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Frederick D. Marquardt

Frederick D. Marquardt

Contact Information:

fdmarqua@syr.edu

Frederick D. Marquardt

Assistant Professor Emeritus, History Department


Maxwell Professor of Teaching Excellence

Highest degree earned

Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, 1973

Areas of Expertise

German social history

Research Grant Awards and Projects

A sprawling essay/article tentatively titled “Luther, Authority, the Peasants’ War, and Luther’s Catechisms:  An Authoritarian Turn?”

A book length study tentatively titled “Luther, Authority, and the Germans:  Society and Politics in Lutheran Catechism Instruction in Church and School in Prussia, 1730-1848”

Selected Publications

“God, Christ, and Serfdom:  Christian Egalitarianism in the Twelve Articles of the Upper Swabian Peasants (1525),” Archiv für Reformationsgeschichte/Archive for Reformation History, vol. 107 (2016), pp. 35-60

“‘Schaffe, schaffe, Häusle baue’:  Hans Medick, the Swabians, and Modernity: Review Article,” Journal of Social History, vol. 32 (1998), pp. 197-205

“Sozialer Aufstieg, sozialer Abstieg und die Entstehung der Berliner Arbeiterklasse, 1806-1848,” in Soziale Mobilität seit der Industrialisierung, ed. Hartmut Kaelble  (Königstein/Taunus 1979), pp. 127-158.  Shorter original version in Geschichte und Gesellschaft, vol. 1 (1975), pp. 43-77

“A Working Class in Berlin in the 1840s?” in Sozialgeschichte Heute. Festschrift für Hans Rosenberg, ed. Hans-Ulrich Wehler (Göttingen 1974), pp. 191-210

“Pauperism in Germany during the Vormärz,” Central European History, vol. 2 (1969), pp. 77-88

Book reviews in International Labor and Working Class History, Journal of Interdisciplinary History, Journal of Modern History, Journal of Social History