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'''Barbara Stollberg-Rilinger''' [[Fellow of the British Academy|FBA]] (born 17 July 1955 in [[Bergisch Gladbach]]) is a German historian. She mainly researches the [[early modern period]] and has held the chair for early modern history at the [[University of Münster]]. Stollberg-Rilinger is one of the leading representatives of research that examines the constitutional history of the [[Holy Roman Empire]] on the basis of symbolic-ritual forms of communication. Her work on rituals, symbolic communication and ceremonial influenced research on the exercise of power in the pre-modern era.

== Career ==
She studied German language and [[German literature|literature]], history and the [[history of art]] at the [[University of Cologne]], graduating in 1980 and earning a [[PhD|doctorate]] in 1985 in mediaeval and modern history, ancient history and German [[philology]]. She [[habilitated]] at the University of Cologne in 1994. The first professorship she obtained was at the Historical Institute of the University of Cologne, only to follow a call from the [[University of Münster]], where she has held the chair of [[early modern period|Early Modern History]] since 1997. Since 2018, she has been a rector of the [[Berlin Institute for Advanced Study]].<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|title=Lehreinheit Geschichte – Prof. Dr. Barbara Stollberg-Rilinger|url=https://www.uni-muenster.de/Geschichte/en/histsem/NZ-G/L1/personen/stollberg-rilinger.html|access-date=10 November 2020|website=www.uni-muenster.de}}</ref>

Her focus lies on the political and cultural movements and changes in Europe in the 17th and 18th century (the [[Age of Enlightenment]]).{{fact|date=August 2022}}

== Political positions – Criticism by the "Jüdische Allgemeine"==
In December 2020, Stollberg-Rilinger was one of the initiators of the "Initiative GG 5.3 Open-mindedness" of numerous institutions and persons in the cultural and scientific community. The initiative criticizes a [[Bundestag]] resolution of 2019 condemning Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) as anti-Semitic and banning government funding for the Israel-hostile movement, and warns against a restriction of the [[Basic Law]] constitutionally protected freedom of expression through the "misuse of the accusation of anti-Semitism".<ref>Humboldtforum: [https://www.humboldtforum.org/de/presse/mitteilungen / plaedoyer-der-initiative-gg-5-3-weltoffenheit / Plea of the "Initiative GG 5.3 Weltoffenheit"], accessed on 11 December 2020</ref><ref>[[Jüdische Allgemeine]]: [https://www.juedische-allgemeine.de/kultur/vorboten-der-zensur/ "BDS movement »Harbingers of censorship«?"], 10 December 2020, accessed 11 December 2020.</ref> The initiators and signatories were accused of ignoring the fact that BDS denied [[Israel's right to exist]].<ref name="Schuster 2020">{{cite news| last=Schuster | first=Jacques | title=Theater gegen BDS-Resolution: Ein klarer Fall von demokratischem Antisemitismus | newspaper=[[Die Welt]] | date=10 December 2020 | url=https://www.welt.de/debatte/kommentare/article222235952/Theater-gegen-BDS-Resolution-Ein-klarer-Fall-von-demokratischem-Antisemitismus.html | language=de | access-date=16 April 2022}}</ref><ref name="GmbH 2020">{{cite news | last=Kilb | first=Andreas | title=Kritik an BDS-Beschluss: Das Geraune von der Zensur | website=[[FAZ.NET]] | date=11 December 2020 | url=https://www.faz.net/aktuell/feuilleton/debatten/ueber-die-initiative-gg-5-3-weltoffenheit-17095764.html | language=de | access-date=16 April 2022}}</ref>

