Magnus Ressel
Biographic Data
| ID | 1190711 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Magnus Ressel |
| GIVEN NAMES | Magnus |
| FAMILY NAME | Ressel |
| SIGNATURE | RESSEL M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Goethe University Frankfurt |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0534-5991 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 13 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Spoils of Neutrality
This article examines the involvement of the Austrian Netherlands in the transatlantic slave trade of the early 1780s. It focuses on one actor in particular: Frederic Romberg (1729–1819), a Westphalian living in Brussels, who was primarily responsible for the Belgian slave trade. By allowing elites from Flanders to invest in individual slave voyages and thereby gaining political goodwill in Brussels, his Ghent-based firm Romberg & Consors was abl…
The Hinterland of the Holy Roman Empire and the Slave Trade in the Late Eighteenth Century
Residing in Brussels from 1755, Friedrich Romberg, a native of Hemer near Iserlohn in Westphalia and a friend of Emperor Joseph II , may be an exceptional figure in the line of German slave traders with his intensive involvement in the French colonial empire of the 1770s/80s. However, he can also be seen as an emblematic exponent of a profitable niche in the overall panorama of the Atlantic slave trade—namely, the connection of the German and eve…
Marktstrategien der Kurienbanken
Marktstrategien der Kurienbanken: Die Geschäfte der Alberti, Medici und Spinelli in Deutschland (1400–1475). Kurt Weissen. Heidelberg: Heidelberg University Press, 2021. xii + 648 pp. €64.90. Open Access. - Volume 76 Issue 4
Una distopía como utopía. La ciudad argelina de Orán y la novela El haya de los judíos de Annette von Droste-Hülshoff
Orán hoy en día es una ciudad que está apenas presente en el mapa mental del mundo occidental. Aparte de los lectores de La peste de Albert Camus, poca gente sabe que Orán es una ciudad costera del oeste de Argelia. Menos gente aún sabe que, durante la mayor parte de la Epoca Moderna, perteneció a España (1509-1708, 1732-1792) y que, durante estos 260 años, fue una zona que acogió a muchos jóvenes europeos que buscaban una segunda oportunidad en …
The International Presence of Merchants from the German Empire in the 18 th Century
Erica Heinsen-Roach, Consuls and Captives. Dutch-North African Diplomacy in the Early Modern Mediterranean
Migration und Kosmopolitismus
Von reichsstädtischen Kommissionären zu europäischen Unternehmern
In this article, changing patterns of residency and business strategy of members of the German merchant community in eighteenth-century Venice are analyzed. In this century, many Germans decided to settle permanently in Venice and at the same time to loosen the hitherto tight bonds of their German merchant nation. Due to these changes, the German merchants were able to enlarge their range of business partnerships all over Europe and the Levant. B…
Seeraub im Mittelmeerraum
Über Jahrtausende gehörte der Seeraub zu den prägenden Faktoren der Geschichte des Mittelmeerraums. Die Akteure wurden als Bedrohung wahrgenommen, bewirkten aber auch vielfältige Verbindungen über das Mittelmeer hinweg. Die Bekämpfung maritimer Gewalt diente antiken Imperien und mittelalterlichen Seerepubliken als Legitimationsgrundlage. Überfälle auf Küsten, Sklaverei und Freikaufgeschäfte spielten eine wichtige Rolle in den Konfrontationen zwis…
The Ransoming of North European Captives from Northern Africa. A Comparison of Dutch, Hanseatic and English Institutionalization of Redemption from 1610-1645
"The Ransoming of North European Captives from Northern Africa. A Comparison of Dutch, Hanseatic and English Institutionalization of Redemption from 1610-1645" published on 01 Jan 2013 by Brill | Schöningh
British Dominance of Merchant Shipping between Northern and Southern Europe, 1720–1750
Between 1720 and 1750 the British merchant marine dominated the most profitable intra-European sea-lanes, especially between northern and southern Europe. Most important in this regard was the ousting of its Dutch competitors on these routes shortly after the Peace of Utrecht. This secular phenomenon has not attracted much attention and has led to even less explanation by maritime and economic historians. This essay traces the chronology, causes …
Venice and the redemption of Northern European slaves (seventeenth and eighteenth centuries)
Entre 1600 et 1750, et plus particulièrement entre 1610 et 1640, des navires de l’Europe du Nord furent capturés par les corsaires barbaresques. C’était la conséquence logique de l’arrivée massive à partir de la fin du xvie siècle de navires et marchands de l’Europe du Nord en Méditerranée et de l’expansion simultanée de la course nord-africaine en Atlantique. Les Nord-Européens commencèrent à racheter leurs frères réduits en esclavage et, pour c…
Conflicts between Early Modern European States about Rescuing Their Own Subjects from Barbary Captivity
This article is concerned with special cases of the ransoming of Northern European sailors from the so-called Barbary corsairs in the 18th century. Until 1730 these sailors usually were only ransomed when their nationality overlapped with the respective flag of the ship on which they had served. Since the ships' crews in early modern Europe were a largely international workforce, this left a huge group of sailors unprotected from the risk of slav…
Conflicts between Early Modern European States about Rescuing Their Own Subjects from Barbary Captivity
