a dominion under the Swedish Crown from 1630 to 1815 on what is now the Baltic coast of Germany and Poland. Following the Polish War and the Thirty Years' War, Sweden held ...

(1720-1806) in 1990. In 1992-94 he worked for the

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and became a Professor for history and regional studies of

Pomerania Pomerania ( pl, Pomorze; german: Pommern; Kashubian: ''Pòmòrskô''; sv, Pommern) is a historical region on the southern shore of the Baltic Sea in Central Europe, split between Poland and Germany. The western part of Pomerania belongs to ...

at the university of

Greifswald Greifswald (), officially the University and Hanseatic City of Greifswald (german: Universitäts- und Hansestadt Greifswald, Low German: ''Griepswoold'') is the fourth-largest city in the German state of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania after Rostoc ...

in 1994.

Publications

* ''Staat und Ständegesellschaft in Schweden zur Zeit des Überganges vom Absolutismus zum Ständeparlamentarismus : 1718 - 1720''. Almqvist och Wiksell International, Stockholm 1979, . * ''Geschichte der öffentlichen Finanzen in Europa in Spätmittelalter und Neuzeit : Darstellung, Analyse, Bibliographie''. Akademieverlag, Berlin 1996, . * ''Pommern. Deutsche Geschichte im Osten Europas.'' Siedler, Berlin 1999, . * ''Kindheit und Jugend in der Neuzeit 1500 - 1990''. Steiner, Stuttgart 2000, .

References

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