Participant Info

First Name
Marion
Last Name
Romberg
Country
Germany
State
Affiliation
University of Bonn, Institut for History, Department of Early Modern History and Rhenish Regional History
Website URL
https://www.igw.uni-bonn.de/fnzrlg/de/team/romberg
Keywords
Cultural History, History of Piety, Visual Studies, Digital Humanities, Fraternities, Empresses, Habsburg History
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Additional Contact Information
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Personal Info

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About Me

Current position:

since 5|2023 Research associate and editor of the Rheinische Vierteljahrsblätter at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn, Institute of History, Department of Early Modern History and Rhenish Regional History

since 7|2023 Elected Member of the Executive Committee of the International Society for Eighteenth Century Studies, http://isecs.org

since 2008 Member of the Board (Deputy Chairwoman since 2022) and Webmaster/Social Media, Austrian Society for the Study of the 18th Century, http://www.oege18.org

Research Projects with databases:

9|2020-4|2023 Head of the ÖAW Innovation Fund project The Viennese Court. A prosopographical database (VieCPro), Vienna, Austrian Academy of Sciences (ÖAW), Institute for Habsburg and Balkan Studies (IHB), http://viecpro.oeaw.ac.at

6|2017-4|2020 FWF project “Empress and Empire. Ceremonial, media and rule 1550 to 1740/45”, Vienna, ÖAW, IHB, Director: Katrin Keller => Research assistant on the topic “The empresses and their pictorial representation”| Database: https://kaiserinnen.oeaw.ac.at

1|2012-6|2016 FWF project Continental allegories in the Baroque period, University of Vienna, Institute of History
Head: Wolfgang Schmale; http://erdteilallegorien.univie.ac.at
Project manager and PraeDoc assistant, co-author of the application: personal site visit, photographic and scientific documentation and evaluation of 320 sacred and secular buildings (over 100,000 photos) in southern Germany, development of the online database, organisation of public relations and workshops, administrative and financial project management

Recent Publications

Monographs (Selection):

Querschnitt. Aktuelle Forschungen zum 18. Jahrhundert, hg. von Marion Romberg, Mona Garloff, Doris Gruber, Manuela Mayer (Jahrbuch der Österreichischen Gesellschaft zur Erforschung des Achtzehnten Jahrhunderts, Bd. 38), Wien: Böhlau Verlag 2023.

Empresses and Queens in the Courtly Public Sphere from the 17th to the 20th Century, hg. von Marion Romberg (Brill’s Studies on Art, Art History, and Intellectual History, 56), Leiden: Brill 2021 | peer reviewed.

Kirche und Klöster zwischen Aufklärung und administrativen Reformen, hg. von Julian Lahner, Marion Romberg, Thomas Wallnig (Jahrbuch der Österreichischen Gesellschaft zur Erforschung des Achtzehnten Jahrhunderts, Bd. 36), Wien: Böhlau Verlag 2021| peer reviewed.

Digital Eighteenth Century: Central European Perspectives, hg. von Thomas Wallnig, Marion Romberg, Joelle Weiß (Jahrbuch der Österreichischen Gesellschaft zur Erforschung des Achtzehnten Jahrhunderts, Bd. 34), Wien: Böhlau Verlag 2019 | peer reviewed.

Die Welt im Dienst des Glaubens. Erdteilallegorien in Dorfkirchen auf dem Gebiet des Fürstbistums Augsburg im 18. Jahrhundert, Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag 2017 (Dissertation, 2015, Univ. Wien).

The Language of Continent Allegories in Baroque Central Europe, hg. von Wolfgang Schmale, Marion Romberg, Josef Köstlbauer, Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag 2016.

Articles (Selection):

Ines Peper, Marion Romberg, How to Represent a Convert Queen. Elisabeth Christine of Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel’s Conversion as a Challenge for Dynastic Public Relations, in: Religious Plurality at Princely Courts. Dynasty, Politics, and Faith in Central Europe, ca. 1517–1918, hg. von Daniel Riches, Alexander Schunka, Benjamin Marschke, Sara Smart (Spektrum: Publications of the German Studies Association), New York/Oxford: Berghan Books, S. 61-91| peer reviewed.

2023

Maximilian Kaiser, Marion Romberg, Matthias Schlögl, Gregor Pirgie, Von APIS zu VieCPro. Die Entwicklung einer multifunktionalen Prosopographiedatenbank, in: Historische Biographik und kritische Prosopographie als Instrumente in der Geschichtswissenschaft, hg. von Helmuth Albrecht, Michael Farrenkopf, Helmut Maier und Torsten Meyer (Veröffentlichungen aus dem Deutschen Bergbau-Museum Bochum), Oldenburg: De Gruyter Verlag 2023, 117–139. | https://doi.org/10.1515/9783111137063-007

2022

Marion Romberg, An Brüder zu gedenckhen… Das Bruderschaftswesen im Fürstbistum Augsburg am Beispiel der Armen-Seelen-Bruderschaft in Bernbach, in: Pfarrkirchen. Katholische und lutherische Sakralräume und ihre barocke Ausstattung, hg. von Herbert Karner, Martin Mádl, Prag: Artefactum 2022, S. 401–423.

2021

Marion Romberg, An Early Modern Empress Consort’s Role in the Courtly Public Sphere: Eleonor Magdalene of Neuburg and her Media Appearance in Single-Sheet Prints and Medals between 1676 and 1687, in: Queens and Empresses in the Courtly Public Sphere from the 17th to the 20th Century, hg. von dies. (Brill’s Studies on Art, Art History, and Intellectual History, 56), Leiden: Brill, 2021, S. 71–119 | peer reviewed.

Marion Romberg, Queens and Empresses in the Courtly Public Sphere from the 17th to the 20th Century – An Introduction, in: Queens and Empresses in the Courtly Public Sphere from the 17th to the 20th Century, hg. von dies. (Brill’s Studies on Art, Art History, and Intellectual History, 56), Leiden: Brill, 2021, S. 1–28 | peer reviewed.

Marion Romberg, Was Ihro Hochwürden bauen, darf jedermann sehen – Die Allegorien der vier Erdteile im Benediktinerkloster St. Mang, in: Zeitschrift für Bayerische Landesgeschichte (ZBLG), 82, 2, 2019/2021,
S. 447–473.

Media Coverage
Country Focus
Austria, Germany
Expertise by Geography
Western Europe
Expertise by Chronology
Pre-17th century, 17th century, 18th century, Early Modern
Expertise by Topic
Art & Architectural History, Local & Regional, Religion