Werner Buchholz (historian)

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

Biography[]

Buchholz was born in Berlin and studied History, Scandinavian and German studies at the Universities of Bochum, Marburg, Stockholm and at the Åbo Akademi in 1970-78.^[1]

He passed his doctorate in 1978 and worked as a teacher in 1979-85. Buchholz was awarded a scholarship of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft in 1985 and habilitated at the University of Hamburg on the history of public finance and financial administration in Swedish Pomerania (1720-1806) in 1990.

In 1992-94 he worked for the German Foreign Office in Athens and became a Professor for history and regional studies of Pomerania at the University of Greifswald in 1994.

Publications[]

• Staat und Ständegesellschaft in Schweden zur Zeit des Überganges vom Absolutismus zum Ständeparlamentarismus : 1718 - 1720. Almqvist och Wiksell International, Stockholm 1979, ISBN 91-22-00297-9.
• Geschichte der öffentlichen Finanzen in Europa in Spätmittelalter und Neuzeit : Darstellung, Analyse, Bibliographie. Akademieverlag, Berlin 1996, ISBN 3-05-003056-9.
• Pommern. Deutsche Geschichte im Osten Europas. Siedler, Berlin 1999, ISBN 3-88680-272-8.
• Kindheit und Jugend in der Neuzeit 1500 - 1990. Steiner, Stuttgart 2000, ISBN 3-515-07259-4.

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