Achim Landwehr

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Achim Landwehr (born December 24, 1968 in Heilbronn ) is a German historian.

Life

After graduating from the St. Blasien college in 1988 , Achim Landwehr studied history, German literature and law at the universities of Augsburg , Freiburg , Basel and Dublin from 1990 to 1995 . In 1995 he graduated with a Magister Artium . From 1996 to 1998 Landwehr was a research assistant at the Max Planck Institute for European Legal History in Frankfurt am Main. In 1999 he received his doctorate in Freiburg im Breisgau with a thesis on the implementation of early modern police regulations. From 1999 to 2000 he was a postdoctoral fellow at the graduate college “Knowledge Fields of the Modern Age” at the University of Augsburg. From 2000 to 2003 Landwehr worked as a research assistant at the chair for European cultural history at the University of Augsburg.

In 2003 he was offered a junior professorship for European studies at Heinrich Heine University in Düsseldorf . In 2005 he received his habilitation with a thesis on the cultural history of Venice in the early modern period. At the beginning of the summer semester of 2008, Landwehr was appointed to the professorship for Early Modern History at the Institute for History at Heinrich Heine University in Düsseldorf. From October 2009 to September 2010, Landwehr was a Fellow of the Gutenberg Research College at the University of Mainz . He is editor of the utb series Orientation History .

Research priorities

European Early Modern History, Cultural History and Theory of History.

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