==Awards and honours==
* 2017 [[Leipzig Book Fair Prize]] (non-fiction) for "Maria Theresia. Die Kaiserin in ihrer Zeit"<ref>{{Cite news |last=Martini |first=Tania |last2=Gutmair |first2=Ulrich |date=27 March 2017 |title=Preis der Leipziger Buchmesse 2017: Eine Epoche in einer Person gespiegelt |url=https://taz.de/Preis-der-Leipziger-Buchmesse-2017/!5391960/ |access-date=4 November 2024 |work=Die Tageszeitung: taz |language=de |issn=0931-9085}}</ref>
* In July 2017, Stollberg-Rilinger was elected a [[Corresponding Fellow of the British Academy]] (FBA), the United Kingdom's [[national academy]] for the humanities and social sciences.<ref>{{cite web|title=Elections to the British Academy celebrate the diversity of UK research|url=http://www.britac.ac.uk/news/elections-british-academy-celebrate-diversity-uk-research|website=British Academy|access-date=29 July 2017|date=2 July 2017}}</ref>
* 2017 [[Sigmund Freud Prize]] for Scientific Prose: "Maria Theresia. Die Kaiserin in ihrer Zeit"<ref>{{Cite web |title=Universität Münster > Religion & Politics > News Sigmund Freud Prize for Biography on Maria Theresa |url=https://www.uni-muenster.de/Religion-und-Politik/en/aktuelles/2017/jun/News_Siegmund-Freud-Preis_Stollberg_Rilinger.shtml |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240712203809/https://www.uni-muenster.de/Religion-und-Politik/en/aktuelles/2017/jun/News_Siegmund-Freud-Preis_Stollberg_Rilinger.shtml |archive-date=12 July 2024 |access-date=12 July 2024 |website=[[University of Münster]]}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Sigmund-Freud-Preis - Awardees - Barbara Stollberg-Rilinger |url=https://www.deutscheakademie.de/en/awards/sigmund-freud-preis/barbara-stollberg-rilinger |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231206235648/https://www.deutscheakademie.de/en/awards/sigmund-freud-preis/barbara-stollberg-rilinger |archive-date=6 December 2023 |access-date=12 July 2024 |website=[[Deutsche Akademie für Sprache und Dichtung]] |language=en}}</ref>
*2013 Award of the Historical Collegium of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities <ref name=":0" />
*2012 Innovation award of the federal state of [[North Rhine-Westphalia]]<ref name=":0" />
*2006 Doctorate honoris causa of the Ecole normale superieure Lyon <ref name=":0" />
*2005 Gottfried-Wilhelm-Leibniz Award of [[Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft|DFG]]<ref name=":0" />

== Publications ==
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* {{cite book  |title=Der Staat als Maschine : zur politischen Metaphorik des absoluten Fürstenstaats |series=Historische Forschungen; Bd. 30 |location=Berlin |publisher=Duncker & Humblot |year=1986 }}
* {{cite book  |title=Vormünder des Volkes? Konzepte landständischer Repräsentation in der Spätphase des Alten Reiches |series=Historische Forschungen; Bd. 64 |location=Berlin |publisher=Duncker & Humblot |year=1999 }}
* ''Das Heilige Römische Reich Deutscher Nation. Vom Ende des Mittelalters bis 1806'' (= ''Beck'sche Reihe. C.-H.-Beck-Wissen'' 2399). 4. durchgesehene Auflage. C. H. Beck, München 2009, {{ISBN|978-3-406-53599-4}}.
* {{cite journal  |date=Spring 2011 |title=Much ado about nothing? Rituals of politics in early modern Europe |journal=Bulletin of the German Historical Institute |volume=48 |pages=9–24 |url=https://www.ghi-dc.org/publication/bulletin-48-spring-2011 }}
* ''Des Kaisers alte Kleider. Verfassungsgeschichte und Symbolsprache des Alten Reiches.'' 2., durchgesehene und aktualisierte Auflage, C. H. Beck, München 2013, {{ISBN|978-3-406-57074-2}}.
* {{cite book |date=2022 | title=Maria Theresa : the Habsburg empress in her time | publication-place=Princeton, New Jersey | isbn=978-0-691-17906-3 | oclc=1200832077 | last1=Stollberg-Rilinger | first1=Barbara }}

== Literature ==
* {{cite journal |author=Luebke, David M. |date=Spring 2011 |title=Too little ado about plenty : comment on Barbara Stollberg-Rilinger's lecture, Washington DC, November 11, 2011 |journal=Bulletin of the German Historical Institute |volume=48 |pages=25–31 |url=https://www.ghi-dc.org/publication/bulletin-48-spring-2011 }}

==References==
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== External links ==
*[https://www.uni-muenster.de/Geschichte/en/hist-sem/NZ-G/L1/personen/stollberg-rilinger.html Homepage of Barbara Stollberg-Rilinger at the University of Münster]
*[https://www.uni-muenster.de/Religion-und-Politik/en/ Cluster of Exzellence at the University of Münster]
*[https://www.dfg.de/gefoerderte_projekte/wissenschaftliche_preise/leibniz-preis/2005/stollberg-rillinger/index.html Portrait at the DFG] {{in lang|de}}
*{{usurped|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/20070609203611/http://www.sciencegarden.de/berichte/200702/stollberg/stollberg.php Interview at Sciencegarden.de]}} {{in lang|de}}
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20090117063221/http://hsozkult.geschichte.hu-berlin.de/forum/type%3Dbuchpreis%26name%3Djury%26year%3D2006%26kuerzel%3Dstollbergb Profile at H-Soz-u-Kult] {{in lang|de}}

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