Gerald L. Soliday
Curriculum Vitae
Addresses and Personal Data
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Education
B.A. 1961
The
Major Fields: History, German Literature
Honors Thesis: "The Young Hitler" written under the direction of Professor
Andreas Dorpalen
M.A. 1963
The
Thesis: "The German Social Democrats and the Kapp Putsch"
written under Professor Dorpalen’s direction
Ph.D. 1969
Thesis: "The Social Structure of Frankfurt am Main in the Seventeenth and
Early Eighteenth Centuries" written under Professor Franklin L. Ford
Some Awards and Fellowships as Student
1961 Phi Beta Kappa, Phi Alpha Theta
1967-68 Kennedy Traveling Fellow,
Research Fellow, German Academic Exchange Program (DAAD),
1967-68 Killam Visiting Fellow,
Teaching Positions
1961-63 Graduate Assistant, History,
1965-66 Teaching Fellow
for German History,
1967-68 Lecturer on "Continental
1968-69 Instructor of History,
1969-76 Assistant Professor of History,
1976- Associate Professor of Humanities (Historical Studies & History of Ideas)
2005 The
2005- Retired, soon Emeritus Associate Professor of Humanities
1987-88 Visiting Lecturer
on Early Modern European History,
Fellowships and Grants
1969 American Council of Learned Societies Grant-in-Aid for summer
research in
Frankfurt am Main
1972-3 Research Fellowship from the Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung,
1973-4 Federal Republic of Germany, for research in
the
Archive in
1976 Tuition Fellowship from the Newberry Library Summer Institute
1976-9 National Endowment for the Humanities Grant (with T.K. Hareven) for
an international bibliography on the history of kinship and the family
1978 Summer Fellowship from the Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung for
continued research
in
1980 Summer Fellowship from the Humboldt-Stiftung for continued research
in
1985 National Endowment for the Humanities Basic Research Grant to
1986
support statistical work on
Research in Progress
I am engaged in a long-term project on the social history of
Publications: Books and Articles
1966 Associate Editor and two contributions, A Select Bibliography of History,
published by the Henry Adams History Club,
1974 A Community in Conflict:
Eighteenth Centuries. University Press of
University Press
1975 "Marburg
in Oberhessen: ein Forschungsbericht," Historische Demo-
graphie als Sozialgeschichte), ed. A.
Imhof (Darmstadt and Marburg,
1975), 1017-1028
1977 "
History 2 (1977): 164-168
1980 Principal Editor and one contribution, The History of Kinship and the
Family: A Select International Bibliography. Millwood,
NY: Kraus
International Publishers
"Städtische
Führungsschichten in Marburg 1560-1800," Marburger
Geschichte: Rückblick auf die Stadtgeschichte in
Einzelbeiträgen ed.
Erhart Dettmering and
Rudolf Grenz (Marburg, 1980), 345-352.
1982 Reprinted.
1993 "Aus
schlechten Christen werden gemeiniglich auch schlechte Unter-
thanen: Die Schulbildung der Marburger Handwerker in
der frühen
Neuzeit," Hessisches Jahrbuch für Landesgeschichte
43 (1993): 107-
137
2003 "The Jews of Early Modern
Family and Household Organization," History of the Family 8 (2003):
495-516
2004 “Frankfurt
am Main,” Encyclopedia of Early Modern
Dewald et al. (6 v.; NY: Scribner, 2004), 2. 456-457
“
Review Essays
1982 "Some Recent Studies in German Family History," Journal of Family
History 7 (1982): 425-434
1989 "Six Books on Central European Family History," ibid. 14 (1989):
79-90
Book Reviews
1974 Peter Blickle, Landschaften im Alten Reich in American
Historical
Review 79
(1974): 1573-1574
1978 Hubert
C. Johnson, Frederick the Great and His Officials in Societas
8
(1978): 68-69
1980
Winfried Schulze, Reich und Türkengefahr im späten 16.
Jahrhundert
in American
Historical Review 85 (1980): 144-145
Michael Toch, Die
Nürnberger Mittelschichten im 15. Jahrhundert in
American Historical Review 85 (1980):
907
1981
Peter-Michael Hahn, Struktur und Funktion des
brandenburgischen
Adels
im 16. Jahrhundert and Heinz Reif, Westfälischer
Adel, 1770-
1860) in American
Historical Review 86 (1981): 410-412
Franz
Irsigler, Die wirtschaftliche Stellung der Stadt Köln im 14 und 15.
