Dr. Markus Meumann

Since May 2017
Managing director of the Gotha Research Centre

2014–2016
Research associate at the Gotha Research Centre of the University of Erfurt in the DFG-funded project “Illuminati Essays in the Context of the Late Enlightenment”

2004–2012
Research associate in the DFG research group “The Enlightenment in the Field of Reference of Modern Esotericism” at the Interdisciplinary Centre for the Study of the European Enlightenment at the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg

2003
Research fellowships from the Herzog August Library, Wolfenbüttel, the Francke Foundations Halle and the German Historical Institute in Paris

2001/02
Head of the organising office for the 44th German Historians’ Conference 2002 in Halle

1998–2001
Continuation of the position as Assistant Professor

1997/98
Scholarship holder of the German Research Foundation (DFG); archival studies in Paris, Lille and London

1994–1997
Assistant Professor (Wissenschaftlicher Assistent) at the Institute for History of the Martin Luther Institute Halle-Wittenberg in the field of early modern history

1993/94
Substitute of the head of the archives of the Georg August University of Göttingen

May 1993
Doctorate (Dr. phil.) with a thesis on unprovided children in early modern society (published Munich 1995 under the title Findelkinder, Waisenhäuser, Kindsmord. Unversorgte Kinder in der frühneuzeitlichen Gesellschaft)

1990–1992
Doctoral scholarship of the  German Student Foundation (Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes)

1989/90
Assistant at the Seminar for Medieval and Modern History of the Georg August University, continuation of studies with the aim of a doctorate

1984–1988
Studied Medieval and Modern History as well as German Philology in Göttingen and Caen/France, 1988 Maîtrise d’histoire

• Communication and knowledge in the Enlightenment, especially Early Enlightenment and esoteric reception in Halle around 1700, scholarly knowledge production and forms of communication, Freemasonry and secret societies in the late 18th century

• Concepts of time and historiography in the 17th and 18th centuries

• War, military and martial law in the early modern period, especially military jurisdiction, experience of war and violence, military and the civilian population, resistance to military presence and military occupation, military entrepreneurship and army financing

• Child and poor relief from the 16th to the 20th century

• History of historical sciences and Enlightenment research

Complete List of Publications

Complete list of publications (*pdf)