Gerald  L.  Soliday

 

Curriculum Vitae

 

 

 

Addresses and Personal Data

 

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            The University of Texas at Dallas                   Richardson, TX  75080

            800  West Campbell Road

            Richardson, TX  75080-3021                         

 

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Education

 

  B.A.    1961    The Ohio State University                             History & German

  M.A.   1963     The Ohio State University                            European History

  Ph.D.  1969     Harvard University                                       European History

 

 

 

Teaching Experience

 

  1967-68         Lecturer on Continental Europe, 1555-1715, Dalhousie University

  1968-69         Instructor of History, Brandeis University

  1969-76         Assistant Professor of History, Brandeis University

  1976 →         Associate Professor of Humanities (Historical Studies & History of Ideas)

     2005           The University of Texas at Dallas

     1987-88      Visiting Lecturer on European History, Harvard University

     2005           Emeritus, Associate Professor of Humanities

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Publications:  Books and Articles

 

  1974              A Community in Conflict:  Frankfurt Society in the Seventeenth

                        and Early Eighteenth Centuries.  University Press of New England

                        for the Brandeis University Press

 

  1975              "Marburg in Oberhessen: ein Forschungsbericht," Historische Demo-

                        graphie als Sozialgeschichte, ed. A. Imhof  (Darmstadt and Marburg,

                        1975), 1017-1028

 

  1977              "Marburg in Upper Hesse:  A Research Report," Journal of Family

                        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

 

  1982              Review article:  "Some Recent Studies in German Family History,"

                        Journal of Family History 7 (1982): 425-534

 

  1989              Review article:  "Six Books on Central European Family History,"

                        ibid. 14 (1989): 79-90

 

  1993              "Aus schlechten Christen werden gemeiniglich auch schlechte

                        Unterthanen:  Die Schulbildung der Marburger Handwerker in der frühen

                        Neuzeit,"  Hessisches Jahrbuch für Landesgeschichte 43 (1993):

                        107-137

 

  2003              "The Jews of Early Modern Marburg, 1640s-1800: A Case Study in

Family and Household Organization," History of the Family 8 (2003):

495-516

 

  2004              “Frankfurt am Main,” Encyclopedia of Early Modern Europe, ed.

                        Jonathan Dewald et al. (6 v.; NY: Scribner, 2004), 2. 456-457

 

                        “Hesse, Landgraviate” ibid., 3. 165-167

 

  2008              “Die Marburger Juden in der Frühen Neuzeit (1640-1800): Eine Fall-

                        studie in Familien- und Haushaltsorganisation,” Hessisches Jahrbuch für

                        Landesgeschichte  58 (2008): 1-25

 

  2011              "Die Marburger Studentenschaft und die hessische Bildungspolitik im

                      18. Jahrhundert,"  Hessisches Jahrbuch für Landesgeschichte  61 (2011):

59-86

 

 

 

2020                Die Marburger Stadtschule als Vor- und Zubringerschule,“ Mehr als

Stadt, Land, Fluss:  Festschrift für Ursula Braasch-Schwersmann, ed. Lutz

Vogel et al. (Neustadt an der Aisch, 2020), 227- 231

 

 

  1974®          79  book reviews published in various professional journals

 

 

 

 

 

 

Research in Progress

 

            I am engaged in a long-term project on the social history of Marburg, Germany,

 from the middle of the seventeenth to the end of the eighteenth century. 

            The study will be a careful structural analysis of an urban society over time and

            will then focus on three subjects:  (1) the mercantile, administrative, and

            educated elites that dominated the city; (2) the endemic poverty in Marburg and

            the Upper Hessian region; and (3) the relationship between the city, on one

            hand, and, on the other, its surrounding countryside, the University of Marburg,

            and the Hessian territorial state.

 

 

Some Fellowships and Grants

 

  1972-3           Research Fellowship from the Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung,

  1973-4           Federal Republic of Germany, for research in the Hessian State Archive

                        in Marburg    (continued in summer grants, 1978 and 1980)

 

  1976-9           National Endowment for the Humanities Grant  (with Professor T.K.