Jahrhundert in Histoire
sociale 14 (1981): 525-527
1982
Matthias Meyn, Die Reichsstadt Frankfurt vor dem
Bürgeraufstand von
1612 bis 1614 in American
Historical Review 87 (1982): 475-476
Stadtbürgertum und Adel in der Reformation, ed. Wolfgang J. Mommsen
with Peter Alter and
Robert W. Scribner; Thomas J. Brady Jr., Ruling
Class, Regime and Reformation at
Eiler, Stadtfreiheit und Landesherrschaft in
Koblenz in Histoire
sociale
15 (1982): 509-514
1983
Werner Moritz, Die bürgerlichen Fürsorgeanstalten der
Reichsstadt
Claus-Peter Clasen, Die Augsburger Weber in Histoire
sociale 16
(1983): 205-206
1984 Gerhard
Oestreich, Neostoicism and the Early
German Studies Review 7 (1984): 325-326
Eckhard
Bernstein, German Humanism ibid.:
566-567
Städtewesen
und Merkantilismus in Mitteleuropa, ed. Volker
Press in
American Historical Review 89 (1984):
1349-1350
1985 T.W.C.
Blanning, The French Revolution in
Studies Review 8 (1985): 145-146
Paul Raabe, Bücherlust
und Lesefreuden: Beiträge zur Geschichte des
Buchwesens im
18. und frühen 19. Jahrhundert in American Historical
Review 90
(1985): 954-955
Jeffrey Chipps Smith,
German Studies Review 8 (1985): 533-534
David Sabean, Power in the Blood: Popular Culture and Village
Discourse in Early Modern
1986 Thomas
A. Brady Jr., Turning Swiss: Cities
and Empire,1450-1550 in
German Studies Review 9 (1986): 637
1987
Franz-Josef Verscharen, Gesellschaft und Verfassung
der Stadt
Marburg
beim Übergang vom Mittelalter zur Neuzeit
in Nassauische
Annalen 98
(1987): 424-425
Joachim Whaley, Religious Toleration and
Social Change in
1529-1819 in German
Studies Review 10 (1987): 158-159
Alexander Francis Cowan, The
Urban Patriciate: Lübeck and
1580-1700
ibid.: 574-575
1988 Dietrich Ebeling, Bürgertum und Pöbel: Wirtschaft
und Gesellschaft
Kölns im 18. Jahrhundert in Journal
of Economic History 48 (1988):
946-947
1989 Tom
Scott,
Age of Reformation and Peasants' War in German Studies Review 12
(1989): 161-162
Jonathan B. Knudsen, Justus Möser and the
German Enlightenment
ibid.:
165-166
Merry
Journal of Modern History 61 (1989):
406-408
William J. Wright, Capitalism, the State,
and the Lutheran Reformation:
Sixteenth-Century
663-664
John E. Knodel, Demographic Behavior in
the Past: A Study of Fourteen
in German
Studies Review 12 (1989): 507-508
Robert Selig, Räutige
Schafe und geizige Hirten: Studien zur Aus-
wanderung aus dem Hochstift
Würzburg im 18. Jahrhundert und ihre
Ursachen in German
History 7 (1989): 387-388
1990 Lyndal Roper, The
Holy Household: Women and Morals in
Reformation
Augsburg in German
Studies Review 13 (1990): 530-531
1991
Anthony J.
