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Dissertation Information for Benjamin Marschke

NAME:
- Benjamin Marschke

DEGREE:
- Ph.D.

DISCIPLINE:
- History

SCHOOL:
- University of California, Los Angeles (USA) (2003)

ADVISORS:
- David Warren Sabean
- Geoffrey W. Symcox

COMMITTEE MEMBERS:
- Edward Bahr

MPACT Status: Fully Complete

Title: Absolutely pietist: Patronage, factionalism, and state-building in the early eighteenth-century Prussian army chaplaincy

Abstract: This dissertation centers around the Prussian army chaplaincy during the early eighteenth century. Two significant developments in the chaplaincy occurred during this period: the institutionalization and centralization of the chaplaincy, and the establishment of Halle Pietist hegemony over the chaplaincy. Central to these developments was the reign of King Friedrich Wilhelm I (1713-40), who took a personal interest in the chaplaincy and looked very favorably upon Pietism. The Pietists used the chaplaincy and the access to the King that it afforded them to impede their various opponents, to further expand their own influence, and even to sabotage Friedrich Wilhelm's religious policies.

Chapter 1 is an overview the history of the chaplaincy in early modern Prussia. Chapter 2 is a history of the everyday life of chaplains in the Prussian army and an analysis of the social origins of chaplains and the social status of chaplains as both clergymen and military officers.

Chapters 3 and 4 concern processes of early modern state building at work in the chaplaincy. In chapter 3 I consider the chaplaincy as an instance of early modern social disciplining by examining the discourse regarding disciplining among those managing the chaplaincy, the process of supervising and disciplining chaplains, and the role that chaplains themselves played as disciplinarians. In chapter 4 I investigate early modern state centralization and bureaucratization by contrasting how the newly-institutionalized bureaucracy was to function in theory against how it functioned in practice. I probe the vague relationship between Pietism and the Prussian state by portraying how they collaborated in establishing, staffing, and administering the military church.

Chapters 5 and 6 involve patronage and factionalism in Prussia. I drastically depart from the existing historiography that has maintained that there was no factionalism or patronage in "bureaucratic absolutist" Prussia. I describe Pietism as an early modern patron-broker-client network and as a sectarian faction by showing how Pietists filled lucrative posts in the chaplaincy and how they maneuvered to influence Prussian religious policies regarding the military church. In doing so I reveal the Pietists as a hierarchical, clearly-delineated, and quite effective sectarian faction and patron-broker-client system.

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