This article is concerned with special cases of the ransoming of Northern European sailors from the so-called Barbary corsairs in the 18th century. Until 1730 these sailors usually were only ransomed when their nationality overlapped with the respective flag of the ship on which they had served. Since the ships' crews in early modern Europe were a largely international workforce, this left a huge group of sailors unprotected from the risk of slav…
Conflicts between Early Modern European States about Rescuing Their Own Subjects from Barbary Captivity
This article is concerned with special cases of the ransoming of Northern European sailors from the so-called Barbary corsairs in the 18th century. Until 1730 these sailors usually were only ransomed when their nationality overlapped with the respective flag of the ship on which they had served. Since the ships' crews in early modern Europe were a largely international workforce, this left a huge group of sailors unprotected from the risk of slav…
Seeraub im Mittelmeerraum
Über Jahrtausende gehörte der Seeraub zu den prägenden Faktoren der Geschichte des Mittelmeerraums. Die Akteure wurden als Bedrohung wahrgenommen, bewirkten aber auch vielfältige Verbindungen über das Mittelmeer hinweg. Die Bekämpfung maritimer Gewalt diente antiken Imperien und mittelalterlichen Seerepubliken als Legitimationsgrundlage. Überfälle auf Küsten, Sklaverei und Freikaufgeschäfte spielten eine wichtige Rolle in den Konfrontationen zwis…
The Ransoming of North European Captives from Northern Africa. A Comparison of Dutch, Hanseatic and English Institutionalization of Redemption from 1610-1645
"The Ransoming of North European Captives from Northern Africa. A Comparison of Dutch, Hanseatic and English Institutionalization of Redemption from 1610-1645" published on 01 Jan 2013 by Brill | Schöningh
British Dominance of Merchant Shipping between Northern and Southern Europe, 1720–1750
Between 1720 and 1750 the British merchant marine dominated the most profitable intra-European sea-lanes, especially between northern and southern Europe. Most important in this regard was the ousting of its Dutch competitors on these routes shortly after the Peace of Utrecht. This secular phenomenon has not attracted much attention and has led to even less explanation by maritime and economic historians. This essay traces the chronology, causes …
Venice and the redemption of Northern European slaves (seventeenth and eighteenth centuries)
Entre 1600 et 1750, et plus particulièrement entre 1610 et 1640, des navires de l’Europe du Nord furent capturés par les corsaires barbaresques. C’était la conséquence logique de l’arrivée massive à partir de la fin du xvie siècle de navires et marchands de l’Europe du Nord en Méditerranée et de l’expansion simultanée de la course nord-africaine en Atlantique. Les Nord-Européens commencèrent à racheter leurs frères réduits en esclavage et, pour c…
The International Presence of Merchants from the German Empire in the 18 th Century
Erica Heinsen-Roach, Consuls and Captives. Dutch-North African Diplomacy in the Early Modern Mediterranean
Migration und Kosmopolitismus
Von reichsstädtischen Kommissionären zu europäischen Unternehmern
In this article, changing patterns of residency and business strategy of members of the German merchant community in eighteenth-century Venice are analyzed. In this century, many Germans decided to settle permanently in Venice and at the same time to loosen the hitherto tight bonds of their German merchant nation. Due to these changes, the German merchants were able to enlarge their range of business partnerships all over Europe and the Levant. B…
Una distopía como utopía. La ciudad argelina de Orán y la novela El haya de los judíos de Annette von Droste-Hülshoff
Orán hoy en día es una ciudad que está apenas presente en el mapa mental del mundo occidental. Aparte de los lectores de La peste de Albert Camus, poca gente sabe que Orán es una ciudad costera del oeste de Argelia. Menos gente aún sabe que, durante la mayor parte de la Epoca Moderna, perteneció a España (1509-1708, 1732-1792) y que, durante estos 260 años, fue una zona que acogió a muchos jóvenes europeos que buscaban una segunda oportunidad en …
The Hinterland of the Holy Roman Empire and the Slave Trade in the Late Eighteenth Century
Residing in Brussels from 1755, Friedrich Romberg, a native of Hemer near Iserlohn in Westphalia and a friend of Emperor Joseph II , may be an exceptional figure in the line of German slave traders with his intensive involvement in the French colonial empire of the 1770s/80s. However, he can also be seen as an emblematic exponent of a profitable niche in the overall panorama of the Atlantic slave trade—namely, the connection of the German and eve…
Marktstrategien der Kurienbanken
Marktstrategien der Kurienbanken: Die Geschäfte der Alberti, Medici und Spinelli in Deutschland (1400–1475). Kurt Weissen. Heidelberg: Heidelberg University Press, 2021. xii + 648 pp. €64.90. Open Access. - Volume 76 Issue 4
Spoils of Neutrality
This article examines the involvement of the Austrian Netherlands in the transatlantic slave trade of the early 1780s. It focuses on one actor in particular: Frederic Romberg (1729–1819), a Westphalian living in Brussels, who was primarily responsible for the Belgian slave trade. By allowing elites from Flanders to invest in individual slave voyages and thereby gaining political goodwill in Brussels, his Ghent-based firm Romberg & Consors was abl…
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