LaVopa, Grace, Talent, and Merit:
Poor Students, Clerical
Careers,
and Professional Ideology in Eighteenth-Century
German History 9
(1991): 91-92
Paula Sutter Fichtner, Protestantism and
Primogenture in Early Modern
1992 Mary
Lindemann, Patriots and Paupers:
Journal of Interdisciplinary
History 22 (1991-92): 371-373
David Sabean, Property, Production, and
Family in Neckarhausen,
1700-1870 in German Studies Review 15 (1992):
605-606
1993
Etienne François, Die unsichtbare Grenze: Protestanten und Katholiken
in Augsburg 1648-1806 in German
History 11 (1993): 100-101
Thomas Sirges,
Lesen in Marburg 1758-1848. Eine Studie zur
Bedeutung von
Lesegesellschaften und Leihbibliotheken
in German
Studies Review
16 (1993): 355-356
Manfred Rudersdorf, Ludwig IV. Landgraf von
Hessen-Marburg 1537-
1604: Landesteilung und Luthertum in Hessen in The
Sixteenth
Century Journal
24 (1993): 483-485
1994
Mack Walker, The
Eighteenth-Century
(1994): 588-589
1995 Claus-Peter Clasen, Streiks und Austände der
Augsburger Weber im
17. und 18. Jahrhundert in The
American Historical Review 100
(1995): 174
Jonathan W. Zophy, Patriarchal Politics
and Christoph Kress 1484-1535
of
1996 Peter K. Taylor, Indentured to
Military State 1688-1815 in The
International History Review 18
(1996):
146-148
John C. Theibault,
and the Thirty
Years’ War, 1580-1720 in The
Sixteenth Century
Journal 27 (1996): 1151-1152
Karl Wegert, Popular Culture, Crime, and
Social Control in 18th-Century
Württemberg in The American Historical Review 101 (1996): 1563-
1564
1998 Steven Ozment, The
Bürgermeister’s Daughter: Scandal in a
Sixteenth-
Manfred Rudersdorf, “Das Glück
der Bettler.” Justus Möser und die Welt
der Armen in German
Studies Review 21 (1998): 585-586
1999 In and Out of the Ghetto: Jewish-Gentile relations in late medieval and
early modern Germany, ed. R. Po-chia Hsia and Hartmut Lehmann in
Central European History 32 (1999): 232-234
Weismain: Eine fränkische Stadt am nördlichen Jura,
ed. Günter
Dippold
in The Sixteenth Century Journal 30 (1999): 1072-1073
2000 David Sabean, Kinship in Neckarhausen, 1700-1870 in German
Studies Review 23
(2000): 586-587
2001 Steven Ozment, Flesh and Spirit: Private Life in Early Modern
in The American Historical
Review 106 (2001): 1478-1479
2002 Carl-Ludwig Holtfrerich,
History 35 (2002): 97-99
Regionale Aspekte des frühen Schulwesens, ed. Ulrich Andermann
and Kurt
Andermann
in German Studies Review 25
(2002): 108-109
Thomas
Max Safley, Matheus Miller’s Memoir: A Merchant’s Life in the Seventeenth
Century in The American Historical Review 107 (2002): 1307-1308
2003 Achim Link, Auf
dem Weg zur Landesuniversität in German Studies Review 26
(2003):
138-139
Matthias Asche, Von der
reichen hansischen Bürgeruniversität zur armen
mecklenburgischen
Landeshochschule in
The Sixteenth Century Journal
34 (2003): 802-803
2004 Claus-Peter
Clasen, Streiks der Augsburger Schuhknechte in Central
European
History 37 (2004): 596-597
2005 James Van Horn
Melton, ed. Culture of Communication from Reformation to
Enlightenment: Constructing Publics in the
Early Modern German Lands
in The Sixteenth Century
Journal 36 (2005): 481-482
Thomas Klingebiel, Ein Stand für sich? Lokale Amtsträger
in der Frühen Neuzeit
2007 Thomas Fuchs, Geschichtsbeweusstsein
und Geschichtsschreibung
zwishen Reformation und
Aufklärung in Zeitschrift
des Vereins für
hessische Geschichte und
Landeskunde 112
(2007): 311-313
Professional Activities
1974 Commentator
in Session on "The Lower Middle Class in Early Modern History"
December meeting of the American Historical
Association in
1975
Chair of Session
on "Educational and Social Change in Sixteenth-Century
May meeting of the New England Historical Association
in
Paper on "Competing Urban Elites:
the
American Historical Association in
1976 Newberry
Library Summer Institute on "Family and Community History"
June-July in
Chair of Session on "The Functions of
Kinship in Preindustrial European
Peasant Communities" October meeting of the Social Science
History
Association in
1977 Chair
of Session on the "Demographic and Economic Consequences of
Seventeenth-Century Wars" October meeting of the Social Science
History Association in
Chair of Session on "Estates and Classes
in Nineteenth-Century
December meeting of the American Historical
Association in
1978 Member
and (1980) Chair, The
John L. Snell Memorial Prize Committee,
1979
Southern Historical
Association
1980
1980
Commentator in
Session on "World Civilization I: A
Syllabus" at March
Conference on
"Integrating Women into History Courses" in
Chair of Session on "Culture and
Politics under Four Regimes" October
meeting of the
Western Association for German Studies in
1981 Chair
of Session on "Reform in
Nineteenth Centuries" Eleventh (February) meeting of the
Consortium
on Revolutionary
