Jürgen Luh
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Jürgen Luh (born 1963) is a German historian and exhibition curator. He specialises in the history of Prussia and Germany from the Peace of Westphalia to the early nineteenth century.[1]
Luh did his PhD with Gerd Heinrich (historian) at the Freie Universität zu Berlin, where his dissertation was published in 1995 as Unheiliges Römisches Reich: der konfessionelle Gegensatz 1648 bis 1806.[2] He followed this in 2003 with Preussen, Deutschland und Europa 1701-2001, a collection of essays edited with Vinzenz Czech and Bert Becker.[3]
Military History
Dr. Luh has published books in both German and English examining the nature of warfare in Europe in the Long Eighteenth Century.[4] He argued that, rather than looking at the eighteenth century for evidence of a "military revolution" which prefigured modern war, historians should examine the meaning that armies and warfare actually had for those living at the time. He revealed that eighteenth-century warfare was deeply rooted in the structure of princely states and noble society of the time. War aimed not to destroy the enemy but to win glory for the princes who waged it, and the appearance of both soldiers and armies (whether expressed in uniforms, or in elaborate parade-ground manoeuvres) was just as important as their actual capacity to do harm to the enemy.[5]
Prussian Palaces and Gardens Foundation
Jürgen Luh is Wissenschaftler at the Stiftung Preußischer Schlösser und Gärten (Prussian Palaces and Gardens Foundation, SPSG).[6] In this capacity, he has helped put on a number of the SPSG's exhibitions, including 'Friederisiko' in 2012 and 'Frauensache: Wie Brandenburg Preußen wurde' in 2015.[7]
