Gerald L.
Soliday
Curriculum Vitae
Addresses
and Personal Data
Office: Home:
Historical Studies Program Jo 3.1 319
Ridgebriar Drive
The
800
West Campbell Road
Richardson, TX 75080-3021
Telephone: (972) 883-2175
Fax: (972) 883-2989
E-mail:
Internet: www.utdallas.edu/~soliday
Education
B.A. 1961
The
M.A.
1963 The
Ph.D.
1969
Teaching
Experience
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
1987-88 Visiting
Lecturer on European History,
2005 Emeritus,
Associate Professor of Humanities
Publications: Books and Articles
1974 A
Community in Conflict:
and Early Eighteenth
Centuries. University Press of
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 "
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 (
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
Family and Household
Organization," History of the Family 8 (2003):
495-516
2004 “Frankfurt
am Main,” Encyclopedia of Early Modern
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
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
Some
Professional Activities
1974 Commentator
in Session on "The Lower Middle Class in Early Modern
History" December meeting of the American Historical
Association
in
1975 Paper
on "Competing Urban Elites:
meeting of the American
Historical Association in
1976 Newberry
Library Summer Institute on "Family and Community History"
June-July 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
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
1983 Commentator
in Session on "Literature and
Society in Sixteenth-
Century
in
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
1985 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 in Session on "Urban Politics and the Guilds
in Early Modern
Association in
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
1990- National
Screening Committee [for
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
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)
1994 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 Commentator,
Session on “Early Modern Urban History:
A Retrospec
tive” October meeting of the German Studies
Association in
1997 Vice
President, Conference Group for Central European History,
American Historical
Association
Commentator, Session on
“Attitudes Towards Wealth in Late Eighteenth-
Century
in
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
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
1800"
October meeting of the Social Science History Association in
Group
2001 Paper: " Town & Gown in Eighteenth-Century
ments & State Interests at
the Social Science 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
Marburg, Germany