Chair of Session on "Traditions of Urban
Revolution in
October meeting of the Western Association
for German Studies in
Chair of Session on "Recent Work on
Kinship and Family History from
German Sources" November meeting of the Social Science
History
Association in
1981 Member,
Program Committee, Western Association for German Studies:
1982 Responsible
for all premodern sessions (i.e., before 1800)
1983
1982 Chair
of Session on "Herder
and the Writing of History"
October
meeting of the
Western Association for German Studies in
Chair and Commentator in Session on "Stability and
Instability in
Early Modern European Cities," November meeting of the Social
Science History Association in
1983 Commentator
in Session on "Literature
and Society in Sixteenth-Century
October meeting of the Western Association for German
Studies in
Commentator on Paper "Luther and
Politics" (December) Symposium on
"Martin
Luther"
at
Elected Member, The
Hessian Historical Commission
1983 Member
of Program Committee
and Chair of Session on
"Renaissance
1984 and
Reformation Periods" (April) Conference of
German and American
Historians of the
1985 Paper
on "From Estate to Bourgeois Society:
Allan Sharlin's Work on
One City as a Mirror of German Society and
Culture, 1750-1870"
October meeting of German
Studies Association in
Paper on "German Cities, 1600-1800" in Session on
"The Structures
of Urban Society in
of the Social
Science History Association in
1988 Chair
and Commentator of Session on "Urban Politics and the Guilds
in Early Modern
Association
in
1989- Coordinator,
The Dallas Social History Group
1993
1990 Participant
in Roundtable Discussion: "Urban History
in Five Lands:
Distinctive Problems and Approaches" October
meeting of the Social
Science History Association in
Paper:
"Schooling in a
the
"Transmission of Knowledge in Early Modern
meeting of the
Social Science History Association in
Paper:
"Popular Schooling in a
Revision of above paper presented to December
meeting of the
Social History Group
1990- National Screening Committee [for
1992 Study,
Institute for International Education
1991 Chair
of Session on "Authority and Society in Early Modern Central
in
Commentator in Session on "Family
Strategies and Wealth Distribution
in Early Modern
Germany" November meeting of the
Social Science
History Association in
Commentator in Session on "Catholic Religion
and the Law" November
meeting of the
Southern Historical Association in
1993 Paper: "Municipal Privilege and State
Consciousness: Citizenship in
Early Modern German Cities" at special conference on "The
Rights
of Citizenship in
Western European Cities, 1400-1800" at the Centre
de Recherches
Historiques, Paris (October 1993)
1995
Member, Local
Arrangements Committee, October meeting of the
German Studies Association
in
Chair and Commentator in Session on
"Households, Cities, and Archi-
tecture in the
Eighteenth Century" October
meeting of the German
Studies Association in
1996
Chair, Session on
“Civic Morality and Citizenship: German
Identities
and
Public Discourse at the Turn of the Nineteenth Century,” January
meeting
of the American Historical Association in
Commentator, Session on “Early Modern Urban
History: A Retrospective”
October
meeting of the German Studies Association in
1997
Vice President, Conference
Group for Central European History,
The
American Historical Association
Commentator, Session on “Attitudes Towards Wealth in Late Eighteenth-
Century
in
1998
President, Conference Group for Central European
History,
The American Historical Association
Chair, Session on “The Thirty Years War and
the German Imagination“
October
Meeting of the German Studies Association in
Chair
and Commentator, Session on “Eighteenth-Century Conceptions of
German
National Identity“ October Meeting of
the German Studies Association
in
2000 Chair and Commentator, Session on “Early Modern
Discourses on War
and
Peace” October Meeting of the German
Studies Association in
Paper:
"Small-Town Jews in Early Modern
October meeting of the Social Science History
Association in
December meeting of the Dallas Area Social
History Group
2001 Paper: "Town & Gown in Eighteenth-Century
State
Interests at
History
Association in
2002 Public
Lecture: “Die Marburger Juden in der
Frühen Neuzeit” July
Meeting
of the Marburger Zweigverein des Hessischen
Vereins für Geschichte und
Landeskunde in
2005 Commentator, Session on "Aesthetics and
Self-Awareness in Early
Modern
the Early
Association in Milwaukee
2006 Public Lecture: “Marburger Studenten im achtzehnten
Jahrhundert”
July Meeting of the Marburger Zweigverein des Hessischen Vereins
für Geschichte und Landeskunde
in Marburg, Germany
2007 Public Lecture: “Marburger Studenten im achtzehnten
Jahrhundert: ein
sozialgeschichtliches
Profil” (21 June) at the
Haus der Romantik in