                        Hareven) for an international bibliography on the history of

                        kinship and the family

 

  1985              National Endowment for the Humanities  Basic Research Grant

  1986              to support statistical work on Marburg project

 

 

 

Some Professional Activities

 

  1974              Commentator in Session on "The Lower Middle Class in Early Modern

                        History"   December meeting of the American Historical Association

                        in Chicago

 

  1975              Paper on "Competing Urban Elites:  Marburg, 1560-1800"   December

                        meeting of the American Historical Association in Atlanta

 

  1976              Newberry Library Summer Institute on "Family and Community History"

                        June-July in Chicago

 

  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 Bloomington

 

  1981-             Member, Program Committee, Western Association for German Studies:

  1983              Responsible for all premodern sessions (i.e., before 1800)

 

  1982              Chair and Commentator  in Session on "Stability and Instability in

                        Early Modern European Cities,"    November meeting of the Social

                        Science History Association in Bloomington

 

  1983              Commentator in Session on  "Literature and Society in Sixteenth-

                        Century Germany"   October meeting of the German Studies Association

                        in Madison

 

                        Elected Member, The Hessian Historical Commission

 

  1983              Member of Program Committee  and  Chair of Session on "Renaissance

  1984              and Reformation Periods"    (April 84)  Conference of German and

                        American Historians of the Holy Roman Empire  at the University of

                        Chicago

 

  1985              Paper on "German Cities, 1600-1800"  in Session on "The Structures

                        of Urban Society in Western Europe, 1400-1800"   November meeting

                        of the Social Science History Association  in Chicago

 

  1988              Chair and Commentator in Session on "Urban Politics and the Guilds

                        in Early Modern Europe"  November Meeting of Social Science History

                        Association  in Chicago

 

  1990              Participant in Roundtable Discussion:  "Urban History in Five Lands:

                        Distinctive Problems and Approaches"  October meeting of the Social

                        Science History Association  in Minneapolis

 

                        Paper:  "Schooling in a Craft Town:  Marburg 1600-1800" in Panel on

                        the "Transmission of Knowledge in Early Modern Europe"  October

                        meeting of the Social Science History Association  in Minneapolis

 

  1990-             National Screening Committee [for Germany], Grants for Graduate

  1993              Study, Institute for International Education

 

  1991              Commentator in Session on "Family Strategies and Wealth Distribution

                        in Early Modern Germany"  November meeting of the Social Science

                        History Association in New Orleans  

 

                        Commentator in Session on "Catholic Religion and the Law"   November

                        meeting of the Southern Historical Association in Fort Worth

 

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)

 

  1994              Member, Local Arrangements Committee, October meeting of the

                        German Studies Association in Dallas

 

                        Chair and Commentator in Session on "Households, Cities, and Archi-

                        tecture in the Eighteenth Century"   October meeting of the German

                        Studies Association in Dallas

 

  1996              Commentator, Session on “Early Modern Urban History:  A Retrospec

                        tive”   October meeting of the German Studies Association in Seattle

 

  1997              Vice President, Conference Group for Central European History,

                        American Historical Association

 

                        Commentator, Session on “Attitudes Towards Wealth in Late Eighteenth-

                        Century Germany   October Meeting of the German Studies Association

                        in Washington, D.C.

 

  1998              President,  Conference Group for Central European History,   American

                        Historical Association

 

                        Chair, Session on “The Thirty Years War and the German Imagination“

October Meeting of the German Studies Association in Salt Lake City

 

Chair and Commentator, Session on “Eighteenth-Century Conceptions

of German National Identity“   October Meeting of the German Studies

Association in Salt Lake City

 

2000                Chair and Commentator, Session on “Early Modern Discourses on War

and Peace”   October Meeting of the German Studies Association in

Houston

 

                        Paper: "Small-Town Jews in Early Modern Germany: Marburg, 1640s-

1800"   October meeting of the Social Science History Association in

Pittsburgh     and   December Meeting of the Dallas Area Social History

Group

 

2001                Paper:  " Town & Gown in Eighteenth-Century Germany: Student Enroll-

ments & State Interests at Marburg University"   November meeting of

the Social Science History Association in Chicago

 

2002                Public Lecture:  “Die Marburger Juden in der Frühen Neuzeit”  July Meeting

                        of the Marburger Zweigverein des Hessischen Vereins für Geschichte und

                        Landeskunde  in Marburg, Germany

 

2005                Commentator, Session on "Aesthetics and Self-Awareness in Early

                        Modern Germany,"   and   Moderator, Session on "Law and Agency in

                        the Early Modern State"   September Meeting of the German Studies

                        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  

Marburg, Germany