Volker Press
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Volker Press (1939 – 1993) was a German historian.
Life and career
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Volker Press studied
University of Kiel and the University of Frankfurt, he took a post as a full professor (Professor ordinarius) of modern history at the University of Giessen. In 1980 he moved to a post at the University of Tübingen
where he taught medieval and modern history until his sudden death in 1993.
The focal points of Press's research included the
Heidelberg Academy of Sciences
since 1991.
Works
- Monographs
- Calvinismus und Territorialstaat: Regierung und Zentralbehörden der Kurpfalz 1559–1619. Stuttgart: Klett-Cotta, 1970.
- Das alte Reich: Ausgewählte Aufsätze. Stephanie Blankenhorn and Johannes Kunisc, eds. 2nd. edition, Berlin: 2000, ISBN 3-428-09138-8.
- Kaiser Karl V., König Ferdinand und die Entstehung der Reichsritterschaft. Wiesbaden: Steiner, 1976.
- Kriege und Krisen: Deutschland 1600–1715. Neue Deutsche Geschichte. Munich: C.H. Beck, 1991., ISBN 3-406-30817-1.
- Südwestdeutsche Bischofsresidenzen ausserhalb der Kathedralstädte. Stuttgart: Kohlhammer, 1992.
- Edited volumes
- Moraw, Peter and Volker Press, ed. Academia Gissensis: Beiträge zur älteren Giessener Universitätsgeschichte. Marburg, 1982, ISBN 3-7708-0734-0.
- Press, Volker, and Dieter Stievermann, ed. Altes Reich und Deutscher Bund: Kontinuität in der Diskontinuität. Munich: Oldenbourg, 1995.
- Press, Volker, and Dieter Stievermann, ed. Martin Luther: Probleme seiner Zeit. Stuttgart: Klett-Cotta, 1986. ISBN 3-608-91431-5.
- Press, Volker, ed. Alternativen zur Reichsverfassung in der frühen Neuzeit? Munich: Oldenbourg, 1995. ISBN 3-486-56035-2.
Further reading
- Anton Schindling (2001), "Press, Volker", Neue Deutsche Biographie (in German), vol. 20, Berlin: Duncker & Humblot, pp. 701–701
- Peter Moraw, Volker Press. in Historische Zeitschrift vol. 259 (1994): 878–883.
External links
- Literature by and about Volker Press in the German National Library catalogue
- Contents of his papers at the Universitätsarchiv Tübingen
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